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Exit Clown [with Old Gobbo].

Bass.

I pray thee, good Leonardo, think on this:

These things being bought and orderly bestowed,

Return in haste, for I do feast to-night

My best esteem’d acquaintance. Hie thee, go.

Leon.

My best endeavors shall be done herein.

Enter Gratiano.

Gra.

Where’s your master?

Leon.

Yonder, sir, he walks.

Exit Leonardo.

Gra.

Signior Bassanio!

Bass.

Gratiano!

Gra.

I have suit to you.

Bass.

You have obtain’d it.

Gra. You must not deny me; I must go with you to Belmont.

Bass.

Why then you must. But hear thee, Gratiano:

Thou art too wild, too rude, and bold of voice—

Parts that become thee happily enough,

And in such eyes as ours appear not faults,

But where thou art not known, why, there they show

Something too liberal. Pray thee take pain

To allay with some cold drops of modesty

Thy skipping spirit, lest through thy wild behavior

I be misconst’red in the place I go to,

And lose my hopes.

Gra.

Signior Bassanio, hear me:

If I do not put on a sober habit,