Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

SCENE 6.] NOTES 151
vises for Jessica? Which needed protection the more ? What
does this scene give as a reason for II., ii., 142? What is the
most important point of the story learned from this scene ?
•j?or themes later, keep especially in mind the character of
Shylock as a father; also the characters of Portia and Jessica
as daughters.
SCENE
1. 1. pent-house. A shed hanging out from a main building.
1. 2. hour. Is this the hour that was to elapse before they
met at Gratiano's lodging, the hour that they were to spend
away from the banquet-table preparing the masque, or is it
the appointed time that Lorenzo had set to be with them at
this place ?
1. 5. pigeons. Doves were said to draw the chariot of
Venus, the goddess of love; it is she that seals love''s bonds.
1. 7. obliged. Notice in how many syllables this word is
pronounced here. It means bound by contract.
1.13. chased. Notice the number of syllables,
1. 14. younker. Youngster.
VI
1. 15. scarfed. Decorated with flags.
1. 30. What grammatical construction in this line unusual
to-day ?
L 37. themselves conlmit. Themselves is not now used alone
in the nominative except by poetic license. What other pronoun
usually stands with it in this case ?
L 42. What pun in this line ?