Page 444 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

I thank thee, good Tubal, good news, good news! Ha, ha! Heard in Genoa?

TUBAL
Your daughter spent in Genoa, as I heard, one [105] night fourscore ducats.

SHYLOCK
Thou stick’st a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore
ducats at a sitting, fourscore ducats!

TUBAL
There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in [110] my company to Venice that
swear he cannot choose but break.

SHYLOCK
I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him; I’ll torture him. I am glad of it.

TUBAL
One of them showed me a ring that he had of [115] your daughter for a
monkey.

SHYLOCK
Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah
when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.

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TUBAL
But Antonio is certainly undone.

SHYLOCK
Nay, that’s true, that’s very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer; bespeak him a
fortnight before. I will have the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of
Venice I can make what merchandise [125] I will. Go, Tubal, and meet me at

our synagogue; go, good Tubal; at our synagogue, Tubal.
Exeunt.

Scene II IT