Question

meaning of ,' without any slips of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk' it is a line in merchant of venice . friends i dont want google answer. not the google i will marked as brainlist answer

Answer 1

it means to be content with whatever one posses.
in other words in the merchant of Venice shakespeare wanted to tell that a satisfied person is always happy which was indicated in the 3 boxes.
The Golden box was the costliest box but contained curse similar was the incident with the silver box. On other hand the bronze box being the less costly contained the best gift . Shakespeare had inflicted his feelings through the three boxes,so we can conclude that it's better to be content and to be happy

Answer 2

These words mean 'without speaking much or beating about the bush' .

That is without being guilty of any lengthy,irrelevant or tedious speech or going outside plain direct speech