_Shy._ I have possess’d your Grace of what I purpose; 35 And by our holy Sabbath have I sworn To have the due and forfeit of my bond: If you deny it, let the danger light Upon your charter and your city’s freedom. You’ll ask me, why I rather choose to have 40 A weight of carrion-flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats: I’ll not answer that: But, say, it is my humour: is it answer’d? What if my house be troubled with a rat, And I be pleased to give ten thousand ducats 45 To have it baned? What, are you answer’d yet? Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ the nose, Cannot contain their urine: for affection, 50 Mistress of passion, sways it to the mood Of what it likes or loathes. Now, for your answer: As there is no firm reason to be render’d, Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he, a harmless necessary cat; 55 Why he, a woollen bag-pipe; but of force Must yield to such inevitable shame As to offend, himself being offended; So can I give no reason, nor I will not, More than a lodged hate and a certain loathing 60 I bear Antonio, that I follow thus A losing suit against him. Are you answer’d? _Bass._ This is no answer, thou unfeeling man, To excuse the current of thy cruelty. _Shy._ I am not bound to please thee with my answers. 65 _Bass._ Do all men kill the things they do not love? _Shy._ Hates any man the thing he would not kill? _Bass._ Every offence is not a hate at first. _Shy._ What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice? _Ant._ I pray you, think you question with the Jew: 70 You may as well go stand upon the beach, And bid the main flood bate his usual height; You may as well use question with the wolf, Why he hath made the ewe bleat for the lamb; You may as well forbid the mountain pines 75 To wag their high tops, and to make no noise, When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven; You may as well do any thing most hard, As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?— His Jewish heart: therefore, I do beseech you, 80 Make no more offers, use no farther means, But with all brief and plain conveniency Let me have judgement and the Jew his will. _Bass._ For thy three thousand ducats here is six. _Shy._ If every ducat in six thousand ducats 85 Were in six parts and every part a ducat, I would not draw them; I would have my bond. _Duke._ How shalt thou hope for mercy, rendering none?