So also Capell. * * * * * "_What!_ head and butt! a hasty-witted body." * * * * * "Let us each one send _in_ unto his wife." * * * * * "_Oh!_ worse and worse; she will not come. O vile!" MERCHANT OF VENICE. ACT I. SC. 1. "What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am To learn; and such a want-wit sadness makes of me." * * * * * "That courtesy to them, _and_ do them reverence." * * * * * "And see my wealthy Andrew docks in sand." For 'docks' the editors read, after Rowe, 'dock'_d_'; but it is simpler to read 'dock,' the _s_ being the usual printer's addition. We might even perhaps retain the text, reading 'see!' * * * * * "If they should speak _'t_would almost damn those ears." * * * * * SC. 2. "Come Nerissa. Sirrah, go before. Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door." Perhaps a rime and a seven-foot line were intended, in which case we should arrange thus, as Knight has also done; "Come _in_, Nerissa. Sirrah, go before. Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door." * * * * * SC. 3. "Will you pleasure me _in it_? Shall I know your answer?" * * * * * "Mark you this Bassanio," etc. This speech should be marked _Aside_. It is so in my Edition. * * * * * "Hath a dog money? Is it possible?" We should read 'monies,' the word Shylock always uses. * * * * * "Of usance for my monies, and you'll not hear me. This is kind _that_ I offer.--This were kindness." So it should be arranged. ACT II. SC. 1. "Then is Alcides beaten by his page." 'page' is Theobald's undoubted correction; 4tos and folio read _rage_. * * * * * "First forward to the temple! After dinner Your hazard shall be made." Surely 'temple' has no meaning here. Must not the poet have written _table_. In Lucrece (st. 168), in the Var. Shakespeare, "Her sacred _temple_" is printed "Her sacred _table_." I am not aware that any critic has observed this palpable error. The term 'table,' it may be observed, was much more used by our forefathers than by us. Thus in The Elder Brother (iii. 4) Miramont says to his brother, "May be I'll see your _table_ too," _i.e._ be of your dinner-party. * * * * * SC. 2. "Certainly the Jew is the very Devil's incarnation." * * * * * "Do you know me, father?" Mr. Dyce thinks Shakespeare wrote '_not_ know,' which occurs again in Lancelot's next speech. I have adopted his reading. * * * * *