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The Merchant of Venice, III. i

Christian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a

Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance

be by Christian example? Why, revenge. The

villainy you teach me I will execute, and it shall

go hard but I will better the instruction.

Man. Gentlemen, my master Antonio is at his

house, and desires to speak with you both.

Salar. We have been up and down to seek

him.

Salan. Here comes another of the tribe: a

third cannot be matched, unless the devil him-

self turn Jew.

Exeunt Gentlemen [i.e. Salanio, Salarino, and Antonio's man].

Shy. How now, Tubal! what news from Ge-

noa? Hast thou found my daughter?

Tub. I often came where I did hear of her,

but cannot find her.

Shy. Why there, there, there, there! a diamond

gone, cost me two thousand ducats in Frankfort!

The curse never fell upon our nation till now; I

never felt it till now: two thousand ducats in

that; and other precious, precious jewels. I

would my daughter were dead at my foot, and

the jewels in her ear! would she were hearsed at

my foot, and the ducats in her coffin! No news

of them? Why, so: and I know not what's spent

in the search: Why thou—loss upon loss! the

thief gone with so much, and so much to find the

thief; and no satisfaction, no revenge: nor no ill

 74 humility: sufferance

99 Why thou; cf. n. 