13161310Bass. Promise me life, and ile confesse the truth.

13171311Portia. Well then, confesse and liue.

13181312Bass. Confesse and loue

13191313had beene the very sum of my confession:

13201314O happy torment, when my torturer

13211315doth teach me aunsweres for deliuerance:

13221316But let me to my fortune and the caskets.

13231317Portia. Away then, I am lockt in one of them,

13241318If you doe loue me, you will finde me out.

13251319Nerryssa and the rest, stand all aloofe,

13261320Let musique sound while he doth make his choyse,

13271321Then if he loose he makes a Swan-like end,

13281322Fading in musique. That the comparison

13291323may stand more proper, my eye shall be the streame

13301324and watry death-bed for him: he may win,

13311325And what is musique than? Than musique is

13321326euen as the flourish, when true subiects bowe

13331327to a new crowned Monarch: Such it is,

13341328As are those dulcet sounds in breake of day,

13351329That creepe into the dreaming bride-groomes eare,

13361330And summon him to marriage. Now he goes

13371331with no lesse presence, but with much more loue

13381332Then young Alcides, when he did redeeme

13391333The virgine tribute, payed by howling Troy

13401334To the Sea-monster: I stand for sacrifice,

13411335The rest aloofe are the Dardanian wiues:

13421336With bleared visages come forth to view

13431337The issue of th'exploit: Goe Hercules,

13441338Liue thou, I liue with much much more dismay,

13451339I view the fight, then thou that mak'st the fray.