Footnote of the Day

[angevin2]

On Merchant of Venice 5.1.273-9 --
Antonio, you are welcome;
And I have better news in store for you
Than you expect. Unseal this letter soon;
There you shall find three of your argosies
Are richly come to harbor suddenly.
You shall not know by what strange accident
I chanced on this letter.
And the note, from Arthur Quiller-Couch and John Dover

Comments

[a_t_rain]

I am inclined to read that passage as a sort of metaphor for grace, although it is somewhat odd that grace is imagined as consisting of Large Amounts of Money. But then, pretty much everything in Merchant is imagined as large amounts of money, so why not?