ACT SECOND
Scene One
[Another Part of the Island]
Enter Alonso, Sebastian, Antonio, Gonzalo, Adrian, Francisco, and others.
Gon. Beseech you, sir, be merry: you have cause,
So have we all, of joy; for our escape
Is much beyond our loss. Our hint of woe
Is common: every day some sailor's wife, 4
The masters of some merchant and the merchant,
Have just our theme of woe; but for the miracle,
I mean our preservation, few in millions
Can speak like us: then wisely, good sir, weigh
Our sorrow with our comfort.
Alon. Prithee, peace. 9
Seb. He receives comfort like cold porridge.
Ant. The visitor will not give him o'er so.
Seb. Look, he's winding up the watch of his
wit; by and by it will strike. 13
Gon. Sir,—
Seb. One: tell.
Gon. When every grief is entertain'd that's offer'd, 16
Comes to the entertainer—
Seb. A dollar.
Gon. Dolour comes to him, indeed: you have
spoken truer than you purposed. 20
Seb. You have taken it wiselier than I meant
you should.
5 merchant: merchant-ship
the merchant: the owner of the cargo
11 visitor: visitor to one in affliction
15 tell: count
19 Dolour: grief, used punningly
