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A List of Kegan Paul, Trench & Co.'s Publications (1887)

SHAKSPERE'S WORKS.

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4 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Act 1

Salar.My wind, cooling my broth, Would blow me to an ague, when I thought What harm a wind too great might do at sea. I should not see the sandy hour-glass run But I should think of shallows and of flats, And see my wealthy Andrew, dock'd in sand, Vailing her high-top lower than her ribs To kiss her burial. Should I go to church And see the holy edifice of stone, And not bethink me straight of dangerous rocks, Which touching but my gentle vessel's side, Would scatter all her spices on the stream, Enrobe the roaring waters with my silks, And, in a word, but even now worth this, And now worth nothing? Shall I have the thought To think on this, and shall I lack the thought That such a thing bechanc'd would make me sad? But tell not me: I know Antonio Is sad to think upon his merchandise. Ant. Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it, entures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year: Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad. Salar. Why, then you are in love. Ant. Fie, fie! Salar. Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad, Because you are not merry; and 'twere as easy For you to laugh, and leap, and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper; And other of such vinegar aspect

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Transcriber's Notes

Made minor punctuation corrections, changed all asterisms to ***, and made the following noted changes:

Page 12: Changed "Ralegh" to "Raleigh". Originally: HENNESSY, Sir John Pope.—Ralegh in Ireland. Page 16: Changed "Concepceptions" to "Conceptions". Originally: An Examination of the Fundamental Concepceptions

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