Scene + 

II + 

The same. A street. + 

Enter Portia and Nerissa. + 

Portia + 

Inquire the Jew’s house out, give him this deed + 

And let him sign it: we’ll away to-night + 

And be a day before our husbands home: + 

This deed will be well welcome to Lorenzo. + 

Enter Gratiano. + 

Gratiano + 

Fair sir, you are well o’erta’en + 

My Lord Bassanio upon more advice + 

Hath sent you here this ring, and doth entreat + 

Your company at dinner. + 

Portia + 

That cannot be: + 

His ring I do accept most thankfully: + 

And so, I pray you, tell him: furthermore, + 

I pray you, show my youth old Shylock’s house. + 

Gratiano + 

That will I do. + 

Nerissa + 

Sir, I would speak with you. + 

Aside to Portia. I’ll see if I can get my husband’s ring, + 

Which I did make him swear to keep for ever. + 

Portia + 

Aside to Nerissa. Thou mayst, I warrant. + 

We shall have old swearing + 

That they did give the rings away to men; + 

But we’ll outface them, and outswear them too. + 

Aloud. Away! make haste: thou know’st where I will tarry. + 

Nerissa + 

Come, good sir, will you show me to this house? Exeunt. + 