The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-13


Do cream and mantle like standing pond
And who upon their lips set steady seal,
With purpose to be dressed in an opinion
OF wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
And therefore duly are reputed wise
For saying nothing; let stolid features mask
The storm that vexes sore my trouble
busom.
But fare you well. Your quest I'll not de-
tain.
Bassanio-Ah. my good Antonio, 'twere
better to my liking
Could be sure as warm welcome
AS l row deserve a godspeed from your
How bitterly the stream of human life doth
Whet
It's turbid waters to our dainty taste,
And oftentimes we tap but bitter dregs
When one clear draught it promised, pure
and sweet.
Again. farewell.
Place-In the Castle st. Croix Soon after
the first act. AS soon as the stage can be
reset.
Shylock-Now, what news upon the Rialto?
Salarno-'Tis even said that on thy
cursed head
Are heaped mere maledictions fierce
Than though an armed horde you had
And not tattoos on humble heads.
Shylock-Whence come these foul asper-
sions, pray?
salarino-F'rom those whove gone without,
ween.
TITS said of you that, british to the heart,
You've shown a spirit unfit in the least
To stand your station, even with a beast.
Shylcck-These cursed Christian lies, no
doubt:
They hate me and my policy dislike.
l snap my fingers in their scowlng brows.
I care not for their mushy will and weak.
That talks of mercy and of things humane.
When mankind in my dominion comes
III rule it or I'll know the reason why.
No matter who. Not even, sir
1t might be yOnder fair Antonio.
. ACT. III.
Place-Down on Jack Glennon's beat
Antonio-ls there no way to circumvent his
plan?
He will waylay me; wrest from me my
Bassanio-I know not. Prthee let us visit
him.
But here he comes. Well wait him here.
Antonio-Shyiock, we would a word with
shylcck-Of what mnort?
acknowledgements viii tell you.
Bassanio-We sought you even in the soli-
tary
Precincts of your residence
To ask if. in the face of common talk.
Thou wouldst not from your job be deftly
waited
By the scented zephyrs of far Monterey,
For. by cur troths. the tumult of the rabble
So fierce resounds about our tottering seats
I fear. and Tony here is with ne,
Well have 10 GO, in exile. or appease
This wrathful spirit by some speedy sacri-
fee.
Sweet to thy ucstrils as the fragrant roots
That youth impart in Fables fancied realm
Would be- I'm sure, the orange orchard
In which your later lifetime would be cast
Shylock-Pray go no further. On nay own
assurance
1 will not crafty this bowling mob.
Who likes the restfuI quiet of the slope
May there find peace; tits not for Shyock.
Their curses ringing in their ears and mine
Do fright me not. I'll launt my system
In their faces till it Go die
Antonio-Wilt thou not lend ear to
reason?
We go together you go alone.
II 1 can. stay, we have one good man left.
Here's Colligan as true a partisan
AS ever rallied to his heros flag;
And Parker. too. novice but of promise he
Your fame Will be weIl-guarded here within.
Shylock-No. no. l am unmoved by all
your cleas.
You but confirm me in my purpose fixed.
III stay here. party helping. to the last;
I've won my spurs by fealty to my host.
Who saved this dynasty at all? Their palaces
Would be but air-ships had not Shylock
stood
As scapegoat for the rogues before. I will
not so.
What Judgment shall I dread. doing no
wrong?
You have among you many hireling slave.
Which. like your asses and your dogs and
You use in abject and in slavish parts
Because you pay them; shall l say to you
Let them be free; marry them to your heirs :?
Why sweat they under burthens? Let their
beds
Be made as soft as yours, and let their plates
Be seasoned with such viands? You will
answer.
Their time is ours. Theirs then the greater
Whose sins against the world have shut
them out.
Or rather in, from all its pleasures.
If you dispute me, where then stands your
law?
There is no force in the DEGREES of judges.
stand for judgment; answer shall I have
ouke-Aye. and judgment you will surely
have
For learned doctors weigh your subtle
sceech.
By my permission shall fair Portia speak
The judgment of the trio whom 1 chose
Portia-In law. indeed, is Shylock's claim
we'll Laid.
But in his power, he must be merciful
Shylock-On what compulson must 1? Tell
me that.
PortLa-The quality of mercy is not
strained:
1t droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath; not a heavy
clun
Upon the crown of him who human ire has
walked,
But blessing twice. who gives, and he who
takes
IT'S mightest in the mightiest; It becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown
The thirsty jailer better than his club
His red cane shows the force of brutal
strength
Wherein now sits the dread and fear of
guards;
But mercy is above this redeemed sway;
Let mercy rule and Heaven speed the day
That Shylock's clab, besplintered and be-
daubed .
With blood of those its ferrule oft hath
gashed,
Be laid away, a relic of the past
Then infrm men may trust to earth their
fate:
And. stead of leaping from a parapet
To end a restless life in suicide
Rsmain to fill that service of their crime
That law of men alIots the first. And after
that.
AS from the bench resound betimes the
awful words
May God have mercy then on your poor
SOUL
Let justice temper'd be, and tempered true
AS was the steel Of that Damascus blade
That double bent, It's wariike power re-
tanned.
The art that made the blade Is lost: the field
In which 1t served Its art has gone
So, maybap. will It be hereafter writ
OF those entrusted with old shylock's place:
They dealt out justice but with mercy bent
To- aid the helpless. while they ruled the
strong.
But, insurfectiorary spirit queiled,
1t was in frmness, not IN hatred, held