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 applause and vniuersall shoute,

14301424Giddy in spirit, still gazing in a doubt

14311425whether those peales of praise be his or no,

14321426So thrice faire Lady stand I euen so,

14331427As doubtfull whether what I see be true,

14341428Vntill confirmd, signd, ratified 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 wish

14381432to wish my selfe much better, yet for you,

14391433I would be trebled twentie times my selfe,

14401434a thousand times more faire, tenne thousand 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 grosse,

14451439is an vnlessond girle, vnschoold, vnpractized,

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;

14491443happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit

14501444commits it selfe to yours to be directed,

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 mansion, maister of my seruants,

14551449Queene ore my selfe: and euen now, but now,

14561450this house, these seruaunts, and this same my selfe

14571451are yours, my Lords, I giue them with this ring,

14581452which when you part from, loose, or giue away,

14591453let it presage the ruine of your loue,

14601454and be my vantage to exclaime on you.

14611455Bass. Maddam, you haue bereft me of all words,