Merchant of Venice. - Repositories

176 NOTES [ACT IV.
1.61. Does this line answer Bassanio's question? What
does it mean ? How should you answer Shylock ?
1. 62. offence. Resentment. To-day the word is used oftener
m the active sense ; here it is passive.
I. 64. think. Remember. What word should be emphasized
in reading this line aloud ?
L 66. bate. See IIL, iii., 32.
II. 69, 70, What peculiar grammatical construction in these
lines ?
1. 71. fretten. The old English form still retained. The
folios have fretted.
1. 76. conveniency. Get the meaning from the use of con^
veniently in II., viii., 45.
1. 86. parts. Duties. Is Shylock's argument from lines
83-94 valid ?
1. 120. envy. See line 10, above.
1. 121. wit. Where used before in the very beginning of
the play with the same meaning that it has here ?
1. 122. inexecrable. Inexorable.
]. 123. justice be accused. For what crime does Gratiano
think Justice herself ought to be punished ?
1. 125. Pythagoras. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras
taught the doctrine known as 'Hhe transmigration of souls."
According to his teachings the soul of a man was supposed to
pass after death into the body of some animal. Then it passed
from animal to animal, and finally back again into man.