TUBAL:
Yes, other men have ill luck too. Antonio, as I heard in Genoa-
SHYLOCK:
What, what, what? Ill luck, ill luck?
TUBAL:
Hath an argosy cast away coming from Tripolis.
SHYLOCK:
I thank God, I thank God! Is ‘t true, is ‘t true?
TUBAL:
I spoke with some of the sailors that escaped from the wrack.
SHYLOCK:
I thank thee Tubal. Good news, good news! Ha, ha, heard in Genoa.
TUBAL:
Your daughter spent in Geno, as I heard, in one night fourscore ducats.
SHYLOCK:
Thou stickest a dagger in me. I shall never see my gold again. Fourscore ducats
in a sitting! Fourscore ducats!
TUBAL:
There came divers of Antonio’s creditors in my company to Venice that swear
he can not help but break.
SHYLOCK:
I am very glad of it. I’ll plague him. I’ll torture him. I am glad of it.
TUBAL:
one of them showed me a ring that he had of your daughter for a monkey.
SHYLOCK:
Out upon her! Thou torturest me, Tubal. It was my turquoise. I had it of leah
when I was a bachelor. I would not have given it for a wilderness of monkeys.
TUBAL:
But Antonio is certainly undone.
SHYLOCK:
Nay, that’s true, that’s very true. Go, Tubal, fee me an officer. Bespeak him a
fortnight before.-I will have the heart of him if he forfeit, for were he out of
Venice I can make what merchandise I will.-Go, go, Tubal, and meet me at our
synagogue. Go, good Tubal. At our synagogue, Tubal.
This is mainly about how Shylock finds that Antonio loses his ship but he loses his daughter. I think it is ironic how Shylock is so proud to admit the loss of Antonio, but yet broken about the loss of his own daughter and stolen ducats. So now both men are equally at loss and are now trying to recover, but Antonio may not be able to. As for Shylock, he has to try to get his daughter and ducats back. So now, what do you think Shylock will do as a result?