 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 242 pages
...e dire Che siete allegro perché non siete triste. Nature hath framed strange fellows in her rime: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And...of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Enter Bassanio, Lorenzo, and Grattano Here comes Bassanio your most noble kinsman, Granano, and Lorenzo.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2003 - 156 pages
...leap, and say you are merry Because you are not sad. Now by two-headed Janus, 50 Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time; Some that will evermore...That they'll not show their teeth in way of smile 55 Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable. Enter BASSANIO, LORENZO and GRATIANO Here comes Bassanio... | |
 | Joseph McCabe - 2003 - 740 pages
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 | Simon Winchester - 2004 - 292 pages
...the opening scene of The Merchant of Venice, Solanio gives us the first use of the word laughable — 'they'll not show their teeth in way of smile Though Nestor swear the jest be laughable'. Laugh itself is a word from the widely approved Old English; in 1596 Shakespeare added the Norman French... | |
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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 framed strange fellows in her time: Some that will evermore peep through their eyes And laugh... 
