Men do their broken weapons rather use, Bra. I pray you, hear her speak; If fhe confefs that fhe was half the wooer, To you I'am bound for life and education, My life and education both do learn me с How to refpect you. • You are the lord of duty; To you, preferring you before her father; Bra. God b'w'ye, I ha' done. Please it your Grace, on to the ftate-affairs; I here do give thee that with all my heart, Which, but thou haft already, with all my heart I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel, I am glad at foul I have no other child; k my Lord. Duke. Let me fpeak like yourfelf; and lay a fentence ", Which, as agrife, or step, may help these lovers P favour your • Into When remedies are paft, the griefs are ended By feeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. Is the next way to draws new mischief on. What cannot be preserv'd when fortune takes, The robb'd, that fimiles, fteals fomething from " the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. Bra. So, let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile, He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears But he bears both the fentence, and the forrow, That, to pay grief, muft of poor patience borrow. Being ftrong on both fides, are equivocal. But words are words; I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear. .d there a fubftitute of fa fovereign mistress Duke. The Turk with a moft mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is beft known to you; and though we have most allowed fufficiency; yet opinion, of effects, throws a more fafer voice on you; you must therefore be content to flubber the glofs of your new fortunes, with this more ftubborn and boisterous expedition. h Oth. The tyrant cuftom, moft grave fenators, Hath made the flinty and feel' couch of war My thrice-driven bed of down. I do agnize y The two laft fo's, R. and P. read flate; but here the two laft fo's omit bear for bear; H. beap. z T. and all after read pieced (i. e. cured) becaufe pierced (it feems) fignifies wounded. True, fo it does fometimes; but it is alfo ufed in a good fenfe, as here, for touching, affecting, comforting, as with mufick, the bruifed heart" the ear-piercing fife."--Piec'd is a wretched emendation; who ever talked of picing a bruise? * Firft f. cares. The fo's, R. P. and C. read, I bumbly beseech you proceed to th` affairs of I. This present war against the Ottomites. Most humbly therefore bending to your State, Due P reference of place, and exhibition, Duke. If you please, be 't at her father's. Oth. Nor I. г Def. Nor I; I would not there refide, - Duke. What would you, Desdemona? Def. That I did love the My down-right violence and May trumpet to the world. m Firft f. Alacartie. n The 1ft q. would for do. o Theift q. and ift f. read wars forsvar. P The if q. two laft fo's, R. P. and H. read reverence; 7. propofes prefe rence. Moor to live with him, storm of fortunes My heart's subdu’d t The fo's, R. and J. read profperess for gracious. u The three laft fo's and R. read character. w First q. And if my fimpleness— So the qu's and C; the reft, Why, speak. at her father's. So the qu's and C; the reft, Nor w.uld I there refide, &c. y The fo's omit did. z The 1ft q. read fcorne for florm. W. reads, My downright violence to formi, So the qu's and C; the reft, your my fortunes, &c. for a. May a Even to the very quality of my lord; And to his honour and his valiant parts с b The rites, for which I love him, are bereft me: By his dear abfence. Let me go with him. Oth. Your voices, Lords: befeech you, let her will Have a free way. Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not, To please the palate of my appetite; Nor to comply with heat ( the young i affects In * me 1 defunct) and proper fatisfaction. ' But to be free and bounteous m to her mind. And heaven defend your good fouls, that you think, I will your ferious and • For she is with me. P Of feather'd Cupid great bufinefs fcant, No, when light-wing'd toys foil with wanton dulness a Thrift q. Even to the utmost plea- folutely; the young affections being in fure of, &c. b Second q. my dear lords, &c. c W. rights for rites. The fo's and R. why for which. e For Your voices, lords, the fo's read, Let ber bave your voice. f The fo's omit, befeech you, let her will have a free way. So the 2d q. the fo's and R; the reft omit, Vouch with me, beaven. h H. reads, affects the young. me defunct. k This is Upton's emendation: all the editions but C. read my for me. 1 T. and H. read diftinct for defunct. No edition but C. uses the parenthesis here. m Theft q. of for to. The fo's, R. and P. When for For. P The qu's, And for Of. 4 For foil the qu's read foyles; the i Affets for affections, here taken ab- fo's and C. fecle; R. feel. |