Chapter XXIV: Act IV: SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the castle

_Enter_ OTHELLO _and_ IAGO.[6212]

_Iago._ Will you think so?

_Oth._ Think so, Iago![6213]

_Iago._ What,[6214]
To kiss in private?[6214]

_Oth._ An unauthorized kiss.[6215]

_Iago._ Or to be naked with her friend in bed[6216][6217]
An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

_Oth._ Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm![6217] 5
It is hypocrisy against the devil:
They that mean virtuously and yet do so,
The devil their virtue tempts and they tempt heaven.[6218]

_Iago._ So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:[6219]
But if I give my wife a handkerchief--[6220][6221] 10

_Oth._ What then?

_Iago._ Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and being hers,[6222]
She may, I think, bestow 't on any man.

_Oth._ She is protectress of her honour too:[6223]
May she give that? 15

_Iago._ Her honour is an essence that's not seen;
They have it very oft that have it not:
But for the handkerchief--[6221]

_Oth._ By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it:
Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory, 20
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,[6224]
Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.[6225]

_Iago._ Ay, what of that?

_Oth._ That's not so good now.

_Iago._ What,[6226]
If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?[6226][6227]
Or heard him say--as knaves be such abroad,[6228] 25
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,[6229]
Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose[6230]
But they must blab--[6231]

_Oth._ Hath he said any thing?

_Iago._ He hath, my lord; but be you well assured, 30
No more than he'll unswear.

_Oth._ What hath he said?

_Iago._ Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.[6232]

_Oth._ What? what?[6233]

_Iago._ Lie--

_Oth._ With her?

_Iago._ With her, on her; what you will.[6234]

_Oth._ Lie with her! lie on her!--We say lie on her, when[6235] 35
they belie her.--Lie with her! 'Zounds, that's fulsome![6235][6236]
Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To confess, and[6237][6238][6239]
be hanged for his labour; first, to be hanged, and then to[6238][6239]
confess. I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in[6238][6239]
such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not[6239][6240] 40
words that shakes me thus. Pish! Noses, ears and lips.[6239][6241]
Is't possible?--Confess?--Handkerchief?--O devil!

[_Falls in a trance._[6239][6242]

_Iago._ Work on,[6243]
My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;[6243][6244]
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,[6243] 45
All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord![6243]
My lord, I say! Othello![6243][6245]

_Enter_ CASSIO.

How now, Cassio!

_Cas._ What's the matter?

_Iago._ My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:[6246]
This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.[6247] 50

_Cas._ Rub him about the temples.

_Iago._ No, forbear;[6248]
The lethargy must have his quiet course:[6249]
If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs:[6250]
Do you withdraw yourself a little while, 55
He will recover straight: when he is gone,
I would on great occasion speak with you. [_Exit Cassio._[6251]
How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?[6252]

_Oth._ Dost thou mock me?

_Iago._ I mock you! no, by heaven.[6253]
Would you would bear your fortune like a man![6254] 60

_Oth._ A horned man's a monster and a beast.

_Iago._ There's many a beast then in a populous city,
And many a civil monster.

_Oth._ Did he confess it?

_Iago._ Good sir, be a man;[6255]
Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked[6256] 65
May draw with you: there's millions now alive[6257]
That nightly lie in those unproper beds[6258]
Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.[6259]
O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,[6260]
To lip a wanton in a secure couch, 70
And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;[6261][6262]
And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.[6261][6263]

_Oth._ O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.[6261]

_Iago._ Stand you awhile apart;[6261][6264]
Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--[6265] 75
A passion most unsuiting such a man--[6266]
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy;[6267]
Bade him anon return and here speak with me;[6268]
The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,[6269] 80
And mark the fleers, the gibes and notable scorns,[6270]
That dwell in every region of his face;
For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago and when
He hath and is again to cope your wife:[6271] 85
I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,[6272]
And nothing of a man.

_Oth._ Dost thou hear, Iago?[6273]
I will be found most cunning in my patience;[6274]
But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.

_Iago._ That's not amiss;[6275] 90
But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?

[_Othello retires._[6276]

Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature[6277]
That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague 95
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain[6278]
From the excess of laughter. Here he comes.

_Re-enter_ CASSIO.[6279]

As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;[6280]
And his unbookish jealousy must construe[6281] 100
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behaviour,[6282]
Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?[6283]

_Cas._ The worser that you give me the addition[6284]
Whose want even kills me.

_Iago._ Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on 't. 105
Now, if this suit lay in Bianca's power,[6285]
How quickly should you speed!

_Cas._ Alas, poor caitiff![6286]

_Oth._ Look, how he laughs already![6287]

_Iago._ I never knew a woman love man so.[6288]

_Cas._ Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.[6289] 110

_Oth._ Now he denies it faintly and laughs it out.[6287][6290]

_Iago._ Do you hear, Cassio?

_Oth._ Now he importunes him[6287][6291]
To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.[6292]

_Iago._ She gives it out that you shall marry her:
Do you intend it? 115

_Cas._ Ha, ha, ha!

_Oth._ Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?[6287][6293]

_Cas._ I marry her! what, a customer! I prithee, bear[6294][6295]
some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome.[6294]
Ha, ha, ha![6294] 120

_Oth._ So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.[6287][6296]

_Iago._ Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.[6297]

_Cas._ Prithee, say true.

_Iago._ I am a very villain else.[6298]

_Oth._ Have you scored me? Well.[6287][6299] 125

_Cas._ This is the monkey's own giving out: she is persuaded[6300]
I will marry her, out of her own love and flattery,[6300]
not out of my promise.[6300]

_Oth._ Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.[6287][6301]

_Cas._ She was here even now; she haunts me in every 130
place. I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with[6302]
certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble, and, by[6303][6304]
this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--[6304][6305]

_Oth._ Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture[6287][6306]
imports it. 135

_Cas._ So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me; so hales[6307][6308]
and pulls me: ha, ha, ha![6307]

_Oth._ Now he tells how she plucked him to my[6287][6309]
chamber. O, I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I[6309][6310]
shall throw it to.[6309][6311] 140

_Cas._ Well, I must leave her company.

_Iago._ Before me! look, where she comes.[6312]

_Cas._ Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed one.

_Enter_ BIANCA.[6313]

What do you mean by this haunting of me?

_Bian._ Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did 145
you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even[6314]
now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the work?[6315]
A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your
chamber, and not know who left it there! This is some[6316]
minx's token, and I must take out the work? There; give 150
it your hobby-horse: wheresoever you had it, I'll take out[6317]
no work on't.[6318]

_Cas._ How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now![6319]

_Oth._ By heaven, that should be my handkerchief![6287][6314]

_Bian._ An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an[6320] 155
you will not, come when you are next prepared for. [_Exit._

_Iago._ After her, after her.

_Cas._ Faith, I must; she'll rail i' the street else.[6321]

_Iago._ Will you sup there?[6322]

_Cas._ Faith, I intend so.[6323] 160

_Iago._ Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very
fain speak with you.

_Cas._ Prithee, come; will you?

_Iago._ Go to; say no more. [_Exit Cassio._[6324]

_Oth._ [_Advancing_] How shall I murder him, Iago?[6325] 165

_Iago._ Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?

_Oth._ O Iago![6326]

_Iago._ And did you see the handkerchief?[6314]

_Oth._ Was that mine?

_Iago._ Yours, by this hand: and to see how he prizes the[6327] 170
foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he hath given[6327]
it his whore.[6327]

_Oth._ I would have him nine years a-killing. A fine[6327][6328]
woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman![6328]

_Iago._ Nay, you must forget that.[6329] 175

_Oth._ Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;[6330]
for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to stone; I[6331]
strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the world hath not a[6332]
sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's side, and
command him tasks. 180

_Iago._ Nay, that's not your way.

_Oth._ Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate[6333]
with her needle: an admirable musician: O, she will sing
the savageness out of a bear: of so high and plenteous wit[6334]
and invention:--[6335] 185

_Iago._ She's the worse for all this.

_Oth._ O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so[6336][6337][6338]
gentle a condition![6337][6339]

_Iago._ Ay, too gentle.

