the Merchant of Venice.
13881382Nor none of thee thou pale and common drudge
13891383tweene man and man: but thou, thou meager lead
13901384which rather threaten
st then do
st promi
se ought,
13911385thy palenes moues me more then eloquence,
13921386and heere choo
se I, ioy be the con
sequence.
13931387Por. How all the other pa
ssions
fleet to ayre,
13941388As doubtfull thoughts, and ra
sh imbrac'd de
spaire:
13951389And
shyddring feare, and greene-eyed iealou
sie.
13961390O loue be moderate, allay thy exta
sie,
13971391In mea
sure raine thy ioy,
scant this exce
sse,
13981392I feele too much thy ble
ssing, make it le
sse
14011395Faire
Portias counterfeit. What demy God
14021396hath come
so neere creation? moue the
se eyes?
14031397Or whither riding on the balls of mine
14041398seeme they in motion? Heere are
seuerd lips
14051399parted with
suger breath,
so
sweet a barre
14061400should
sunder
such
sweet friends: heere in her haires
14071401the Paynter playes the Spyder, and hath wouen
14081402a golden me
sh tyntrap the harts of men
14091403fa
ster then gnats in cobwebs, but her eyes
14101404how could he
see to doe them? hauing made one,
14111405me thinkes it
should haue power to
steale both his
14121406and leaue it
selfe vnfurni
sht: Yet looke how farre
14131407the
sub
stance of my prai
se doth wrong this
shadow
14141408in vnderpry
sing it,
so farre this
shadow
14151409doth limpe behind the
sub
stance. Heeres the
scroule,
14161410the continent and
summarie of my fortune.
14171411 You that choose not by the view 14181412Chaunce as faire, and choose as true: 14191413Since this fortune falls to you,
14211415If you be well pleasd with this,
14221416and hold your fortune for your blisse,
14241418And claime her with a louing kis.
F. Bass.