 In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know...  SHAKESPEARE - Page 470by BIBLIOTHEQUE ANGLO-FRANCAISE - 1836Full view - About this book
 | William Winwood Reade - 1860 - 402 pages
...And as I looked, and thought, and wept within my heart, the words of a great poet streamed upon me. " In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me...it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made on, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado... | |
 | David Cockburn - 1991 - 292 pages
...in another; consider Berne's Games People Play. Or: our moods and emotions puzzle us; for instance: In sooth, I know not why I am so sad; It wearies me,...makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. (The Merchant of Venice.) Indeed, Heraclitus was there first: You will not find out the limits of thtpsuche... | |
 | Lars Engle - 1993 - 284 pages
...Everyday Life\ In sooth l know not why 1 am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how 1 caught it, found it, or came by it. What stuff 'tis made of. whereof it is born, I am to learn . . . (Antonio in The Merchant of Venice) It is worthwhile to speculate on what Antonio, in the opening... | |
 | Murray Cox, Alice Theilgaard - 1994 - 482 pages
...in the majority of the poet's plays. 'This is, and is not, Cressid.' (Troilus Cf Cressida V.2.145) 'In sooth I know not why I am so sad, It wearies me,...makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself.' (The Merchant of Venice l.1.1) Brutus, in Julius Caesar, is a split soul; but, unlike Hamlet, his reflections... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pages
...Venice. A street. Enter ANTONIO, SALARINO, and SOLANIO. ANTONIO. TN sooth, I know not why I am so sad: J. en like dogs! give crowns like pins! Have we not Hiren...captain, there's none such here. What the good-year! SALARINO. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, — Like... | |
 | Cynthia Lewis - 1997 - 268 pages
...opens the play by speaking three times in seven lines of how little he understands himself: In sooth, / know not why I am so sad; It wearies me, you say it...by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, / am to learn; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That / have much ado to know myself. (1.1.1-7;... | |
 | Theodore Ziolkowski - 2003 - 340 pages
...now see, for instance, that anomy can explain Antonio's mood, with which the play opens:76 In sooth 1 know not why I am so sad, It wearies me, you say it...came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is bom, I am to leam: And such a want-wit sadness makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. (1.1.1-7)... | |
 | Elmer Rice - 1950 - 84 pages
...{fanfare], and then the voices of the unseen actors of " 7he Merchant of Venice " are heard off R.) ANTONIO. In sooth, I know not why I am so sad .It wearies me;...makes of me, That I have much ado to know myself. SALARINO. Your mind is tossing on the ocean; There, where your argosies with portly sail, Like signiors... | |
 | Shaun Gallagher, Jonathan Shear - 1999 - 550 pages
...speak again. King. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. (King Henry IV, Part II, IV, v. 92.) In sooth, I know not why I am so sad: It wearies me;...you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, [9] I do not believe that conscious phenomena should be thus restricted, but will restrict them for... | |
 | Manfred Pfister, Barbara Schaff - 1999 - 264 pages
...our merchant, and very Hamlet-ish he is, too. He sounds an opening note of inexplicable melancholy: But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What...'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn... (I,i,3-5) We might later have a guess at at least some of the 'stuff it is made of, but for now Salerio... | |
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