ago. Go to, farewel. Rod. What fay you? * Do you hear, Roderigo? Iago. No more of drowning, do you hear. Iago. Go to, farewel, put money enough in your purse. [Exit Roderigo. SCENE XI. Manet Iago. Iago. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse; C. omits, Do you hear, Roderigo ? h This fpeech is omitted in the fo's, R. P. H. and C, P So the 2d q. P. T. H. W. and 7; i The fo's, R, P. and C. omit this the reft, would for fhould. Speech. k H. omits, do you bear. 1 The fo's, R. P. H. and C. omit I m chang'd. m The 1ft q. omits I'll go fell all my land. n The fo's, R. P. H. and C, omit ge. 9 The three laft fo's, R. P. and H. read fwane for fnipe. The 1ft f. fhe for be. So the qu's; the reft, But for Yet. The qu's, three last fo's, R. and P. read this for bis. u The two laft fo's omit to. A double knavery-How? how? Let me fee He hath a person, and a smooth dispose, To be fufpected; fram'd to make women falfe a That thinks men honeft, that but feem to be fo; As affes are. I hav't it is ingender'd-Hell and night Muft bring this monftrous birth to the world's light. w The fo's, R. and C. In for A. y The fo's, R. P. and H. read cars. The Moor a free and open nature too, a The qu's, seems." ACT [4] ACT II. SCENE I. The capital City of Cyprus. Enter Montano, Governor of Cyprus, and two Gentlemen, Mont. WHAT from the Cape can you discern at fea? 1 Gent. Nothing at all, it is a high-wrought flood; I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main Defcry a fail. с d Mont. Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blaft ne'er shook our battlements; If it hath ruffian'd fo upon the fea, What ribs of oak, when the huge mountain melts, Can wrong place: and what confirms this The 1ft q. baven; R. P. and H. the compofitor haftily put again in the beavens. d The qu's, doth speake for bath spoke. fuppofition, this word is the last in the The 2d q. band for land. f The ft q. reads, when the buge mountain mes lt; where, in compofing the types, the letters l seem to have falJen out of the word melts, and were by page in that quarto. P. reads, when the buge mountains melt; the rest, when mountains melt on them. But the fenfe feems to require either the reading of the text, or that of P: If it hath ruf fian'd Can hold the mortife? What shall we hear of this? 2 Gent. A fegregation of the Turkish fleet; For do but ftand upon the foaming fhore, k The chiding billows feem to pelt the clouds; The wind-shak'd furge, with high and monftrous main, And quench the guards of th' ever-fired pole. m On the 'enchafed flood. Mont. If that the Turkish fleet Be not infhelter'd and embay'd, they're drown'd; fran'd fo upon the fea, as here at land, where the huge mountain melts away before the ftorm, what ribs of oak can hold the mortife? what fhip, though ever so strongly built, can endure at fea? But T. would have mountains here to fignify waves as big as mountains melting on the fhips; and fneers P. for not taking his author's meaming, falfely accufing him of an arbitrary change, when he had the q. 1622, for his authority, and varied inconfiderably therefrom. T. did not confider the impropriety of waves melting: clouds have been faid to melt indeed, but never waves that I re member. I don't doubt that Shakespeare had the following passage of scripture in his eye, The mountains melt at the prefence of the Lord, &c.* h First q. banning for foaming. k The 1ft q. fo's, R. and C. billow feems, &c. 1 The fo's, R. J. and C. read, th' ever-fixed pole, &c. m H. reads, On' th' enchaƒ'd fleed. thy. SCENE SCENE II. Enter a third Gentleman. 3 Gent. News, Lords, P our wars are done: On most part of their fleet. Mont. How! is this true? 3 Gent. The fhip is here put in, A Veronea. Michael Caffio, Lieutenant" to the warlike Moor, Othello, W Is come on fhore; the Moor himself 's at fea, And is in full commiffion here for Cyprus. Mont. I am glad on 't; 'tis a worthy governor. 3 Gent. But this fame Caffio, though he fpeak of comfort Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks fadly, And prays the Moor be fafe; for they were parted X Mont. Pray heaven he be! For I have ferv'd him, and the man commands • The ad q. the fo's, R. J. and C. J. and C. read Veronese; the reft, Ve ronesso. u So the qu's, three aft fo's, and C; the reft, of for to. w All before R. read bimself for himSelf's. x So the qu's and C; all the reft, beavens, 1 |