This is thy work: the object poisons sight;- For they succeed on you.-To you, lord governor, [Exeunt. BY SAM. JOHNSON & GEO. STEEVENS, AND THE VARIOUS COMMENTATORS UPON OTHELLO, WRITTEN BY WILL. SHAKSPERE. -SIC ITUR AD ASTRA. VIRG. LONDON: Printed for, and under the Direction of, JOHN BELL, British-Library, STRAND, Bookseller to His Royal Highness the PRINCE OF WALES. MDCC LXXXVII. ACT I. Line 1. NEVER tell me,] The quartos read, Tusk, never tell, &c. STEEVENS. 4. But you'll not, &c.] The first quarto reads, Sblood but you, &c. STEEVENS 9. Oft capp'd to him ;-] Thus the quarto. The folio reads, Off-capp'd to him. STEEVENS. Off-capp'd is, I believe, the true reading. So, in Antony and Cleopatra. "I have ever held my cap off to thy fortunes.." MALONE. To cap is to salute, by taking off the cap. It is still an academick phrase. MONCK MASON. 15. certes,] i. e. certainly, obsolete. STEEVENS. 19. One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, a fllow almost damn'd in a fair wife ;] This is one of the passages which must for the present be resigned to corruption |