Music Reference ID Work Character RSC Line Number RSC Text Norton Oxford Line Number Norton Oxford Text F1 Character F1 Text First Edition Character First Edition Text Third Edition Text Through Line Number Q1 Q2 Q3 Arden Line Number Arden Text Oxford Line Number Oxford Text Cambridge Line Number Cambridge Text Comments
981 Merchant of Venice SD 2.7. [^Flourish of cornets^.] Enter Portia with Morocco and both their trains SD Enter Portia with Morrocho, and both their traines. 972 - 2.7. [Flourish Cornets]… 2.7. - -
982 Merchant of Venice SD 2.7.77. Exit [with his train]. ^Flourish [of] cornets^ SD Exit. 1051 2.7.77. - 2.7.77. [Flourish of cornetts.] Exit… 2.7.79 Exeunt. [A flourish of cornets]
983 Merchant of Venice SD 2.8. Enter Salerio and Solanio SD Enter Salarino and Solanio. | Flo. Cornets. 1054 -
984 Merchant of Venice SD 2.9.3. [. . . ^Flourish of cornets^.] Enter Aragon, his train, and Portia SD Enter Arragon, his traine, and Portia. | Flor. Cornets. 1115 - 2.9.3. [Flourish Cornets]… 2.9.3. 2.9.3 [A flourish…]
985 Merchant of Venice SD 2.9.77. [^Flourish of cornets^. Exit with his train] - - - 2.9.78 - 2.9.77. 2.9.77 [Exit Arragon with his train]
986 Merchant of Venice Portia 3.2.43 Let ^music sound^ while he doth make his choice. | Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, | ^Fading in music^. Por. Let musicke sound while he doth make his choise, | Then if he loose he makes a Swan-like end, | Fading in musique. 1386 3.2.43 3.2.43 3.2.43
987 Merchant of Venice Portia 3.2.48 And what is ^music^ then? Then ^music^ is | Even as the ^flourish^ when true subjects bow | To the new-crowned monarch. Such it is | As are those ^dulcet sounds^ in break of day | That creep into the dreaming bridegroom’s ear | And summon him to marriage. Por. And what is musique than? Than musique is | Euen as the flourish, when true subiects bowe | To a new crowned Monarch: Such it is, | As are those dulcet sounds in breake of day, | That creepe into the dreaming bride-groomes eare, | And summon him to marriage. 1391 3.2.48 3.2.48 3.2.48
988 Merchant of Venice SD 3.2.62. Here ^music^. A ^song^ the whilst Bassanio comments on the caskets to himself SD Here Musicke. | A Song the whilst Bassanio comments on the Caskets to himselfe. 1406 - 3.2.62. A song [to music] the whilst… 3.2.62. [Here music and]a song … 3.2.62 [Here music]…
989 Merchant of Venice [One from Portia's train] 3.2.63 ‘Tell me where is fancy bred’ - Tell me where is fancie bred, 1409 3.2.63 3.2.63 3.2.63 Oxf. Attributes it to 'One from Portia's train'
990 Merchant of Venice 3.2.70 Let us all ^ring fancy’s knell^ | I’ll begin it: ^ding, dong, bell^ - Let vs all ring Fancies knell. | Ile begin it. | Ding, dong, bell. 1415 3.2.70 3.2.70 3.2.70