Page 395 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus, [50]
Nature hat framed strange fellows in her time:
Some that will evermore peep through their eyes
And laugh like parrots at a bagpiper,

And other of such vinegar aspect
That they’ll not show their teeth in way of smile [55]
Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

Enter Bassanio, Lorenzo, and Gratiano.

Here comes Bassanio your most noble kinsman,

Gratiano, and Lorenzo. Fare ye well,
We leave you now with better company.

SALERIO
I would have stayed till I had made you merry, [60]
If worthier friends had not prevented me.

ANTONIO
Your worth is very dear in my regard.

I take it your own business calls on you,
And you embrace th’occasion to depart.

SALERIO
Good morrow, my good lords. [65]

BASSANIO
Good signors both, when shall we laugh? Say, when?
You grow exceeding strange. Must it be so?

SALERIO
We’ll make our leisures to attend on yours.

Exeunt Salerio and Solanio.

LORENZO
My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio,
We two will leave you; but at dinner-time [70]