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This is thy work: the object poisons sight;-
Let it be hid.-Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,

For they succeed on you.-To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain; 561
The time, the place, the torture,-O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

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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.

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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.

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"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

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