...Nerissa, my little body if aweary of this great world. AVr. You would be, sweet madnm, if yourmiscrics were in the same abundance as your good fortunes are : And yet, for aught I sre, they arc as sick, that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing : It is no mean...

...much or too little. Shakespeare articulated well the wisdom of ideal weight maintenance when he wrote: They are as sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing. William Shakespeare (1564-1616) Merchant of Venice I.ii. An understanding of the sociocultural forces...

...first lines spoken by Antonio ("In sooth I know not why I am so sad . . ." [1.1]) and by Portia 55 ("By my troth Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world" [1.2]). ' Sounding the note of melancholia poses a riddle: Why are the two figures thus beset by sadness...

...Palestinian refugees held in 1949. Introduction SKI^KKX&IX&R£X&^^ . . . and yet for aught I see they are sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, act 1, sc. 2. An imitation of European customs including the perilous...

...for Portia's first line to denote trapped energy rather than ennui. It would be easy to moon over 'By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world' (1.ii.1), but since she criticizes the County Palatine for 'unmannerly sadness' (1.ii.47) it was obvious...

...him in the grave to which he has retreated appears in the world-weariness of her opening words, "By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world" (I.ii.1-2). She makes a more oblique but more trenchant connection between death and marriage, or death...

...the first of the play, begins: 'In sooth I know not why I am so sad'. Portia's first words are 'By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world' (I.ii.1-2). Antonio's unexplained melancholy seems a presentiment of sorrows to come; wealth appears...

...and dinner, is at once the most indefensible and the most deadly." — LEONARD WILLIAMS, MD "They are sick that surfeit with too much as they that starve with nothing." — SHAKESPEARE. "Overeating is the only cause of stoutness. But it is also the cause of many other...

...Portia's first words in the play seem to echo Antonio's melancholic opening of the previous scene: "By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is a-weary of this great world" (I.ii.i-2). The scene goes on to explain the source of this weariness—Portia's husband will be selected...

...natural coloring. Her first appearance, in the scene that follows, bring us firmly back to earth. "By my troth, Nerissa, my little body is aweary of this great world." Hard on the heels of Bassanio's poetry, we find ourselves confronted by some unsentimental prose. Portia...