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Scene VIIIVenice. A streetEnter Salarino and SalanioSalarinoWhy, man, I saw Bassanio under sail: With him is Gratiano gone along; And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.SalanioThe villain Jew with outcries raised the duke, Who went with him to search Bassanio’s ship.SalarinoHe came too late, the ship was under sail: But there the duke was given to understand That in a gondola were seen together Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica: Besides, Antonio certified the duke They were not with Bassanio in his ship.SalanioI never heard a passion so confused, So strange, outrageous, and so variable, As the dog Jew did utter in the streets: ‘My daughter! O my ducats! O my daughter! Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats! Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter! A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats, Of double ducats, stolen from me by my daughter! And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, Stolen by my daughter! Justice! find the girl; She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.‘SalarinoWhy, all the boys in Venice follow him, Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.SalanioLet good Antonio look he keep his day, Or he shall pay for this.SalarinoMarry, well remember’d. I reason’d with a Frenchman yesterday, Who told me, in the narrow seas that part The French and English, there miscarried A vessel of our country richly fraught: I thought upon Antonio when he told me; And wish’d in silence that it were not his.SalanioYou were best to tell Antonio what you hear; Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.SalarinoA kinder gentleman treads not the earth. I saw Bassanio and Antonio part: Bassanio told him he would make some speed Of his return: he answer’d, ‘Do not so; Slubber not business for my sake, Bassanio But stay the very riping of the time; And for the Jew’s bond which he hath of me, Let it not enter in your mind of love: Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts To courtship and such fair ostents of love As shall conveniently become you there:’ And even there, his eye being big with tears, Turning his face, he put his hand behind him, And with affection wondrous sensible He wrung Bassanio’s hand; and so they parted.SalanioI think he only loves the world for him. I pray thee, let us go and find him out And quicken his embraced heaviness With some delight or other.SalarinoDo we so.Exeunt
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