Chapter XXXI: Act I: 1

196. _once upon a raw_ and _The games are done_, Act I. 2.

197. _And for Mark Antony_, and _O, name him not_, Act II. 1.

198. _This disturbed sky_, Act I. 3.

_All the conspirators_, Act V. 5.

_How ‘scaped I killing_, Act IV. 3.

_You are my true_, Act II. 1.

199. _They are all welcome_ and _It is no matter_, Act II. 1.

OTHELLO

200. _tragedy purifies the affections by terror and pity_, Aristotle’s
_Poetics_.

_It comes directly home_, Dedication to Bacon’s _Essays_.

_The picturesque contrasts._ The germ of this paragraph may be
found in _The Examiner_ (_The Round Table_, No. 38), May 12th,
1816. The paper there indexed as _Shakespeare’s exact
discrimination of nearly similar characters_ was used in the
preparation of _Othello_, _Henry IV._ and _Henry VI._ in the
_Characters of Shakespear’s Plays_.

202. _flows on to the Propontic_, Act III. 3.

_the spells_, Act I. 3.

_What! Michael Cassio?_ and _If she be false_, Act III. 3.

203. _Look where he comes_, Act III. 3. The four following quotations
in the text and footnote are in the same scene.

[I found not Cassio’s kisses
... thy hollow cell.]

_Yet, oh the pity of it_, Act IV. 2.

_My wife!_ Act V. 2.

204. _his whole course of love_, Act I. 3.

_’Tis not to make me jealous_, Act III. 3.

_Believe me_, Act III. 4.

_I will, my Lord_, Act IV. 3.

205. _her visage._ Cf. ‘I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,’ Act I. 3.

_A maiden never bold_, Act I. 3.

_Tempests themselves_, Act II. 1.

205. _She is subdued_ and _honours and his valiant parts_, Act I. 3.

_Ay, too gentle_, Act IV. 1.

_remained at home_, Act I. 3.

_Alas, Iago_, Act IV. 2.

206. _Would you had never seen him_, Act IV. 3.

_Some persons._ See _The Round Table_, p. 15.

207. _Our ancient_, Dram. Per. ‘Iago, his ancient.’

_What a full fortune_, and _Here is her father’s house_, Act I.
1.

208. _I cannot believe_, Act II. 1.

_And yet how nature_, Act III. 3.

_the milk of human kindness._ _Macbeth_, Act I. 5.

_relish of salvation._ _Hamlet_, Act III. 3.

_Oh, you are well tuned now_, Act II. 1.

_My noble lord_, Act III. 3.

209. _O grace! O Heaven forgive_ [defend] _me_, Act III. 3.

_How is it, General_, Act IV. 1.

_Zanga._ See _The Revenge_, by Edward Young (1683–1765), first
acted 1721.

TIMON OF ATHENS

210. _Follow his strides_, Act I. 1.

211. _What, think’st thou_, Act IV. 3 [moss’d trees].

_A thing slipt_, Act I. 1.

_Ugly all over with hypocrisy._ Cf. ‘He is ugly all over with the
affectation of the fine gentleman.’ Quoted by Steele from
Wycherley, _The Tatler_, No. 38.

212. _This yellow slave_, Act IV. 3.

_Let me look_, Act IV. 1.

213. _What things in the world_, Act IV. 3.

_loved few things better_, Act I. 1.

_Come not to me_, Act V. 1.

_These well express_, Act V. 4.

CORIOLANUS

214. _no jutting frieze_ and _to make its pendant bed_. _Macbeth_, Act
I. 6.

_it carries noise_, Act II. 1.

_Carnage is its daughter._ See Wordsworth’s _Ode_, No. XLV. of
Poems dedicated to National Independence and Liberty, ed.
Hutchinson, 1895. The line was altered by Wordsworth in 1845.
See also Byron’s _Don Juan_, Canto viii. Stanza 9.

215. _poor_ [these] _rats_, Act I. 1.

_as if he were a God_, Act II. 1.

_Mark you_ and _cares_, Act III. 1.

216. _Now the red pestilence_, Act IV. 1.

217. _Methinks I hither hear_, Act I. 3 [At Grecian sword,
contemning].

_These are the ushers_, Act II. 1.

_Pray now, no more_, Act I. 9.

218. _The whole history._ The sentence quoted is by Pope. See Malone’s
_Shakespeare_, 1821, vol. xiv.

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA

221. _Troy, yet upon her basis_, Act I. 3.

222. _without o’erflowing full._ Said of the Thames in _Cooper’s
Hill_, by Sir John Denham (1615–1669).

222. _of losing distinction in his thoughts_ [joys] and _As doth a
battle_, Act III. 2.

223. _Time hath, my lord_, Act. III. 3.

224. _Why there you touch’d_, Act II. 2.

_Come here about me_, Act V. 7.

_Go thy way_, Act I. 2.

_It is the prettiest villain_, Act III. 2.

225. _the web of our lives._ _All’s Well that Ends Well_, Act IV. 3.

_He hath done_, Act V. 5.

226. _Prouder than when_, Act I. 3.

_like the eye of vassalage_, Act III. 2 [like vassalage at
unawares encountering the eye of majesty].

_And as the new abashed nightingale_, Chaucer’s _Troilus and
Criseyde_, Book III. 177.

227. _Her armes small._ _Ibid._, 179.

_O that I thought_, Act III. 2.

_Rouse yourself_, Act III. 3.

_What proffer’st thou_, Chaucer’s _Troilus and Criseyde_, Book
III. 209.

ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA

228. _like the swan’s down-feather_, Act III. 2.

_If it be love indeed_, Act I. 1.

229. _The barge she sat in_, Act II. 2.

_like a doating mallard_, Act III. 10.

_He’s speaking now_, Act I. 5.

_It is my birthday_ and _To let a fellow_, Act. III. 13.

_Age cannot wither_, Act. II. 2 [stale].

_There’s gold_, Act. II. 5.

230. _Dost thou not see_, Act V. 2.

_Antony, leave thy lascivious wassels_, Act I. 4. [_For_ Mutina
_read_ Modena.]

_Yes, yes_, Act III. 11.

231. _Eros, thou yet behold’st me_, Act IV. 14.

_I see men’s judgments_, Act III. 13.

232. _a master-leaver_, Act IV. 9.

HAMLET

232. _this goodly frame_ and _man delighted not_, Act II. 2.

_too much i’ th’ sun._ Cf. Act II. 2.

_the pangs of despised love_, Act III. 1.

233. _the outward pageants._ Cf. the trappings and the suits of woe,