BY SAM. JOHNSON & GEO. STEEVENS, AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS, UPON THE MERCHANT of VENICE, WRITTEN WILL. SHAKSPERE. -SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. VIRG. LONDON: Printed for, and under the Direction of, JOHN BELL, British-Library, STRAND, M DCC LXXXVII. ANNOTATIONS UPON THE MERCHANT of VENICE. Dramatis Persona.] In the old editions in quarto, for J. Roberts, 1600, and in the old folio, 1623, there is no enumeration of the persons. It was first made by Mr. Rowe. JOHNSON. Line 6. Salanio.] It is not easy to determine the orthography of this name. In the old editions the owner of it is called-Salanio, Salino, and Solanio. 10. Our author, as Dr. Farmer informs me, took the name of his Jew from an old pamphlet, entitled, "Caleb Shillocke, his Prophesie, or the Jewes Prediction." London, printed for T. P. (Thomas Pavyer.) No date. STEEVENS. 14. This character I have restored to the Persona Dramatis. The name appears in the first folio: the description is taken from the quarto. A ij STEEVENS. Merchant |