Oth. Ay. Caf Dear General, I never gave you cause, Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon. Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil, Why he hath thus infnar'd my foul and body? Iago. Demand me nothing;, what you know, you From this time forth I never will speak word. [know; Lod. What? not to pray? Gra. Torments will ope your lips, Oth Well, thou dost beft. Led Sir, you fhall understand what hath befall'n, . Which, as I think, you know not. Here's a letter, Found in the pocket of the flain Rodorigo, And here another; one of them imports By Rodorigo. Oth. Oh villain! Caf. Moft heathenish and most grofs ! Lod Now, here's another difcontented paper Found in his pocket too; and this, it feems, Rodorigo meant to have fent this damned villain; But that, belike, lago in the interim Came in and fatisfy'd him. Oth. O thou pernicious caitiff! How came you, Caffio, by that handkerchief Gaf. I found it in my chamber ; And he himself confefs'd it but even now, Oth. Oh fool, fool, fool. Caf. There is, befides, in Rodorigo's letter, How he upbraids lago that he made him Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came That I was caft; and even now he fpake, After long feeming dead, lago hurt him, lago fet him on. Lod. You must forfake this room, and go with us; Your pow'r and your command is taken off, And Caffio rules in Cyprus. For this flave, That can torment him much, and hold him long, It shall be his. You fhall close prifoner reft, 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've done the ftate fome fervice, and they know't; "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 fet down aught in malice. Then must you speak "Of one that lov'd not wifely, but too well; "Of one, not eafily jealous; but being wrought,. Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand, "Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Lod. Oh bloody period! Gra. All that is spoke, is marr'd. this, [Stabs himself, -No way but [To Defdemona. Killing myself, to die upon a kifs. For he was great of heart. [To Iago, * The oldest quarto reads Indian; and it was eafy for the e to have been changed into an i. I fuppofe Shakespeare here alludes to the well-known story of Herod and Mariamne his wife; in fome circumstances not unlike this; for both husbands violently loved, both were jealous, both were the occafion of their wives' deaths. Befides, the word tribe feems wholly to confirm this reading. And in fupport of it we may add, that, in the year 1613, the Lady Elifabeth Carew published a tragedy called Mariam, the fair Queen of Jewry. Mr. Dodd. pearl, a metaphor, for a fine woman. The dogs of Spartan race were reckoned among those of the moft fierce and favage kind. More More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea! To you, Lord Governor, Remains the cenfure of this hellifh villain : [Exeunt. A GLOSSARY, EXPLAINING the obfolete and difficult Words in SHAKESPEAR's Works. Note, That when a word is used but once, or in a fence which is fingu lar, the volume and the page in which it is to be found, are noted down, the volumes by numeral letters, and the pages by figures. And when a word is not properly English, but borrowed from a foreign language, and not familiarifed by ufe into our own; the original word in fuch foreign language is fet down. A To Aby, i. 97. to fuffer for, to pay dear for. To Accite, to call, to fummon, or fend for. Lat. Accire. To Affeer, to confirm, to ascertain. A law-term ufed in court-leets, and fignifying to confirm or fix by persons properly chofen, the mulets there imposed upon fuch as have committed faults arbitrarily punishable, and which have no exprefs penalty annexed to them by any ftatute. Fr. Affeurer. To Affie, to affiance, to betroth; alfo, to confide. To Affront, to front, or confront, or face. An Aglet, the tag of a lace, or of the points formerly used as ornaments in drefs, and which (for the greater finery) were often cut in the shape of little images. Fr. Aiguillette. To Agnize, viii. 207. to acknowledge, to avow. Agood, i. 171. much, a great deal. Lat. Agnofcere. An Aiery, the neft of an hawk, and sometimes the brood of hawks belonging to a particular nest. Aim, Cry aim, i. 211.. encourage, approve. Alder, of all. Alder-Liefeft, dearest of all. An Ancient, an enfign, or standard-bearer. Anthropophaginian, i. 241. a man-eater. Gr. Ανθρωποφάγος. Antic, ii. 31. a buffoon character in the old English farces, with a blacked face and a patch-work habit. An Antre, viii. 205. a cave or cavern. To Appeach, iii. 16. to impeach. To Appeal, to accufe. Approof, the fame as proof. Fr. Autre. Lat. Antrum. An Argofie, a fhip; from Argo, the ship of the Argonauts. Arch, chief. Aroint thee! avaunt! ftand off! begone! This word feems to come from the Latin, Dii averruncent! Afcaunce, Afcaunce, awray. An Affinego, vii. 287. an afs-driver or afs-keeper. Ital. Afinais. Ate the goddefs of mischief. Attaints, iv. 136. the fame as taints; stains, blemishes, unlawful actions, any ftrokes or touches of infection either in a natural or moral fenfe. Fr. Atteintes. To Atone, to appease, to reconcile; also, to be reconciled, to agree. B Baccalare, ii. 314. a felf-conceited pretending fpark; an arrogant. prefumptuous fellow. An Italian word. To Bain, to destroy. To Bait, a term in falconry, when the hawk spreads and claps her wings. Baldrick, a belt. Fr. Baudrier. Bale, misfortune, forrow, deadly, poisonous. Balk'd, iv. 81. floated: from the Italian verb valicare. Ban-dogs, v. 29. dogs kept in bands, tied up. To Bandy, to convafs, to difpute, to quarrel, most efpecially by retorting angry and provoking words. A metaphor taken from ftriking the balls at tennis, which is the primary sense of the word. Fr. Bander. Barbafon, iv. 260. the name of a devil or fiend. See vol. i. 209. Bafe, country-bafe, iv. 243. a sport ufed amongst country-people, Bafta, it fufficeth, it is enough. An Italian word. Baftard, i. 295. a kind of fweet-wine. Ital. Baftardo. Bated, abated, funk. A Batlet, a flat piece of wood, with which washer-women beat coarfe linen. To Batten, to feed, to pasture. Baven, brush-wood, faggot-wood. Bawcock, a coaxing term; probably from the French Bas coque. Bearns, children. Behefts or Hefts, commands. A Bergomafk-dance, i. 117. a dance after the manner of the peafants of Bergomafco, a country in Italy, belonging to the Venetians. All the buffoons in Italy affect to imitate the ridiculous jargon of that people, and from thence it became a cuftom to mimic alfo their manner of dancing. Befbrew an imprecation; as, "Befhrew my heart!" Ill betide my heart. To Befmirch or fmirch, to befmear, to foul, to dirty. Beftraught, mad, diftracted. To Beteem, i. 66. to yield. to deliver, to pour down upon. Spen. |