Question

CONTEXT QUESTIONS
Read the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow :

1. And such a want-wit sadness 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 and rich burghers on the flood,
Or, as it were, the pageants of the sea,
Do overpeer the petty traffickers,
That curt'sy to them, do them reverence,
As they fly by them with their woven wings.


(i) Who speaks these words? To whom are these words spoken to? What has the person just narrated that makes the speaker say that his mind is tossing on the ocean?​

Answer 1

Answer:

Bassanio is the speaker of these words. He speaks these words to Antonio in Act I Scene I of the play.