_Bar._ No, but I do it through a burning zeal,-- Hoping ere long to set the house afire; 90 For though they do a while increase and multiply, I'll have a saying to[58] that nunnery.-- [_Aside._ As for the diamond, sir, I told you of, Come home and there's no price shall make us part, Even for your honourable father's sake.-- It shall go hard but I will see your death.-- [_Aside._ But now I must be gone to buy a slave. _Lod._ And, Barabas, I'll bear thee company. _Bar._ Come then--here's the market-place. What's the price of this slave? Two hundred crowns! Do the Turks weigh so much? 100 _1 Off._ Sir, that's his price. _Bar._ What, can he steal that you demand so much? Belike he has some new trick for a purse; And if he has, he is worth three hundred plates,[59] So that, being bought, the town-seal might be got To keep him for his lifetime from the gallows: The sessions day is critical to thieves, And few or none 'scape but by being purged. _Lod._ Rat'st thou this Moor but at two hundred plates? _1 Off._ No more, my lord. 110 _Bar._ Why should this Turk be dearer than that Moor? _1 Off._ Because he is young and has more qualities. _Bar._ What, hast the philosopher's stone? and thou hast, break my head with it, I'll forgive thee. _Slave._[60] No, sir; I can cut and shave. _Bar._ Let me see, sirrah, are you not an old shaver?[61] _Slave._[62] Alas, sir! I am a very youth. _Bar._ A youth? I'll buy you, and marry you to Lady Vanity,[63] if you do well. _Slave._ I will serve you, sir. 120 _Bar._ Some wicked trick or other. It may be, under colour of shaving, thou'lt cut my throat for my goods. Tell me, hast thou thy health well? _Slave._ I, passing well. _Bar._ So much the worse; I must have one that's sickly, and be but for sparing victuals: 'tis not a stone of beef a day will maintain you in these chops; let me see one that's somewhat leaner. _1 Off._ Here's a leaner, how like you him? _Bar._ Where wast thou born? 130 _Itha._ In Thrace; brought up in Arabia. _Bar._ So much the better, thou art for my turn, An hundred crowns, I'll have him; there's the coin. _1 Off._ Then mark him, sir, and take him hence. _Bar._ I, mark him, you were best, for this is he That by my help shall do much villainy. [_Aside._ My lord, farewell: Come, sirrah, you are mine. As for the diamond, it shall be yours; I pray, sir, be no stranger at my house, All that I have shall be at your command. 140 _Enter_ MATHIAS _and his_ Mother.[64]