[285] Gra. I have a wife, whom, I protest, I love:
I would she were in heaven, so she could
Entreat some power to change this currish Jew.
Ner. ’Tis well you offer it behind her back;
The wish would make else an unquiet house.
[290] Shy. These be the Christian husbands. I have a daughter;
Would any of the stock of Barrabas
[292] Had been her husband rather than a Christian! [Aside.
We trifle time: I pray thee, pursue sentence.
Por. A pound of that same merchant’s flesh is thine: