Magnificoes, Officers of the Court, Gentlemen and Gentlewomen, Pages, Citizens, Soldiers, Jews, Masquers, Musicians, Serenaders, Gondoliers, Moors, Fruit-sellers, Water-carriers, Servants, &c.

SCENE.-Partly at Venice and partly at Belmont.

SCENE 3. BELMONT.-A ROOM IN PORTIA'S HOUSE.

SCENE 4. VENICE.-A STREET.

SCENE 5. BElmont.—A ROOM IN PORTIa's House.

ACT IV.

SCENE. VENICE.--A COURT OF JUSTICE.

ACT V.

SCENE. BELMONT.-PORTIA'S GARDEN, WITH TERRACE.

N sooth, I know not why I am so sad;
It wearies me; you say, it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came
by it,

What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;

And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.

Salar. Your mind is tossing on the ocean;
There, where your argosies with portly sail,-
Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were the pageants of the sea,-
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curt'sy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.

Salan. Believe me, sir, had I such venture forth,

The better part of my affections would

Be with my hopes abroad. I should be still