Scene + 

I + 

Enter Bellamira. + 

Bellamira + 

Since this town was besieged, my gain grows cold: + 

The time has been, that but for one bare night, + 

A hundred ducats have been freely given: + 

But now against my will I must be chaste; + 

And yet I know my beauty doth not fail. + 

From Venice merchants, and from Padua + 

Were wont to come rare-witted gentlemen, + 

Scholars I mean, learned and liberal; + 

And now, save Pilia-Borza, comes there none, + 

And he is very seldom from my house; + 

And here he comes. + 

Enter Pilia-Borza. + 

Pilia-Borza + 

Hold thee, wench, there’s something for thee to spend. Shews a bag of silver. + 

Bellamira + 

’Tis silver. I disdain it. + 

Pilia-Borza + 

Ay, but the Jew has gold, + 

And I will have it, or it shall go hard. + 

Bellamira + 

Tell me, how cam’st thou by this? + 

Pilia-Borza + 

’Faith, walking the back-lanes, through the gardens, I chanced to cast mine eye up to the Jew’s counting-house, where I saw some bags of money, and in the night I clambered up with my hooks, and, as I was taking my choice, I heard a rumbling in the house; so I took only this, and run my way: but here’s the Jew’s man. + 

Bellamira + 

Hide the bag. + 

Enter Ithamore. + 

Pilia-Borza + 

Look not towards him, let’s away; zoons, what a looking thou keep’st; thou’lt betray’s anon. + 

Exeunt Bellamira and Pilia-Borza. + 

Ithamore + 

O, the sweetest face that ever I beheld! I know she is a courtesan by her attire: now would I give a hundred of the Jew’s crowns that I had such a concubine. + 

Well, I have delivered the challenge in such sort, + 

As meet they will, and fighting die; brave sport. + 

Exit. + 