the Merchant of Venice.
13161310Bass. Promi
se me life, and ile confe
sse the truth.
13171311Portia. Well then, confe
sse and liue.
13191313had beene the very
sum of my confe
ssion:
13201314O happy torment, when my torturer
13211315doth teach me aun
sweres for deliuerance:
13221316But let me to my fortune and the ca
skets.
13231317Portia. Away then, I am lockt in one of them,
13241318If you doe loue me, you will
finde me out.
13251319Nerryssa and the re
st,
stand all aloofe,
13261320Let mu
sique
sound while he doth make his choy
se,
13271321Then if he loo
se he makes a Swan-like end,
13281322Fading in mu
sique. That the compari
son
13291323may
stand more proper, my eye
shall be the
streame
13301324and watry death-bed for him: he may win,
13311325And what is mu
sique than? Than mu
sique is
13321326euen as the
flouri
sh, when true
subie
cts bowe
13331327to a new crowned Monarch: Such it is,
13341328As are tho
se dulcet
sounds in breake of day,
13351329That creepe into the dreaming bride-groomes eare,
13361330And
summon him to marriage. Now he goes
13371331with no le
sse pre
sence, but with much more loue
13381332Then young Alcides, when he did redeeme
13391333The virgine tribute, payed by howling Troy
13401334To the Sea-mon
ster: I
stand for
sacri
fice,
13411335The re
st aloofe are the Dardanian
wiues:
13421336With bleared vi
sages come forth to view
13431337The i
ssue of th'exploit: Goe Hercules,
13441338Liue thou, I liue with much much more di
smay,
13451339I view the
fight, then thou that mak'
st the fray.
13461340A Song the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets
Tell me where is fancie bred,
13501344How begot, how nourished?
Replie, replie.
It