Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

SCHJNB 2.] NOTES 131
these two lines, if, for the abstract qualities of superfluity and
competency we substitute personalities, a person over wealthy,
and one enjoying a competency.
1. 10. pronounced. Uttered.
I. 18. temper. Disposition.
II. 19, 20. What picture do you see in this comparison ?
1. 26. nor . . . none. Where in I., i., have we had an
instance of the same construction, of the double negative ?
1. 35. over-name. Give some other modern compound words
where over still comes first.
1. 37. level. What comparison has Portia in mind ?
1. 39. Explain the pun in this line.
1. 40. appropriation. Addition.
1.42. County. Count.
1. 42. Palatine. Having privileges similar to those of a king.
Allied to the word palace.
1. 43. What ellipsis in this line ? Where did the same expression
occur before in one of Gratiano's speeches ?
1. 44. choose. How do you interpret the words that Portia
imagines the Count as saying ? Some have tnought it was meant
to be punctuated thus: "If you will not have me choose —"
What would it mean then ?
1. 46. weeping philosopher. Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher
; justly or not, he was thought of as always groaning over
the sins of men, and received this epithet in contrast to that of
Democritus, the "laugher."