Bra. Thou art a villain. Iago. You are a fenator. [dorigo. Bra. This thou shalt anfwer. I know thee, Ro- I thus would play, and trifle with your reverence. Bra Strike on the tinder, ho! Light, I fay, light! lago. Farewel; for I must leave you. It seems not meet, nor wholiome to my place, To be produc'd (as, if I stay, I fhali) Against the Moor. For I do know, the State, However this may gall him with fome check, Cannot with fafety cast him. For he's embark'd With fuch loud reason to the Cyprus' wars, VOL. XII. ! 1 Which even now stand in act, that for their fouls, Another of his fadom they have none, I must shew out a flag and fign of love: [find him, Bra. It is too true an evil. Gone she is; tapers Raise all my kindred---are they married, think you? Bra. Oh Heaven! how gat she out! Oh treason of my blood! Fathers, fromhence trust not your daughters'minds, Rod. Yes, Sir, I have, indeed. J I may command at most; get weapons, hoa! On, good Rodorigo, I'll deferve your pains. (Exe. SCENE changes to another Street before the Sa- Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants, with lago. Tho' in the trade of war I have flain men, Iago. Nay, but he prated, And fpoke fuch scurvy and provoking terms That with the little godliness I have, Oth. Let him do his spight: (6) And bath in his effect a voice potential, * As double as the Duke's] Rymer seems to have had his eye on this passage amongst others, when he talks so much of the impropriety and barbarity in the style of this play. But it is, in truth, a very elegant grecifm. As double, fignifies as large, as extenive. So the Greeks ufed διπλῆς, for, latus, grandis, as well as duplex; and, in the fame manner and conftructions, the Latins sometimes used their duplex. My Warburton. My fervices, which I have done the fignory, [yonder. For the fea's worth. But look, what lights come I fetch my life and being (7) From men of royal fiege; and my demerits May Speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune As this that I have reached.] Thus all the copies read this. passage. But to speak unbonneted, is to speak with the cap off, which is directly oppofite to the Poet's meaning. So, in King Lear; This night, in which the cub-drawn bear would couch, Keep their furr dry, unbonneted he runs, Othello means to fay, that his birth and services set him upon fuch a rank, that he may speak to a fenator of Venice with his hat on; i. e without shewing any marks of deference, or inequality. I, therefore, am inclined to think Shakespeare wrote: May speak, and bonneted, &c. Or, it any like better the change of the negative un, in the corrupted reading, into the epitatic im, we may thus reform it; May speak imbonneted, &c. I proposed the correction of this, passage in my Shake. speare Restored; upon which Mr Pope, in his last edition, has found out another expedient, and would.read; May speak u bon eting, &c. i e. as he says, without pulling off the bonnett. But the sense thus is equivocal and obfcure; and uit onneting more naturally fignifies pulling off the bonnet, than the contrary. Enter CASSIO with Torches. lago. Those are the raised father, and his friends: You were best go in. Oth. Not 1; I must be found. My parts, my title, and my perfect foul Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they? lago. By Janus, I think no. Oth. The fervants of the Duke and my Lieute [nant. The goodness of the night upon you, friends! Caf. The Duke doth greet you, General; Oth. What is the matter, think you? Caf. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine; It is a business of fome heat. The gallies Have fent a dozen sequent messengers This very night at one another's heels: And many of the counsellors raised and met, (8) Are at the Duke's already. You have been hotly called for, When, being not at your lodging to be found, Oth. 'Tis well I am found by you: [Exit Othello. Caf. Ancient, what makes he here? (8) And many of the confuls, raifed and met, Are at the Doke's already] Thus all the editions concur in reading; but there is no fuch character as a confil ap pears in any part of the play. I change it to counfellows; i ce the grandees that conftitute the great council at Venice. The reason I have already given above, in the clofe of the faith note. |