_Oth._ Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago![6340] 190
O Iago, the pity of it, Iago![6341]

_Iago._ If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent[6342]
to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.[6343]

_Oth._ I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!

_Iago._ O, 'tis foul in her. 195

_Oth._ With mine officer!

_Iago._ That's fouler.

_Oth._ Get me some poison, Iago; this night. I'll not[6344]
expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide[6345]
my mind again: this night, Iago. 200

_Iago._ Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed,[6346]
even the bed she hath contaminated.[6347]

_Oth._ Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.[6348]

_Iago._ And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you[6349]
shall hear more by midnight.[6349] 205

_Oth._ Excellent good. [_A trumpet within._] What
trumpet is that same?[6350]

_Iago._ Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico[6351][6352]
Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.[6351]

_Enter_ LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, _and_ Attendants.[6353]

_Lod._ God save the worthy general!

_Oth._ With all my heart, sir.[6354]

_Lod._ The duke and senators of Venice greet you. 210

[_Gives him a letter._[6355]

_Oth._ I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.

[_Opens the letter, and reads._[6356]

_Des._ And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?

_Iago._ I am very glad to see you, signior;[6357][6358]
Welcome to Cyprus.[6357]

_Lod._ I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?[6359] 215

_Iago._ Lives, sir.

_Des._ Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.

_Oth._ Are you sure of that?

_Des._ My lord?[6360] 220

_Oth._ [_Reads_] 'This fail you not to do, as you will--'[6361]

_Lod._ He did not call; he's busy in the paper.
Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?[6362]

_Des._ A most unhappy one: I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.[6363] 225

_Oth._ Fire and brimstone!

_Des._ My lord?[6360]

_Oth._ Are you wise?

_Des._ What, is he angry?

_Lod._ May be the letter moved him;
For, as I think, they do command him home, 230
Deputing Cassio in his government.

_Des._ By my troth, I am glad on 't.[6364]

_Oth._ Indeed!

_Des._ My lord?[6360]

_Oth._ I am glad to see you mad.

_Des._ Why, sweet Othello?[6365]

_Oth._ Devil! [_Striking her._[6366]

_Des._ I have not deserved this. 235

_Lod._ My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw 't: 'tis very much:
Make her amends; she weeps.

_Oth._ O devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,[6367]
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 240
Out of my sight!

_Des._ I will not stay to offend you. [_Going._[6368]

_Lod._ Truly, an obedient lady:[6369]
I do beseech your lordship, call her back.

_Oth._ Mistress!

_Des._ My lord? 245

_Oth._ What would you with her, sir?

_Lod._ Who, I, my lord?

_Oth._ Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
Sir, she can turn and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;
And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,[6370] 250
Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.[6371]
Concerning this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--
I am commanded home. Get you away;[6372]
I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt! 255

[_Exit Desdemona._[6373]

Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, to-night,
I do entreat that we may sup together:
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys![6374]

[_Exit._

_Lod._ Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate[6375]
Call all in all sufficient? This the nature[6376] 260
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue[6377]
The shot of accident nor dart of chance[6378]
Could neither graze nor pierce?[6379]

_Iago._ He is much changed.

_Lod._ Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?[6380]

_Iago._ He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure[6381][6382] 265
What he might be: if what he might he is not,[6382][6383]
I would to heaven he were!

_Lod._ What, strike his wife!

_Iago._ Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!

_Lod._ Is it his use?[6384]
Or did the letters work upon his blood, 270
And new create this fault?[6385]

_Iago._ Alas, alas!
It is not honesty in me to speak
What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,[6386]
And his own courses will denote him so
That I may save my speech: do but go after,[6387] 275
And mark how he continues.

_Lod._ I am sorry that I am deceived in him. [_Exeunt._[6388]

SCENE II. _A room in the castle._[6389]

_Enter_ OTHELLO _and_ EMILIA.

_Oth._ You have seen nothing, then?[6390][6391]

_Emil._ Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.[6390]

_Oth._ Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.[6390][6392]

_Emil._ But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
Each syllable that breath made up between them.[6393] 5

_Oth._ What, did they never whisper?

_Emil._ Never, my lord.

_Oth._ Nor send you out o' the way?[6394]

_Emil._ Never.[6395]

_Oth._ To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?[6396]

_Emil._ Never, my lord. 10

_Oth._ That's strange.

_Emil._ I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
If any wretch have put this in your head,[6397] 15
Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse![6398]
For if she be not honest, chaste and true,
There's no man happy; the purest of their wives[6399]
Is foul as slander.

_Oth._ Bid her come hither: go. [_Exit Emilia._[6400]
She says enough: yet she's a simple bawd 20
That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,[6401]
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets:[6402]
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.

_Enter_ DESDEMONA _with_ EMILIA.[6403]

_Des._ My lord, what is your will?

_Oth._ Pray, chuck, come hither.[6404]

_Des._ What is your pleasure?

_Oth._ Let me see your eyes;[6405] 25
Look in my face.[6405]

_Des._ What horrible fancy's this?

_Oth._ [_To Emilia_] Some of your function, mistress;[6406]
Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
Cough, or cry hem, if any body come:
Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch. [_Exit Emilia._[6407] 30

_Des._ Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?[6408]
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.[6409][6410]

_Oth._ Why, what art thou?[6410]

_Des._ Your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife.[6410] 35

_Oth._ Come, swear it, damn thyself;[6410][6411]
Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves[6411][6412]
Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double-damn'd;[6411][6413]
Swear thou art honest.[6411]

_Des._ Heaven doth truly know it.

_Oth._ Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.[6414] 40

_Des._ To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?[6415]

_Oth._ O Desdemona! Away! away! away![6416]

_Des._ Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?[6417]
Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?[6418]
If haply you my father do suspect[6419] 45
An instrument of this your calling back,
Lay not your blame on me: if you have lost him,[6420][6421]
Why, I have lost him too.[6421]

_Oth._ Had it pleased heaven[6422]
To try me with affliction; had they rain'd[6423]
All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,[6424] 50
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,[6425]
I should have found in some place of my soul[6426]
A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me[6427]
A fixed figure for the time of scorn[6428] 55
To point his slow unmoving finger at![6428]
Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:
But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life,
The fountain from the which my current runs,[6429] 60
Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads[6430]
To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,[6431][6432]
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,[6431][6433]
Ay, there, look grim as hell![6431][6434] 65

_Des._ I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.[6435]

_Oth._ O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,[6436]
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,[6437][6438]
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet[6437][6439]
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been
born![6437][6440] 70

_Des._ Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?

_Oth._ Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed![6441]
Committed! O thou public commoner![6442]
I should make very forges of my cheeks,[6442][6443] 75
That would to cinders burn up modesty,[6442]
Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed![6442][6444]
Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks;
The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets,
Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,[6445] 80
And will not hear it. What committed![6446]
Impudent strumpet![6447]

_Des._ By heaven, you do me wrong.

_Oth._ Are not you a strumpet?

_Des._ No, as I am a Christian:
If to preserve this vessel for my lord
From any other foul unlawful touch[6448] 85
Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.

_Oth._ What, not a whore?

_Des._ No, as I shall be saved.

_Oth._ Is't possible?

_Des._ O, heaven forgive us!

_Oth._ I cry you mercy then:[6449]
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice 90
That married with Othello. [_Raising his voice_] You, mistress,[6450]
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!

_Re-enter_ EMILIA.

You, you, ay, you![6451]
We have done our course; there's money for your pains:[6452]
I pray you, turn the key, and keep our counsel. [_Exit._ 95

_Emil._ Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?

_Des._ Faith, half asleep.

_Emil._ Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?[6453]

_Des._ With who?[6454] 100

_Emil._ Why, with my lord, madam.[6455]

_Des._ Who is thy lord?

_Emil._ He that is yours, sweet lady.[6456]

_Des._ I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;[6457]
I cannot weep, nor answer have I none[6458]
But what should go by water. Prithee, to-night[6459] 105
Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;[6460]
And call thy husband hither.

