Reading The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare

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You see my Lord Bassiano where I stand,

Such as I am; though for my selfe alone

I would not be ambitious in my wish,

To wish my selfe much better, yet for you,

I would be trebled twenty times my selfe,

A thousand times more faire, ten thousand times

More rich, that onely to stand high in your account,

I might in vertues, beauties, liuings, friends,

Exceed account: but the full summe of me

Is sum of nothing: which to terme in grosse,

Is an vnlessoned girle, vnschool'd, vnpractiz'd,

Happy in this, she is not yet so old

But she may learne: happier then this,

Shee is not bred so dull but she can learne;

Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit

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