1 Nay, you need nor fear us, Lorenzo.
2 We are no tell-tales, madam, fear you not.
3 You need not fear, lady, the having any of these lords.
4 Ay, but I fear you speak upon the rack Where men enforced do speak anything.
5 None but that ugly treason of mistrust, Which makes me fear th enjoying of my love.
6 Well, while I live, I'll fear no other thing So sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring.
7 I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.
8 In such a night Did Thisby fearfully o'ertrip the dew, And saw the lion's shadow ere himself, And ran dismay'd away.
9 Yes, truly, for look you, the sins of the father are to be laid upon the children, therefore, I promise you, I fear you.
10 Truly then I fear you are damn'd both by father and mother; thus when I shun Scylla your father, I fall into Charybdis your mother.
11 I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine Hath fear'd the valiant; by my love I swear The best-regarded virgins of our clime Have lov'd it too.
12 Why, fear not, man, I will not forfeit it, Within these two months, that's a month before This bond expires, I do expect return Of thrice three times the value of this bond.
13 Therefore, for fear of the worst, I pray thee set a deep glass of Rhenish wine on the contrary casket, for if the devil be within and that temptation without, I know he will choose it.
14 I should be still Plucking the grass to know where sits the wind, Peering in maps for ports, and piers and roads; And every object that might make me fear Misfortune to my ventures, out of doubt Would make me sad.
15 Then meet me forthwith at the notary's, Give him direction for this merry bond, And I will go and purse the ducats straight, See to my house left in the fearful guard Of an unthrifty knave, and presently I'll be with you.
16 His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.