Context Ouestions

Re ad the extracts given below and answer the questions that follow.
1. Salanio
Iwould she were as lying a gossip in that as ever knapped
ginger or made her neighbours believe she wept for the
death of a third husband. But it is true, without any slips
of prolixity or crossing the plain highway of talk, that the
good Antonio, the honest Antonio,0, that I had a title good
enough to keep his name company!
Salarino. Come, the full stop.
Salanio
Ha, whatsayest thou? Why, the end is, he hath lost a ship.
(i) Where does this scene take place? Whom does she' refer to in the
the extract? What is said about her in the extract? first line of

(ii) What was said earlier about the place where a ship of Antonio was
Where did the news about the ship-wreckage spread? wrecked?

(iii) Give the meaning of: "without any slips of prolixity or

of talk, " crossing the plain highway