You grow exceeding strange; Must it be so? 69 Sal. We'll make our leisures to attend on yours. [Exeunt SAL. and SALA. Lor. My lord Bassanio, since you have found An. thonio, We two will leave you; but, at dinner-time, Gra. You look not well, signior Anthonio; Anth. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage, where every man must play a part, Gra. Let me play the Fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice 80 90 And : And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark! 100 For saying nothing; who, I am very sure, ears, Which, hearing them, would call their brothers, fools. I'll tell thee more of this another time: But fish not, with this melancholy bait, Lor. Well, we will leave you then till dinner. time. I must be one of these same dumb wise men, 110 Gra. Well, keep me company but two years more, Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue. Anth., Fare well: I'll grow a talker for this gear. Gra. Thanks, i'faith; for silence is only commend able In a neat's tongue dry'd, and a maid not vendible. [Exeunt GRA. and LOREN. Anth. Is that any thing now! Bass. Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice: His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff; you : Çij shall shall seek all day ere you find them; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. 121 Anth. Well; tell me now, what lady is the same, And from your love I have a warranty 130 Anth. I pray you good Bassanio, let me know it; And, if it stand, as you yourself still do, Within the eye of honour, be assur'd, 140 Lye all unlock'd to your occasions. Bass. In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the self-same flight The self-same way, with more advised watch, Because what follows is pure innocence. I owe you much; and, like a wilful youth, 150 Anth. You know me well; and herein spend but time, To wind about my love with circumstance; In making question of my uttermost, Than if you had made waste of all I have: 160 Thẹn do but say to me what I should do, And am I prest unto it; therefore, speak. Bass. In Belmont is a lady richly left, Nor is the wide world ignorant of her worth; 170 Renowned suitors: and her sunny locks And many Jasons come in quest of her. O my Anthonio, had I but the means To hold a rival place with one of them, Ciij I have I have a mind presages me such thrift, Anth. Thou know'st that all my fortunes are at sea; Nor have I money, nor commodity To raise a present sum: Therefore go forth, That shall be rack'd, even to the uttermost, 180 [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Room in PORTIA'S House at Belmont. Enter PORTIA and NERISSA. Por. By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world. 190 Ner. You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are: And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing: It is no mean happiness therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. Por. Good sentences, and well pronounc'd. |