Bar. No, but I do it through a burning zeal,— Hoping ere long to set the house afire;90 For though they do a while increase and multiply, I'll have a saying to [58] that nunnery.— [Aside. As for the diamond, sir, I told you of, Come home and there's no price shall make us part, Even for your honourable father's sake.— It shall go hard but I will see your death.— [Aside. But now I must be gone to buy a slave.
Lod. And, Barabas, I'll bear thee company.
Bar. Come then—here's the market-place. What's the price of this slave? Two hundred crowns! Do the Turks weigh so much?100
1 Off. Sir, that's his price.
Bar. What, can he steal that you demand so much? Belike he has some new trick for a purse; And if he has, he is worth three hundred plates, [59] So that, being bought, the town-seal might be got To keep him for his lifetime from the gallows: The sessions day is critical to thieves, And few or none 'scape but by being purged.
Lod. Rat'st thou this Moor but at two hundred plates?
1 Off. No more, my lord.110
Bar. Why should this Turk be dearer than that Moor?
1 Off. Because he is young and has more qualities.
Bar. What, hast the philosopher's stone? and thou hast, break my head with it, I'll forgive thee.