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Upon the fortune of this present year:

Therefore my merchandise makes me not sad.

Sol.

Why then you are in love.

Ant.

Fie, fie!

Sol.

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 fram’d 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

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.

Sal.

I would have stay’d till I had made you merry,

If worthier friends had not prevented me.

Ant.

Your worth is very dear in my regard.

I take it your own business calls on you,

And you embrace th’ occasion to depart.

Sal.

Good morrow, my good lords.