[075] You may as well forbid the mountain pines

[076] To wag their high tops, and to make no noise,

[077] When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;

You may as well do any thing most hard,

[079] As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?—

080 His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you,

Make no more offers, use no farther means,

But with all brief and plain conveniency

Let me have judgement and the Jew his will.

Bass. For thy three thousand ducats here is six.