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Merchant of Venice
[I, 1] |
Gratiano |
85 |
Let me play the fool:
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,
And let my liver rather heat with wine
Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.
Why should a man, whose blood is warm within,
Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster?
Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice
By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio—
I love thee, and it is my love that speaks—
There are a sort of men whose visages
Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,
And do a wilful stillness entertain,
With purpose to be dress'd in an opinion
Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,
As who should say 'I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!'
O my Antonio, I do know of these
That therefore only are reputed wise
For saying nothing; when, I am very sure,
If they should speak, would almost damn those ears,
Which, hearing them, would call their brothers fools.
I'll tell thee more of this another time:
But fish not, with this melancholy bait,
For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.
Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile:
I'll end my exhortation after dinner.
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2 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 2] |
Old Gobbo |
646 |
Pray you, sir, stand up: I am sure you are not
Launcelot, my boy.
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3 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 2] |
Launcelot Gobbo |
653 |
I know not what I shall think of that: but I am
Launcelot, the Jew's man, and I am sure Margery your
wife is my mother.
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4 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 2] |
Launcelot Gobbo |
661 |
It should seem, then, that Dobbin's tail grows
backward: I am sure he had more hair of his tail
than I have of my face when I last saw him.
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5 |
Merchant of Venice
[II, 8] |
Salarino |
1072 |
Why, man, I saw Bassanio under sail:
With him is Gratiano gone along;
And in their ship I am sure Lorenzo is not.
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6 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 1] |
Salarino |
1285 |
Why, I am sure, if he forfeit, thou wilt not take
his flesh: what's that good for?
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7 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 2] |
Gratiano |
1559 |
My lord Bassanio and my gentle lady,
I wish you all the joy that you can wish;
For I am sure you can wish none from me:
And when your honours mean to solemnize
The bargain of your faith, I do beseech you,
Even at that time I may be married too.
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8 |
Merchant of Venice
[III, 3] |
Salarino |
1735 |
I am sure the duke
Will never grant this forfeiture to hold.
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9 |
Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2691 |
Let not that doctor e'er come near my house:
Since he hath got the jewel that I loved,
And that which you did swear to keep for me,
I will become as liberal as you;
I'll not deny him any thing I have,
No, not my body nor my husband's bed:
Know him I shall, I am well sure of it:
Lie not a night from home; watch me like Argus:
If you do not, if I be left alone,
Now, by mine honour, which is yet mine own,
I'll have that doctor for my bedfellow.
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Merchant of Venice
[V, 1] |
Portia |
2768 |
It is almost morning,
And yet I am sure you are not satisfied
Of these events at full. Let us go in;
And charge us there upon inter'gatories,
And we will answer all things faithfully.
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