_Emil._ Here's a change indeed! [_Exit._[6461]

_Des._ 'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.[6462]
How have I been behaved, that he might stick
The small'st opinion on my least misuse? 110

_Re-enter_ EMILIA _with_ IAGO.[6463]

_Iago._ What is your pleasure, madam? How is't with you?[6464]

_Des._ I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes[6465]
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,[6466]
I am a child to chiding.

_Iago._ What's the matter, lady?[6467] 115

_Emil._ Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
As true hearts cannot bear.[6468]

_Des._ Am I that name, Iago?

_Iago._ What name, fair lady?

_Des._ Such as she says my lord did say I was.[6469] 120

_Emil._ He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.[6470]

_Iago._ Why did he so?

_Des._ I do not know; I am sure I am none such.[6471]

_Iago._ Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day! 125

_Emil._ Hath she forsook so many noble matches,[6472]
Her father and her country and her friends,[6473]
To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?

_Des._ It is my wretched fortune.

_Iago._ Beshrew him for't![6474][6475]
How comes this trick upon him?[6474]

_Des._ Nay, heaven doth know. 130

_Emil._ I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.[6476]

_Iago._ Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible. 135

_Des._ If any such there be, heaven pardon him![6477]

_Emil._ A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones![6478]
Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?[6478]
What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?[6478]
The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,[6479] 140
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,[6480]
And put in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world[6481]
Even from the east to the west!

_Iago._ Speak within door.[6482] 145

_Emil._ O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was[6483]
That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,
And made you to suspect me with the Moor.

_Iago._ You are a fool; go to.

_Des._ O good Iago,[6484]
What shall I do to win my lord again? 150
Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,[6485]
I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:[6486][6487]
If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love[6487]
Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,[6487][6488]
Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,[6487] 155
Delighted them in any other form,[6487][6489]
Or that I do not yet, and ever did,[6487]
And ever will, though he do shake me off[6487]
To beggarly divorcement, love him dearly,[6487]
Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;[6487][6490] 160
And his unkindness may defeat my life,[6487]
But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore':[6487][6491]
It doth abhor me now I speak the word;[6487][6492]
To do the act that might the addition earn[6487]
Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.[6487] 165

_Iago._ I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:
The business of the state does him offence,
And he does chide with you.[6493]

_Des._ If 'twere no other,--

_Iago._ 'Tis but so, I warrant. [_Trumpets within._[6494]
Hark, how these instruments summon to supper![6495] 170
The messengers of Venice stay the meat:[6496]
Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.

[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._[6497]

_Enter_ RODERIGO.

How now, Roderigo![6498]

_Rod._ I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.[6499]

_Iago._ What in the contrary? 175

_Rod._ Every day thou daffest me with some device,[6500][6501]
Iago; and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me[6502][6501]
all conveniency than suppliest me with the least advantage[6501][6503][6504]
of hope. I will indeed no longer endure it; nor am I yet[6501][6504]
persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly[6501] 180
suffered.[6501]

_Iago._ Will you hear me, Roderigo?

_Rod._ Faith, I have heard too much; for your words[6505][6506]
and performances are no kin together.[6506][6507]

_Iago._ You charge me most unjustly. 185

_Rod._ With nought but truth. I have wasted myself[6508]
out of my means. The jewels you have had from me to[6509]
deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votarist:[6510]
you have told me she hath received them and returned[6511]
me expectations and comforts of sudden respect[6512] 190
and acquaintance; but I find none.[6513]

_Iago._ Well; go to; very well.[6514]

_Rod._ Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis[6515]
not very well: by this hand, I say 'tis very scurvy, and[6516]
begin to find myself fopped in it.[6517] 195

_Iago._ Very well.

_Rod._ I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself[6518]
known to Desdemona: if she will return me my jewels, I
will give over my suit and repent my unlawful solicitation;
if not, assure yourself I will seek satisfaction of you.[6519] 200

_Iago._ You have said now.[6520]

_Rod._ Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment[6521][6522]
of doing.[6522]

_Iago._ Why, now I see there's mettle in thee; and even
from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than[6523] 205
ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast taken
against me a most just exception; but yet, I protest, I[6524]
have dealt most directly in thy affair.[6525]

_Rod._ It hath not appeared.

_Iago._ I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your 210
suspicion is not without wit and judgement. But, Roderigo,
if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason[6526]
to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage
and valour, this night show it: if thou the next night following
enjoy not Desdemona, take me from this world[6527] 215
with treachery and devise engines for my life.

_Rod._ Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?[6528]

_Iago._ Sir, there is especial commission come from[6529][6530]
Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place.[6530]

_Rod._ Is that true? why then Othello and Desdemona[6530] 220
return again to Venice.[6530]

_Iago._ O, no; he goes into Mauritania, and takes away[6530][6531]
with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered[6530]
here by some accident: wherein none can be so determinate[6530][6532]
as the removing of Cassio.[6530] 225

_Rod._ How do you mean, removing of him?[6530][6533]

_Iago._ Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's[6530][6534]
place; knocking out his brains.[6530]

_Rod._ And that you would have me to do?[6535]

_Iago._ Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.[6536] 230
He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I go to him:[6537]
he knows not yet of his honourable fortune. If you will
watch his going thence, which I will fashion to fall out between
twelve and one, you may take him at your pleasure:
I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between 235
us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with
me; I will show you such a necessity in his death that you
shall think yourself bound to put it on him. It is now high[6538]
supper-time, and the night grows to waste: about it.[6539]

_Rod._ I will hear further reason for this. 240

_Iago._ And you shall be satisfied. [_Exeunt._[6540]

SCENE III. _Another room in the castle._

_Enter_ OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA, _and_ Attendants.[6541]

_Lod._ I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.[6542]

_Oth._ O, pardon me; 'twill do me good to walk.[6543]

_Lod._ Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.

_Des._ Your honour is most welcome.

_Oth._ Will you walk, sir?[6544]
O,--Desdemona,--[6544][6545] 5

_Des._ My lord?[6546]

_Oth._ Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned[6547][6548]
forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.[6548][6549]

_Des._ I will, my lord.

[_Exeunt Othello, Lodovico, and Attendants._[6550]

_Emil._ How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did. 10

_Des._ He says he will return incontinent:
He hath commanded me to go to bed,[6551]
And bade me to dismiss you.

_Emil._ Dismiss me![6552]

_Des._ It was his bidding; therefore, good Emilia,
Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu: 15
We must not now displease him.

_Emil._ I would you had never seen him![6553]

_Des._ So would not I: my love doth so approve him,
That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns,--[6554]
Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.[6555] 20

_Emil._ I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.[6556]

_Des._ All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds![6557]
If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me[6558]
In one of those same sheets.[6559]

_Emil._ Come, come, you talk.

_Des._ My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:[6560] 25
She was in love; and he she loved proved mad[6561][6562]
And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;'[6561][6563][6564]
An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,
And she died singing it: that song to-night
Will not go from my mind; I have much to do[6565][6566][6567] 30
But to go hang my head all at one side[6566][6568][6569]
And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.[6566][6568][6570]

_Emil._ Shall I go fetch your night-gown?[6566][6571]

_Des._ No, unpin me here.[6566]
This Lodovico is a proper man.[6566]

_Emil._ A very handsome man.[6566] 35

_Des._ He speaks well.[6566][6572]

_Emil._ I know a lady in Venice would have walked[6566]
barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.[6566][6573]

_Des._ [_Singing_] The poor soul sat sighing by a
sycamore tree,[6566][6574]
Sing all a green willow;[6566] 40
Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,[6566]
Sing willow, willow, willow:[6566]
The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;[6566]
Sing willow, willow, willow;[6566][6575]
Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;--[6566][6576] 45
Lay by these:--[6566][6577][6578]
[_Singing_] Sing willow, willow, willow;[6566][6577]
Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:--[6566][6577]
[_Singing_] Sing all a green willow must be my garland.[6566]
Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,--[6566] 50
Nay, that's not next. Hark! who is't that knocks?[6566][6579]

_Emil._ It's the wind.[6580]

_Des._ [_Singing_] I call'd my love false love; but what
said he then?[6581][6582]
Sing willow, willow, willow:[6575][6581]
If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men.[6581][6583] 55
So get thee gone; good night. Mine eyes do itch;[6584][6585]
Doth that bode weeping?[6585][6586]

_Emil._ 'Tis neither here nor there.

