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Let it be hid-Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you. - To you, lord governor,

Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture, -O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate. [Exeunt.

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VOLUME XX.

NOTES TO OTHELLO,

THE MOOR OF VENICE.

.. The story is taken from Cynthio's Novels.

POPE.

I have not hitherto met with any translation of this novel (the seventh in the third decad) of $0 early a date as the age of hakspeare; but undoubtedly many of those little pamphlets have perished between his time and ours.

It is highly probable that our author met with the name, of Othello in some tale that has escaped our researches ; as I likewise find it in God's Revenge against Adultery, standing in one of his arguments as follows: "She marries Othello, an old German soldier." This History (the eighth) is professed to be an Italian one. Here also occurs the name of Iago.

It may indeed be urged that these names were adopted from the tragedy before us: but I trust that every reader who is conversant with the pecn-^ liar style and method in which the work of honest John Reynolds is composed, will acquit him of the slightest familiarity with the scenes of Shakspeare.

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