51: _a sin_] Qq F1. _sin_ F2 F3 F4. 54: _throstle_] Pope, _trassell_ Qq F1. _tarssell_ F2. _tassell_ F3 F4. 58: _shall_] Qq. _should_ Ff. 59: _you_] om. Capell (corrected in MS.). 63: _will_] _may_ Pope. 64: _the English_] _English_ Rowe. 69: _Scottish_] Qq. _other_ Ff. _Irish_ Collier MS. 71: _swore_] _sworne_ F2. 79: _an the worst_] _and the worst_ Qq Ff. _and, the worst_ Hanmer. 87: _I’ll_] _ile_ Q1. _I will_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. 90: _determinations_] _determination_ Rowe. 93: _your_] _you_ F2. 99: _I pray God grant them_] Qq. _I wish them_ Ff. _wish them_ Rowe. 101: _a scholar_] _scholler_ Q1. 103: _he was so_] Q1. _so was he_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. 109: _How now! what news?_] Qq. omitted in Ff. 110: _seek for you_] Qq. _seek you_ Ff. 114: _a_] Q1. om Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. 118, 119: Printed as prose in Qq Ff; first as verse by Knight. 120: _gates_] Q1. _gate_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. ~~~~~ SCENE III. _Venice. A public place._ _Enter_ BASSANIO _and_ SHYLOCK. _Shy._ Three thousand ducats; well. _Bass._ Ay, sir, for three months. _Shy._ For three months; well. _Bass._ For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound. 5 _Shy._ Antonio shall become bound; well. _Bass._ May you stead me? will you pleasure me? shall I know your answer? _Shy._ Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound. 10 _Bass._ Your answer to that. _Shy._ Antonio is a good man. _Bass._ Have you heard any imputation to the contrary? _Shy._ Ho, no, no, no, no: my meaning, in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me, that he is sufficient. 15 Yet his means are in supposition: he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies; I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England, and other ventures he hath, squandered abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but men: there be 20 land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates; and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient. Three thousand ducats; I think I may take his bond. _Bass._ Be assured you may. 25 _Shy._ I will be assured I may; and, that I may be assured, I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio? _Bass._ If it please you to dine with us. _Shy._ Yes, to smell pork; to eat of the habitation which your prophet the Nazarite conjured the devil into. 30 I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here? _Enter_ ANTONIO. _Bass._ This is Signior Antonio. 35