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SALERIO
1 Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:
2 With him is Gratiano gone along;
3 And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.
SALANIO
4 The villain Jew with outcries raised the duke,
5 Who went with him to search Bassanio's ship.
SALERIO
6 He came too late, the ship was under sail:
7 But there the duke was given to understand
8 That in a gondola were seen together
9 Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica:
10 Besides, Antonio certified the duke
11 They were not with Bassanio in his ship.
SALANIO
12 I never heard a passion so confused,
13 So strange, outrageous, and so variable,
14 As the dog Jew did utter in the streets:
15 "My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter!
16 Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!
17 Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!
18 A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,
19 Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter!
20 And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,
21 Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl;
22 She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats."
SALERIO
23 Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
24 Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.
SALANIO
25 Let good Antonio look he keep his day,
26 Or he shall pay for this.
SALERIO
26 Marry, well remember'd.
27 I reason'd with a Frenchman yesterday,
28 Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
29 The French and English, there miscarried
30 A vessel of our country richly fraught:
31 I thought upon Antonio when he told me;
32 And wish'd in silence that it were not his.
SALANIO
33 You were best to tell Antonio what you hear;
34 Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.
SALERIO
35 A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.
36 I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:
37 Bassanio told him he would make some speed
38 Of his return: he answer'd, "Do not so;
39 Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio
40 But stay the very riping of the time;
41 And for the Jew's bond which he hath of me,
42 Let it not enter in your mind of love:
43 Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts
44 To courtship and such fair ostents of love
45 As shall conveniently become you there."
46 And even there, his eye being big with tears,
47 Turning his face, he put his hand behind him,
48 And with affection wondrous sensible
49 He wrung Bassanio's hand; and so they parted.
SALANIO
50 I think he only loves the world for him.
51 I pray thee, let us go and find him out
52 And quicken his embraced heaviness
53 With some delight or other.
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