Question

In my school days, when I had lost one shaft, I shot his fellow of the selfsame flight The selfsame way with more advisèd watch To find the other forth—and by adventuring both, I oft found both. I urge this childhood proof Because what follows is pure innocence. I owe you much, and, like a willful youth, That which I owe is lost. But if you please To shoot another arrow that self way Which you did shoot the first, I do not doubt, As I will watch the aim, or to find both Or bring your latter hazard back again And thankfully rest debtor for the first. plz tell meaning of that

Answer 1

In this speech, Bassanio explains that back when he was a schoolboy, if he had lost an arrow, he would try to find it by shooting another arrow in the same direction, watching the second arrow more carefully than the first one. By risking the second arrow, he’d often get both of them back. And then, he uses this childhood example to explain that just like the way he got the lost arrow by shooting another one, he wants Antonio to give him another loan and will try to use it very carefully so that he gets enough money to pay off all his debts, or at least pay off his latest loan and remain grateful for the previous loans.