Summary, Analysis, and Original Text by Scene

Act I: Scene 2

yerked (5) stabbed.

signiory (18) here, the Venetian government.

siege (22) rank.

unhoused (26) unrestrained.

perfect soul (31) stainless conscience.

Janus (33) the two-faced god of the Romans.

galleys (40) officers of the galleys.

carack (50) large trading ship.

gross in sense (72) perfectly clear.

attach (77) arrest.

inhibited (79) [Rare] prohibited; forbidden.

inclining (82) party; side.

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