In a neat's tongue dried,; Neat, horned cattle of the Ox species.
—a more swelling port; Port, in the present instance, comprehends the idea of expensive equipage, and external pomp of appearance.
SCENE II.—BELMONT. A ROOM IN PORTIA'S HOUSE.
Enter PORTIA and NERISSA.
Por. By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is a-weary of this great world.
Ner. You would be, sweet madam, if your miseries were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are. And yet, for aught I see, they are as sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing. It is no small happiness, therefore, to be seated in the mean; superfluity comes sooner by white hairs,[[17]] but competency lives longer.