OTHELLO, the Moor of VENICE. ACT I. SCENE I. p. 275. Roderigo. TUB Uh, never tell me; I take it much unkindly.] Tush wanting in folios 1623, and 1632, and in Sir Tho. Hanmer. "Never tell me; I take it very unkindly.". Id. ib. p. 276. One Michael Caffio, That never fet a fquadron in the field, Nor the divifion of a battle knows, More than a Spinster.] A title given in law to all unmarried women, down from a Viscount's daughter. Vide Spelmanni Gloffar. 1664, p. 521. P. 277. Must be let, and calm'd.] Be-leed. Folios 1623, and 1632. Beleed. Sir Tho. Hanmer. Sc. ii. p. 281. Iago to Brabantio. Iago. Zounds, Sir! you are one of those that will not ferve God if the devil bid you.] Zounds, not in the two folios of 1623, and 1632, nor in Sir Tho. Hanmer. Sc. iv. Sc. iv. p. 283. Iago. Nine or ten times I thought to've jerk'd him here under the ribs.] "I had thought to have yerk'd him, &c." Folios 1622, and 1632. Yerk fignified to jerk or whip. Sc. iv. p. 284. Othello. I fetch my life and being From men of royal fiege.] Of royal parentage. Siege is ufed by Spenfer for feat, Fairy Queen, book ii. canto ii. 39. 86 Drawing to him the eyes of all around, "From lofty fiege, began thefe words aloud to "found." So ufed by Mr. Philip Massenger, in the Guardian, a comical history, p. 12. Duraffo. "A bern put from her fiege, And a pistol shot off in her breech, shall mount "fo high, "That to your view shall seem to foar above the "Region of the air." And by Shakespeare himself, Measure for Meafure, activ. fc, vi. p. 427. Befides, upon the very fiege of justice, "Lord Angelo hath to the public ear, Profefs'd the contrary." Hall, in his Chronicle, folio xxxiii. fpeaking of Henry V. fays, "When he was inftalled in the fiege roiall, " and had received the crown and fceptre, he « determined with himself to put on the shape of a new man." 99 5 Sc. vi. Sc. vi. p. 286. Bra.--For I'll refer me to all things of fense, Whether a maid fo tender, fair, and happy, So oppofite to marriage, that she fhunn'd The wealthy, culled darlings of our nation, Would ever have, t'incur a general mock, Run from ber guard to the footy bofom Of fuch a thing as thou.] "Curled deareling." Folios 1623, and 1632. Deareling then used in the fame fenfe with darling. See Minfbieu's Guide into the Tongues, col. 204. Sc. vii. p. 289. Sailor. The Turkish preparation makes for So was I bid report here to the ftate.] "So was I bid report here to the state, By Signior Angelo." Folios 1623, and 1632: Id. ib. Duke. 'Tis certain then for Cyprus, Marcus Luccicos, Is he not here in town?] "Is not he in town?" Folios 1623, and 1631. "Is he not in town?" Sir Tho. Hanmer. Ib. p. 290. 1 Sen. Here comes Brabantio, and the valiant Moor.] So in folio 1623," and the Moor," folio 1632. Sc. viii, p. 290. Brab. She is abus'd, ftolen from me, and corrupted By By fpells and medicines, bought of mountebanks. You shall yourself read in the bitter letter, After your own sense; yea, though our proper fon Stood in your action.] The law in Shakespeare's time was, "That if any person or perfons fhould take upon him "or them, by witchcraft, inchantment, charm, "or forcery, to the intent to provoke any person to unlawful love; and being thereof 66 lawfully convicted, fhould, for the first of«fence, suffer imprisonment for the space of one whole year, without bail or mainprize; and, once in every quarter of the faid year, fhould, in fome market-town, upon fome "market-day, or faire, ftand openly upon the pillory by the space of fix hours, and there "fhall confefs his or her error or offence; and 66 66 being convicted a fecond time of the fame of"fence, fhall fuffer pains of death as a felon or "felons, and fhall lofe the benefit and privilege "of clergy and fanctuarie." See Stat. anno primo Jacobi Regis, cap. 12. Skelton intimates, from Petrarch, that Charlemagne was in this manner inchanted. See his Works, edit. 1736, p. 161. ** But wel I can tel **How Fraunces Petrarke, "That much noble clerke, "Writeth "Writeth how Charlemaine "Could not himself refrayne, Of a like dotage. "But how that came aboute, "Rede ye the story oute, "And ye fhall finde furely "It was by nicromanfy, "By careêtes and conjuration, "Under a certayne conftellacion, "And a certayne fumigation, "Under a stone in a gold ryng Wrought to Charlemayne the Kyng, "Which constrayned him forcibly "For to love a certaine body, "Above all other inordinately: "This is no fable, nor no lie, "At Acon it was brought to pas, "As by mine auctor tried it was.' Sc. ix. p. 299. Oth. I will your ferious, and great bufinefs fcant, For fhe is with me.] "When she is with me." Folios 1623, and 1632. Sc. x. p. 301. Iago. The food that to him now is as luscious as loches, fhall fhortly be as bitter as coloquintida.] "As luscious as locufts." Folios 1623, and 1642, and Sir Tho. Hanmer; and I believe in all the editions, Mr. Warburton's excepted; and probably right, as he is comparing a luscious and |