The comicall Historie of
103104For
saying nothing; when I am very
sure
104105If they
should
speake, would almo
st dam tho
se eares
105106which hearing them would call their brothers fooles,
106107Ile tell thee more of this another time.
107108But
fish not with this melancholy baite
108109For this foole gudgin, this opinion:
109110Come good
Lorenso, faryewell a while,
110111Ile end my exhortation after dinner.
111112Loren. Well, we will leaue you then till dinner time.
112113I mu
st be one of the
se
same dumbe wi
se men,
113114For
Gratiano neuer lets me
speake.
114115Gra. Well keepe me company but two yeeres moe
115116Thou
shalt not know the
sound of thine owne tongue.
116117An. Far you well, Ile grow a talker for this geare.
117118Gra. Thanks yfaith, for
silence is onely commendable
118119In a neates togue dried, and a mayde not vendable.
Exeunt. 119120An. It is that any thing now.
120121Bass. Gratiano speakes an in
finite deale of nothing more then any
121122man in all Venice, his rea
sons are as two graines of wheate hid in
122123two bu
shels of cha
ffe: you
shall
seeke all day ere you
finde them,
123124and when you haue them, they are not worth the
search.
124125An. Well, tell me now what Lady is the
same
125126To whom you
swore a
secrete pilgrimage
126127That you to day promi
sd to tell me of.
127128Bass. Tis not vnknowne to you
Anthonio 128129How much I haue di
sabled mine e
state,
129130By
something
showing a more
swelling port
130131Then my faint meanes would graunt continuance:
131132Nor doe I now make mone to be abridg'd
132133From
such a noble rate, but my cheefe care
133134Is to come fairely of from the great debts
134135wherein my time
something too prodigall
135136Hath left me gagd: to you
Anthonio 136137I owe the mo
st in money and in loue,
137138And from your loue I haue a warrantie
138139To vnburthen all my plots and purpo
ses
139140How to get cleere of all the debts I owe.
Anth.