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The Merchant of Venice, III. v

of the matter: therefore be of good cheer; for,

truly, I think you are damned. There is but one

hope in it that can do you any good, and that is

but a kind of bastard hope neither.

Jes. And what hope is that, I pray thee?

Laun. Marry, you may partly hope that your

father got you not, that you are not the Jew's

daughter.

Jes. That were a kind of bastard hope, in-

deed: so the sins of my mother should be visited

upon me.

Laun. Truly then I fear you are damned both

by father and mother: thus when I shun Scylla,

your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother:

well, you are gone both ways.

Jes. I shall be saved by my husband; he hath

made me a Christian.

Laun. Truly the more to blame he: we were

Christians enow before; e'en as many as could

well live one by another. This making of Chris-

tians will raise the price of hogs: if we grow all

to be pork-eaters, we shall not shortly have a

rasher on the coals for money.

Jes. I'll tell my husband, Launcelot, what you

say: here he comes.

Lor. I shall grow jealous of you shortly,

Launcelot, if you thus get my wife into cor-

ners.

Jes. Nay, you need not fear us, Lorenzo:

Launcelot and I are out. He tells me flatly,

 8 neither: too

17, 18 Scylla Charybdis: dangers confronting Ulysses

20 husband; cf. n. 