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Bass. Fair Portia's counterfeit?
A further illustration occurs in the beginning of Lilie's dedication to his Euphues, "Parasius drawing the counterfeit of Hellen, made the attire of her head loose." In Littelton's English and Latin dictionary, we have "A counterfeit of a picture, ectypum."
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Gra. We are the Jasons, we have won the fleece.
The meaning is "Antonio with his argosie is not the successful Jason; we are the persons who have won the fleece." See the note in p. [153].
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Por. ... else nothing in the world
Could turn so much the constitution
Of any constant man.
This word occasionally signified grave, as in the present instance. In Withall's Shorte dictionarie, 1599, 4to, fo. 105, we have "sadde, grave, constant,—gravis." So in Twelfth night, when Malvolio is under confinement, he says, "I am no more mad than you are; make the trial of it in any constant question."