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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE MERCHANT OF VENICE ACT I SCENE I.? Venice. A Street. Enter Antonio, Salarino, and Salanio. Ant. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; 5 And such a want-wit sadness makes of me That I have much ado to know myself. Salar. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, The . . . Venice] The Comical [cpraicall Q 2] History of the Merchant of Venice Q. The Acts are first marked in F, the Scenes by Rowe. Venice . . .] Capell. A Street in Venice Theobald. 4. of] off Q 1. 4-6.] Two lines ending am . . . me Keightley. 5, 6.] So Q 3; one line Q, F. 5. am to learn] have not learned, 8. ixeari] a trisyllable; cf. Two do not know; see Riche (Shakspere Gentlemen, n. vii. 32, and Fletcher, Society, 1853), p. 135: he was like- The Chances, . be.: The tumbling wise to learne how to use his tearmes. ruins of the ocean. The gerund is practically equivalent to 9. argosies] Another form was Ra- a past participle with a negative, as in gusyes, see New Eng. Diet. Douce Bonnie George Campbell, line 19 (Early derived from Jason's ship, the Argo, Ballads, ed. Bell, p. 206) - My bar n comparing the late Latin Argis, though k to big [i.e. unbuilt] And my babies he was aware of Steevens' evidence for unborn. the right derivation in Ricaut's Maximes Like signiors and rich burghers on the flood, Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea, Do overpeer the petty traffickers, That curt'sy to them, do them reverence, As they fly by them with their woven wings. 13. curfsy] curtsie F, cursie Q, curfsy'ng Allen conj. of Turhish Polity, ch. xiv.: Those vast carracks...

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