SCEN E III.

Enter Brabantio, and fervants with torches.

Bra. It is too true an evil. Gone fhe is;
And what's to come of my defpifed time,
Is nought but bitterness. Now, Rodorigo,
Where didst thou fee her?-Oh unhappy girl!

With the Moor, faidft thou? Who would be a fa

ther?

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How didft thou know 'twas fhe? Oh, thou deceiv'ft

me

Past thought.-What faid the to you?—Get more

tapers,

Raife all my kindred.-Are they married, think you? Rod. Truly, I think, they are.

Bra. Oh heaven! how gat fhe out?

Oh treafon of my blood!

Fathers, from hence truft not your daughters' minds
By what you fee them act. Are there not charms,
7 By which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abus'd? Have you not read, Rodorigo,
Of fome fuch thing?

Rod. Yes, Sir, I have, indeed.

Bra. Call up my brother. Oh, would you had 359fis ad mi da baA

had her.

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-Some one way, fome anotherDo you know Ae
Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?
Rod. I think, I can difcover him, if you please
To get good guard, and go along with me.svg W
Bra. Pray you, lead on. At ev'ry houfe I'll call,
may command at moft. Get weapons, hoa!
And raife fome fpecial officers of might.

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On, good Rodorigo, I'll deferve your pains.

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[Exeunt

Enter Othello, Iago, and attendants with Torches.

Jago. TH

HO' in the trade of war I have flain men, Yet do I hold it very ftuff o' th' con science

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To do no contriv'd murder. I lack iniquity anal<
Sometimes to do me fervice.Nine or ten times
I thought to've jerk'd him here under the ribs.
Oth. It's better as it is.

Iago. Nay, but he prated,

And spoke fuch fcurvy and provoking terms
Against your honour;

That, with the little godlinefs I have,

I did full hard forbear him. But I pray, Sir,
Are you faft married? for, be fure of this,

word of great force in the Teatonick languages. The elements are called in Dutch, hoefd ftoffen, or head fluffs.

That

That the Magnifico is much belov'd,
And hath in his effect a voice potential

9 As double as the Duke's: he will divorce you,
Or put upon you what restraint or grievance
The law, with all his might t'enforce it on,
Will give him cablerpts on has b

Oth, Let him do his fpight: My fervices, which I have done the Signory, adgim to a190ino istojn

9 As double as the Duke's:-] Rymer feems to have had his eye on this paffage, amongst others, where he talks fo much of the impropriety and barbarity in the ftyle of this play. But it is an elegant Grecifm. As double fig nifies as large, as extenfive; for thus the Greeks use diπnỡç. Diosc. 1. 2. c. 213. And in the fame manner and conftruation, the Latins fometimes ufed duplex. And the old French writers fay, La plus double. Dr. Bentley has been as fevere on Milton for as elegant a Grecifm,

Yet Virgin of Proferpina from

Jove. lib. 9. vir. 396. 'Tis an imitation of the apoy i danas of Theocritus for an unmarried virgin. WARB,

This note has been much cenfured by Mr. Upton, who denies, that the quotation is in Diofcorides, and difputes, not without reason, the interpretation of Theocritus.

All this learning, if it had even been what it endeavours to be thought, is, in this place, fuperfluous. There is no ground of fuppofing, that our author copied or knew the Greek phrafe nor

does it follow, that, because a word has two fenfes in one language, the word which in another anfwers to one fenfe, fhould answer to both. Manus, in Latin, fignifies both a band and troop of foldiers, but we cannot fay, that the captain marched at the head of his hand; or, that he laid his troop upon his furord. It is not always in books that the meaning is to be fought of this writer, who was much more acquainted with naked reafon and with liv ing manners.

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Double has here its natural fenfe. The prefident of every deliberative aflembly has a double voice. In our courts, the chief juftice and one of the inferiour judges, prevail over the other two, because the chief justice has a double voice.

Brabantio had, in his effect, tho' not by law yet by weight and influence, a voice not actual and formal, but potential and operative, as double, that is, a voice that when a question was fufpended, would turn the balance as effectually as the Duke's. Potential is ufed in the fenfe of fcience; a cauftick is called potential fire.

Shall

Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,
Which, when I know that Boafting is an honour,
I fhall promulgate, I fetch my Life and Being
From men of royal fiege; and my demerits

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May 2 fpeak, and bonnetted, to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reach'd. For know, lago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my 3 unhoufed free condition
Put into circumfcription and confine,

4 For the fea's worth. But look, what light comes yonder?

Enter Caffio, with torches.

Iago. Those are the raised father, and his friends:.

You were beft go in.

Oth. Not I: I must be found.

1-men of royal fiege; Men who have fat upon royal thrones. The quarto has,

-men of royal height. 2-Speak, UNBONNETTED,--] 'Thus all the copies read. It fhould be UNBONNETTING, i. e. without putting off the bonnet. POPE.

and my demerits May freak unbonnetted to as proud a Fortune

As this that I have reach'd-] Thus all the copies read this paffage. But, to fpeak unbonnetted, is to fpeak with the cap off, which is directly oppofite to the poet's meaning. Othello means to fay, that his birth and fervices fet him upon fuch a rank, that he may speak to a fenator of Venice

My parts, my title and my perfect Soul
Shall manifeft me rightly. Is it they?
Iago. 5 By Janus, I think no.

Oth. The Servants of the Duke, and my lieutenant. -The goodness of the night upon you, friends! What is the news?

Caf. The Duke does greet you, General,

And he requires your hafte, post-haste, appearance, Ev'n on the inftant.

Oth. What is the matter, think you?

Caf. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine;
It is a bufinefs of fome heat. The Gallies
Have fent a dozen fequent meffengers
This very night, at one anothers heels:

• And many of the Council, rais'd and met,
Are at the Duke's already.

call'd for,

You have been hotly

When, being not at your lodging to be found,
The fenate hath fent out three feveral quefts,
To fearch you out.

Oth. 'Tis well I am found by you.

I will but spend a word here in the house,

And go with you.

Caf. Ancient, what makes he here?

g By Janus, I think, no.] There is great propriety in making the double lago fwear by Janus, who has two faces. The addrefs of it likewife is as remarkable, for as the people coming up appeared at different distances to have different shapes, he might fwear by Janus, without fufpicion of any other emblematical meaning.

WARBURTON. 6 And many of the Confuls rais'd and met,

Are at the Duke's already-]

[Exit Othello.

reading; but there is no fuch character as a Conful appears in any part of the play. I change it to Counsellors; i. e. the Grandees that conftitute the great THEOB. Council at Venice.

Hanmer reads, Council. 7 The Senate bath fent out-] The early quarto's, and all the modern editors, have,

The Senate fent above three feveral quests.

The folio,

The Senate hath sent about, &c.

Thus all the editions concur in that is, about the city.