Digital facsimile of the Bodleian First Folio of Shakespeare's plays, Arch. G c.7
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Anth. To furnish thee to Belmont to faire Portia.
Anth. Goe presently enquire, and so will I
Anth. Where money is, and I no question make
Anth. To haue it of my trust, or for my sake.
Anth. Exeunt.
Anth. [Act 1, Scene 2]
Anth. Enter Portia with her waiting woman Nerissa.
Portia. Portia.
Portia. By my troth Nerrissa, my little body is a wea
Portia. rie of this great world.
Ner. Ner.
Ner. You would be sweet Madam, if your miseries
Ner. were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are:
Ner. and yet for ought I see, they are as sicke that surfet with
Ner. too much, as they that starue with nothing; it is no smal
Ner. happinesse therefore to bee seated in the meane, super
Ner. fluitie comes sooner by white haires, but competencie
Ner. liues longer.
Portia. Good sentences, and well pronounc'd.