_Des._ I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men![6587]
Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--[6587]
That there be women do abuse their husbands[6587] 60
In such gross kind?[6587][6588]

_Emil._ There be some such, no question.

_Des._ Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?[6589]

_Emil._ Why, would not you?

_Des._ No, by this heavenly light!

_Emil._ Nor I neither by this heavenly light; I might[6590][6591]
do't as well i' the dark.[6590][6592] 65

_Des._ Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?[6593]

_Emil._ The world's a huge thing: it is a great price[6594][6595]
For a small vice.[6594]

_Des._ In troth, I think thou wouldst not.[6596]

_Emil._ In troth, I think I should; and undo 't when I[6597]
had done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a[6598] 70
joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for gowns, petticoats,[6599]
nor caps, nor any petty exhibition; but, for the whole[6600]
world,--why, who would not make her husband a cuckold to[6601]
make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for 't.[6602]

_Des._ Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong[6603][6604] 75
For the whole world.[6603]

_Emil._ Why, the wrong is but a wrong i' the world;
and having the world for your labour, 'tis a wrong in your
own world, and you might quickly make it right.

_Des._ I do not think there is any such woman. 80

_Emil._ Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as
would store the world they played for.
But I do think it is their husbands' faults[6605]
If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties[6605]
And pour our treasures into foreign laps,[6605] 85
Or else break out in peevish jealousies,[6605]
Throwing restraint upon us, or say they strike us,[6605][6606]
Or scant our former having in despite,[6605]
Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,[6605]
Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know[6605] 90
Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell[6605]
And have their palates both for sweet and sour,[6605]
As husbands have. What is it that they do[6605]
When they change us for others? Is it sport?[6605]
I think it is: and doth affection breed it?[6605] 95
I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?[6605]
It is so too: and have not we affections,[6605]
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?[6605][6607]
Then let them use us well: else let them know,[6605][6608]
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.[6605][6609] 100

_Des._ Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,[6610]
Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! [_Exeunt._

FOOTNOTES:

[6212] ACT IV. SCENE I.] Actus 4. Q₁. Actus Quartus. Scæna Prima. Ff. Actus 4. Scæna 1. Q₂ Q₃.

Cyprus. Before the castle.] The same. Capell. A Room of State. Rowe. A Court before the Palace. Theobald.

Enter....] Ff. Enter Iago and Othello. Qq.

[6213] _Iago!_] _Iago?_ Ff. _Iago._ Qq.

[6214] _Think ... private?_] As one line, S. Walker conj.

_What ... private?_] Arranged as by Capell. One line in Ff. Continued to Othello, Lettsom conj.

[6215] _kiss_] _kisse._ Qq. _kisse?_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _kiss?_ F₄.

[6216] _friend_] Qq F₁. _friends_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6217] _in bed_] Ff. _abed_ Qq.

[6218] _tempts and_] _tempts not,_ Hanmer (Warburton).

[6219] _So_] Qq. _If_ Ff.

[6220] _But if I_] _But I_ F₃ F₄.

[6221] _handkerchief--_] Rowe. _handkerchiefe._ Ff Q₂ Q₃. _handkercher._ Q₁.

[6222] _Why, then,_] om. Seymour conj.

[6223] _protectress_] _proprietor_ Hanmer. _propertied_ Warburton. _proprietress_ Capell.

_too_] _to_ Q₁.

[6224] _infected_] Qq. _infectious_ Ff.

[6225] _all_] _ill_ Pope (ed. 2).

[6226] _That's ... said_] As one line, S. Walker conj.

_What, ... wrong?_] Divided as by Dyce. One line in Qq Ff.

[6227] _If I had said_] _If I said_ Pope.

[6228] _heard_] _heare_ F₂. _hear_ F₃ F₄.

[6229] _Or_] _Or by the_ Q₁.

[6230] _Convinced_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Conuinced_ Q₁ (Dev. and Chip.) F₁. _Coniured_ Q₁ (Cap.) Q₂. _Conjured_ Q₃. _Convinc'd_ Theobald, Hanmer, and Capell.

_Convinced or_] _Convinc'd her and_ Keightley.

_supplied_] _suppled_ Theobald, Hanmer, and Capell.

_cannot_] _they cannot_ Theobald. _then cannot_ Hanmer. _straight cannot_ Capell.

[6231] _blab--_] Malone. _blab:_ Capell. _blab_. Qq F₃ F₄. _blab.)_ F₁ F₂.

[6232] _Faith_] Q₁. _Why_ The rest.

_did--I ... he did._] Qq. _did: I ... he did._ Ff. _did I know not what;--he did_. Rann (Mason conj.)

[6233] _What? what?_] Ff. _But what?_ Q₁. _What?_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6234] _Lie--_] _Lye--_ Rowe. _Lye._ Qq Ff.

_With her, on_] Qq. _With her? on_ Ff.

[6235]] _We say ... belie her_.] Omitted by Pope.

[6236] _'Zounds,_] _Zouns,_ Q₁. Omitted in the rest.

[6237] _Handkerchief_] _handkerchers_ Q₁. _handkerchiefs_ Q₂ Q₃.

_confessions_] Ff. _confession_ Qq.

_handkerchief_] _hankerchers_ Q₁. _handkerchiefs_ Q₂ Q₃. _handkerchief--handkerchief_ Theobald.

[6238] _To confess ... to confess._] Put in the margin by Pope. Omitted by Hanmer.

[6239] _To confess ... devil!_] Omitted in Q₁.

[6240] _shadowing_] _shadowy_ Becket conj. _shuddering_ Collier MS.

_passion_] Omitted by Pope, Theobald, Hanmer, and Warburton.

_instruction_] _Iustruction_ F₁. _induction_ Hanmer (Warburton). _infraction_ Becket conj.

[6241] _shakes_] _shake_ Rowe.

[6242] [Falls ... trance.] Omitted in Q₁ (Cap.) He fals downe. Q₁ (Dev. and Chip.)

[6243] _Work on ... Othello!_] Divided as in Ff. Prose in Qq.

[6244] _medicine, work!_] Theobald. _medicine, worke:_ Qq. _medicine workes._ F₁ F₂. _medicine works._ F₃ F₄.

[6245] SCENE II. Pope.

[6246] _fall'n_] _fell_ Theobald.

[6247] _his_] _the_ F₄.

[6248] _No, forbear;_] Omitted in Ff.

[6249] _his_] om. Q₃.

[6250] _stirs_] _starres_ Q₃.

[6251] [Exit Cassio.] As in Rowe. Opposite _mocke me?_ line 59, in Q₂ Q₃. Omitted in Q₁ Ff.

[6252] _head_] _hand_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6253] _thou_] om. Q₃.]

_you! no, by_] _you? no by_ Q₁ Q₂. _you not, by_ Ff. _you no by_ Q₃.

_heaven._] _heaven; I mock you not._ Capell.

[6254] _fortune_] Ff. _fortunes_ Qq.

_like_] _life_ F₂.

[6255] _it_] om. Qq.

_Good sir_] _God sir_ Q₁ (Cap.)

[6256] _every_] _ever_ Q₃.

[6257] _there's millions_] _millions are_ Pope.

[6258] _lie_] _lyes_ Q₁.

[6259] _peculiar_] _prculiar_ F₂. _peculior_ Q₃.

_case_] Qq F₁. _cause_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6260] _'tis_] _this_ Q₃. _it is_ Hanmer, ending lines 68-73 _case ... hell, ... in ... chaste ... am, ... wise ... apart._

[6261] S. Walker would read as four lines, ending _chaste!... am, ... wise; ... apart._

[6262] _let_] _let not_ Q₃.

[6263] _she_] om. Steevens conj.

[6264] _'tis_] _that's_ Capell (corrected in Errata).

_you_] _you now_ Hanmer.

[6265] _o'erwhelmed_] _ere while mad_ Q₁.

[6266] _unsuiting_] _vnsuting_ Q₁ (Dev.) _vnfitting_ Q₁ (Cap.) Q₂. _unfitting_ Q₃. _resulting_ Ff.

