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One half of me is yours, the other half yours—

Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,

And so all yours. O, these naughty times

Puts bars between the owners and their rights!

And so though yours, not yours. Prove it so,

Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.

I speak too long, but ’tis to peize the time,

To eche it, and to draw it out in length,

To stay you from election.

Bass.

Let me choose,

For as I am, I live upon the rack.

Por.

Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess

What treason there is mingled with your love.

Bass.

None but that ugly treason of mistrust,

Which makes me fear th’ enjoying of my love;

There may as well be amity and life

’Tween snow and fire, as treason and my love.

Por.

Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack,

Where men enforced do speak any thing.

Bass.

Promise me life, and I’ll confess the truth.

Por.

Well then, confess and live.

Bass.

Confess and love

Had been the very sum of my confession.

O happy torment, when my torturer

Doth teach me answers for deliverance!