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Oth. Ay.

Cas. Dear general, I never gave ou cause.
Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
Will you, I pray you, demand that demi-devil,
Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body?
Iago. Demand me nothing: What you know,
you know:

From this time forth I never will speak word.
Lod. What? not to pray?
Gra.

Torments will ope your lips.
Oth. Well, thou dost best.
Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath be-
fall'n,

Which, as I think, you know not: Here is a letter,
Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;
And here, another: the one of them imports
The death of Cassio to be undertook
By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain!
Cas.

Most heathenish, and most gross!
Lod. Now here's another discontented paper,
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;
But that, belike, Iago in the interim
Came in and satisfied him.

Oth.

Cas.

I found it in my chamber:
And he himself confess'd, but even now,
That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his desire.

Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;-No way but this, [Falling upon Desdemona. Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. [Dies. Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no

weapon;

For he was great of heart.

Lod.
O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed; [To Iago.
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;—
Let it be hid.-Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you.-To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture,-O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

The beauties of this play impress themselves so strongly upon the attention of the reader, that they can draw no aid from critical illustration. The fiery openness of Othello, magnanimous, artless, and credulous, boundless in his confidence, ardent O the pernicious caitiff!-in his affection, inflexible in his resolution, and How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief obdurate in his revenge; the cool malignity of Iago, That was my wife's? silent in his resentment, subtle in his designs, and studious at once of his interest and his vengeance; the soft simplicity of Desdemona, confident of merit, and conscious of innocence, her artless perseverance in her suit, and her slowness to suspect that she can be suspected, are such proofs of Shakspeare's skill in human nature, as, I suppose, it is vain to seek in any modern writer. The gradual progress which Iago makes in the Moor's conviction, and the circumstances which he employs to inflame him, are so artfully natural, that, though it will, perhaps, not be said of him as he says of himself, that he is a man not easily jealous, yet we cannot but pity him, when at last we find him perplexed in the extreme.

Oth.
O fool! fool! fool!
Cas. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter,-
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me on the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: And even but now he spake,
After long seeming dead,—Iago hurt him,
Iago set him on.

Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us;
Your power and your command is taken off,
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,-
If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,
It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian state:-Come, bring him away.

Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know it;
No more of that :-I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well;
Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,
Like the base Júdean, threw a pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd
eyes,

Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicínal gum: Set you down this:
And say, besides,-that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him-thus.

Lod. O bloody period!
Gra.

[Stabs himself.

All, that's spoke, is marr'd.

(1) Judgment.

There is always danger, lest wickedness, conjoined with abilities, should steal upon esteem, though it misses of approbation; but the character of lago is so conducted, that he is from the first scene to to the last hated and despised.

Even the inferior characters of this play would be very conspicuous in any other piece, not only for their justness, but their strength. Cassio is brave, benevolent, and honest, ruined only by his want of stubbornness to resist an insidious invitation. Roderigo's suspicious credulity, and impatient submission to the cheats which he sees practised upon him, and which, by persuasion, he suffers to be repeated, exhibit a strong picture of a weak mind, betrayed by unlawful desires, to a false friend; and the virtue of Emilia is such as we often find, worn loosely, but not cast off, easy to commit small crimes, but quickened and alarmed at atrocious villanies.

The scenes from the beginning to the end are busy, varied by happy interchanges, and regularly promoting the progression of the story; and the narrative in the end, though it tells but what is known already, yet is necessary to produce the death of Othello."

Had the scene opened in Cyprus, and the preceding incidents been occasionally related, there had been little wanting to a drama of the most exact and scrupulous regularity. JOHNSON.

FINIS.

GLOSSARY

OF OBSOLETE WORDS, AND OF WORDS VARYING FROM THEIR ORDINARY SIGNIFICATION.

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Advertising, attentive.

Adversity, contrariety.

Advertisement, admonition.

Advice, consideration, discretion,

thought.

Advise, to consider, to recollect.
Advised, cool, cautious.

Aery or Alery, a hawk's or eagle's

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Appeache, to impeach.

Appeared, made apparent.

Attornied, supplied by substitution of embassies.

Audacious, spirited, animated.
Audrey, a corruption of Ethelrea
Augurs, prognostications.

Aukward, adverse.

Aunts, strumpets.

Authentic, learned.

Awful, reverend.

Awless, failing to produce awe

B.

Apple-john, an apple that will keep Baccare, stand back, give place

for two years.

Apply, to attend to, consider.
Appointment, preparation.
Apprehension, opinion.

Apprehensive, quick of comprehen

sion.

Approbation, entry or probation.
Approof, approbation, proof.
Approve, to justify, prove, establish.
Approved, experienced.
Approvers, those who try.

