Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,
Which, when I know that Boafting is an honour,
I fhall promulgate, I fetch my Life and Being
From men of royal fiege; and my demerits
May speak, and bonnetted, to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reach'd. For know, Iago,
But that I love the gentle Defdemona,

2

I would not my 3 unhoufed free condition
Put into circumfcription and confine,

4 For the fea's worth. But look, what light-comes yonder?

SCENE V.

Enter Caffio, with torches.

Tago. Those are the raised father, and his friends:

You were beft go in.

Oth. Not I: I must be found.

My parts, my title and my perfect Soul
Shall manifeft me rightly. Is it they?
Iago. 5 By Janus, I think no.

lieutenant.

Oth. The Servants of the Duke, and my
-The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
What is the news?

Caf. The Duke does greet you, General,

And he requires your hafte, post-hafte, appearance, Ev'n on the inftant.

Oth. What is the matter, think you?

Caf. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine;
It is a bufinefs of fome heat. The Gallies
Have fent a dozen fequent meffengers
This very night, at one anothers heels:

And many of the Council, rais'd and met, Are at the Duke's already. You have been hotly call'd for,

When, being not at your lodging to be found, 7 The fenate hath fent out three feveral quefts, To search you out.

Oth. 'Tis well I am found by you.

I will but spend a word here in the house,
And go with you.

Caf. Ancient, what makes he here?

5 By Janus, I think, no.] There is great propriety in making the double lago fwear by Janus, who has two faces. The addrefs of it likewife is as remarkable, for as the people coming up appeared at different diftances to have different shapes, he might swear by Janus, without fufpicion of any other emblematical meaning.

WARBURTON. 6 And many of the Confuls rais'd and met,

Are at the Duke's already—] Thus all the editions concur in

[Exit Othello.

Iago. 'Faith, he to-night hath boarded 8 a land-carrack;

If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.
Caf. I do not understand.

Iago. He's married.

Caf. To whom?

Lago. Marry, to-Come, Captain, will you go?

Enter Othello.

Oth. Have with you.

Caf. Here comes another troop to feek for you.

SCEN E VI.

Enter Brabantio, Rodorigo, with officers and torches.

Iago. It is Brabantio: General, 9 be advis'd;

He comes to bad intent,

Oth. Holla! ftand there.
Rod. Signior, it is the Moor.
Bra. Down with him, thief!

[They draw on both fides. Jago. You, Rodorigo! come, Sir, I am for youOth. Keep up your bright fwords, for the dew will ruft 'em.

Good Signior, you shall more command with years, Than with your weapons.

Bra. O thou foul thief! where haft thou ftow'd my daughter?

Damn'd as thou art, thou haft enchanted her
For I'll refer me to all things of fenfe,

-a land-carrack,] A carrack is a fhip of great bulk, and commonly of great value; per

haps what we now call, a galleon. 9 —be advis'd;} That is, be cool; be cautious; be difcreet.

If the in chains of magick were not bound,
Whether a maid, fo tender, fair, and happy,
So oppofite to marriage, that fhe fhunn'd
'The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
Would ever have, t' incur a general mock,
Run from her guardage to the footy bofom
Of fuch a thing as thou; to fear, not to delight?
2Fudge me the world, if 'tis not grofs in fenfe,
That thou haft practis'd on her with foul charms,
3 Abus'd her delicate youth with drugs or minerals,
That weaken Notion.—I'll hav't difputed on;
'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.

rily from her father's houfe? Had he been averfe to chufing Othello, tho' he had given her medicines that took away the use of her limbs, might she not still have retain'd her fenfes, and oppos'd the marriage? Her father, 'tis evident, from feveral of his speeches, is pofitive, that the mufthave been abufed in her rational faculties; or fhe could not have made fo prepofterous a choice, as to węd with a Moor, a Black, and refuse the finest young gentlemen in Venice. What then have we to do with her motion being weaken'd? If I understand any thing of the poet's meaning here, I cannot but think, he must have

wrote;

Abus'd her delicate youth with
drugs, or minerals,
That weaken Notion.

i. e. her apprehenfion, right con-
ception and idea of things, under-
ftanding, judgment, &C. THEOB.
Hanmer reads with equal pro-
bability,

That waken motion.

I

I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
For an abufer of the world, a practicer
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.
-Lay hold upon him; if he do resist,
Subdue him at his peril.

Oth. Hold your hands,

Both you of my inclining, and the rest.
Were it my cue to fight, I fhould have known it
Without a prompter. Where will you'I go
To answer this your charge?

Bra. To prifon, 'till fit time

Of law, and courfe of direct Seffion
Call thee to answer.

Oth. What if I do obey?

How may the Duke be therewith satisfied,
Whose meffengers are here about my fide,
Upon fome prefent business of the State,
To bring me to him?

Offi. True, most worthy fignior,

The Duke's in Council; and your noble self,
I'm fure, is fent for.

Bra. How! the Duke in Council?

In this time of the night? "Bring them away;
Mine's not an idle caufe. The Duke himself,
Or any of my Brothers of the State,

Cannot but feel this wrong, as 'twere their own;
For if fuch actions may have paffage free,
Bond-flaves, and Pagans, fhall our Statesmen be.
[Exeunt.

4 Bond-flaves, and Pagans-] Mr. Theobald alters Pagans to Pageants, for this reafon, That Pagans are as ftri&t and moral all the world over, as the most regular Chriftians in the prefervation of private property. But what then?

The speaker had not this high opinion of pagan morality, as is plain from hence, that this important difcovery, fo much to the honour of paganism, was first made by our editor.

WARBURTON.

SCENE