Enter'd my house.-Antonio, you are welcome;
And I have better news in store for you,
Than you expect; unseal this letter soon!
Thre you shall find three of your argosies
Are richly come to harbour suddenly:
You shall not know by what strange accident
I chanced on this letter.
Bass. Were you the doctor, and I knew you not? Gra. Were you the clerk, that is to make me cuckold?
Ner. Ay; but the clerk that never means to do it, Unless he live until he be a man.
Bass. Sweet doctor, you shall be my bedfellow; When I am absent, then sleep with my wife.
Ant. Sweet lady, you have given me life, and living; For here I read for certain, that my ships Are safely come to road.
My clerk hath some good comforts too for you,
Ner. Ay, and I'll give them him without a fee.-
There do I give to you, and Jessica,
From the rich Jew a special deed of gift,
After his death, of all he dies possess'd of.
Lor. Fair ladies, you drop manna in the way
Of starved people.
Por. It is almost morning,
And yet, I am sure, you are satisfied
Of these events at full: Let us go in
And charge us there upon inter'gatory,
And we will anwser all things faithfully.
Gra. Let it be so: The first interʼgatory,
That my Nerissa shall be sworn on, is,
Whether till the next night she had rather stay;
Or go to bed now, being two hours to-day :
But were the day come, I should wish it dark,
'That I were couching with the doctor's clerk.
Well, while I live, I'll fear no other thing
So sure, as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.