13: _something_] Qq. _somewhat_ Ff. 17: _child!_] _child?_ Rowe. _child,_ Qq Ff. ~~~~~ SCENE IV. _The same. A street._ _Enter_ GRATIANO, LORENZO, SALARINO, _and_ SALANIO. _Lor._ Nay, we will slink away in supper-time, Disguise us at my lodging, and return All in an hour. _Gra._ We have not made good preparation. _Salar._ We have not spoke us yet of torch-bearers. 5 _Salan._ ’Tis vile, unless it may be quaintly order’d, And better in my mind not undertook. _Lor._ ’Tis now but four o’clock: we have two hours To furnish us. _Enter_ LAUNCELOT, _with a letter_. Friend Launcelot, what’s the news? _Laun._ An it shall please you to break up this, it shall 10 seem to signify. _Lor._ I know the hand: in faith, ’tis a fair hand; And whiter than the paper it writ on Is the fair hand that writ. _Gra._ Love-news, in faith. _Laun._ By your leave, sir. 15 _Lor._ Whither goest thou? _Laun._ Marry, sir, to bid my old master the Jew to sup to-night with my new master the Christian. _Lor._ Hold here, take this: tell gentle Jessica I will not fail her; speak it privately. 20 Go, gentlemen, [_Exit Launcelot._ Will you prepare you for this masque to-night? I am provided of a torch-bearer. _Salar._ Ay, marry, I’ll be gone about it straight. _Salan._ And so will I. _Lor._ Meet me and Gratiano 25 At Gratiano’s lodging some hour hence. _Salar._ ’Tis good we do so. [_Exeunt Salar. and Salan._ _Gra._ Was not that letter from fair Jessica? _Lor._ I must needs tell thee all. She hath directed How I shall take her from her father’s house; 30 What gold and jewels she is furnish’d with; What page’s suit she hath in readiness. If e’er the Jew her father come to heaven, It will be for his gentle daughter’s sake: And never dare misfortune cross her foot, 35 Unless she do it under this excuse, That she is issue to a faithless Jew. Come, go with me; peruse this as thou goest: Fair Jessica shall be my torch-bearer. [_Exeunt._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _The Merchant of Venice_, II, 4. SCENE IV.] SCENE V. Pope. 5: _us yet_] _as yet_ F4. 8: _o’_] _a_ Q1 F3 F4. _of_ Q2 F1 F2 Q3 Q4. 9: Enter...] Ff. Enter L. Qq. 10: _An it shall_] _And it shall_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. _If it_ Q1. 10, 11: _it shall seem_] _shall it seeme._ F1. 13: _whiter_] _whither_ F2. 14: _Is_] Qq. _I_ Ff. 21: _Go, gentlemen_] _go. Gentlemen_ Capell. [Exit L.] Exit Clown. Qq Ff, placing it after line 23. 23: _you_] om. Q1. _this_] _th’_ Hanmer. ~~~~~ SCENE V. _The same. Before_ SHYLOCK’S _house_. _Enter_ SHYLOCK _and_ LAUNCELOT.