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Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

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SCKNK 2.J THE MERCHANT OF VENICE 65<br />

Live thoTi, I live: with much much more dismay<br />

I view the fight than thou that makest the fray.<br />

Music, whilst BASSANIO comments on the caskets to himself.<br />

SONG.<br />

Tell me where is fancy° bred,<br />

Or in the heart or in the head ?<br />

How begot, how nourished ?<br />

Eeply, reply.<br />

It is engender'd in the eyes,<br />

With gazing fed; and fancy dies<br />

In the cradle where it lies.<br />

Let us all ring fancy's knell; 70<br />

I'll begin it, — Ding, dong, bell.<br />

All. Ding, dong, bell.<br />

Bass. So may the outward shows be least themselves°:<br />

The world is still" deceived with ornament.<br />

In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt,<br />

But, being season'd with a gracious voice,<br />

Obscures" the show <strong>of</strong> evil ? In religion,<br />

What damned error, but some sober brow<br />

Will bless it, and approve it with a text,<br />

Hiding the grossness with fair ornament ? 80

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