Page 434 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Lorenzo and his amorous Jessica.
Besides, Antonio certified the Duke [10]
They were not with Bassanio in his ship.

SOLANIO
I 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! [15]
Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!

Justice! The law! My ducats and my daughter!
A sealèd bag, two sealèd bags of ducats,
Of double ducats, stol’n from me by my daughter!
And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones, [20]
Stol’n by my daughter! Justice! Find the girl!

She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats!’.

SALERIO
Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,
Crying his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.

SOLANIO
Let good Antonio look he keep his day, [25]

Or he shall pay for this.

SALERIO

Marry, well remembered.
I reasoned with a Frenchman yesterday,
Who told me, in the narrow seas that part
The French and English there miscarrièd

A vessel of our country richly fraught. [30]
I thought upon Antonio when he told me,
And wished in silence that it were not his.

SOLANIO
You were best to tell Antonio what you hear,

Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.