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ACT III IT
Scene I IT
Enter Solanio and Salerio.
SOLANIO
Now what news on the Rialto?
SALERIO
Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship of rich lading
wracked on the narrow seas; the Goodwins I think they call the place, a very
dangerous flat, and fatal, where the carcasses of [5] many a tall ship lie
buried as they say, if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
SOLANIO
I would she were as lying a gossip in that asever knapped ginger or made her
neighbours believe she wept for the death of a third husband. [10] But it is
true, without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk, that
the good Antonio, the honest Antonio − O that I had a title good enough to
keep his name company...
SALERIO
Come, the full stop! [15]
SOLANIO
Ha, what sayest thou? Why the end is, he hath lost a ship.
SALERIO
I would it might prove the end of his losses.
SOLANIO
Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in