Aqua-vite, strong waters, probably

usquebaugh.

Arabian bird, the phoenix.

Arch, chief.

Argentine, silver.

Argentine, the goddess Diana.
Argier, Algiers.

Argosies, ships laden with great
wealth.

Argument, subject for conversation, evidence, proof.

Arm, to take up in the arms,
Aroint, avaunt, begone.
A-row, successively.

Art, practice as distinguished from
theory; also, theory.
Articulate, to enter into articles.
Artificial, ingenious, artful.
As, as if.

Ascaunt, askew, sideways.
Aspect, countenance.
Aspersion, sprinkling.

As point, completely armed.
Assay, test.
Ascapart, a giant.
Assinego, a male ass.
Astringer, a gentleman falconer.
Assurance, conveyance or deed.
Assured, affianced.

Ates, instigate from Ate, the goddess of bloodshed.

Atomies, minute particles visible in

the sun's rays.

Attasked, taken to task.

Attended, waited for.

Attent, attentive.

Ames-ace, the lowest chance of the Atone, to reconcile.

dice.

Amiss, misfortune.

Amort, dispirited.

An, as if.

Attest, attestation.

Attorney, deputation.

of another.

Bairn, brushwood.

Baldrick, a belt.
Bale, misery.
Baleful, baneful.

Balked, bathed or piled up.
Ballase, ballast.

Balm, the oil of consecration
Ban, curse.

Band, bond.

Bandog, village-dog.

Bandy, to exchange smartly

Bank, to sail along banks. Banning, cursing.

Banquet, a slight repast.

Bar, barrier.

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Attorneyship, the discretional agency Beard, to defy.

Bearing, demeanour.

Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at chris-Bow, yoke.

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Bolds, emboldens.
Boltered, bedaubed.
Borne in hand, deceived.
Bottled-spider, a large bloated spider.
Boulted, sifted.

Bowlins or bowlines, tackle of a ship.
Bollen, swollen.

Bordered, restrained.
Bower, a chamber.

Brace, armour for the arm.
Brach, a hound.

Brack, to salt.

Braid, crafty, deceitful,
Brain's-flow, tears.

Brake, an instrument of torture; also a thicket.

Brands, a part of the andirons on which the wood for the fire was supported.

Brasier, a manufacturer of brass; also,
a vessel in which charcoal is burnt.
Brave, to defy, also to make fine.
Bravely, splendidly, gallantly.
Bravery, finery.
Brawl, a kind of dance.
Braying, harsh, grating.
Break, to begin.
Break up, to carve.

Break with, to break the matter to.

Bias-cheek, swelling out like the bias Breast, voice.

of a bowl.

Bid, to invite.

Bid the base, to challenge in a contest. Bifold, two-fold.

Biggin, a cap.

Bilberry, the whortleberry.

Breath, speech, also exercise. Breathing-courtesy, mere verbal compliment.

Breeched, foully sheathed, mired. Breeching, liable to be flogged. Breathed, inured by constant practice.

Bilbo, a Spanish blade, made at Bilboa, Breathe, to utter.
Bilboes, fetters.

Bill, articles of accusation.

Breed-bate, an exciter of quarrels.
Bribe-buck, a buck sent as a bribe.

Bill, a weapon, formerly carried by Bridal, the nuptial feast.
watchmen.

Bin, is.

Bring, to attend or accompany. Brize, the gad, or horse-fly.

Bird-bolt, an arrow shot at birds from Broach, to put on the spit, to transfix.

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Brock, the badger.
Brogues, a kind of shoes.
Broken, communicated.
Broker, a match-maker, a procuress.
Brooched, adorned.
Brought, attended.

Brow of youth, the height of youth.
Brown-bill, a battle-axe.

Canary, a dance.

Candle-wasters, those who sit up all
night to drink.
Canker, the dog-rose.
Canstick, candlestick.
Cantons, cantos.
Canvas, to sift.

Canvas-climber, a sailor.
Cap, the top, the chief.

Cap, to salute by taking off the cap.
Capable impressure, hollow mark.
Capitulate, to make head against.
Capocchia, a sot.

Capon, metaphor for a letter.
Capricious, lascivious.
Captious, capacious.
Carack, a ship of great bulk
Caracts, characters.

Carbonado, a piece of meat cut cross-
ways for the gridiron.
Card, a sea-chart, perhaps also the
compass.
Carded, mixed.
Care, inclination.

Careires, the motion of a horse; to pass the careires, means to overstep the bounds of decorum.

Carkanet, a necklace.

