103104For saying nothing; when I am very sure

104105If they should speake, would almost dam those 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 must be one of these same dumbe wise 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 infinite deale of nothing more then any

121122man in all Venice, his reasons are as two graines of wheate hid in

122123two bushels of chaffe: 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 promisd to tell me of.

127128Bass. Tis not vnknowne to you Anthonio

128129How much I haue disabled mine estate,

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 most in money and in loue,

137138And from your loue I haue a warrantie

138139To vnburthen all my plots and purposes

139140How to get cleere of all the debts I owe.