The comicall Historie of
14251419A gentle
scroule: Faire Lady, by your leaue,
14261420I come by note to giue, and to receaue,
14271421Like one of two contending in a prize
14281422That thinks he hath done well in peoples eyes:
14291423Hearing applau
se and vniuer
sall
shoute,
14301424Giddy in
spirit,
still gazing in a doubt
14311425whether tho
se peales of prai
se be his or no,
14321426So thrice faire Lady
stand I euen
so,
14331427As doubtfull whether what I
see be true,
14341428Vntill con
firmd,
signd, rati
fied by you.
14351429Por. You
see me Lord
Bassanio where I
stand,
14361430such as I am; though for my
selfe alone
14371431I would not be ambitious in my wi
sh 14381432to wi
sh my
selfe much better, yet for you,
14391433I would be trebled twentie times my
selfe,
14401434a thou
sand times more faire, tenne thou
sand times
14411435more rich, that onely to
stand high in your account,
14421436I might in vertues, beauties, liuings, friends
14431437exceede account: but the full
summe of me
14441438is
sume of
something: which to terme in gro
sse,
14451439is an vnle
ssond girle, vn
schoold, vnpra
ctized,
14461440happy in this,
she is not yet
so old
14471441but
she may learne: happier then this,
14481442shee is not bred
so dull but
she can learne;
14491443happie
st of all, is that her gentle
spirit
14501444commits it
selfe to yours to be dire
cted,
14511445as from her Lord, her gouernour, her King.
14521446My
selfe, and what is mine, to you and yours
14531447is now conuerted. But now I was the Lord
14541448of this faire man
sion, mai
ster of my
seruants,
14551449Queene ore my
selfe: and euen now, but now,
14561450this hou
se, the
se
seruaunts, and this
same my
selfe
14571451are yours, my Lords, I giue them with this ring,
14581452which when you part from, loo
se, or giue away,
14591453let it pre
sage the ruine of your loue,
14601454and be my vantage to exclaime on you.
14611455Bass. Maddam, you haue bereft me of all words,
onely