Carl, clown, boor.
Carlot, peasant.
Carnal, sanguinary.
Carowses, drinks.
Carriage, import.
Carried, conducted.
Carry, to prevail over.
Cart, a chariot.
Case, skin, outward garb.
Case of lives, a set of lives.
Casques, helmets.

Cassock, a horseman's loose coat.
Cast, to empty; also to dismiss, reject.
Cast, reckoned.

Castilian, an opprobrious term. Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of contempt.

Cast-lips, left off lips.

Cast the water, to find out disorders by inspecting the urine. Cataian, a liar.

Cafling, a small lutestring, made of cat gut.

Cavalero-justice, a cant term.

Brownist, a follower of Brown, a sec-Cavaleroes, gay fellows.

tarian.

Bruising-irons, an allusion to the an

cient mace.

Brait, report with clamour.
Brush of time, decay of time.
Bug, bugbears, false terrors.

Bumbard, a large drinking vessel.
Bung, a cut-purse.

Blurt, blurted, an expression of con- Bunting, a bird.

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Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at shafts Censure, to give an opinion.

By'rlaken, by our lady.

C.

Caddis, worsted lace.

Cade, a barrel.

Cadent, falling.
Cage, a prison.

Cain-coloured, yellow."
Caitiff, a scoundrel.

Boot, profit, something over and above. Calculate, to foretell.

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Book, paper of conditions.

Bore, demeaned.

Bore, the calibre of a gun.

Bores, stabs.

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Caliver, a musket.

Call, to visit.

Callet, a woman, a witch.

Calling, appellation.

Calm, qualm.

Camelot, a place where King Arthur

is supposed to have kept his court.

Centuries, companies of an hundred

men each.

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Clouted, hobnailed.

Control, confute.

Convents, agrees, is convenient.

Coach-fellow, one who draws with a Convented, summoned.

confederate.

Coasting, conciliatory.

Codling, an unripe apple.

Cob-loaf, a crusty, uneven loaf.

Cock, cock-boat.

Cock-and-pye, a vulgar oath.

Cockshut-time, twilight.

Cockle-hat, a pilgrim's hat.

Cockle, a corn-weed.

Codding, amorous.

Codpiece, a part of the dress.

Coffin, the cavity of a raised pie.
Cog, to cheat with dice, to lie.
Cognizance, badge or token.
Cogging, lying.

Coigne of vantage, convenient corner.

Coignes, corners.

Coil, bustle, stir.

Cold, naked.

Conversion, change of condition.
Converse, associate, interchange.
Convertite, a convert.
Convey, to steal.

Conveyance, slight of hand, theft.
Conveyers, thieves.

Conveyed himself, derived his title.
Convicted, overpowered, baffled
Convince, to convict, to subdue.
Convive, to feast.

Copatain hat, a hat with a conical crown
Cope, encounter, covering.
Copped, rising to a top or head.
Copy, theme.

Coragio, courage, be of good cheer.
Corinth, a brothel.
Corinthian, a wencher.
Corky, dry, withered.
Corollary, surpius.

Collection, consequence, or corollary. Corporal, corporeal.

Collied, black, smutted.

Colt to trick

Corrigible, corrected.
Costard, a head.

Coster-monger, a dealer in costers or

apples.

Cote, to overtake.

Coted, quoted, regarded.

Cotsale, Cotswood in Gloucester.
Couch, to lie with.

Count, to reckon upon.

Countenance, favour; also, false ap.

pearance, hypocrisy.

Counter, a hunting term.

Counter-caster, one who reckons with

counters.

Counter-check, a term in chess.
Counterfeit, a portrait.
Counterpoints, counterpanes.
County, count, earl.
Couplement, a couple.

Courses, the mainsail and foresail.
Court-cupboard, sideboard.
Court confect, a spurious nobleman.
Court holy-water, flattery.
Covered, hollow.
Cowed, awed.

Cower, to sink down.

Cowlstaff, a staff used in carrying a basket.

Coy, to soothe.

Coyed, yielded reluctantly.

Coystril, a coward cock, a poltroon.
Cozier, a tailor, a botcher.

Crack, dissolution; also, a boy-child.
Cranks, windings.

Cranking or crankling, the rush of a

river.

Crants, garlands.

Crare, a small trading vessel.
Crash, to be merry over.

Craven, a cowardly cock, mean, cow-
ardly.

Create, compounded, made up of.
Credent, credible.

Credit, account, information, credulity
Cressets, lights set upon a beacon.
Cressive, increasing.

Crest, the summit.

Crestless, those who have no right to

armorial bearings.

Crewel, worsted.

Crisp, curled, winding.
Critic, cynic.

Critical, censorious.

