What does Bassanio talk about cowards in the next few lines of his speech?
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The real meaning of this speech is encapsulated in the second line, in which Bassanio says that "the world is deceived with ornament." In specific terms, he is talking about the three caskets between which he has been asked to choose: one is gold, one is silver, and the other is lead, and Bassanio's deduction is that the external "shows" of the boxes will not necessarily be representative of their contents. His comments in this speech, however, are of course more widely applicable, to the world and to the events and characters of the play. He is saying that while the world can be easily deceived by things which are beautiful on the outside into a belief that these things (or people) will also be beautiful on the inside, this is a misrepresentation and a misapprehension.
Bassanio goes on to explicitly state that he believes this to be true of people as well as of things. Those who resemble the heroic Classical figures of Hercules and Mars, handsome and masculine, may be found to have "white" livers— that is, people can appear godlike on the outside, but this should not be construed as an outward mark of virtue. Sometimes, those who look virtuous are actually cowardly and immoral.
At the end of his speech, Bassanio rejects "gaudy gold" as attempting to lie to him through showiness and ornament, and chooses lead instead as the more likely to content a thing of "joy."
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