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Bass.

Do all men kill the things they do not love?

Shy.

Hates any man the thing he would not kill?

Bass.

Every offense is not a hate at first.

Shy.

What, wouldst thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Ant.

I pray you think you question with the Jew:

You may as well go stand upon the beach

And bid the main flood bate his usual height;

You may as well use question with the wolf

Why he hath made the ewe bleak for the lamb;

You may as well forbid the mountain pines

To wag their high tops, and to make no noise

When they are fretten with the gusts of heaven;

You may as well do any thing most hard

As seek to soften that—than which what’s harder?—

His Jewish heart! Therefore I do beseech you

Make no moe offers, use no farther means,

But with all brief and plain conveniency

Let me have judgment and the Jew his will.

Bass.

For thy three thousand ducats here is six.

Shy.

If every ducat in six thousand ducats

Were in six parts, and every part a ducat,

I would not draw them, I would have my bond.