And that which you did swear to keep for me, I'll not deny him any thing I have; Know him I shall, I am well sure of it: Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus; you do not, if I be left alone, If Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own, Ner. And I his clerk; therefore, be well advis'd Gra. Well, do you so: let not me take him, then ; For, if I do, I'll mar the young clerk's pen. Ant. I am th' unhappy subject of these quarrels. Bass. Portia, forgive me this enforced wrong; I swear to thee, even by thine own fair eyes, Por. Mark you but that! In both my eyes he doubly sees himself; In each eye, one :-swear by your double self, Bass. Nay, but hear me. Ant. I once did lend my body for his wealth", lord Will never more break faith advisedly. Por. Then, you shall be his surety. Give him this, And bid him keep it better than the other. 5 Ant. Here, lord Bassanio; swear to keep this ring. I'll have THAT doctor] Folio 1623, "I'll have the doctor." for HIS wealth,] Folio 1623, " for thy wealth." VOL. II. Bass. By heaven! it is the same I gave the doctor. Por. I had it of him: pardon me, Bassanio, For by this ring the doctor lay with me. Ner. And pardon me, my gentle Gratiano, Gra. Why, this is like the mending of highways There you shall find, that Portia was the doctor; You shall not know by what strange accident Bass. Were you the doctor, and I knew you not? Gra. Were you the clerk, that is to make me cuckold? Ner. Ay; but the clerk that never means to do it, Unless he live until he be a man. Bass. Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow: When I am absent, then, lie with my wife. Ant. Sweet lady, you have given me life, and living, For here I read for certain that my ships Are safely come to road. Por. How now, Lorenzo? My clerk hath some good comforts, too, for you. Ner. Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.— There do I give to you and Jessica, From the rich Jew, a special deed of gift, Lor. Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way Por. Gra. Let it be so: the first inter❜gatory, [Exeunt. 6 TILL I were couching with the DOCTOR's clerk.] So the 4to. by Heyes, and the folio. Roberts's 4to. has, " That I were couching with the clerk.” END OF VOL. II. |