How now! what news?
SERVINGMAN.
The four strangers seek for you, madam, to take their leave. And there is a forerunner come from a fifth, the Prince of Morocco, who brings word the Prince his master will be here tonight.
PORTIA.
If I could bid the fifth welcome with so good heart as I can bid the other four farewell, I should be glad of his approach. If he have the condition of a saint and the complexion of a devil, I had rather he should shrive me than wive me. Come, Nerissa. Sirrah, go before. Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. Venice. A public place.
Enter Bassanio with Shylock the Jew.
SHYLOCK.
Three thousand ducats, well.
BASSANIO.
Ay, sir, for three months.
SHYLOCK.
For three months, well.
BASSANIO.
For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound.