The works of William Shakspeare Author:William Shakespeare Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: sc. i. of tnitt. 119 If they should speak, would almost damn those ears, [fools. Which, hearing them, would call their brothers I'll tell thee more of this... more » another time : But fish not, with this melancholy bait, For this fool-gudgeon, this opinion.— Come, good Lorenzo.—Fare ye well, awhile: I'll end my exhortation after dinner. Lor. 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. [more, Gra. Well, keep me company but two years Thou shalt not know the sound of thine own tongue. [gear. Ant. Farewell: I'll grow a talker for this Gra. Thanks, i' faith; for silence is only commendable [vendible. In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not [Eoceunt Gratiano and Lorenzo. Ant. Is that anything 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 chaif: you shall seek all day ere you find them ; and, when you have them, they are not worth the search. [same A nt. Well; tell me now, what lady is the To whom you swore a secret pilgrimage, That you to-day promis'd to tell me of? Bass. 'Tis not unknown to you, Antonio, How much I have disabled mine estate, By something showing a more swelling port Than my faint means wouldgrant continuance: Nor do I now make moan to be abridg'd 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 unburthen all ray plots and purposes, How to get clear of all the debts I owe. Ant. I pray you, good Bassanio, let me know it; And if it stand, as ...« less