The Merchant of Venice

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The Merchant of Venice
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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30. her husband and my lord's return : The ellipsis in husband (husband's) is perhaps due to the fact that Gratiano and Bassanio are thought of as acting and thinking, in this matter, as one. Comp., — A deadly groan, like life and death's departing.
Henry VI. (Part III), II. vi. 43.
50. cousin's hand : Cousin was at one time used to denote kinship generally, not, as now, in the narrow sense of cousin-german.
52. imagined speed : With the speed of imagination. Comp., — Thus with imagined wings o
...ur swift scene flies.
Hen. v., III., chorus.
53. tranect : (see glossary). "Whence did the poet get a knowledge of the traghetto " (the ferry)? " Coryat " (his 147 Act ui. sc. V. NOTES book " Crudities" was published in 1661: the play ap- peared in 1600) "is out of the question, and Vecellio, even if we knew that Shakespeare had read his book, which we do not, has not a word about the traghetto, so that the disbelievers in an Italian journey of Shake- speare cannot account for his knowledge by any other means than by oral communication." — Karl Elze, «' The supposed Travels of Shakespeare, " quoted in Furness' Variorum Ed.


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