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The Comedies of the Merchant of Venice, and as You Like It, With the Notes and Illustr. of Various Commentators and Remarks by the Editor [a.
The Comedies of the Merchant of Venice and as You Like It With the Notes and Illustr of Various Commentators and Remarks by the Editor a Author:William Shakespeare Title: The Comedies of the Merchant of Venice, and as You Like It, With the Notes and Illustr. of Various Commentators and Remarks by the Editor [a. Eccles] in Two Volumes General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1805 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be ... more »typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: Defy the matter. How cheer'st thou, Jessica? And now, good sweet, say thy opinion, How dost thou like. thelord Bassanio's wife? Jes. Past all expressing : it is very meet, The lord Bassanio live an upright life ; For, having such a blessing in his lady, He finds the joys of heaven here on earth ; And, if on earth he do not mean it,5 it Is reason he should never come to heaven. Why, if two gods should play some heavenly match, And on the wager lay two earthly women, And Portio one, there must be something else Pawn'd " Hxo chser'st tlmi, Jessica ?] Must signify what kind of cheer do you possess ? The use of the word cheer thus as a neuter verb, is very uncommon ; we indeed sometimes employ the phrase- to cheer up in a neutral sense. One of the quartos, Mr. Pope, and the four next succeeding editors have " Hma far'st thou ?" E. 3 on earth Tie do not mean it, $c.] The undoubted and proper sense of the present, which is the true reading, is to observe the Mean, to enjoy blessings moderately : This is consequential to what has preceded, but the same cannot be affirmed concerning the alteration introduced by some modern editors, viz. " And if on earth he do not merit it, " In reason,"« less