I let pass all that I have spoken of the small commodity of them
unto your body and of the great harm that the having of them doth
to your soul. And since the promise of the Turk, made unto you for
the keeping of them, is the thing that moveth you and maketh you
thus to doubt, I ask you first whereby you know that, when you have
done all that he will have you do against Christ, to the harm of
your soul--whereby know you, I say, that he will keep you his
promise in these things that he promiseth you concerning the
retaining of your well-beloved worldly wealth, for the pleasure of
your body?
VINCENT: What surety can a man have of such a great prince except
his promise, which for his own honour it cannot become him to break?
ANTHONY: I have known him, and his father before him too, to break
more promises than five, as great as this is that he should here
make with you. Who shall come and cast it in his teeth, and tell
him it is a shame for him to be so fickle and so false of his
promise? And then what careth he for those words that he knoweth
well he shall never hear? Not very much, though they were told him
too!
If you might come afterward and complain your grief unto his own
person yourself, you should find him as shamefast as a friend of
mine, a merchant, once found the Sultan of Syria.
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