Crone, a very old woman.

Crosses, money stamped with a cross.

Crow-keeper, a scarecrow.

Crownet, last purpose.

Crulentious, cruel.

Crusado, a Portuguese coin.

Crush, to drink.

Crush a cup, to crack a bottle.

Cry, a pack of hounds.
Cry aim, to encourage.
Crystals, the eyes.

Cub-drawn, alluding to a bear whose
dugs are dry.

Cue, a theatrical term, the last word
of the preceding speech.

Cuisses, armour for the thighs.
Cullion, a paltry fellow.
Cunning, knowledge.
Curb, to bend or truckle.

Curiosity, curiousness, finical delicacy
Curious, scrupulous.

Curled, ostentatiously dressed.
Currents, occurrences.

Cursed, under the influence of a male
diction.

Curst, petulant, ill tempered, crabbed,

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Cut and longtail, poor and rich.'
Cuttle, a knife used by sharpers.
Cyprus, a transparent stuff.

D.

Daff, or doff, to put off.
Dally, to trifle.

Damn, to condemn.

Danger, control.

Dank, wet, rotten.

Danskers, natives of Denmark.

Darkling, in the dark.
Darraign, to arrange.
Daub, to disguise.

Daubery, falsehood, counterfeit.

Day-bed, a couch,
Day-light, broad day.

Day-woman, dairymaid.
Dealt, fought by proxy.

Dear, immediate, consequential.
Dearn, direful, lonely, solitary.

Death-tokens, spots on those infected
with the plague.

Death's-man, executioner.

Debitor, debtor.

Deboshed, debauched.

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Disnatured, wanting natural affection. Empery, sovereign power.
Dispark, to destroy a park or inclosure.
Disperge, to sprinkle.

Disponge, to discharge as a sponge.
Dispose, disposal, command.
Dispose, to make terms.
Disposition, frame.

Disseat, displace, depose.
Dissemble, to gloss over, disguise.
Dissembling, putting dissimilar things
together.

Distained, unstained.
Distaste, to corrupt.
Distemper, intoxication

Distemperature, perturbation.

Distempered, out of humour.

Distraught, distracted.

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Emulous, envious, jealous.
Emulation, envy.

Encave, to hide.

Endart, to dart forth.

Enfeoff, to invest with possession.
Engross, to fatten.

Engaged, delivered as an hostage.
Engrossments, accumulation.
Enkindle, to stimulate.

Enmesh, to inclose, as in meshes.
Ennew, (in falconry) to force to lie in

cover.

Enridged, bordered.

Ensconce, to secure in a safe place,

to fortify.

Enseamed, greasy.

Enseer, to dry up.
Enshield, concealed.

Ensteeped, immersed.

Entertainment, pay; also, being received into service.

Entreatments, favours; also, objecta
of entreaty.

Envy, aversion, malice.
Enviously, angrily.
Ephesian, a cant term,
Erring, errant, wandering.
Escape, illegitimate child.
Escoted, paid.

Esil, or Eisel, a river.

Esperance, motto of the Percy family
Espials, spies.

Essential, existent, real.
Estimate, price.
Estimation, conjecture.
Estridges, ostriches.
Eterne, eternal.

Even, to make even, or evident.
Even christian, fellow-christian.
Evils, jakes.

Examined, doubted.

Excellent differences, distinguished es cellencies.

Excrement, the beard.

Execute, to use, or employ.

Executors, executioners.

Exercise, exhortation.

Ducdame, (duc ad me) bring him to Exhale, to breathe one's last,

me, the burthen of a song.

Dudgeon, the handle of a dagger

Due, to endue, to deck.

Duke, a leader.

Dull, gentle soothing.

Dullard, a stupid person.
Dump, a mournful elegy.

Descant, to harangue upon; also, a Dup, to do up, to lift up.

Deserved, deserving.

Despatched, bereft.

Deprive, to disinherit.

Deracinate, to root up.

Derogate, degraded.

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Design, to mark out.

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Duinb, to make silent.

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Durance, some lasting kind of stuff.

E.

Eanlings, lambs.

Ear, to plough.

Ear-kissing, whispering.

Easy, slight, inconsiderable.

Eche, to eke out.

Extent, violence, seizure.

Expiate, to end.

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Digress, to deviate from what is right. Ecstasy, madness.

Disclose, to hatch.

Discontents, malcontents.

Discourse, reason.

Disease, uneasiness, discontent.

Diseases, sayings.

Disgrace, hardship, injury.
Dishabited, dislodged.
Dislike, displease.

Dislimn, to unpaint, obliterate.
Disme, tenth, or tithe.

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