I have within my mind
A thousand raw tricks of these bragging Jacks,
Which I will practise.
NERISSA Why, shall we turn to men?
PORTIA Fie, what a question's that,
If thou wert near a lewd interpreter!
But come, I'll tell thee all my whole device
When I am in my coach, which stays for us
At the park gate; and therefore haste away,
For we must measure twenty miles to-day.
[Exeunt]
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
ACT III
SCENE V The same. A garden.
[Enter LAUNCELOT and JESSICA]
LAUNCELOT Yes, truly; for, look you, the sins of the father
are to be laid upon the children: therefore, I
promise ye, I fear you. I was always plain with
you, and so now I speak my agitation 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.
JESSICA And what hope is that, I pray thee?
LAUNCELOT Marry, you may partly hope that your father got you
not, that you are not the Jew's daughter.
JESSICA That were a kind of bastard hope, indeed: so the
sins of my mother should be visited upon me.
LAUNCELOT 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.
JESSICA I shall be saved by my husband; he hath made me a
Christian.
LAUNCELOT Truly, the more to blame he: we were Christians
enow before; e'en as many as could well live, one by
another.
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