Jef. When I was with him, I have heard him swear, To Tubal, and to Chus, his countrymen, That he would rather have Anthonio's flesh, Than twenty times the value of the fum That he did owe him; and I know, my lord, If law, authority, and power deny not, It will go hard with poor Anthonio. Por. Is it your dear friend, that is thus in trouble? Pay him fix thousand, and deface the bond; Shall lofe a hair thorough Baffanio's fault. Baff. [reads.] Sweet Bassanio, my ships have all mifcarry'd, my creditors grow cruel, my eftate is very low, my bond to the few is forfeit; and fince, in paying it, it is impoffible I should live, all debts are cleared between you and me, if I might but fee you at my death: notwithstand ing, ufe your pleasure: if your love do not perfuade you to come, let not my letter. Por. O love, dispatch all bufinefs, and be gone. Baff. Since I have your good leave to go away, I will make hafte: but, 'till I come again, No bed fhall e'er be guilty of my stay, No reft be interpofer 'twixt us twain. [Exeunt. SCENE III. A Street in Venice. Enter Shylock, Salanio, Anthonio, and the Gaoler. Shy. Gaoler, look to him;-Tell not me of mercy; This is the fool that lent out money gratis;- Anth. Hear me yet, good Shylock. Shy. I'll have my bond; fpeak not against my bond: I have fworn an oath, that I will have my bond: Shy. I'll have my bond; I will not hear thee speak : I'll have my bond; and therefore fpeak no more. 3 —fo fond] i. e. so foolish. See vol. ii. p. 148. STEVEENS. -dull-ey'd fool,] This epithet dull-ey'd is bestow'd on melancholy in Pericles Prince of Tyre. STEEVENS. To Chriftian interceffors. Follow not; I'll have no fpeaking; I will have my bond. [Exit. Shylock. Sl. It is the most impenetrable cur, That ever kept with men. Anth. Let him alone; I'll follow him no more with bootlefs prayers. Many that have at times made moan to me, Sola. I am fure, the duke Will never grant this forfeiture to hold. Anth. The duke cannot deny the courfe of law, Will much impeach the juftice of the ftate; [Exeunt. 5 The duke cannot deny &c.-] As the reafon here given feems a little perplex'd, it may be proper to explain it. If, fays he, the duke ftop the courfe of law it will be attended with this inconvenience, that stranger merchants, by whom the wealth and power of this city is fupported, will cry out of injuftice. For the known ftated law being their guide and fecurity, they will never bear to have the current of it stopped on any pretence of equity whatsoever. WARBURTON, SCENE SCENE IV. Belmont. Enter Portia, Neriffa, Lorenzo, Jeffica, and Balthazar, Lor. Madam, although I fpeak it in your prefence, Of god-like amity; which appears moft ftrongly How dear a lover of my lord your husband, Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit"; Which 6 Whofe fouls de bear an equal yoke, &c.] The folio 1623, reads gal, which I believe in Shakspeare's time was commonly used for equal. So it was in Chaucer's: "I will prefume hym fo to dignifie Again, in Gorboduc: Prol, to the Remedy of Love. "Sith all as one do bear you egall faith." STEEVENS. 7 Of lineaments, of manners, &c.-] The wrong pointing has made this fine fentiment nonfenfe. As implying that friendship could not only make a fimilitude of manners, but of faces. The true fenfeis, lineaments of manners, i. e. form of the manners, which, fays the fpeaker, muft needs be proportionate. WARBURTON. The poet only means to fay, that correfponding proportions of body and mind are necessary for those who spend their time together. So, in K. Henry IV. Part II: "Dol. Why doth the prince love him fo then? "Fal. Because their legs are both of a bigness, &c." Every one will allow that the friend of a toper fhould have a P 4 Strong Which makes me think, that this Anthonio, The husbandry and manage of my house, Until her husband and my lord's return: strong head, and the intimate of a fportsman fuch an athletic conftitution as will enable him to acquit himself with reputation in the exercises of the field. The word lineaments was used with great laxity by our ancient writers. In The learned and true Affertion of the Original, Life, &c. of King Arthur, tranflated from the Latin of John Leland, 1582, it is used for the human frame in general. Speaking of the removal of that prince's bones, he calls them Arthur's lineaments three times tranflated; and again, all the lineaments of them remaining in that most stately tomb, faving the fhin bones of the king and queen, &c. Again, in Greene's Farewell to Follie, 1617: "Nature had focurioutly performed his charge in the lineaments of his body, &c." Again, in Chapman's tranflation of the twenty-third book of Homer's Iliad; "His goodly lineaments with chase of Hector, &c." This comes too near &c.] In former editions: STEEVENS, Portia finding the reflections he had made came too near selfpraife, begins to chide herfelf for it; fays, She'll fay no more of that fort; but call a new fubject. The regulation I have made in the text was likewise prescrib'd by Dr. Thirlby. THEOBALD. And |