SCENE II
The same. A street.
[Enter PORTIA and NERISSA]
PORTIA
Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed
And let him sign it: we’ll away to-night
And be a day before our husbands home:
This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed
And let him sign it: we’ll away to-night
And be a day before our husbands home:
This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo.
[Enter GRATIANO]
GRATIANO
Fair sir, you are well o’erta’en
My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
Your company at dinner.
Fair sir, you are well o’erta’en
My Lord Bassanio upon more advice
Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat
Your company at dinner.
PORTIA
That cannot be:
His ring I do accept most thankfully:
And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
I pray you, show my youth old Shylock’s house.
That cannot be:
His ring I do accept most thankfully:
And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore,
I pray you, show my youth old Shylock’s house.
GRATIANO
That will I do.
That will I do.
NERISSA
| Sir, I would speak with you. |
[Aside to PORTIA]
I’ll see if I can get my husband’s ring,
Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
Which I did make him swear to keep for ever.
PORTIA
We shall have old swearing
That they did give the rings away to men;
But we’ll outface them, and outswear them too.
| [Aside to NERISSA] | Thou mayst, I warrant. |
That they did give the rings away to men;
But we’ll outface them, and outswear them too.
[Aloud]
Away! make haste: thou knowist where I will tarry.
NERISSA
Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
Come, good sir, will you show me to this house?
[Exeunt]
