Page 443 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Here comes another of the tribe. A third cannot be matched, unless the devil
himself turn [75] Jew.
Exeunt Solanio, Salerio and Man.

SHYLOCK
How now, Tubal! What news from Genoa? Hast thou found my daughter?

TUBAL
I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her. [80]

SHYLOCK
Why there, there, there, there! A diamond gone cost me two thousand ducats

in Frankfurt! The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it till
now. Two thousand ducats in that, and other precious, precious jewels. I
would my daughter were [85] dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!

Would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news of
them, why so? − And I know not what’s spent in the search. Why thou, loss
upon loss! The thief gone with so much, and so much to find [90] the thief,
and no satisfaction, no revenge; nor no ill luck stirring but what lights o’my
shoulders, no sighs but o’my breathing, no tears but o’my shedding.

TUBAL
Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I heard in Genoa... [95]

SHYLOCK
What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?

TUBAL
Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.

SHYLOCK
I thank God, I thank God! Is it true? Is it true? [100]

TUBAL
I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wrack.

SHYLOCK