_Ner_. Sir, I would speak with you:--I'll see if I can get my husband's ring, [_To_ PORTIA. Which I did make him swear to keep for ever. _Por_. Thou may'st, I warrant. We shall have old swearing,[113] That they did give the rings away to men; But we'll outface them, and outswear them, too. Away, make haste; thou know'st where I will tarry. _Ner_. Come, good Sir, will you show me to this house? [_Exeunt_. END OF ACT FOURTH. FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 112: _upon more advice,; Id est_, upon more reflection.] [Footnote 113: _old swearing_; Of this once common augmentative in colloquial language there are various instances in our author.] HISTORICAL NOTES TO ACT FOURTH. (A) This scene represents the Sala dei Pregádi, or Hall of the Senators. In Venice the tribunal for criminal cases was composed of forty judges, ordinarily presided over by one of three selected from the Council of the Doge, and draughted for the most part, if not wholly, from the members of the Senate. The Doge, who on all occasions was attended by his particular officers, had the right of sitting in the councils, or on the tribunal. The authority for the six senators in red (in this scene) is taken from the picture at Hampton Court Palace, where the Doge of Venice, in state, is receiving Sir Henry Wootton, ambassador from James the First. The picture is by Odoardo Fialletti, better known as an engraver than as a painter, and who was living at Venice when Sir Henry Wootton was ambassador there. (B) The first Doge, or Duke of Venice, was Paolo Luca Anafesto, elected A.D. 697, and the last was Luigi Manini, who yielded the city, which had just completed the eleventh century of its sway, to the victorious arms of Buonaparte, in 1797.