the Merchant of Venice.
947943doe it in hope of faire aduantages:
948944A golden minde
stoopes not to
showes of dro
sse,
949945Ile then nor giue nor hazard ought for lead.
950946What
sayes the
siluer with her virgin hue?
951947Who choo
seth me,
shal get as much as he de
serues.
952948As much as he de
serues, pau
se there
Morocho,
953949and weigh thy valew with an euen hand,
954950If thou bee
st rated by thy e
stimation
955951thou doo
st de
serue enough, and yet enough
956952May not extend
so farre as to the Ladie:
957953And yet to be afeard of my de
seruing
958954were but a weake di
sabling of my
selfe.
959955As much as
I de
serue, why thats the Ladie.
960956I doe in birth de
serue her, and in fortunes,
961957in graces, and in qualities of breeding:
962958but more then the
se, in loue
I doe de
serue,
963959what if
I straid no farther, but cho
se heere?
964960Lets
see once more this
saying grau'd in gold:
965961Who choo
seth me
shall gaine what many men de
sire:
966962Why thats the Ladie, all the world de
sires her.
967963From the foure corners of the earth they come
968964to ki
sse this
shrine, this mortall breathing Saint.
969965The Hircanion de
serts, and the va
stie wildes
970966Of wide Arabia are as throughfares now
971967for Princes to come view faire
Portia.
972968The waterie Kingdome, who
se ambitious head
973969Spets in the face of heauen, is no barre
974970To
stop the forraine
spirits, but they come
975971as ore a brooke to
see faire
Portia.
976972One of the
se three containes her heauenly pi
cture.
977973Ist like that leade containes her, twere damnation
978974to thinke
so ba
se a thought, it were too gro
sse
979975to ribb her
serecloth in the ob
scure graue,
980976Or
shall I thinke in
siluer
shees immurd
981977beeing tenne times vndervalewed to tride gold,
982978O
sinful thought, neuer
so rich a
Iem
983979was
set in wor
se then gold. They haue in England
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