SHYLOCK. In all things as a Christian. Yes. [_Aside_] Why that’s Revenge! Revenge! DUKE. So must thou quit thy house In Jewry, dwell mid Christian folk, and go With Christian folk to church on holy days, And wear henceforth the cross thou did’st disdain. Dost hearken unto us, Cristofero? SHYLOCK. I hear but to obey, dread duke; and thank Thee for thy clemency to me, once Jew, But now, within this very selfsame hour, A gasping new born Christian, all unschool’d In duties other Christians know full well, Yet earnest still, to act the Christian’s part, With hope to better his ensample set. GRATIANO [_aside to_ BASSANIO] For all thy gentle Portia saith but now, I like not such smooth terms from out those lips. BASSANIO [_aside_] Peace, Gratiano, let him say his say, He cannot now do aught to injure thee. [_Exeunt_ DUKE _and train with_ ANTONIO _and friends_. LORENZO _and_ JESSICA _come forward_. JESSICA. How now, good father Cristofero; what a pair of Christians are we both. Only there’s this difference betwixt us, good father. I am a Christian for love of a husband and you have turned a Christian for love of your ducats. SHYLOCK. Ungrateful daughter; Why did’st thou go forth from my house by night and rob thy grey-haired father of his treasure? JESSICA. Why? That’s most easy of answer. Why, because I desired a Christian husband and there was no coming by my desire save by secret flight from your most gloomy chambers; and since neither my Christian husband nor your daughter Jessica could by any kind of contriving live upon air alone, we had, perforce, to take with us some of your ducats for the bettering our condition. Speak thou for me, Lorenzo. Was it not e’en so? LORENZO. Old man, I am sorry for that I was forced to take from you your daughter and your ducats against your good pleasure, but I must tell you that I loved her as myself [_Aside_] nay, much more, my Jessica,--and by reason of this great love of mine, and because of your exceeding hatred towards all Christians did I take her from your house. And since, moreover, as the maid very truly says, there’s no living i’ the world without the means to live, because of this did we make shift to take with us from your house such means, as well advised you would not have your daughter lack for food and suitable apparel, and since we are now Christians all, what matters it?