[6267] _laid_] _layd_ F₁. _layed_ Qq.

_'scuse upon_] _scuse upon_ Q₂ Q₃. _scuse, upon_ Q₁. _scuses upon_ F₁. _scuses on_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6268] _Bade_] _Bid_ Q₁. _Bad_ The rest.

_return_] _retire_ Qq.

_here_] _her_ Q₃.

[6269] _Do_] om. Qq.

[6270] _fleers_] _geeres_ Q₁ (Cap.) Q₂ Q₃. _Ieeres_ Q₁ (Dev.)

_gibes_] _Iibes_ Q₁ (Dev.)

[6271] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

[6272] _you are_] Qq. _y'are_ Ff.

_in spleen_] _a spleen_ Capell (Johnson conj.) _one spleen_ Lettsom conj.

[6273] _thou_] om. Capell.

[6274] _cunning_] _cunuing_ Q₁ (Cap.)

[6275] Iago.] aago. F₂.

[6276] _yet_] om. Q₃.

[Othello retires.] Othello withdraws. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[6277] _clothes_] _cloathes_ Qq. _cloath_ F₁ F₂. _cloth_ F₃ F₄.

_it is a creature_] Omitted in Q₃.

[6278] _refrain_] _refraine_ Qq. _restraine_ F₁ F₂. _restrain_ F₃ F₄.

[6279] Re-enter Cassio.] Steevens (1793). Enter Cassio. Ff. Ent. Cassio. or Enter Cas. Qq (opposite line 96). Enter Cassio, at a Distance. Capell. Transferred to follow _wrong,_ line 102, by Dyce.

[6280] SCENE III. Pope.

[6281] _construe_] Rowe. _conster_ Qq. _conserve_ Ff.

[6282] _Poor_] _Our_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

_behaviour_] Qq. _behaviours_ Ff.

[6283] _now_] Qq. om. Ff.

[6284] _worser_] _worse_ Q₃.

_give_ Qq F₁. _gave_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6285] [Speaking lower. Rowe.

_power_] Qq. _dowre_ Ff.

[6286] _caitiff_] _caitiffe_ Ff. _cative_ Qq.

[6287] Marked as 'Aside' by Theobald.

[6288] _a woman_] Qq. _woman_ Ff.

[6289] _i' faith_] _ifaith_ Q₁. _indeed_ The rest.

[6290] _it_] om. Pope.

[6291] _importunes_] _in portunes_ Q₃.

[6292] _o'er_] _on_ Q₁ Q₂, reading _Now ... on_ as one line. _out_ Q₃, dividing as Q₁ Q₂.

_well said, well said._] Ff. _well said._ Qq.

[6293] _you ... you_] Qq. _ye ... you_ Ff.

_triumph,_] _triumph o'er me,_ Collier MS.

_Roman_] _rogue_ Warburton.

[6294] _I ... ha!_] Prose first in Pope. Two lines, the first ending _wit,_ in Q₁. Three, ending _beare ... it ... ha,_ in Ff. Three, ending _customer; ... wit, ... ha,_ in Q₂ Q₃.

[6295] _I marry her!_] _I marry her?_ Qq. _I marry._ Ff.

_what, a customer!_] Omitted in Q₁.

_I prithee_] _I prethee_ Qq. _prythee_ F₁ F₂. _prethee_ F₃. _prithee_ F₄.

[6296] _So, so, so, so:_] _So, so:_ F₃ F₄.

_they_] om. Q₁.

_win_] F₄. _wins_ Q₁ Q₂. _wines_ Q₃. _winnes_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[6297] _Faith_] Q₁. _Why_ The rest.

_that_] om. Q₁.

_shall_] Qq F₃ F₄. om. F₁ F₂.

[6298] _very_] om. Hanmer.

[6299] _Have ... me?_] Erased in Collier MS.

_Have_] Ff. _Ha_ Qq.

_scored me? Well._] _scoar'd me? Well._ F₁ Q₂ Q₃. _stor'd me well._ Q₁. _scoar'd me; Well._ F₂ F₃ F₄. _coxed me? Well._ Jackson conj.

[6300] _This ... promise._] Prose in Qq. Three lines, ending _out: ... her ... promise,_ in Ff.

[6301] _beckons_] Qq F₃ F₄. _becomes_ F₁. _becons_ F₂.

[6302] _the other_] Ff. _tother_ Qq.

[6303] _the_] Ff. _this_ Qq.

[6304] _and, by this hand, she falls me thus_] Collier. _by this hand she fals thus_ Q₁. _and falls me thus_ Ff. _fals me thus_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6305] _neck--_] Rowe. A full stop in Qq Ff.

[6306] _gesture_] _iesture_ Q₁ F₁.

[6307] _So ... ha!_] Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[6308] _lolls_] _iolls_ Q₂. _jolls_ Q₃.

_hales_ Q₁ Q₂. _hals_ Q₃. _shakes_ Ff.

[6309] _Now ... to._] Prose in Ff. Two lines in Qq.

[6310] _O_] om. Qq.

_not_] Qq F₁. _now_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6311] _throw it_] Ff. _throw't_ Qq.

[6312] _Before ... comes_] Continued to Cassio in Q₂ Q₃.

[6313] SCENE IV. Pope.

_'Tis ... one._] Continued to 'Iago' in Q₁.

_fitchew_] _ficho_ Q₁.

Enter Bianca.] As in Dyce. After line 141 in Qq. After line 142 in Ff.

[6314] _handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.

[6315] _the work_] _the whole worke_ Q₁.

[6316] _not know_] Qq. _know not_ Ff.

[6317] _your_] Ff. _the_ Qq.

[6318] [Casting it to him. Collier (Collier MS.)

[6319] _How ... now!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[6320] _An_] Qq. _If_ Ff.

_an_] Qq. _if_ Ff.

[6321] _Faith_] Q₁. The rest omit.

_i' the_] Qq. _in the_ Ff.

_street_] Q₂ Q₃. _streete_ Q₁. _streets_ Ff.

[6322] _Will ... there?_] _You sup there._ Q₂ Q₃.

[6323] _Faith_] Q₁. _Yes_ The rest.

[6324] _to; say_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _to, say_ Q₁. _too: say_ F₁. _to say_ Q₂ Q₃.

[Exit Cassio.] Qq. Exit. Ff.

[6325] SCENE V. Manent Othello and Jago. Pope.

[Advancing] Coming hastily from his Concealment. Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[6326] _Iago_] _Iaga_ Q₂.

[6327] Iago. _Yours ..._ Oth.] Omitted in Qq.

[6328] _I would ... woman!_] Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[6329] _that._] Ff. _that_ Q₂ Q₃. om. Q₁.

[6330] _Ay,_] _I,_ Ff. _And_ Qq.

[6331] _stone_] _a stone_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6332] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

[6333] _but_] _not_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6334] _and_ Qq F₁. _a_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6335] _invention:--_] Dyce. _invention!--_ Rowe. _invention._ Qq. _invention?_ Ff.

[6336] _O,_] om. Qq.

[6337] _O ... condition!_] Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[6338] _thousand thousand_] Qq. _thousand, a thousand_ Ff.

[6339] _a condition_] _condition_ Pope.

[6340] _Nay,_] _I_ Q₁.

_Nay ... certain:_] A separate line in Ff.

[6341] _O Iago ... Iago!_] _the pitty._ Q₁. _oh the pitty._ Q₂ Q₃.

[6342] _are_] Ff. _be_ Qq.

[6343] _touch_] Ff. _touches_ Qq.

[6344] _night. I'll_] _night I'le_ Q₁. _night Ile_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6345] _beauty_] _her beauty_ F₃ F₄.

[6346] _her in_] _here in_ Q₃.

[6347] _even_] _Even in_ Pope, reading as verse.

[6348] _Good, good:_] In a separate line in Ff.

_pleases: very_] Ff. _pleases, very_ Q₂ Q₃. _pleases very_ Q₁.

[6349] _And ... midnight._] Prose in Qq. Two lines in Ff.

