Reading The Merchant of Venice — William Shakespeare

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Lor.

The reason is, your spirits are attentiue:

For doe but note a wilde and wanton heard

Or race of youthful and vnhandled colts,

Fetching mad bounds, bellowing and neighing loud,

Which is the hot condition of their bloud,

If they but heare perchance a trumpet sound,

Or any ayre of musicke touch their eares,

You shall perceiue them make a mutuall stand,

Their sauage eyes turn'd to a modest gaze,

By the sweet power of musicke: therefore the Poet

Did faine that Orpheus drew trees, stones, and

floods.

Since naught so stockish, hard, and full of rage,

But musicke for time doth change his nature,

The man that hath no musicke in himselfe,

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