Question

I tell thee what antonio
a)
what has
prompted the speaker to remark so?​

Answer 1

Answer:

GRATIANO

75You look not well, Signor Antonio.

You have too much respect upon the world.

They lose it that do buy it with much care.

Believe me, you are marvelously changed.

GRATIANO

You don’t look well, Antonio. You’re taking things too seriously. People with too much invested in the world always get hurt. I’m telling you, you don’t look like yourself.

ANTONIO

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano—

80A stage where every man must play a part,

And mine a sad one.

ANTONIO

For me the world is just the world, Gratiano—a stage where every person has a part to play. I play a sad one.

GRATIANO

    Let me play the fool.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

And let my liver rather heat with wine

Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.

85Why should a man whose blood is warm within

Sit like his grandsire cut in alabaster,

Sleep when he wakes, and creep into the jaundice

By being peevish? I tell thee what, Antonio—

I love thee, and ’tis my love that speaks—

90There are a sort of men whose visages

Do cream and mantle like a standing pond,

And do a willful stillness entertain

With purpose to be dressed in an opinion

Of wisdom, gravity, profound conceit,