Shakespeare's play of the Merchant of Venice - Arranged for Representation at the Princess's Theatre, with Historical and Explanatory Notes by Charles Kean, F.S.A. by William Shakespeare
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_Ant_. Come, on; in this there can be no dismay, My ships come home a month before the day. [_Exeunt_. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 22: _--squander'd abroad_.; Scattered.] [Footnote 23: _to eat of the habitation which your prophet, the Nazarite, conjured the devil into!_; See 8th. c. St. Matthew, v. 30.] [Footnote 24: _catch him once upon the hip_,; Dr. Johnson says the expression is taken from the practice of wrestling.] [Footnote 25: _--ripe wants of my friend_,; Wants come to the height--wants that can have no longer delay.] [Footnote 26: _--Is he yet posses'd; Id est_, acquainted--informed.] [Footnote 27: _--eanlings_; Lambs just dropt.] [Footnote 28: _--certain wands_,; A _wand_ in Shakespeare's time was the usual term for what we now call a _switch_.--MALONE.] [Footnote 29: _--deed of kind,; Id est,_ of nature.] [Footnote 30: _--the fulsome ewes_; Lascivious--rank, obscene ewes.] |
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