r give, nor lose it.

_Por_. That 'scuse serves many men to save their gifts.
An if your wife be not a mad woman,
And know how well I have deserv'd this ring,
She would not hold out enemy for ever,
For giving it to me. Well, peace be with you!

[_Exeunt_ PORTIA _and_ NERISSA.

_Ant_. My lord Bassanio, let him have the ring;
Let his deservings, and my love withal,
Be valued 'gainst your wife's commandment.

_Bas_. Go, Gratiano, run and overtake him;
Give him the ring; and bring him, if thou can'st,
Unto Antonio's house;--away, make haste.

[_Exit_ GRATIANO.

Come, you and I will thither presently;
And in the morning early will we both
Fly toward Belmont: Come, Antonio.

[_Exeunt_.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 95: _Magnificoes_,; Coryat calls the nobles of Venice
_Clarissimoes_.]

[Footnote 96: _--envy's reach_,; Envy, in this place, means hatred
or malice.]

[Footnote 97: _--remorse,; Id est_, pity:]

[Footnote 98: _--apparent cruelly_: That is, seeming cruelty; not
real.]

[Footnote 99: _--where thou now_ where for whereas.]

[Footnote 100: _--I'll not answer that_;

_But, say, it is my humour_; The Jew being asked a question
which the law does not require him to answer, stands upon his
right, and refuses; but afterwards gratifies his own malignity by
such answers as he knows will aggravate the pain of the enquirer.
I will not answer, says he, as to a legal or serious question, but,
since you want an answer, will this serve you?--JOHNSON.]

[Footnote 101: _--a gaping pig_; By a _gaping_ pig, Shakespeare, I believe,
meant a pig prepared for the table; for in that state is the epithet,
_gaping_, most applicable to this animal. So, in Fletcher's _Elder
Brother_--

"And they stand _gaping_ like a _roasted pig_."

A passage in one of Nashe's pamphlets (which perhaps furnished our
author with his instance), may serve to confirm the observation: "The
causes conducting unto wrath are as diverse as the actions of a man's
life. Some will take on like a madman, if they see a _pig come to the
table_. Sotericus, the surgeon, was cholerick at the sight of sturgeon,"
&c. _Pierce Pennylesse his Supplication to the Devil_, 1592.--MALONE.]

[Footnote 102: _--question with the Jew_.; To question is to converse.]

[Footnote 103: Padua is the place of education for the civil law in
Italy.]

[Footnote 104: _Cannot impugn you_,; To impugn, is to oppose, to
controvert.]

[Footnote 105: _You stand within his danger,