Your minde is tossing on the Ocean , There where your Argosies with portly saile Like Signiors and rich Burgers on the flood , Or as it were the Pageants of the sea , Do ouer-peere the pettie Traffiquers That curtsie to them , do them reuerence As they flye by them with their wouen wings My winde cooling my broth , Would blow me to an Ague , when I thought What harme a winde too great might doe at sea . I should not see the sandie houre-glasse runne , But I should thinke of shallows , and of flats , And see my wealthy Andrew docks in sand , Vailing her high top lower then her ribs To kisse her buriall ; should I goe to Church And see the holy edifice of stone , And not bethinke me straight of dangerous rocks , Which touching but my gentle Vessels side Would scatter all her spices on the streame , Enrobe the roring waters with my silkes , And in a word , but euen now worth this , And now worth nothing . Shall I haue the thought To thinke on this , and shall I lacke the thought That such a thing bechaunc 'd would make me sad ? But tell me , I know Anthonio Is sad to thinke vpon his merchandize Good morrow my good Lords Wee 'll make our leysures to attend on yours . We haue not spoke vs yet of Torch-bearers I marry , ile be gone about it strait ‘ Tis good we do so . His houre is almost past O ten times faster Venus Pidgions flye To steale loues bonds new made , then they are wont To keepe obliged faith vnforfaited Why man I saw Bassanio vnder sayle ; With him is Gratiano gone along ; And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not He comes too late , the ship was vndersaile ; But there the Duke was giuen to vnderstand That in a Gondilo were seene together Lorenzo and his amorous Iessica . Besides , Anthonio certified the Duke They were not with Bassanio in his ship Why all the boyes in Venice follow him , Crying his stones , his daughter , and his ducats Marry well remembred , I reason 'd with a Frenchman yesterday , Who told me , in the narrow seas that part The French and English , there miscaried A vessell of our countrey richly fraught : I thought vpon Anthonio when he told me , And wisht in silence that it were not his A kinder Gentleman treads not the earth , I saw Bassanio and Anthonio part , Bassanio told him he would make some speede Of his returne : he answered , doe not so , Slubber not businesse for my sake Bassanio , But stay the very riping of the time , And for the Iewes bond which he hath of me , Let it not enter in your minde of loue : Be merry , and imploy your chiefest thoughts To courtship , and such faire ostents of loue As shall conueniently become you there ; And euen there his eye being big with teares , Turning his face , he put his hand behinde him , And with affection wondrous sencible He wrung Bassanios hand , and so they parted Doe we so . Why yet it liues there vncheckt , that Anthonio hath a ship of rich lading wrackt on the narrow Seas ; the Goodwins I thinke they call the place , a very dangerous flat , and fatall , where the carcasses of many a tall ship , lye buried , as they say , if my gossips report be an honest woman of her word Come , the full stop I would it might proue the end of his losses That 's certaine , I for my part knew the Tailor that made the wings she flew withall That 's certaine , if the diuell may be her Iudge There is more difference betweene thy flesh and hers , then betweene Iet and Iuorie , more betweene your bloods , then there is betweene red wine and rennish : but tell vs , doe you heare whether Anthonio haue had anie losse at sea or no ? Why I am sure if he forfaite , thou wilt not take his flesh , what 's that good for ? We haue beene vp and downe to seeke him . I did my Lord , And I haue reason for it , Signior Anthonio Commends him to you Not sicke my Lord , vnlesse it be in minde , Nor wel , vnlesse in minde : his Letter there Wil shew you his estate . Opens the Letter . I would you had won the fleece that hee hath lost Not one my Lord . Besides , it should appeare , that if he had The present money to discharge the Iew , He would not take it : neuer did I know A creature that did beare the shape of man So keene and greedy to confound a man . He plyes the Duke at morning and at night , And doth impeach the freedome of the state If they deny him iustice . Twenty Merchants , The Duke himselfe , and the Magnificoes Of greatest port haue all perswaded with him , But none can driue him from the enuious plea Of forfeiture , of iustice , and his bond He is ready at the doore , he comes my Lord . My Lord , heere stayes without A Messenger with Letters from the Doctor , New come from Padua