Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice (1883) (14592256508)

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Title: Shakespeare's comedy of The merchant of Venice
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Rolfe, W. J. (William James), 1827-1910, ed
Subjects: Shylock (Fictitious character) Jews Moneylenders
Publisher: New York, Harper and brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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., Prologue. R.s quarto, Robertss quarto edition of the Play. S., Shakespeare. Schmidt, A. Schmidts Shakespeare-Lexicon (Berlin, 1874). Sr., Singer. St., Staunton. Theo., Theobald. v., Verplanck. Var. ed., the Variorum edition of Shakespeare (1821). W., R. Grant White. Warb., Warburton. Wb., Websters Dictionary (revised quarto edition of 1879). Wore, Worcesters Dictionary (quarto edition). Wr., Clark and Wrights Clarendon Press ed. of ^. of V. (Oxford, 1868). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeares Plays will be readily understood; asT. N. for Twelfth Night, Cor. for Coriolanus, 3 Hen. VI. for The Third Part of KitigHenry the Sixth, etc. P. P. refers to The Passionate Pilgrim ; V. and A. to Venusand Adonis; L. C to Lovers Complaint; and Sonn. to the Sonnets. When the abbreviation of the name of a play is followed by a reference to page,Rolfes edition of the play is meant. The numbers of the lines in the references (ex-cept for the present play) are those of the Globe ed. NOTES.
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AN ARGOSY. ACT I. Scene I.—In the ist folio, the play is divided into acts, but not intoscenes, and there is no list of dramatis personce. I. In sooth. In truth. A. S. soth (truth, true, truly), as in forsooth^soothsayer (teller of hidden truth). Gower alludes to the origin of thelatter word (Conf. Am.i.): ** That for he wiste he saide sothA soth-saier he was for ever. 3. Came by it. A familiar colloquial idiom in this country, but appar-ently not in England, since the editors there take the trouble to explain it. 8. On the oceait. Ocean is here a trisyllable; as in 2 Hen. IV. iii. i.50. See Gr. 479; and cf. Milton, Hymn on Nativ. 66: Whisperingnew joys to the mild ocean. Cf. also opinion in 102 below. 9. Argosies. Merchant vessels (sometimes war vessels) of great sizefor that day, though not exceeding two hundred tons. The name is fromthe classical Argo^ through the low Latin argis. Cf. T. of S. ii. i. 376, etc. II. Pageants. The word in S. means usually a theatrical exhibition,lit