But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier- 2 I thus would play and trifle with your reverence. Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,— I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes, 3 In an extravagant and wheeling stranger, Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself ;] If she be in her chamber, or your house, Let loose on me the justice of the state For thus deluding you. Bra. Strike on the tinder, ho! Give me a taper;-call up all my people. This accident is not unlike my dream; Belief of it oppresses me already. [Exit, from above. Light, I say! light! Against the Moor. For, I do know, the state- To lead their business; in which regard, I must show out a flag and sign of love, 1 i. e. done with your approbation. 2 That is, in opposition to or departing from the sense of all civility. 3 Extravagant is here again used in its Latin sense, for wandering." In is here used for on; a common substitution in ancient phraseology. 4 i. e. some rebuke. 5 That is, dismiss him. May speak, unbonneted,' to as proud a fortune I would not my unhoused, free condition yonder? But, look! what lights come Enter CASSIO, at a distance, and certain Officers with torches. Jago. These are the raised father, and his friends. You were best go in. Oth. Not I; I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they? Oth. The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant. The goodness of the night upon you, friends! What is the news? Cas. The duke does greet you, general; And he requires your haste, post-haste appearance, Even on the instant. Oth. What is the matter, think you divine; Are at the duke's already. You have been hotly called for; When, being not at your lodging to be found, 1 "I am his equal or superior in rank; and were it not so, such are my merits, that, unbonneted, without the addition of patrician or senatorial dignity, they may speak to as proud a fortune," &c. 21. e. unsettled, free from domestic cares. 3 Pliny, the naturalist, has a chapter on the riches of the sea. pression seems to have been proverbial. The ex 4 These words were ordinarily written on the covers of letters or packets requiring the most prompt and speedy conveyance; often reduplicated thus:-" Haste, haste, haste, post-haste!" 5 See note 4, p. 400. For I'll refer me to all things of sense, I therefore apprehend and do attach thee,] Oth. Hold your hands, Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Bra. go, To prison; till fit time Of law, and course of direct session, Call thee to answer. Oth. What if I do obey? How may the duke be therewith satisfied; 'Tis true, most worthy scignior, 1 It was the fashion of the Poet's time for lusty gallants to wear "a curled bush of frizzled hair." See Hall's Satires, ed. 1824, book iii. sat. 5. 2 "Of such a thing as thou; a thing to fear (i. e. terrify), not to delight." 3 The lines in crotchets are not in the first edition, 4to. 1629. 4 The old copy reads, "That weaken motion." The emendation is Hanmer's. Motion is elsewhere used by our Poet precisely in the sense required here. To waken is to incite, to stir up. The duke's in council; and your noble self, Bra. [Exeunt SCENE III. The same. A Council Chamber. The Duke, and Senators, sitting at a table; Officers attending. 2 Duke. There is no composition in these news, That gives them credit. 1 Sen. Indeed, they are disproportioned; My letters say a hundred and seven galleys. 2 Sen. And mine, two hundred. But though they jump not on a just account, (As in these cases, where the aim3 reports, 'Tis oft with difference,) yet do they all confirm A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus. Duke. Nay, it is possible enough to judgment; I do not so secure me in the error, But the main article I do approve In fearful sense. Sailor. [Within.] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho! 1 Pagan was a word of contempt; and the reason will appear from nts etymology: :-"Paganus, villanus vel inculsus; et derivatur a pagus quod est villa. Et quicunque habitat in villa est paganus. Præterea quicunque est extra civitatem Dei, i. c. ecclesiam, dicitur paganus; anglice, a paynim."-Ortus Vocabulorum, 1528. 2 Composition for consistency. News was considered of the plural number by our ancestors. 3 Aim is guess, conjecture. The quarto reads, "they aim reports." The meaning appears to be, "In these cases where conjecture tells the tale." |