For the commodity that strangers have

With us in Venice. If it be denied

'Twill much impeach the justice of the state."

I thus point and amend the passage, as Capell had done, followed only, I believe, by Knight. I am rather dubious of 'justice,' and should prefer interest or traffic.


Sc. 4.

"From out the state of hellish misery."

I prefer 'misery,' the reading of the first 4to, to cruelty, that of the others and the folio.


"As I have ever found thee honest-true."