name of Antonio Perez. The affair caused general interest and excitement in London, and we can easily imagine that Shakespeare might have been as much stirred as any by the death of the unfortunate doctor. Summary. That parts of The Merchant of Venice can be traced back into the Dark Ages, is not by any means a proof that Shakespeare spent his days and nights poring over old manuscripts and translating forgotten languages before he began to stir the heart of Bassanio with love for the Lady of Belmont, or before he set Shylock to work on his evil plot against Antonio. Indeed he was probably not aware of the existence of most of the "sources" that his commentators have spent their lives in unearthing. Perhaps he was familiar with the Italian novel in the original, or in an English translation; perhaps he had heard a ballad about a cruel Jew. In brief the truth probably is that Shakespeare founded his play on the older one mentioned by Gosson, that one of these two plays derived much of its material from Il Pecorone, that Shakespeare found some suggestions in Silvayn's Orator, and in Marlowe's Jew of Malta, and that as he wrote he often thought of Dr. Lopez and of his undeserved fate. INDEX TO NOTES a', 144. abroad, 123. account, 166. advised, 127, 141, 188. ambitious, 153. am then forsworn, 163. ancient Roman honour, 168. Antipodes, 187. Antonio, 121. argosies, 122. appropriation, 131. as, 128, 137, 165. as blunt, 153. aspect, 124, 140. attentive, 186. attribute, 178. ay, he was the third, 137. balance, 179. baned, 175. 199 barbarous multitude, 157. Bars me the right, 141. bastard, 172. bate, bated, 170, 176. Beshrew me, bespeak, 161. 152. best-conditioned and unwea ried, 168. better, 141. bid forth, 149. Black-Monday, 149. blest or cursed'st, 142. break up, 148. breathing courtesy, 188 By your leave, 148. cater-cousins, 145. cannot hear it, 185. caught it, found it, came by it, 122. cerecloth, 154. ceremony, 188. certain, 175. certified the Duke, 155. charge us there upon inter❜ga- tories, 188. Charybdis, 172. convenient, 171. conveniently, 155. cope, 181. County, 131. court of justice, 174. cover, 157, 172. cozen, 157. cream, 126. creditors, 161. cross, crost, 150, 159. curse, 161. customary bounty, 170 charter, 175. chased, 151. cheer, 167, 168. cherubins, 185. choose, 131. choosing wrong, 162. Daniel, 178. Death, 154. defect, 145. damnation, 153. circumstance, 128. clear, 157. close, 152. commends, 158, 167. commodity, 169. competency, 131. complexion, 159. compromised, 137. conceit, 126, 170. conceits, 173. condition, 133. conscience, 143. Consisteth of all nations, 170. constant, 167. constitution, 167. contain, 188. continent, 166. contrary, 132. Conveniency, 176. Defy, 173. direction, 141. discourse grow commendable, 172. dog, 169. fear you, 172. fields, 141. flesh and blood, 159. fond, 156, 169. for, 139, 170, 180. fraught, 155. fretten, 176. friends, 138. error, 178. estate, 167. estates, 157. even now, 166. exceeding, 125, 143. excrement, 164. exhibit, 147. exhortation after dinner, 126. From, 174. from me, 166. guarded, 145. gudgeon, 126. guiled, 165. habit, 146. Hagar, 150 half, 167. halter, 180. hang'd, 177. Hath full relation to, 179. head, 158. hood my eyes, 146. humility, 160. humour, 175. umours, 173. incarnal, 143. in my constant soul, 152 in one bottom, 124. In terms of, 140. in the weather, 156. |