Andand this paper shows that ANDRONIC IS THAT SON STOLEN AWAY FROM SARAH, DECEASED, AND SHYLOCK,THAT SON, NOT ONLY THE IMAGE OF ABEL, BUT OF MOSES, TOO.

Decidedly, the beginning of Act Second proves Andronic is no fool, for he advises Honorius to flee that creature,and what better advice in those matters is there than that of retreating?

It seems that quite twenty years have passed since Sarah's soul slid through a knife-gash; that Honorius and Andronic, who have come from Smyrna, (why?) are almost brothers; that Honorius is good in this fact only, that he knows he is really bad; and that Andronic is the richest and most moral man in Venice,though why, under those circumstances, he should be friendly with such a rip as Honorius, Honorius does not inform us.