Men do their broken weapons rather use,
Than their bare hands.

Bra. I pray you, hear her speak;

If fhe confefs that fhe was half the wooer,
Deftruction on my head, if my bad blame
Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress,
Do you perceive in all this noble company,
Where moft you owe obedience?

To

you I'am bound for life and education, My life and education both do learn me

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How to refpect you. • You are the lord of duty;
I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband';
And fo much duty as my mother shew'd

To you, preferring you before her father;
f So much I challenge, that I may profess
Due to the Moor my Lord.

Bra. God b'w'ye, I ha' done.

Please it your Grace, on to the ftate-affairs;
I had rather to adopt a child, than get it.
Come hither, Moor:

I here do give thee that with all my heart,

Which, but thou haft already, with all my heart I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,

I am glad at foul I have no other child;
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them. I have done,

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my Lord. Duke. Let me fpeak like yourfelf; and lay a fentence ", Which, as agrife, or step, may help these lovers P favour your

• Into

When remedies are paft, the griefs are ended

By feeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone,

Is the next way to draws new mischief on.

What cannot be preserv'd when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mockery makes.

The robb'd, that fimiles, fteals fomething from " the thief;

He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

Bra. So, let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile,
We lose it not, fo long as we can smile;

He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears
But the * free comfort which from thence he hears;

But he bears both the fentence, and the forrow,

That, to pay grief, muft of poor patience borrow.
These sentences to fugar, or to gall,

Being ftrong on both fides, are equivocal.

But words are words; I never yet did hear,

That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear.
Befeech you, now to the affairs o' th' state.

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there a fubftitute of fa fovereign mistress

Duke. The Turk with a moft mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is beft known to you; and though we have most allowed fufficiency; yet opinion, of effects, throws a more fafer voice on you; you must therefore be content to flubber the glofs of your new fortunes, with this more ftubborn and boisterous expedition.

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Oth. The tyrant cuftom, moft grave fenators, Hath made the flinty and feel' couch of war

My thrice-driven bed of down. I do agnize

y The two laft fo's, R. and P. read flate; but here the two laft fo's omit bear for bear; H. beap.

z T. and all after read pieced (i. e. cured) becaufe pierced (it feems) fignifies wounded. True, fo it does fometimes; but it is alfo ufed in a good fenfe, as here, for touching, affecting, comforting, as with mufick, the bruifed heart" the ear-piercing fife."--Piec'd is a wretched emendation; who ever talked of picing a bruise?

* Firft f. cares.

The fo's, R. P. and C. read, I bumbly beseech you proceed to th` affairs of

I.

This present war against the Ottomites.

Most humbly therefore bending to your State,
I crave fit difpofition for my wife,

Due P reference of place, and exhibition,
With fuch accommodation and befort
As levels with her breeding.

Duke. If you please, be 't at her father's.
Bra. I'll not have it fo.

Oth. Nor I.

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Def. Nor I; I would not there refide,
To put my father in impatient thoughts
By being in his eye. Moft gracious Duke,
To my unfolding lend a gracious ear,
And let me find a " charter in your voice
▾ T' affist my fimpleness.

- Duke. What would you, Desdemona?

Def. That I did love the My down-right violence and May trumpet to the world.

m Firft f. Alacartie.

n The 1ft q. would for do.

o Theift q. and ift f. read wars forsvar. P The if q. two laft fo's, R. P. and H. read reverence; 7. propofes prefe

rence.

Moor to live with him,

storm of fortunes My heart's subdu’d

t The fo's, R. and J. read profperess for gracious.

u The three laft fo's and R. read character.

w First q. And if my fimpleness—
x The 1ft q. What would you ?—

So the qu's and C; the reft, Why, speak. at her father's.

So the qu's and C; the reft, Nor w.uld I there refide, &c.

y The fo's omit did.

z The 1ft q. read fcorne for florm. W. reads, My downright violence to formi,

So the qu's and C; the reft, your my fortunes, &c. for a.

May

a Even to the very quality of my lord;
I faw Othello's vifage in his mind,

And to his honour and his valiant parts
Did I iny foul and fortunes confecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind
A moth of peace, and he go to the war,

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The rites, for which I love him, are bereft me:
And I a heavy interim fhall fupport,

By his dear abfence. Let me go with him.

Oth. Your voices, Lords: befeech you, let her will

Have a free way.

Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,

To please the palate of my appetite;

Nor to comply with heat ( the young i affects

In * me 1 defunct) and proper fatisfaction. '

But to be free and bounteous m to her mind.

And heaven defend your good fouls, that you think,

I will your ferious and

• For she is with me.

P Of feather'd Cupid

great bufinefs fcant,

No, when light-wing'd toys foil with wanton dulness

a Thrift q. Even to the utmost plea- folutely; the young affections being in

fure of, &c.

b Second q. my dear lords, &c. c W. rights for rites.

The fo's and R. why for which. e For Your voices, lords, the fo's read, Let ber bave your voice.

f The fo's omit, befeech you, let her will have a free way.

So the 2d q. the fo's and R; the

reft omit, Vouch with me, beaven.

h H. reads, affects the young.

me defunct.

k This is Upton's emendation: all the editions but C. read my for me.

1 T. and H. read diftinct for defunct. No edition but C. uses the parenthesis here.

m Theft q. of for to.
n The qu's, good for great.

The fo's, R. and P. When for For.

P The qu's, And for Of.

4 For foil the qu's read foyles; the

i Affets for affections, here taken ab- fo's and C. fecle; R. feel.