CHAP. XI.

You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand,

Such as I am; though for myself alone

I would not be ambitious in my wish,

To wish myself much better, yet for you

I would be trebled twenty times myself,

A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times

More rich----

----but the full sum of me

Is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised;

Happy in this, she is not yet so old

But she may learn; and happier than this,

She is not bred so dull but she can learn;

Happiest of all, is that her gentle spirit

Commits herself to your's to be directed.

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