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Fled with a Christian! O my Christian ducats!

Justice! the law! my ducats, and my daughter!

A sealed bag, two sealed bags of ducats,

Of double ducats, stol’n from me by my daughter!

And jewels, two stones, two rich and precious stones,

Stol’n by my daughter! Justice! find the girl,

She hath the stones upon her, and the ducats.”

Sal.

Why, all the boys in Venice follow him,

Crying, his stones, his daughter, and his ducats.

Sol.

Let good Antonio look he keep his day,

Or he shall pay for this.

Sal.

Marry, well rememb’red.

I reason’d with a Frenchman yesterday,

Who told me, in the Narrow Seas that part

The French and English, there miscarried

A vessel of our country richly fraught.

I thought upon Antonio when he told me,

And wish’d in silence that it were not his.

Sol.

You were best to tell Antonio what you hear,

Yet do not suddenly, for it may grieve him.

Sal.

A kinder gentleman treads not the earth.

I saw Bassanio and Antonio part:

Bassanio told him he would make some speed

Of his return; he answered, “Do not so,