what does salarino say about gossip report
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SALARINO.
Why, yet it lives there unchecked that Antonio hath a ship
of rich lading wrack'd on the narrow seas; the Goodwins, I think
they call the place, a very dangerous flat and fatal, where the
carcasses of many a tall ship lie buried, as they say, if my
gossip Report be an honest woman of her word.
SALANIO.
I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped
ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the death of a
third husband. But it is true,—without any slips of prolixity or
crossing the plain highway of talk,—that the good Antonio, the
honest Antonio,—O that I had a title good enough to keep his
name
company!—
Salarina said that there was apparently confirmed report stating that one of Antonio's ships filled with rich cargo had been found wrecked in the narrow seas namely Goodwin sands which is a dangerous shallow place where wrecks of many fine ships lie burried, if talkative women's rumour is to be believed......
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