SCENE VII. Othello's Confufion, after having murder'd his Wife. Yes, 'tis Æmilia-by and by-she's dead. "Tis like she comes to speak of Caffio's death; The noise was high. Ha, no more moving? Still as the grave. Shall she come in? wer't good? I think she stirs again-No-what's the best ? If fhe come in, fhe'll fure fpeak to my wife; My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.. Oh infupportable! oh heavy hour! Methinks it should be now a huge eclipfe Of fun and moon, and that th' affrighted globe His Love for ber. Had he been true, If heav'n would make me fuch another world, I'd not have fold her for it. SCENE IX. His bitter Remorse. Lo! I have a weapon: * A better never did itself fuftain Upon a foldier's thigh. I've feen the day, * A better, &c.] In the Double Falfhood there is exactly the fame expreffion, whether Shakespear's, or introduc'd by Theobald, I cannot pronounce, Wear I not a fword? Ne'er on man's thigh rode better. A. 3. S. 3. Who Who can controul his fate? 'tis not fo now. Be not afraid, though you do fee me weapon'd; And very Now go ? how doft thou look now? Oh ill-ftarr'd wench ! Pale as thy fmock! when we shall meet at compt, From the poffeffion of this heav'nly fight; * Blow me about in winds, roaft me in fulphur, Wafh me in fteep-down gulfs of liquid fireOh Defdemona! Defdemona! dead, dead! oh, oh! SCENE X. His laft Speech. Soft you; a word or two before you go, I have done the state some service, and they know it; Nor fet down ought in malice. Then muft you speak * See Meafure for Mcafure, P 52, 53, 54.. Richer (14) Judean.] The elder quarto gives us Iudian, it was easy for the e to have been chang'd into an i;-Like thě băse Iūdēān-fo pronounc'd the line will run very well; and I fuppofe, he alludes to the well-known ftory of Hered and Mariamne his wife; in fome circum Richer than all his tribe; of one, whofe eyes, [Stabs himself. Mr. circumstances not unlike this of Othello and Defdemona, for both hufbands lov'd violently, both were jealous, both were the occafion of their wives deaths; befides, the word Tribe, seems wholly to confirm this reading. and in fupport of it we may add, that in the year 1613, the lady Elizabeth Carew, publifh'd a tragedy call'd Mariam, the fair queen of Jewry." Upton prefers like the bafe Ægyptian; which Egyptian he tells us, was Thyamis, mentioned in the romance of Theagenes and Chariclea, written by Heliodorus. The reader, if he thinks proper, may see his arguments in support of this emendation in his Obfervations, p. 268. The beauties of this play are fo peculiarly Shakespear's own, little can be produced from other writers to compare with them; there are many excellencies, which could not be introduced in this work, depending on circumftances, fo nicely adapted, no reader can relish them extracted from the tragedy, which is itfelf one compleat beauty. The The Life and Death of King RICHARD T II. ACTI. SCENE II... HE pureft treasure mortal times afford, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay. SCENE VI. Barishment, Confolation under it. (2) All places that the eye of heaven visits, A're to a wife man ports and happy havens. Teach thy neceffity to reafon thus: There is no virtue like neceffity And think not, that the king did banish thee; (1) See Othello, p. 165. (2) All, &c.] Similar to this is the beginning of the 5th act of Paftor Fido. All places are our country, where we're well, Look, what thy foul holds dear, imagine it The grafs whereon thou tread'ft, the presence-floor For gnarling forrow hath lefs pow'r to bite Thoughts, ineffectual to moderate Afflictions. Oh, who can hold a fire in his hand, SCENE VII. POPULARITY.. As 'twere to banish their affects with him. A brace of dray-men bid, God speed him well! |