96: _A_] _Or_ Johnson conj. (who would place line 97 before 94). 97: _goodly outside_] _godly outside_ Rowe. _goodly outside’s_ Warburton. 99: _then, let me see; the rate—_] Edd. (Lloyd conj.). _then let me see the rate._ Qq Ff. 100: _beholding_] _beholden_ Pope. 102: _In_] _On_ Collier (Capell conj.) 106: _call_] _call’d_ Collier MS. 107: _spit_] F3 F4. _spet_ Qq F1 F2. 111: _moneys_] _money_ Q1. 117: _can_] Qq. _should_ Ff. 120, 121: _Say...last_] As one line in Qq Ff. 121: _spit_] Pope. _spet_ Qq Ff. _spat_ Rowe (ed. 2). _on Wednesday last_] _on wendsday last_ Q1 Q2. _last Wednesday_ Pope. _Wednesday last_ Capell. 122: _You_] _Your_ F2. _day; another_] Ff. _day another_ Qq. 126: _spit_] Rowe. _spet_ Qq Ff. 128: _friends_] Qq F1. _friend_ F2 F3 F4. 129: _breed for_] Qq. _breed of_ Ff. See note (II). _barren_] _bearing_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn). _sordid _ Lansdowne version. 132: _penalty_] Q1 Q3 Q4. _penaltie_ Q2. _penalties_ Ff. 137: _This is_] _This, sure, is_ Hanmer. 138: Bass.] Anth. Pope. _This were_] _Ay, this were_ Capell. 146: _pleaseth_] Qq. _it pleaseth_ Ff. _it shall please_ Pope. 147: _i’ faith_] _i faith_ Q1. _in faith_ Q2 Ff Q3 Q4. 148: _the Jew_] _thee, Jew_ Capell conj. _a Jew_ Id. conj. 156: _dealings teaches them_] Qq F1. _dealing teaches them_ F2 F3 F4. _dealings teach them to_ Pope. 170: _See_] _Look_ Capell (corrected in MS.). _fearful_] _fearless_ Warburton. 172: _I will_] Hanmer. _Ile_ Qq Ff. 173: _The_] Qq. _This_ Ff. Printed as prose in Qq Ff: first as verse by Pope. _kind_] _so kind_ Q1. 174: _terms_] _teames_ F1. ~~~~~ ACT II. SCENE I. _Belmont. A room in_ PORTIA’S _house_. _Flourish of cornets. Enter the_ PRINCE OF MOROCCO _and his train:_ PORTIA, NERISSA, _and others attending_. _Mor._ Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadow’d livery of the burnish’d sun, To whom I am a neighbour and near bred. Bring me the fairest creature northward born, Where Phœbus’ fire scarce thaws the icicles, 5 And let us make incision for your love, To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine. I tell thee, lady, this aspect of mine Hath fear’d the valiant: by my love, I swear The best-regarded virgins of our clime 10 Have loved it too: I would not change this hue, Except to steal your thoughts, my gentle queen. _Por._ In terms of choice I am not solely led By nice direction of a maiden’s eyes; Besides, the lottery of my destiny 15 Bars me the right of voluntary choosing: But if my father had not scanted me And hedged me by his wit, to yield myself His wife who wins me by that means I told you, Yourself, renowned prince, then stood as fair 20 As any comer I have look’d on yet For my affection.