grows kind.

_Bas_. I like not fair terms[39] and a villain's mind.

_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.]

[Footnote 31: _--Fall_; To let fall.]

[Footnote 32: _--and those were Jacob's_.; See Genesis xxx. 37.]

[Footnote 33: _The devil can cite scripture for his purpose_.; See St.
Matthew iv. 6.]

[Footnote 34: _O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!_; _Falsehood_,
which, as _truth_ means _honesty_, is taken here for _treachery_ and
_knavery_, does not stand for _falsehood_ in general, but for the
dishonesty now operating.--JOHNSON.]

[Footnote 35: _--and my usances:_; _Usance_ in our author's time
signified _interest of money_.]

[Footnote 36: _A breed of barren metal of his friend?_; A _breed_, that
is, interest money bred from the principal. The epithet _barren_ implies
that money is a _barren_ thing, and cannot, like corn and cattle,
multiply itself.]

[Footnote 37: _Dwell_; Continue.]

[Footnote 38: _--fearful guard_; A guard not to be trusted, but gives
cause of fear.]

[Footnote 39: _I like not fair terms_; Kind words--good language.]

SCENE IV.--SALOON OF THE CASKETS IN PORTIA'S HOUSE, AT BELMONT.

_Flourish of Cornets. Enter the_ PRINCE OF MOROCCO, _and his Train_;
PORTIA, NERISSA, _and other of her Attendants_.

_Mor_. Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadow'd livery of the burning sun,
To whom I am a neighbour, and near bred.
Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
And let us make incision for your love,
To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine.[40]
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