Note 14 — Section 126. SHYLOCK[1] MEDITATING REVENGE.
Reading edition
[1] Shylock auf Rache sinnend.
[2] feed = satisfy.
[3] Insert the adv. doch after the subject.
[4] disgraced = insulted, beschimpft.
[5] einen um etwas bringen.
[6] Supply ‘has’ to begin this clause; at, über, with acc.
[7] to mock at a thing, etwas verspotten, v. tr.; ‘my gains’ may be rendered by meinen Profit.
[8] crossed (durchkreu´zen) my enterprises.
[9] cooled = made indifferent.
[10] heated = incited (auf´reizen).
[11] And for what (aus welchem) reason?
[12] As a rule the English ‘not a’ or ‘not an’ is best rendered by the indef. numeral kein. Say ‘Has a Jew no eyes’?
[13] feelings.
[14] von.
[15] Say ‘is he not subject to’, etc.; to be subject to a thing, einer Sache unterworfen sein.
[16] This verb requires again the passive voice, and copula and subject must be supplied; by, durch.
[17] Say ‘not warmed’, the auxiliary need not be repeated here.
[18] Begin with the principal sentence in this and the two following passages. ‘You’, here ihr.
[19] Say ‘and we shall not revenge ourselves, if you wrong us (Unrecht zufügen)’.
[20] to be like, gleichen, with dat.; in the rest, in allem übrigen.
[21] in that, darin.
[22] what is = in what (wherein) consists.
[23] In der Rache.
[24] in what (wherein) shall according to the Christian example consist his sufferance (Dulden, n., or Duldung, f.)?
[25] Nun, doch wohl in der Rache!
[26] ich will sie anwenden.
[27] and — hard, und es müßte seltsam zugehen.
[28] but — instruction = if I should not even (noch, after ‘not’) excel (‘should excel’ Imperf. of the Subj. of übertreffen; App. § 33) my teachers.