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莫莫言 更新:2021-02-27 02:49 字数:9322
thou found my daughter? TUBAL。 I often came where I did hear of her;
but cannot find her。 SHYLOCK。 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 hears'd 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 luck stirring but what lights o' my shoulders; no sighs but o' my
breathing; no tears but o' my shedding! TUBAL。 Yes; other men have ill
luck too: Antonio; as I heard in Genoa… SHYLOCK。 What; what; what? Ill
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luck; ill luck? TUBAL。 Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis。
SHYLOCK。 I thank God; I thank God。 Is it true; is it true? TUBAL。 I
spoke with some of the sailors that escaped the wreck。 SHYLOCK。 I thank
thee; good Tubal。 Good news; good news… ha; ha!… heard in Genoa。
TUBAL。 Your daughter spent in Genoa; as I heard; one night; fourscore
ducats。 SHYLOCK。 Thou stick'st a dagger in me… I shall never see my
gold again。 Fourscore ducats at a sitting! Fourscore ducats! TUBAL。
There came divers of Antonio's creditors in my company to Venice that
swear he cannot choose but break。 SHYLOCK。 I am very glad of it; I'll
plague him; I'll torture him; I am glad of it。 TUBAL。 One of them showed
me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey。 SHYLOCK。 Out
upon her! Thou torturest me; Tubal。 It was my turquoise; I had it of Leah
when I was a bachelor; I would not have given it for a wilderness of
monkeys。 TUBAL。 But Antonio is certainly undone。 SHYLOCK。 Nay;
that's true; that's very true。 Go; Tubal; fee me an officer; bespeak him a
fortnight before。 I will have the heart of him; if he forfeit; for; were he out
of Venice; I can make what merchandise I will。 Go; Tubal; and meet me at
our synagogue; go; good Tubal; at our synagogue; Tubal。 Exeunt
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SCENE II。 Belmont。 PORTIA'S house
Enter BASSANIO; PORTIA; GRATIANO; NERISSA; and all their
trains
PORTIA。 I pray you tarry; pause a day or two Before you hazard; for;
in choosing wrong; I lose your company; therefore forbear a while。 There's
something tells me… but it is not love… I would not lose you; and you know
yourself Hate counsels not in such a quality。 But lest you should not
understand me well… And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought… I
would detain you here some month or two Before you venture for me。 I
could teach you How to choose right; but then I am forsworn; So will I
never be; so may you miss me; But if you do; you'll make me wish a sin;
That I had been forsworn。 Beshrew your eyes! They have o'erlook'd me
and divided me; One half of me is yours; the other half yours… Mine own; I
would say; but if mine; then yours; And so all yours。 O! these naughty
times Puts bars between the owners and their rights; And so; though yours;
not yours。 Prove it so; Let fortune go to hell for it; not I。 I speak too long;
but 'tis to peize the time; To eke it; and to draw it out in length; To stay you
from election。 BASSANIO。 Let me choose; For as I am; I live upon the
rack。 PORTIA。 Upon the rack; Bassanio? Then confess What treason there
is mingled with your love。 BASSANIO。 None but that ugly treason of
mistrust Which makes me fear th' enjoying of my love; There may as well
be amity and life 'Tween snow and fire as treason and my love。 PORTIA。
Ay; but I fear you speak upon the rack; Where men enforced do speak
anything。 BASSANIO。 Promise me life; and I'll confess the truth。
PORTIA。 Well then; confess and live。 BASSANIO。 'Confess' and 'love'
Had been the very sum of my confession。 O happy torment; when my
torturer Doth teach me answers for deliverance! But let me to my fortune
and the caskets。 PORTIA。 Away; then; I am lock'd in one of them。 If you
do love me; you will find me out。 Nerissa and the rest; stand all aloof; Let
music sound while he doth make his choice; Then; if he lose; he makes a
swan…like end; Fading in music。 That the comparison May stand more
proper; my eye shall be the stream And wat'ry death…bed for him。 He may
win; And what is music then? Then music is Even as the flourish when
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true subjects bow To a new…crowned monarch; such it is As are those
dulcet sounds in break of day That creep into the dreaming bridegroom's
ear And summon him to marriage。 Now he goes; With no less presence;
but with much more love; Than young Alcides when he did redeem The
virgin tribute paid by howling Troy To the sea…monster。 I stand for
sacrifice; The rest aloof are the Dardanian wives; With bleared visages
come forth to view The issue of th' exploit。 Go; Hercules! Live thou; I live。
With much much more dismay I view the fight than thou that mak'st the
fray。
A SONG
the whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself
Tell me where is fancy bred; Or in the heart or in the head; How
begot; how nourished? Reply; reply。 It is engend'red in the eyes; With
gazing fed; and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies。 Let us all ring
fancy's knell: I'll begin it… Ding; dong; bell。 ALL。 Ding; dong; bell。
BASSANIO。 So may the outward shows be least themselves; The
world is still deceiv'd with ornament。 In law; what plea so tainted and
corrupt But; being season'd with a gracious voice; Obscures the show of
evil? In religion; What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it;
and approve it with a text; Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There
is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts。
How many cowards; whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand; wear
yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars; Who;
inward search'd; have livers white as milk! And these assume but valour's
excrement To render them redoubted。 Look on beauty And you shall see
'tis purchas'd by the weight; Which therein works a miracle in nature;
Making them lightest that wear most of it; So are those crisped snaky
golden locks Which make such wanton gambols with the wind Upon
supposed fairness often known To be the dowry of a second head… The
skull that bred them in the sepulchre。 Thus ornament is but the guiled
shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian
beauty; in a word; The seeming truth which cunning times put on To
entrap the wisest。 Therefore; thou gaudy gold; Hard food for Midas; I will
none of thee; Nor none of thee; thou pale and common drudge 'Tween man
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and man; but thou; thou meagre lead; Which rather threaten'st than dost
promise aught; Thy plainness moves me more than eloquence; And here
choose I。 Joy be the consequence! PORTIA。 'Aside' How all the other
passions fleet to air; As doubtful thoughts; and rash…embrac'd despair; And
shudd'ring fear; and green…ey'd jealousy! O love; be moderate; allay thy
ecstasy; In measure rain thy joy; scant this excess! I feel too much thy
blessing。 Make it less; For fear I surfeit。 BASSANIO。 'Opening the leaden
casket' What find I here? Fair Portia's counterfeit! What demi…god Hath
come so near creation? Move these eyes? Or whether riding on the balls of
mine Seem they in motion? Here are sever'd lips; P