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I would deny it; but you see my finger

Hath not the ring upon it, it is gone.

Por.

Even so void is your false heart of truth.

By heaven, I will ne’er come in your bed

Until I see the ring!

Ner.

Nor I in yours

Till I again see mine!

Bass.

Sweet Portia,

If you did know to whom I gave the ring,

If you did know for whom I gave the ring,

And would conceive for what I gave the ring,

And how unwillingly I left the ring,

When nought would be accepted but the ring,

You would abate the strength of your displeasure.

Por.

If you had known the virtue of the ring,

Or half her worthiness that gave the ring,

Or your own honor to contain the ring,

You would not then have parted with the ring.

What man is there so much unreasonable,

If you had pleas’d to have defended it

With any terms of zeal, wanted the modesty

To urge the thing held as a ceremony?

Nerissa teaches me what to believe—

I’ll die for’t but some woman had the ring!

Bass.

No, by my honor, madam, by my soul,

No woman had it, but a civil doctor,