Question

What Elizabethan belief about swans is expressed here?​

Answer 1

Answer:

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• Portia reluctantly agrees to let him choose, telling her waiting-woman Nerissa to stand aside and have music playing while Bassanio makes his selection.

• "Then, if he lose, he makes a swan-like end..." alludes to the belief that swans were believed never to sing until they sang enchantingly at their deaths.

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