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Which, when you part from, lose, or give away, 111
‘Twill mark° the ruin of your love, I say,° 112 / be // I daresay
113 114
And give me reason to regret° the day. / good reason to rue
She places ring on Bassanio’s finger

—Bassanio
Madam, you have bereft me of all words.° 115 / but stolen all my words
All that can speak° is the blood in my veins; 116 / but speaks / speaks now
As there is such confusion in my powers° 117 / speech / words / breath
Much like° the buzzing cheers that issue from {As}
The rousèd° masses after they have heard {pleasèd}
118 119
Some fine oration by their sovereign° prince, / honored / beloved
Where every sounding, fully blent together, 120
121 122
Turns to a wild of nothing save of joy.° / nothing but joy
+And now in me, each voice is lost,° each cry, / one
123
Expressed yet not expressed. When this ring parts

111. {Which when you part from, lose, or give away,}
when: implies an inevitability or an outcome which is expected to happen, whereas if does not imply such
inevitability.
112. {Let it presage the ruin of your love}
113. {And be my vantage to exclaim on you.} / And give me cause to berate you all day.
vantage: just cause, give me cause, advantage (as in having a good reason); my chance, my opportunity.
exclaim: yell, rail, fume, scream, denounce, etc. (ex-claim: give up your claim on me.)
114. [See Additional Note, 3.2.174]
115. / Madam, your words have (but) rendered me speechless / Madam, you have but stolen all my words.
116. {Only my blood speaks to you in my veins}
/ And now what speaks is the blood in my veins / Only the blood in my veins doth now speak;
117. {And there is such confusion in my powers}
powers: a) power of speech; ability to speak or articulate; b) power of intellect and will; ability to match what is
in the mind with the words
/ As great confusion besieges my words / And great confusion sieges all my words / And great confusion
hems my power of speech / As great confusion besieges all my words / As all my powers of speech are confused.
118. {As after some oration fairly spoke | By a beloved prince there doth appear}
/ As after hearing some well-spoken words (/fine oration) | By a beloved prince who doth appear
/ Like buzzing cheers, come from the rousèd masses | When hearing° words from their beloved prince
/ Like ecstatic (/rapturous) applause of the masses
/ Like buzzing cheers among the multitudes° / arising from the masses / that come from pleasèd crowds
/ ‘Tis like the buzzing cheers of pleasèd masses,
119. / The rousèd masses after their beloved | Prince doth appears and give some fine oration.
120. {Where every something being blent together}
121. {Turns to a wild of nothing save of joy} / Turns to a wilderness of un’fied° joy / mingled
122. something: sound, noise, voice, all the cheers
nothing: silence. Where every voice (something) blends together in a barren land (wild) of silence (nothing).
wasteland: {wild}; wilderness, desert, barren region, empty plain
123. {Expressed and not expressed: . . .} This obscure reference generally means that all the cries (of the multitudes)
are expressed as one cry: thus every cry is expressed (as one voice) and unexpressed or unheard (as a singular voice).
[See Additional Notes, 3.2.183]