[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: