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Summary: Lancelot messes with his blind father, Old Gobbo, but eventually tells the truth. Old Gobbo asks Bassanio if Lancelot can be his servant. AB

9 **Fia**- Italian for "On your way" The fiend tells Lancelot this. The fiend tells him this because he wants Lancelot to leave his master. AB

23 **saving your reverence -** if you will excuse me. Lancelot is asking us to excuse him for calling Shylock the devil.- JP

26 **Hard conscince**- strict conscince. Lancelot is saying his strict conscince is telling him to stay with Shylock.- JP

34 **try confusions-** give him riddles. Lancelot is saying he will give Old Gobbo riddles and mess with him because he is blind.- JP

41 **Be God's sonties-** by God's saints Old Gobbo is saying by God's saints it will be hard to find Lancelot.- JP

42 **dwells with him**- lives with him Old Gobbo is asking if Lancelot lives with Shylock or not.- JP

56 **ergo-** therefore Lancelot is trying to confusion Old Gobbo with the word.- JP

62 **the very staff of my age, my very prop-** the person I leaned on. Metaphors Old Gobbo is saying Lancelot was the person he leaned on.- JP

63 **a hovel-post-** the main support for a poor shelter. Simile In this line Lancelot is asking Old Gobbo if he looks like a hovel post to him because he is sand- blind.- JP

65 **Alack** - middle english expression used to express sorrow or regret In this line, Old Gobbo is saying he regrets that he does not know the man he is talking to. - WL

69 **Sand-blind -** partially blind Sand-blind This is significand in telling us how old Old Gobbo really is, because he is in denial about how blind he truly is (high-gravel blind, or almost completely blind). - WL

99 **Halter** - noose, death by hanging halter This shows how badly Lancelot hates Shylock because he wishes that he was dead. - WL

99 **Famish'd -** to endure severe deprivation, especially of food (short for famished) Lancelot is saying he is suffering as a servant of Shylock. WL

102 **rare new liveries** - fancy new clothes/uniforms Bassanio will suppy Lancelot with much better things than he recieved working for Shylock, so he wants to work for him. WL This forshadows that Lancelot will leave Shylock.

109 **anon -** at once Bassanio wants to see Gratiano at once because he is in a hurry. - WL

116 **infection -** Gobbo means "affection" This is one of Shakespeare's many wordplay jokes that occur in this scene. -WL

133 **Thou hast obtain'd thy suit**- your request is granted. Bassanio is saying that Lancelot can be his servant. AB

138 **Old Proverb**- he is referring to a proverb that says "The grace of God is gear enough" This means that the grace of God is sufficient. AB

144 **More Guarded-** with more braid This extra trimming might suggest that Lancelot is going to act like a jester. AB

147 **I shall have good fortune-** Lancelot acts like he is reading his fortune on his palm- which he would put on a Bible to swear an oath. AB

154 **Fortune be a woman-** he is portraying fortune as a woman and fickle It is a metaphor. AB

155 **In the twinkling-** in the twinkling of an eye. This is a hyberbole because no one can do anything that quickly. AB

180 **Hood-** Cover. Men during the Elizabethan era kept their hats on at all times while indoors, even while eating. AB

183 **One well studied in a sad ostent-** someone who is used to looking serious. AB