"*This speech is made as Bassanio considers which casket to choose."
"*It is important because it reveals a different, more serious side of Bassanio's character, one which we have not seen before."
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"*It is also an important speech in relation to the theme of appearance and reality (See THEMES)"
"*Bassanio knows that appearances may be deceptive, but he still has to figure out the correct casket."
"*Meanwhile, spare a thought for Portia, already in love with Bassanio, who will have to bid him farewell forever if he chooses wrongly - and remember she now knows which casket he should choose!"
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"So may the outward shows be __?_?_?__ themselves;"
"The world is still __?_?_?__ with ornament."
"In law, what plea so tainted and __?_?_?__,"
"But, being seasoned with a __?_?_?__ voice,"
"Obscures the show of evil? In __?_?_?__,"
"What damned error but some sober brow"
"Will __?_?_?__ it, and approve it with a text,"
"Hiding the grossness with fair __?_?_?__?"
"There is no vice so simple but assumes"
"Some mark of __?_?_?__ on his outwards parts."
LEAST,7,38
DECEIVED,8,29
CORRUPT,9,43
GRACIOUS,10,37
RELIGION,11,40
BLESS,13,15
ORNAMENT,14,41
VIRTUE,16,23
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"How many __?_?_?__ whose hearts are all as false"
"As __?_?_?__ of sand, wear yet upon their chins"
"The beards of Hercules and frowning __?_?_?__,"
"Who, inward searched, have __?_?_?__ white as milk?"
"And these assume but __?_?_?__ excrement"
"To render them redoubted. Look on __?_?_?__,"
"And you shall see 'tis __?_?_?__ by the weight,"
"Which therein works a __?_?_?__ in nature,"
"Making them lightest that wear the most of it;"
"So are those crisped, __?_?_?__, golden locks"
"Which make such __?_?_?__ gambols with the wind"
"Upon supposed fairness, often known"
"To be the __?_?_?__ of a second head,"
"The __?_?_?__ that bred them in the sepulchre."
COWARDS,7,19
STAIRS,8,13
MARS,9,46
LIVERS,10,37
VALOUR'S,11,31
BEAUTY,12,44
PURCHASED,13,33
MIRACLE,14,32
SNAKY,16,32
WANTON,17,26
DOWRY,19,20
SKULL,20,14
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"Thus ornament is but the guiled __?_?_?__"
"To a most __?_?_?__ sea, the beauteous scarf"
"__?_?_?__ an Indian beauty - in a word,"
"The __?_?_?__ truth which cunning times put on"
"To entrap the wisest. Therefore, thou __?_?_?__ gold,"
"Hard food for __?_?_?__, I will none of thee,"
"Nor none of thee, thou pale and common __?_?_?__"
"'Tween man and man. But thou, thou __?_?_?__ lead,"
"Which rather threaten'st than dost __?_?_?__ aught,"
"Thy paleness moves me more than __?_?_?__,"
"And here choose I; __?_?_?__ be the consequence!"
