—to break up this, To break up was a term in carving.
I am bid forth to supper,; I am invited. To bid, in old language, meant to pray.
to feed upon the prodigal Christian: The poet here means to heighten the malignity of Shylock's character, by making him depart from his settled resolve, of "neither to eat, drink nor pray with Christians," for the prosecution of his revenge.
nose fell a bleeding; Some superstitious belief was annexed to the accident of bleeding at the nose.