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Enter Bassanio with a follower or two, [one of them Leonardo].

Bass. You may do so, but let it be so hasted that supper be ready at the farthest by five of the clock. See these letters deliver’d, put the liveries to making, and desire Gratiano to come anon to my lodging.

[Exit one of his men.]

Laun. To him, father.

Gob. God bless your worship!

Bass. Gramercy, wouldst thou aught with me?

Gob. Here’s my son, sir, a poor boy—

Laun. Not a poor boy, sir, but the rich Jew’s man, that would, sir, as my father shall specify—

Gob. He hath a great infection, sir, as one would say, to serve—

Laun. Indeed the short and the long is, I serve the Jew, and have a desire, as my father shall specify—

Gob. His master and he (saving your worship’s reverence) are scarce cater-cousins—

Laun. To be brief, the very truth is that the Jew, having done me wrong, doth cause me, as my father, being I hope an old man, shall frutify unto you—

Gob. I have here a dish of doves that I would bestow upon your worship, and my suit is—