Question

give meanings of the following
1)my gentle vessel's side
2)En robe the roaring waters
3)Vailing her high top lower than her ribs to kiss the burial
from merchant of Venice from act 1 scene 1 (salarino was the speaker)

Answer 1

Answer:

1) My gentle vessel's side

Here, vessel means the ship. To elaborate more on this phrase, it would be the side of the cargo ships carrying precious spices and silk cloth in "The Merchant of Venice". The speaker Salarino is scared that if the ships get brushed up against the rocks, he will have to bear a great loss.

2) En robe the roaring waters

"En robe" means to dress up and here Salarino describes the scattered silk on the ocean floor when the shipwrecks.

3) Vailing her high top lower than her ribs to kiss the burial

This statement tells us that the top of the ship that is the "sail of the ship" takes off the floor when it wrecks. "Lower than her ribs" means it's the "deck of the ship".

These lines taken from "Merchant of Venice" from "Act 1 scene 1" (salarino was the speaker)