Enter SALANIO and SALARINO
SALANIO
Now, what news on the Rialto?

SALARINO
Why,it is said that Antonio has a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;
if my gossip report be an honest woman of her word.

SALANIO
I hope it is not true, and that the good Antonio, the honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough
to keep his name company!--Ha! what dis you say ? Why, the end is, he has lost a ship.

SALARINO
I would it might prove the end of his losses.

SALANIO
Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.

Enter SHYLOCK

How now, Shylock! what news among the merchants?

SHYLOCK
You know, none so well, none so well as you, of my daughter's flight.

SALARINO
That's certain: I, for my part, knew the tailor that made the wings she flew withal.

SALANIO
And Shylock, for his own part, knew the bird was fledged; and then it is the complexion of them all
to leave the nest.

SHYLOCK
She is damned for it.

SALANIO
That's certain, if the devil may be her judge.

SHYLOCK
My own flesh and blood to rebel!

SALARINO

There is more difference between thy flesh and hers
than between jet and ivory. But tell us, do you hear whether Antonio have had any
loss at sea or no?

SHYLOCK
There I have another bad match: a bankrupt, a prodigal, who dares scarce show his head on the
Rialto; let him look to his bond: he called me usurer; let him look to his bond: he wanted to lend money for a Christian courtesy; let him look to his bond.

SALARINO
Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou will not take his flesh: what's that good for?

SHYLOCK
if it will feed nothing else,
it will feed my revenge. He has disgraced me, and
hindered me half a million; laughed at my losses,
mocked at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my
bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine
enemies; and what's his reason? I am a Jew. Has
not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs,
dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with
the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject
to the same diseases, healed by the same means,
warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as
a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed?
if you tickle us, do we not laugh? if you poison
us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, shall we not
revenge? If we are like you in the rest, we will
resemble you in that. If a Jew wrongs a Christian,
what is his humility? Revenge. If a Christian
wrongs a Jew, what should his sufferance be by
Christian example? Why, revenge. The villany you
teach me, I will execute, and it shall go hard but I
will better the instruction.