Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

138 NOTES [ACT 1
1. 88. inserted. Where ?
1. 92. Scripture. On what occasion in the New Testament
is the devil recorded as "citing Scripture for his purpose"?
See Matt. iv. 1-11.
1. 96. goodly outside. What means do they accuse Shylock
of using to give " a goodly outside " to what they regard as his
evil practice of usury ?
1. 99. beholding. Beholden, under obligations»
1. 104. sufferance. Bearing with patience.
1. 111. void your rheum. Cast your spittle.
1. 130. Who if he break. Describe what sudden change
seems to have occurred in the mind of the writer after he
started to write these two lines. To correct the grammatical
structure, what word should you insert in place of Who ?
1. 132. friends. What causes this sudden change in Shylock's
attitude ? Has Antonio frightened him ?
1. 136. kind. What is kind ?
h 137. were. Why not was ?
1. 139. single. Some think this means that the name of
Antonio was to be the only one affixed to the contract; others,
that this was a legal term, implying that the bond was to be one
without any conditions of forfeiture, i.e. none more than the
apparent jest about the pound of flesh.
1. 143. equal. Exact.
h 148. not seal. Why does Bassanio take alarm here ?