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I got a promise of this fair one here

To have her love—provided that your fortune

Achiev’d her mistress.

Por.

Is this true, Nerissa?

Ner.

Madam, it is, so you stand pleas’d withal.

Bass.

And do you, Gratiano, mean good faith?

Gra.

Yes, faith, my lord.

Bass.

Our feast shall be much honored in your marriage.

Gra. We’ll play with them the first boy for a thousand ducats.

Ner. What, and stake down?

Gra. No, we shall ne’er win at that sport, and stake down.

But who comes here? Lorenzo and his infidel?

What, and my old Venetian friend Salerio?

Enter Lorenzo, Jessica, and Salerio, a messenger from Venice.

Bass.

Lorenzo and Salerio, welcome hither,

If that the youth of my new int’rest here

Have power to bid you welcome. By your leave,

I bid my very friends and countrymen,

Sweet Portia, welcome.

Por.

So do I, my lord,

They are entirely welcome.

Lor.

I thank your honor. For my part, my lord,

My purpose was not to have seen you here,

But meeting with Salerio by the way,

He did entreat me, past all saying nay,