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Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Antonio |
2 |
In sooth, I know not why I am so sad:
It wearies me; you say it wearies you;
But how I caught it, found it, or came by it,
What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born,
I am to learn;
And such a want-wit sadness makes of me,
That I have much ado to know myself.
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2 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Salarino |
48 |
Why, then you are in love.
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3 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Salarino |
50 |
Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad,
Because you are not merry: and 'twere as easy
For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry,
Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus,
Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper,
And other of such vinegar aspect
That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile,
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.
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4 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Salanio |
61 |
Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman,
Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well:
We leave you now with better company.
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5 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Salarino |
64 |
I would have stay'd till I had made you merry,
If worthier friends had not prevented me.
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6 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Antonio |
66 |
Your worth is very dear in my regard.
I take it, your own business calls on you
And you embrace the occasion to depart.
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7 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Bassanio |
70 |
Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when?
You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?
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8 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Lorenzo |
74 |
My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
We two will leave you: but at dinner-time,
I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.
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9 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Bassanio |
77 |
I will not fail you.
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10 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Gratiano |
78 |
You look not well, Signior Antonio;
You have too much respect upon the world:
They lose it that do buy it with much care:
Believe me, you are marvellously changed.
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11 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Lorenzo |
111 |
Well, we will leave you then till dinner-time:
I must be one of these same dumb wise men,
For Gratiano never lets me speak.
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12 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Bassanio |
121 |
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
shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you
have them, they are not worth the search.
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13 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Antonio |
126 |
Well, tell me now what lady is the same
To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage,
That you to-day promised to tell me of?
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14 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Bassanio |
129 |
'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio,
How much I have disabled mine estate,
By something showing a more swelling port
Than my faint means would grant continuance:
Nor do I now make moan to be abridged
From such a noble rate; but my chief care
Is to come fairly off from the great debts
Wherein my time something too prodigal
Hath left me gaged. To you, Antonio,
I owe the most, in money and in love,
And from your love I have a warranty
To unburden all my plots and purposes
How to get clear of all the debts I owe.
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15 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Antonio |
142 |
I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it;
And if it stand, as you yourself still do,
Within the eye of honour, be assured,
My purse, my person, my extremest means,
Lie all unlock'd to your occasions.
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16 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Bassanio |
147 |
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,
To find the other forth, and by adventuring both
I oft found both: I urge this childhood proof,
Because what follows is pure innocence.
I owe you much, and, like a wilful youth,
That which I owe is lost; but if you please
To shoot another arrow that self way
Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt,
As I will watch the aim, or to find both
Or bring your latter hazard back again
And thankfully rest debtor for the first.
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17 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Antonio |
160 |
You know me well, and herein spend but time
To wind about my love with circumstance;
And out of doubt you do me now more wrong
In making question of my uttermost
Than if you had made waste of all I have:
Then do but say to me what I should do
That in your knowledge may by me be done,
And I am prest unto it: therefore, speak.
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18 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 2] |
Nerissa |
197 |
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.
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19 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 2] |
Nerissa |
221 |
Your father was ever virtuous; and holy men at their
death have good inspirations: therefore the lottery,
that he hath devised in these three chests of gold,
silver and lead, whereof who chooses his meaning
chooses you, will, no doubt, never be chosen by any
rightly but one who shall rightly love. But what
warmth is there in your affection towards any of
these princely suitors that are already come?
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20 |
Merchant of Venice
[I, 2] |
Portia |
239 |
He doth nothing but frown, as who should say 'If you
will not have me, choose:' he hears merry tales and
smiles not: I fear he will prove the weeping
philosopher when he grows old, being so full of
unmannerly sadness in his youth. I had rather be
married to a death's-head with a bone in his mouth
than to either of these. God defend me from these
two!
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