17901784Clowne. That is done to sir, onely couer is the word.

17911785Loren. Will you couer than sir?

17921786Clowne. Not so sir neither, I know my duty.

17931787Loren. Yet more quarrelling with occasion, wilt thou shewe

17941788the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant; I pray thee vnderstand a

17951789plaine man in his plaine meaning: goe to thy fellowes, bid them

17961790couer the table, serue in the meate, and we will come in to dinner.

17971791Clowne. For the table sir, it shall be seru'd in, for the meate sir, it

17981792shall be couerd, for your comming in to dinner sir, why let it be as

17991793humors and conceites shall gouerne. Exit Clowne.

18001794Loren. O deare discretion, how his words are suted,

18011795The foole hath planted in his memorie

18021796an Armie of good words, and I doe know

18031797a many fooles that stand in better place,

18041798garnisht like him, that for a tricksie word

18051799defie the matter: how cherst thou Iessica,

18061800And now good sweet say thy opinion,

18071801How doost thou like the Lord Bassanios wife?

18081802Iessi. Past all expressing, it is very meete

18091803the Lord Bassanio liue an vpright life

18101804For hauing such a blessing in his Lady,

18111805he findes the ioyes of heauen heere on earth,

18121806And if on earth he doe not meane it, it

18131807in reason he should neuer come to heauen?

18141808Why, if two Gods should play some heauenly match,

18151809and on the wager lay two earthly women,

18161810And Portia one: there must be somthing else

18171811paund with the other, for the poore rude world

18181812hath not her fellow.

18191813Loren. Euen such a husband

18201814hast thou of me, as she is for wife.

18211815Iessi. Nay, but aske my opinion to of that?

18221816Loren. I will anone, first let vs goe to dinner?

18231817Iessi. Nay, let me praise you while I haue a stomack?

18241818Loren. No pray thee, let it serue for table talke,

18251819Then how so mere thou speakst mong other things,

18261820I shall disgest it?