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Gon. Beseech you, sir, be merry; you have cause, So have we all, of joy; for our escapeIs much beyond our loss. Our hint of woeIs common; every day, some sailor's wife,5 The masters of some merchant, and the merchant, Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle, I mean our preservation, few in millionsCan speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weighOur sorrow with our comfort.Alon.Prithee, peace.10 Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge.Ant. The visitor will not give him o'er so.Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike.Gon. Sir, -15 Seb. One: tell.Gon. When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, Comes to the entertainer-Seb. A dollar.Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have spoken 20 truer than you purposed.Seb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant you should.Gon. Therefore, my lord, -Ant. Fie, what a spendthrift is he of his tongue!Alon. I prithee, spare.II. 1. 25 Gon. Well, I have done: but yet, -Seb. He will be talking.Ant. Which, of he or Adrian, for a good wager, first begins to crow?Seb. The old cock.2230 Ant. The cockerel.Seb. Done. The wager?Ant. A laughter.Seb. A match!Adr. Though this island seem to be desert, -35 Seb. Ha, ha, ha!-So, you're paid.Adr. Uninhabitable, and almost inaccessible, -Seb. Yet, -Adr. Yet, -Ant. He could not miss't.40 Adr. It must needs be of subtle, tender and delicate temperance.Ant. Temperance was a delicate wench.Seb. Ay, and a subtle; as he most learnedly delivered.Adr. The air breathes upon us here most sweetly.45 Seb. As if it had lungs, and rotten ones.Ant. Or as 'twere perfumed by a fen.Gon. Here is every thing advantageous to life.Ant. True; save means to live.Seb. Of that there's none, or little.II. 1. 50 Gon. How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny.Seb. With an eye of green in't.Ant. He misses not much.Seb. No; he doth but mistake the truth totally.55 Gon. But the rarity of it is, -which is indeed almost beyond credit, -Seb. As many vouched rarities are.Gon. That our garments, being, as they were, drenched in the sea, hold, notwithstanding, theirfreshness and glosses, 60 being rather new-dyed than stained wit

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