Question

1.       What does the word ‘venture’ refer to in the passage? Whose ‘venture’ is it? the merchant of venice act 1 scene 1 salanio​

Answer 1

Answer:

The word ‘venture’ refers to adventure.

Answer 2

Paraphrase :

ANTONIO : Really, I don’t know why I’m so sad; It wearies me ; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What it’s made of, where it started, I must find out; And sadness makes me so crazy That I don’t know who I am.

Word Meaning With Annotation

In sooth : really. It wearis me : the sadness of which Antonio is complaining. Caught it : caught, Antonio speaks of his melancholy as if it had been “caught”. Whereof : of what parents. I am to learn : I have not yet discovered. Want-wit : a dull person. Ado : trouble ; difficulty.