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caption_attribution_description: English: Bassanio Identifier: shakespearescom00shak (find matches) Title: Shakespeare's comedy of the Merchant of Venice Year: 1914 (1910s) Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Linton James Dromgole, 1840-1916, ill Hazen, Frank, binding designer Hodder and Stoughton, publisher Subjects: Shylock (Fictitious character) Jews Moneylenders Publisher: New York, London&#160;: Hodder &amp; Stoughton Contributing Library: University of California Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive View Book Page: Book Viewer About This Book: Catalog Entry View All Images: All Images From Book Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book. Text Appearing Before Image: now with better company. 7 THE MERCHANT (act i. Salar. I would have stayd till I had made youmerry,If worthier friends had not prevented me. Ant. Your worth is very dear in my regard.I take it, your own business calls on youAnd you embrace the occasion to depart. Salar. Good morrow, my good lords. Bass. Good signiors both, when shall we laugh ?say, when ?You grow exceeding strange: must it be so? Salar. We 11 make our leisures to attend onyours. (Exeunt Salarino and Salanio. Lor. My Lord Bassanio, since you have foundAntonio,We two will leave you&#160;: but at dinner-time,I pray you, have in mind where we must meet. Bass. I will not fail you. Gra. You look not well, Signior Antonio ;You have too much respect upon the world :They lose it that do buy it with much care:Believe me, you are marvellously changed. Ant. I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;A stage where every man must play a part.And mine a sad one. Gra. Let me play the fool: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come,8 Text Appearing After Image: Bassanio. sc. I.) OF VENICE And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster&#160;? Sleep when he wakes and creep into the jaundice By being peevish&#160;? I tell thee what, Antonio— I love thee, and it is my love that speaks— There are a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond. And do a wilful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressd in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit, As who should say I am Sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips let no dog bark! 0 my Antonio, I do know of theseThat therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing, when, I am very sure, If they should speak, would almost damn those earsWhich, hearing them, would call their brothers fools. 1 11 tell thee more of this another time :But fish not, with this melancholy bait.For this fool gudgeon, this opinion.Come, good Lorenzo. Fare ye well awhile :I 11 end my exh Note About Images Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.
context_page_description: Bassanio is a fictional character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He is a Venetian gentleman who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont. In order to ask for her hand in marriage, Bassanio and his best friend, Antonio enter into an agreement with the usurer Shylock. Bassanio is not the main character of the play, but his 73 lines compared to Antonio's 47 and Portia's 117 show that he still plays an important role in the play. Even though his actions do not have a large impact on the play, he is responsible for the driving force behind the plot.
context_section_description: Bassanio is a fictional character in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice. He is a Venetian gentleman who wasted all of his money in order to be seen as a respectable man. To regain his fortune, he is determined to marry Portia, a wealthy, intelligent heiress of Belmont. In order to ask for her hand in marriage, Bassanio and his best friend, Antonio enter into an agreement with the usurer Shylock. Bassanio is not the main character of the play, but his 73 lines compared to Antonio's 47 and Portia's 117 show that he still plays an important role in the play. Even though his actions do not have a large impact on the play, he is responsible for the driving force behind the plot.
caption: Bassanio is depicted here dressed as the classic renaissance gentleman. (1914)
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