Question

Merchant of Venice

In Act 1 scene 2

from line 12

Portia: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions. I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching. The brain may devise laws for the blood; but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree: such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple. But this reasoning is not in the fashion to choose me a husband. O me, the word "choose"! I may neither choose whom I would, nor refuse whom I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father. It is not hard, Nerissa, that I cannot choose one nor refuse none?

Question:

(1) what is the meaning of "such a hare is madness the youth, to skip o'er the meshes of good counsel the cripple"?

(2) What was the will of Portia's father in the drama?

(3) why Portia can't choose and refuse anyone

(4) why Portia was saying"I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching" ?

(5) Give out a universal teaching in this line "but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree" .​

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Answer 1

Explanation:

i will answer later ok I don't know this for that sorry and mark me as a brainlist

Answer 2

Answer:

d. o. w. a. n. n. a. m. e. e. t.