Foul difproportions, thoughts unnatural. Oth. Farewel, farewel; If more thou doft perceive, let me know more: Oth. Why did I marry? This honeft creature, doubtless, [Going. Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds. Iago. My Lord, I would, I might entreat your honour To fcan this thing no farther; leave it to time; 8 6 You shall by that perceive him, and his means;] You fhall difcover, whether he thinks his beft means, his moft powerful intereft, is by the folicitation of your lady. 7ftrain his entertainment] my leave. [Exit. Prefs hard his re-admiffion to his pay and office. Entertainment was the military term for admiffion of foldiers. 8 Fear not my government.] Do not distrust my ability to contain my paffion. SCENE Oth. This fellow's of exceeding honesty, Must be to loath her. Oh the curfe of marriage! 'Tis deftiny unfhunnable, like death. 4 Ev'n then, this forked plague is fated to us, 9with a learned jirit,] Learned, for experienced. WARBURTON. The conftruction is, He knows with a learned Spirit all qualities of hi man dealings. 2 If I prove her haggard,] A haggard hawk, is a wild hawk, a bawk unreclaimed, or irreclaim able. 2 Tho' that her jefes were my dear heart-firings,] Jees are fhort ftraps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk, by which the is held on the fift. HANMER. 3 I'd awhile her off, and let ber down the acind To prey at fortune.-] The falconers always let fly the hawk against the wind; if the flies with the wind behind her the feldom returns. If therefore a hawk was for any reason to be difmiffed, fhe was let down the wind, and from that time fhifted for herself, and prey'd at fortune. This was told me by the late Mr. Clark. When we do quicken. Defdemona comes! Enter Desdemona and Emilia. If the be falfe, oh, then heaven mocks itself: Def. How now, iny dear Othello? Your dinner, and the generous Inlanders, Def. Why do you speak fo faintly? Are you not well? Oth. I have a pain upon my forehead here. Def. Why, that's with watching, 'twill away again; Let me but bind it hard, within this hour It will be well. Oth. Your napkin is too little, [She drops her handkerchief. Let it alone: Come, I'll go in with you. [Exeunt. Manet Emilia. Emil. I am glad, I have found this napkin; To kifs and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out, What he'll do with it, heav'n knows, not I: I nothing know, but for his fantasy. VOL. VIII. Dd Enter f Enter Iago. Iago. How now? what do you here alone? It is a common thing Emil. Ha? Iago. To have a foolish wife. Emil. Oh, is that all? What will you give me now For that fame handkerchief? Fago. What handkerchief? Emil. What handkerchief? Why, that the Moor firft gave to Desdemona; Emil. No; but fhe let it drop by negligence; And, to th' advantage, I, being here, took 't up. Look, here 'tis. Iago. A good wench, give it me. Emil. What will you do with 't, you have been fo earneft To have me filch it? Iago. Why, what is that to you? [Snatching it. Amil. If 't be not for fome purpose of import, Give 't me again. Poor lady! fhe'll run mad When the fhall lack it. Iago. Be not you known on't: [Exit Æmil I have ufe for it. Go, leave me 5-to th' advantage, &c.] I being of fortunely here, took it up. 6 Pe not you known on't:] Should it not rather be read, Be not you known in't? The folio reads, Be not unknown on't. The fenfe is plain, but of the expreffion I cannot produce any example. The The Moor already changes with my poifons: Look, where he comes! Not Poppy, nor Mandragora, Nor all the drowsy Syrups of the world, 7 Shall ever med'cine thee to that fweet Sleep, Which thou owedft yesterday. Oth. Ha! Falfe? To me! to me! Iago. Why, how now, General? No more of that. Oth. Avant! be gone! thou'ft fet me on the rack. I swear, 'tis better to be much abus'd, Than but to know 't a little. Iago. How, my Lord? Oth. What fenfe had I of her ftoll'n hours or luft? He, that is robb'd, not wanting what is ftoll'n, Oth. I had been happy, if the general Camp, 1 Shall ever medicine thee to debt of nature. WARBURTON. that fweet fleep, Which thou HADST yesterday.] The old quarto reads, To owe is, in our authour, oftener to poffef, than to be indebted, and fuch was its meaning here; but as that fenfe was grow ing lefs ufual, it was changed unneceffarily by the editors to badft; to the fame meaning, more intelligibly expreffed. Dd2 Which thou OWEDST yesterday. And this is right, and of much greater force than the common reading; not to fleep, being finey called defrauding the day of a Pioneers |