Merchant of Venice: Act 2 Scene 5

Shylock warns Launcelot that Bassanio will not be as kind as Shylock and that Launcelot will have no leeway to overeat and oversleep. 


Shylock calls Jessica and informs her that he has been called for dinner. Shylock asks Jessica to keep the doors locked and not look out at the festival taking place in the streets as he feels that trouble is brewing. 


Launcelot whispers to Jessica that she has disobey her father and look out the window for the Christian who “will be worth a Jewës eye”


Shylock asks Jessica about her secretive conversation with Launcelot and says that even though Launcelot is kind, he eats and sleeps too much to be an efficient, worthwhile servant. 


After Shylock has left to see Bassanio, Jessica bids him farewell, thinking that, if nothing goes wrong, Shylock will soon have lost a daughter, and she, a father.

Act 2 Scene 5: In Shylock's house