The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
38: _dare_] _dares_ Rowe (ed. 2).
39: _was used_] _us’d_ Rowe (ed. 2). _was wont_ Collier MS.
47: _half_] _of half_ Warburton.
49: _his reason_] Qq. _the reason_ Ff.
53: _means_] _medicines_ Warburton conj.
54: _winter and summer_] _summer and winter_ Hanmer.
59: _humility? Revenge_] Rowe. _humility, revenge?_ Qq Ff.
60: _by Christian_] _by a Christian_ F3 F4.
_example? Why, revenge._] F4. _example, why revenge?_ Qq F1.
_example?_ _why revenge_ F2 F3.
62: Enter a Servant.] Enter a man from Anthonio. Qq Ff.
67: [Exeunt...] Exeunt Gentlemen. Qq Ff.
68: _Genoa_] _Genowa_ Qq F1 F2 F3. _Geneva_ F4.
77: _would_] _O would_ Q1.
78: _them? Why, so:_] _them, why so:_ Q1. _them, why so?_ Q2 Ff
Q3 Q4.
79: _what’s_] _whats_ Qq. _how much is_ Ff.
_thou_] Qq F1. _then_ F2 F3 F4. _there!_ Lloyd conj.
82: _lights on_] Q1. _lights a_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. _lights o’_ Rowe
(ed. 2).
82, 83: _but of_] Q1. _but a_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. _but o’_ Rowe (ed. 2).
85: _heard in_] _heard, is in_ Q3 Q4.
_Genoa_] _Genoway_ Q1. _Genowa_ Q2 F2 Q3 Q4 F3. _Genoua_
F4.
86: _What, what, what?_] _What, what,_ Rowe.
88: _Is’t, is’t_] Q1. _Is it, is it_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4.
91: _thee_] _the_ Q1.
92: _where_] Rowe. _heere_ Qq. _here_ Ff.
93: _in_] Q1. om. Q2 Ff Q3 Q4.
99: _to_] _unto_ Q1.
_that swear_] _that swear that_ Q1.
101: _of it_] _on’t_ Q1.
108: _Tubal_] om. Pope.
111: _I will. Go, go_] Pope. _I will go: go_ Q1. _I will: goe_ Q3
F1. _I will: go_ F2 Q3 Q4 F3 F4.
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SCENE II. _Belmont. A room in_ PORTIA’S _house_.
_Enter_ BASSANIO, PORTIA, GRATIANO, NERISSA, _and_ Attendants.
_Por._ I pray you, tarry: pause a day or two
Before you hazard; for, in choosing wrong,
I lose your company: therefore forbear awhile.
There’s something tells me, but it is not love,
I would not lose you; and you know yourself, 5
Hate counsels not in such a quality.
But lest you should not understand me well,—
And yet a maiden hath no tongue but thought,—
I would detain you here some month or two
Before you venture for me. I could teach you 10
How to choose right, but I am then forsworn;
So will I never be: so may you miss me;
But if you do, you’ll make me wish a sin,
That I had been forsworn. Beshrew your eyes,
They have o’er-look’d me, and divided me; 15
One half of me is yours, the other half yours.
Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours,
And so all yours! O, these naughty times
Put bars between the owners and their rights!
And so, though yours, not yours. Prove it so, 20
Let fortune go to hell for it, not I.
I speak too long; but ’tis to peize the time,
To eke it and to draw it out in length,
To stay you from election.
_Bass._ Let me choose;
For as I am, I live upon the rack. 25
_Por._ Upon the rack, Bassanio! then confess
What treason there is mingled with your love.
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