[6350] _Excellent ... same?_] One line in Ff. Two in Qq.

[A trumpet within.] As in Dyce. A Trumpet. Qq, after _midnight_, line 205. Omitted in Ff.

[6351] _Something ... him._] As in Qq. See note (VIII).

[6352] _Venice, sure. 'Tis_] Theobald. _Venice sure, tis_ Q₁. _Venice sure; tis_ Q₂. _Venice sure 'tis_ Q₃.

[6353] Enter ...] As in Theobald. After line 205 in Qq Ff.

[6354] _God save the_] Q₁. _Save you_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Save you,_ F₃ F₄.

_sir_] om. Seymour conj., reading with Q₁.

[6355] _senators_] Qq. _the senators_ Ff.

[Gives ... letter.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[6356] _pleasures_] _good pleasures_ Hanmer.

[Opens ...] opens, and peruses it Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[6357] _I ... Cyprus._] Divided as in Ff Q₂ Q₃. One line in Q₁.

[6358] _very_] om. Capell.

[6359] _you_] _you, sir_ Capell.

[6360] _lord?_] Ff. _lord._ Qq.

[6361] [Reads] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[6362] _'twixt my_] _betweene thy_ Q₁.

[6363] _atone_] _attune_ Becket conj.

[6364] _By my troth_] Q₁. _Trust me_ The rest.

_I am_] _I'm_ Steevens (1793).

[6365] _you mad._] _you--glad._ Anon. conj.

_Why_] Ff. _How_ Qq.

_Othello?_] Qq Ff. _Othello,--_ Dyce.

[6366] [Striking her.] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[6367] _woman's_] _womens_ Qq.

[6368] [Going.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[6369] _an_] Qq. om. Ff.

[6370] _she's_] _she is_ Q₃.

[6371] _tears._] _tears?_ Warner conj.

[6372] _home_] _here_ Q₁.

[6373] [He strikes her. Anon. MS. See note (IV).

[Exit Des.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[6374] _Goats and monkeys_] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.

[6375] SCENE VII. Manent Lodovico and Jago. Pope.

[6376] _This the nature_] Pope. _This the noble nature_ Qq. _Is this the nature_ Ff.

[6377] _Whom_] _Which_ Pope.

[6378] _accident_] _accidents_ Jennens.

_nor_] _or_ Hanmer.

_chance_] _change_ Theobald.

[6379] _graze_] _raze_ Theobald (Warburton).

[6380] _light of_] Qq F₁. _of light_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6381] _that_] _what_ Pope.

_breathe_] Q₁ F₃ F₄. _breath_ The rest.

[6382] _censure What_] Jennens. _censure, What_ Qq. _censure. What_ Ff.

[6383] _if what_] _if as_ Q₁.

[6384] _Is it_] _It is_ Q₃.

[6385] _this_] Qq. _his_ Ff.

[6386] _him_] om. Q₂ Q₃.

[6387] _after_] _after him_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6388] _I am sorry_] _I'm sorry_ Pope.

_that I am_] _that I was_ Hanmer.

[6389] SCENE II.] SCENE VIII. Pope.

A room in the castle.] Malone. An Apartment in the Palace. Theobald.

[6390] _You ... seen_] As two lines, the first ending _heard_, S. Walker conj.

[6391] _then?_] Ff. _then._ Qq.

[6392] _Yes,_] Ff. _Yes, and_ Qq.

_she_] Qq Ff. _her_ Pope.

[6393] _them_] Ff. _'em_ Qq.

[6394] _Nor_] _Never_ Q₃.

[6395] _Never._] _Never, my lord._ Keightley, reading _Nor ... lord_ as one line.

[6396] _her gloves, her mask_] Ff. _her mask, her gloves_ Qq.

_nothing?_] Q₁ Ff. _nothing_ Q₂. _nothing,_ Q₃.

[6397] _have_] F₁ F₂. _ha_ Qq. _hath_ F₃ F₄.

[6398] _heaven_] _heavens_ Q₁.

_requite_] Q₁ F₂ F₃ F₄. _requit_ F₁. _require_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6399] _their wives_] _her sex_ Q₁.

[6400] [Exit ...] Exit Æmilia. Ff. Exit Emillia. Qq (after _slander_).

[6401] _whore_] _one_ Hanmer.

[6402] _closet_] _closet,_ Qq.

[6403] _I have_] Ff. _I ha_ Qq. _I've_ Pope.

Enter Desdemona with ...] Enter Desdemona and ... Qq Ff. Re-enter Emilia with Desdemona. Capell.

[6404] SCENE IX. Pope.

_Pray_] Qq. _Pray you_ Ff.

[6405] _Let ... face._] Divided as in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.

[6406] [To Emilia] Hanmer.

[6407] _nay_] _May_ F₁.

[Exit Emilia.] Omitted in Q₂ Q₃.

[6408] _knees_] Qq. _knee_ Ff.

_doth_] Ff. _does_ Qq.

[6409] _But not the words_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. _But not your words_ Pope.

[6410] _But ... thyself;_] Two lines, the first ending _lord;_ in Capell. Three, ending _words ... true ... thyself;_ in Steevens (1793).

[6411] _Come ... honest._] Arranged as in Qq. Prose in Ff. Three lines, ending _one ... thee ... honest,_ in Rowe.

[6412] _Lest_] Q₂ Q₃. _Least_ Q₁. _least_ F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄ and Rowe.

[6413] _seize_] F₄. _cease_ Qq. _ceaze_ F₁ F₂. _ceise_ F₃.

[6414] _Heaven ... hell._] As in Qq Ff. Rowe divides the line at _knows_.

[6415] _To ... false?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[6416] _O Desdemona_] Qq. _Ah Desdemon_ Ff. _Ah, Desdemona_ Theobald.

[6417] _heavy_] _heavenly_ Q₃.

[6418] _motive_] _occasion_ Qq.

_these_] Ff. _those_ Qq.

[6419] _haply_ Qq. _happely_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _happily_ F₄.

[6420] _you have_] _you've_ Pope.

[6421] _lost ... lost_] _left ... left_ Q₁.

[6422] _Why_] Qq. om. Ff.

_heaven_] _heavens_ Johnson. _God_ Anon. conj.

[6423] _they_] Ff. _he_ Qq. _it_ Hanmer.

_rain'd_] _ram'd_ Q₁.

[6424] _kinds_] Q₃. _kindes_ Q₁ Q₂. _kind_ Ff.

_bare head_] Qq F₄. _bare-head_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[6425] _Given_] _Give_ Q₃.

_utmost_] Ff. om. Qq.

[6426] _place_] Ff. _part_ Qq.

[6427] _drop_] _prop_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

[6428] _A ... at!_] See note (IX).

[6429] _fountain_] _foundation_ Q₃.

[6430] _cistern_] F₄. _cesterne_ Qq F₁ F₂. _cestern_ F₃.

_toads_] _taodes_ Q₃.

[6431] _Turn ..._ Des. _I hope_] _Turn thee, complexion, there, Ay, there ... hell._ Des. _Patience ... cherubim--I hope_ Becket conj.

[6432] _there_] _thence_ Warburton.

[6433] _thou_] Ff. _thy_ Qq.

[6434] _Ay, there,_] Capell. _Ay, there_ Theobald. _I here_ Qq F₃ F₄. _I heere_ F₁ F₂. _There, there_ Hanmer. _Ay, here,_ Johnson.

[6435] _noble_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6436] _summer flies_] _sommer flyes_ F₁ F₂. _sommer flies_ F₃. _summer-flies_ F₄. _summers flies_ Qq.

_shambles_] _shamples_ Q₃.

[6437] _That ... born!_] Divided as in Capell. Four lines, ending _blowing: ... faire?... thee, ... borne_ in Qq. Four, ending _weed: ... sweete, ... thee, ... borne,_ in Ff.

[6438] _thou_] Ff. _thou blacke_ Q₁. _thou black_ Q₂ Q₃. _thou bale_ Warburton. _thou base_ Heath conj.

[6439] _Who_] Ff. _why_ Qq.

_and_] Ff. _Thou_ Qq.

