II.vii.79 (151,7) [chuse ce so] The old quarto edition of 1600 has no distribution of acts, but proceeds from the beginning to the end in an unbroken tenour. This play therefore having been probably divided without authority by the publishers of the first folio, lies open to a new regulation, if any more commodious division can be proposed. The story is itself so wildly incredible, and the changes of the scene so frequent and capricious, that the probability of action does not deserve much care; yet it may be proper to observe, that, by concluding the second act here, time is given for Bassanio's passage to Belmont. II.viii.42 (153,8) [_Let it not enter in your mind of love_] So all the copies, but I suspect some corruption. II.viii.52 (153,9) [embraced heaviness] [W: enraced] Of Dr. Warburton's correction it is only necessary to observe, that it has produced a new word, which cannot be received without necessity. When I thought the passage corrupted, it seemed to me not improbable that Shakespeare had written _entranced heaviness_, musing, abstracted, moping melancholy. But I know not why any great efforts should be made to change a word which has no uncommodious or unusual sense. We say of a man now, _that he_ hugs _his sorrows_, and why might not Anthonio _embrace heaviness_. II.ix.46 (155,2) [How much low peasantry would then be gleaned From the true seed of honour?] The meaning is, _How much meanness would be found among the great, and how much greatness among the mean_. But since men are always said to _glean_ corn though they may _pick_ chaff, the sentence had been more agreeable to the common manner of speech if it had been written thus, _How much low peasantry would then be pick'd From the true seed of_honour? how much honour Glean'd from the chaff?_ II.ix.70 (157,4) [_Take what wife you will to-bed_] Perhaps the poet had forgotten that he who missed Portia was never to marry any woman. III.i.47 (160,7) [a bankrupt, a prodigal] There is no need of alteration. There could be, in Shylock's opinion, no prodigality more culpable than such liberality as that by which a man exposes himself to ruin for his friend. III.ii.21 (163,9) [And so though yours, not yours.--Prove it so] It may be more grammatically read, _And so though yours_ I'm _not yours._ III.ii.54 (165,2) [With no less presence] With the same _dignity of mien_. III.ii.73 (166,5) [So may the outward shows] He begins abruptly, the first part of the argument has passed in his mind. III.ii.76 (166,6) [gracious voice] Pleasing; winning favour. III.ii.112 (167,9) [In measure rain thy joy] The first quarto edition reads, _In measure_ range _thy joy_. The folio and one of the quartos, _In measure_ raine _thy joy_. I once believ'd Shakespeare meant, _In measure_ rein _thy joy_.