Yet I have not seen
So likely an ambassador of love:
A day in April never came so sweet,
To show how costly summer was at hand,
As this fore-spurrer comes before his lord.
PORTIA No more, I pray thee: I am half afeard
Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee,
Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him.
Come, come, Nerissa; for I long to see
Quick Cupid's post that comes so mannerly.
NERISSA Bassanio, lord Love, if thy will it be!
[Exeunt]
THE MERCHANT OF VENICE
ACT III
SCENE I Venice. A street.
[Enter SALANIO and SALARINO]
SALANIO Now, what news on the Rialto?
SALARINO Why, yet it lives there uncheck'd that Antonio hath
a ship of rich lading wrecked on the narrow seas;
the Goodwins, I think they call the place; a very
dangerous flat and fatal, where the carcasses of many
a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my gossip
Report be an honest woman of her word.
SALANIO I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbours believe she
wept for the death of a third husband. But it is
true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the
plain highway of talk, that the good Antonio, the
honest Antonio,--O that I had a title good enough
to keep his name company!--
SALARINO Come, the full stop.
SALANIO Ha! what sayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath
lost a ship.
SALARINO I would it might prove the end of his losses.
SALANIO Let me say 'amen' betimes, lest the devil cross my
prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew.
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