[6440] _aches_] _akes_ Qq F₁. _askes_ F₂. _asks_ F₃ F₄.

_ne'er_] _ne're_ Qq. _never_ Ff.

[6441] _upon_] _on_ Q₁.

_What_] _What,_ Q₁. _What, what_ Theobald. _What sin_ Keightley.

[6442] _Committed ... committed!_] Omitted in Q₁.

[6443] _my_] _thy_ Grant White conj.

[6444] _Did_] _Should_ Capell (corrected in Errata).

_I but_] _but I_ F₃ F₄.

_deeds_] _deed_ Jennens.

_What_] _What, what_ Theobald. _What sin_ Keightley.

[6445] _hollow_] _hallow_ Q₁.

[6446] _hear it_] Steevens. _hear't_ Qq Ff. _hear of it_ Keightley.

_What committed!_] _Committed?_ Hanmer, reading _And ... strumpet!_ as one line. _Committed! what, committed!_ Capell. _Committed! what!_ Seymour conj. _What sin committed!_ Keightley.

[6447] _Imprudent strumpet!_] As in Capell. At end of line 81 in Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[6448] _other_] _hated_ Q₁.

[6449] _forgive us_] _forgivenesse_ Q₁.

_then_] om. Q₁.

[6450] [Raising....] Edd. (Globe ed.) om. Qq Ff.

SCENE X. Pope.

_You, mistress,_] _Come you, mistress,_ Hanmer. _You, mistress, there!_ Capell.

[6451] _keep_] Rowe. _keepes_ Qq F₁ F₂. _keeps_ F₃ F₄.

_gate of_] Ff. _gates in_ Qq.

Re-enter....] As in Dyce. Enter Emillia. After line 87 in Q₁; after line 90 in Q₂ Q₃. Enter Æmilia. Ff (after line 91). After _Othello_ in Pope.

_You, you, ay, you!_] _I, you, you, you;_ Q₁.

[6452] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.

[6453] _Good madam_] Arranged as in Qq. In a separate line in Ff.

[6454] _who?_] _whom?_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _whom, Æmilia?_ Hanmer.

[6455] _Why_] om. Capell.

[6456] Des. _Who ... lady._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6457] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.

[6458] _answer_] Q₁ Q₃. _answere_ Q₂. _answeres_ F₁ F₂. _answers_ F₃ F₄.

[6459] _Prithee,_] _Pray_ Pope.

[6460] _my wedding_] _our wedding_ Q₁.

[6461] _Here's_] _Here is_ Qq.

[6462] _very meet_] _very well_ Q₁.

[6463] _small'st_] Ff Q₂ Q₃. _smallest_ Q₁.

_on_] _of_ Pope.

_least misuse_] _greatest abuse_ Q₁. _great'st abuse_ Steevens (1773). _least misdeed_ Collier MS.

Re-enter....] Capell. Enter Iago and Emillia. Qq. Enter Iago, and Æmilia. Ff.

[6464] SCENE XI. Pope.

_What ... you?_] One line in Pope. Two in Qq Ff.

[6465] _young_] Qq. _yong_ F₁. _your_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6466] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.

[6467] _to_] _at_ Q₁.

_What's_] F₄. _What is_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃.

[6468] _As_] Qq. _That_ Ff.

_bear_] _beare_ Qq. _beare it_ F₁ F₂. _bear it_ F₃ F₄.

[6469] _says_] _sayes_ Qq. _said_ Ff.

[6470] _laid_] _layed_ Q₁ Q₂. _laied_ Q₃.

_such_] _worse_ Capell conj.

[6471] _I am sure_] _I'm sure_ Pope.

[6472] _Hath_] Ff. _Has_ Qq.

[6473] _and her friends_] _all her friends_ Q₁.

[6474] _Beshrew ... him?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[6475] _for't_] Ff. _for it_ Qq.

[6476] _Have_] Qq F₁. _Has_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_I'll_] _I'le_ Q₁. _Ile_ Q₂ Q₃. _I will_ Ff.

[6477] _there be_] _there are_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6478] _A halter ... likelihood?_] Three lines in Qq. Six in Ff.

[6479] _most villanous_] _outragious_ Q₁.

[6480] _heaven_] Qq. _heavens_ Ff

_companions_] _companion_ Hanmer.

_thou'ldst_] _shouldst_ Q₃.

[6481] _rascals_] _rascalls_ F₁. _rascall_ Qq F₂ F₃. _rascal_ F₄.

[6482] _door_] _dores_ Qq.

[6483] _them_] Ff. _him_ Qq.

[6484] _O good Iago_] Qq. _Alas Iago_ F₁ F₂. _Alass, Iago_ F₃. _Alas, Iago_ F₄.

[6485] _for_] om. Pope.

[6486] _I know ... kneel:_] One line in Ff. Two in Q₂ Q₃.

[Kneeling. Rowe.

[6487] _Here ... make me._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6488] _Either_] _Or_ Pope.

_discourse of thought_] _discursive thought_ Jackson conj.

_of thought_] Ff. _or thought_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6489] _them in_] Q₂ Q₃. _them: or_ Ff. _them on_ Rowe.

[6490] _forswear me! Unkindness_] _for sware me unkindnesse_ Q₃.

[6491] _cannot_] _can't_ Pope.

[6492] _doth_] Q₂ Q₃. _do's_ Ff.

[6493] _And ... you._] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[6494] _other,--_] _other--_ Pope. _other._ Qq Ff.

_'Tis_] _Tis_ Qq. _It is_ Ff.

_warrant_] Ff. _warrant you_ Qq.

[Trumpets within.] Trumpets. Rowe. om Qq Ff.

[6495] _summon_] Ff. _summon you_ Qq.

[6496] _The ... meat_] Knight. _The messengers of Venice staies the meate_ F₁. _The messenger of Venice staies the meate_ F₂ F₃ F₄ (_stayes the meat_ F₃ F₄). _And the great messengers of Venice stay_ Q₁. _The meate, great messengers of Venice stay_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6497] _well_] _will_ Q₃.

[Exeunt....] Ff. Exit women. Qq.

[6498] SCENE XII. Pope.

[6499] _I ... me._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[6500] _daffest_] _daff'st_ Collier. _dofftst_ Qq. _dafts_ F₁. _dofts_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _doffest_ Q (1695).

_device_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _devise_ Qq F₁.

[6501] _Every ... suffered._] Prose in Ff Q₂ Q₃. Six lines in Q₁.

[6502] _me now,_] _me, thou_ Q₁.

[6503] _than_] _then_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. _thou_ F₄. _that_ Warburton.

[6504] _advantage of hope_] _hope of advantage_ Collier conj.

[6505] _Faith_] Q₁. _Sir_ Q₂ Q₃. om. Ff.

_for_] Qq. _and_ Ff. See note (X).

[6506] Prose in Ff. Two lines in Q₁. Three in Q₂ Q₃.

[6507] _performances_] Ff. _performance_ Qq.

[6508] _With ... truth._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6509] _my_] Ff. om. Qq.

[6510] _to_] Qq. om. Ff.

[6511] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

_them_] Ff. _em_ Qq.

[6512] _expectations_] Ff. _expectation_ Qq.

_comforts_] _comforst_ Q₃.

[6513] _acquaintance_] Ff Q₂. _acquittance_ Q₁. _acquintance_ Q₃.

[6514] _very well_] _very good_ Q₁.

[6515] _nor 'tis_] _it is_ Q₁.

[6516] _by ... scurvy_] Q₁. _Nay I think it is scurvy_ Ff. _I say t' is very scurvy_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6517] _fopped_] _fopt_ Qq Ff. _fob'd_ Rowe.

[6518] _I tell you 'tis_] Ff. _I say it is_ Qq.

[6519] _I will_] Ff. _I'le_ Q₁. _Ile_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6520] _now._] _now_? Anon. conj.

[6521] _and said_] _and I have said_ Q₁.

[6522] _intendment_] Ff. _entendment_ Qq.

[6523] _instant_] _time_ Q₁.

_build_] _I build_ Rowe.

