Believe me, no: I thank my fortune for it, My ventures are not in one bottom trusted, Nor to one place; nor is my whole estate Upon the fortune of this present year: Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.

Not in love neither? Then let us say you are sad, Because you are not merry: and ’twere as easy For you to laugh and leap and say you are merry, Because you are not sad. Now, by two-headed Janus, Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh like parrots at a bag-piper, And other of such vinegar aspect That they’ll not show their teeth in way of smile, Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable.

Here comes Bassanio, your most noble kinsman, Gratiano and Lorenzo. Fare ye well: We leave you now with better company.

I would have stay’d till I had made you merry, If worthier friends had not prevented me.

Your worth is very dear in my regard. I take it, your own business calls on you And you embrace the occasion to depart.

Good signiors both, when shall we laugh? say, when? You grow exceeding strange: must it be so?

My Lord Bassanio, since you have found Antonio, We two will leave you: but at dinner-time, I pray you, have in mind where we must meet.

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.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.