The Merchant of Venice


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Servant  
Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his house and  
desires to speak with you both.  
SALARINO  
We have been up and down to seek him.  
Enter TUBAL  
SALANIO  
Here comes another of the tribe: a third cannot be  
matched, unless the devil himself turn Jew.  
Exeunt SALANIO, SALARINO, and Servant  
SHYLOCK  
How now, Tubal! what news from Genoa? hast thou  
found my daughter?  
TUBAL  
I often came where I did hear of her, but cannot find her.  
SHYLOCK  
Why, there, there, there, there! a diamond gone,  
cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort! The curse  
never fell upon our nation till now; I never felt it  
till now: two thousand ducats in that; and other  
precious, precious jewels. I would my daughter  
were dead at my foot, and the jewels in her ear!  
would she were hearsed at my foot, and the ducats in  
her coffin! No news of them? Why, so: and I know  
not what's spent in the search: why, thou loss upon  
loss! the thief gone with so much, and so much to  
find the thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge:  
nor no in luck stirring but what lights on my  
shoulders; no sighs but of my breathing; no tears  
but of my shedding.  
TUBAL  
Yes, other men have ill luck too: Antonio, as I  
heard in Genoa,--  
SHYLOCK  
What, what, what? ill luck, ill luck?  
TUBAL  
Hath an argosy cast away, coming from Tripolis.  
SHYLOCK  
I thank God, I thank God. Is't true, is't true?  
TUBAL  
I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck.  
SHYLOCK  
I thank thee, good Tubal: good news, good news!  
ha, ha! where? in Genoa?  
TUBAL  


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