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[Enter BASSANIO With SHYLOCK the Jew].
SHYLOCK: Three thousand ducats- well. BASSANIO: Ay, sir, for three months. SHYLOCK: For three months- well. BASSANIO: For the which, as I told you, Antonio shall be bound. SHYLOCK: Antonio shall become bound- well. BASSANIO: May you stead me? Will you pleasure me? Shall I know your answer? SHYLOCK: Three thousand ducats for three months, and Antonio bound. BASSANIO: Your answer to that. SHYLOCK: Antonio is a good man. BASSANIO: Have you heard any imputation to the contrary? SHYLOCK: Ho, no, no, no, no; my meaning in saying he is a good man is to have you understand me that he is sufficient; yet his means are in supposition: he hath an argosy bound to Tripolis, another to the Indies; I understand, moreover, upon the Rialto, he hath a third at Mexico, a fourth for England- and other ventures he hath, squand'red abroad. But ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves- I mean pirates; and then there is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks. The man is, notwithstanding, sufficient. Three thousand ducats- I think I may take his bond. BASSANIO: Be assur'd you may. SHYLOCK: I will be assur'd I may; and, that I may be assured, I will bethink me. May I speak with Antonio? BASSANIO: If it please you to dine with us. SHYLOCK: Yes, to smell pork, to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into! I will buy with you, sell with you, talk with you, walk with you, and so following; but I will not eat with you, drink with you, nor pray with you. What news on the Rialto? Who is he comes here?