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I’ll break a custom.

[To Bassanio.]

Is he yet possess’d

How much ye would?

Shy.

Ay, ay, three thousand ducats.

Ant.

And for three months.

Shy.

I had forgot—three months—

[to Bassanio]

you told me so.

Well then, your bond; and let me see—but hear you,

Methoughts you said you neither lend nor borrow

Upon advantage.

Ant.

I do never use it.

Shy.

When Jacob graz’d his uncle Laban’s sheep—

This Jacob from our holy Abram was

(As his wise mother wrought in his behalf)

The third possessor; ay, he was the third—

Ant.

And what of him? did he take interest?

Shy.

No, not take interest, not as you would say

Directly int’rest. Mark what Jacob did:

When Laban and himself were compremis’d

That all the eanlings which were streak’d and pied

Should fall as Jacob’s hire, the ewes being rank

In end of autumn turned to the rams,

And when the work of generation was

Between these woolly breeders in the act,

The skillful shepherd pill’d me certain wands,

And in the doing of the deed of kind,

He stuck them up before the fulsome ewes,