[032] Shy. I say, my daughter is my flesh and blood.
Salar. There is more difference between thy flesh and hers than between jet and ivory; more between your bloods [035] than there is between red wine and rhenish. But tell us, do [036] you hear whether Antonio have had any loss at sea or no?
[037] Shy. There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a [038] prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto; a [039] beggar, that was used to come so smug upon the mart; let 040 him look to his bond: he was wont to call me usurer; let him look to his bond: he was wont to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond.
Salar. Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take his flesh: what’s that good for?
045 Shy. To bait fish withal: if it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge. He hath disgraced me, and hindered [047] me half a million; laughed at my losses, mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my [049] friends, heated mine enemies; and what’s his reason? I am 050 a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same [053] diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the [054] same winter and summer, as a Christian is? If you prick 055 us, do we not bleed? if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not revenge? if we are like you in the rest, we will resemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is [059] his humility? Revenge. If a Christian wrong a Jew, what [060] should his sufferance be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute; and it [062] shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Enter a Servant.
Serv. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house, and desires to speak with you both.
065 Salar. We have been up and down to seek him.
Enter Tubal.
Salan. Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot [067] be matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew. [Exeunt Salan. Salar. and Servant.