[6524] _exception_] Ff. _conception_ Qq.

_but yet_] _but_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[6525] _affair_] _affaires_ Q₁.

[6526] _in thee_] Ff. _within thee_ Qq.

[6527] _enjoy_] Ff. _enjoyest_ Qq.

[6528] _what is it?_] Ff. Omitted in Qq.

[6529] _especial_] _a special_ Malone conj.

_commission_] _command_ Q₁.

[6530] _Sir ... brains._] Prose in Ff. Eleven irregular lines in Qq.

[6531] _takes_] Qq. _taketh_ Ff.

[6532] _wherein_] _whereof_ Capell conj.

[6533] _of_] Qq. om. Ff.

[6534] _by making_] _making_ Capell conj.

_uncapable_] _incapable_ Hanmer.

[6535] _do?_] Pope. _doe._ Q₁ F₁ Q₂ F₂. _doe_ Q₃. _do._ F₃ F₄.

[6536] _if_] Ff. _and if_ Qq.

_a right_] Ff. _right_ Qq.

[6537] _harlotry_] _harlot_ Q₁.

[6538] _high_] _nigh_ Mason conj.

[6539] _waste_] F₃. _wast_ The rest. _waist_ Malone conj.

[6540] [Exeunt.] Ff Q₂ Q₃. Ex. Iag. and Rod. Q₁.

[6541] SCENE III.] SCENE XIII. Pope.

Another room....] Malone. A Room.... Capell.

Enter....] Ff. Enter ... Desdemona, Lodovico,.... After _about it,_ line 239 of previous scene, in Q₁. Enter ... Desdemona, Lodovico.... Q₂ Q₃.

[6542] _I do beseech_] _'Beseech_ Capell.

[6543] _me_] om. F₃ F₄.

_'twill_] _it shall_ Qq.

[6544] _Will ... Desdemona,--_] As in Capell. One line in Qq Ff.

[6545] _O,--_] Capell. _O_ Qq. _Oh_ Ff.

_Desdemona,--_] Capell. _Desdemona._ Qq Ff.

[Stepping back. Capell.

[6546] _lord?_] Capell. _lord._ Qq. Ff. _lord!_ Hanmer.

[6547] _on the_] _on th'_ Ff. _o' the_ Qq.

[6548] _returned forthwith:_] _return'd forthwith:_ Ff. _return'd, forthwith,_ Q₁. _return'd, forthwith_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6549] _dismiss_] _dispatch_ Qq.

_look it_] _look't_ Ff.

[6550] [Exeunt....] Capell. Exeunt. Qq (after _done,_ line 8). Exit Ff (after _done,_ line 8). Ex. Lod. &c. Hanmer (after line 5).

[6551] _He hath_] Qq. _And hath_ Ff.

[6552] _bade_] Q₂ Q₃. _bad_ Q₁. _bid_ Ff.

_Dismiss_] _To dismiss_ Keightley.

[6553] _I would_] Q₁ F₂ F₃ F₄. _I, would_ F₁. _Would_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6554] _checks_] _cheeks_ Jennens.

_his frowns_] _and frownes_ Qq.

[6555] _grace ... them._] _a grace and favour._ S. Walker conj.

_in them_] om. Ff.

[6556] _laid_] _laied_ Q₁ Q₂.

_those_] _these_ Q₁.

_bade_] Q₁. _bad_ The rest.

[6557] _one. Good faith,_] _one.--Good faith,_ Dyce. _one good faith:_ Q₁. _one, good father;_ Q₂ Q₃. _one: good Father,_ Ff.

[6558] _thee_] om. F₁.

[6559] _those_] Qq. _these_ Ff.

[6560] _Barbara_] _Barbary_ Qq. _Barbarie_ F₁.

[6561] _and ... her:_] _and he, she lov'd, forsook her, And she prov'd mad_ Warburton.

[6562] _mad_] _bad_ Capell (Theobald conj.) _man_ Jackson conj. _false_ Keightley.

[6563] _had_] _has_ Q₁.

[6564] _willow_] _willough_ F₁ F₂.

[6565] _Will ... do_] One line in Ff. Two in Q₂ Q₃.

[6566] _I have ... next._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6567] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

_to do_] _ado_ Pope.

[6568] _But ... dispatch._] Prose in Q₂ Q₃.

[6569] _But_] _Not_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.)

_at one_] _on one_ Hanmer. _o' one_ Capell.

[6570] _Barbara_] _Brabarie_ F₁. _Barbary_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6571] _go_] om. Capell.

[6572] _He speaks_] _And he speaks_ Capell.

[6573] _barefoot_] _barefooted_ Q₂ and Q (1695).

_for_] _fore_ Q₃.

_nether_] _neither_ Qq F₂.

[going on with her undressing. Capell.

[6574] Des. [Singing] Desdemona sings. Qq. Des. Ff.

_sighing_] Q₂. _singing_ Ff. _singhing_ Q₃. _sining_ F₁ (Devonshire copy).

[6575] _willow, willow, willow_] Q₂ Q₃. _willough, &c._ F₁ F₂ F₃. _willow, &c._ F₄.

[6576] _Her salt_] _The salt_ Capell.

_and_] Ff. _which_ Qq.

[6577] See note (XI).

[6578] [giving her her Jewels. Capell.

[6579] _Hark!_] _Hark! hark!_ Capell.

_who is't that_] Ff. _who's that_ Qq.

[6580] _It's_] Ff (_its_ F₂). _It is_ Q₁. _T'is_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6581] _I ... men_] Omitted in Q₁.

[6582] [Singing] om. Qq Ff.

_false love_] _false_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6583] _moe women_] _mo women_ F₁ Q₂ F₂ Q₃. _no women_ F₃ F₄. _more women_ Rowe.

_couch_] _touch_ Upton conj.

_moe men_] _mo men_ Ff Q₂ Q₃. _more men_ Rowe.

[6584] _So_] _Now_ Q₁.

[6585] _Mine ... weeping?_] As in Ff Q₂ Q₃. One line in Q₁.

[6586] _Doth_] Ff. _does_ Q₁. _Does_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6587] Des. _I have ... question._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6588] _kind_] _kindes_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6589] _deed_] _thing_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6590] _Nor ... dark._] Prose by Hanmer. Two lines, the first ending _light_, in Qq Ff.

[6591] _Nor_] _No, nor_ Capell, reading as verse.

[6592] _do 't as well i'_] _doe it as well in_ Q₁. _as well doe it in_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6593] _Wouldst_] _Would_ Q₁.

_deed_] _thing_ Q₁.

[6594] _The ... vice._] Divided as in Qq. The first line ends _thing_: in Ff. Prose in Hanmer. Dyce (ed. 2) prints _it ... vice_ as a couplet.

[6595] _world's ... it is_] _world is ... it is_ Qq. _world is ... 'tis_ Steevens.

[6596] _In troth_] _Good troth_ Q₁.

[6597] _In troth_] _By my troth_ Q₁.

_undo 't_] _unswear 't_ Hanmer.

[6598] _done_] _done it_ Qq.

[6599] _nor for measures_] _or for measures_ Qq.

_petticoats_] _or petticotes_ Q₁.

[6600] _nor caps_] Q₁ Ff. _or caps_ Q₂ Q₃.

_petty_] _such_ Q₁.

_the whole_] Qq. _all the whole_ Ff.

_world,--_] Capell. _world?_ Q₁. _world:_ The rest.

[6601] _why,_] _vds pitty,_ Q₁.

[6602] _for 't_] Ff. _for it_ Qq.

[6603] _Beshrew ... world._] Divided as in Qq Ff. Prose in Jennens.

[6604] _a wrong_] _wrong_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6605] _But ... so._] Omitted in Q₁.

[6606] _upon_] _on_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[6607] _sport_] _sports_ Warburton.

[6608] _them ... them_] Ff. _em ... em_ Q₂ Q₃.

[6609] _The ills_] _The ill_ Q₃.

_so_] F₁ Q₂ Q₃. _to._ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[6610] _Good ... send,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_heaven_] _God_ Q₁.

_uses_] _usage_ Q₁.