Which I explain thus, _Does tire the_ ingenious verse. This is the best reading, and that which the author substituted in his revisal. II.i.112 (401,9) Saints in your injuries] When you have a mind to do injuries, you put on an air of sanctity. II.i.120 (402,1) I am nothing, if not critical] That is, _censorious_. II.i.137 (402,2) _She never yet was foolish_] We may read, She ne'er was yet so foolish that was fair, But even her folly help'd her to an heir. Yet I believe the common reading to be right; the lay makes the power of cohabitation a proof that a man is not a _natural_; therefore, since the foolishest woman, if _pretty_, may have a child, no _pretty woman_ is ever foolish. II.i.146 (403,3) put on the vouch of very malice itself] _To put on the vouch of malice_, is to assume a character vouched by the testimony of malice itself. II.i.165 (404,5) profane] Gross of language, of expression broad and brutal. So Brabantio, in the first act, calls Iago _profane_ wretch. II.i.165 (404,6) liberal counsellor.] _Counsellor_ seems to mean, not so much a man that _gives counsel_, us one that discourses fearlessly and volubly. A talker. II.i.177 (405,8) well kiss'd! an excellent courtesy!] [--_well kissed_, and _excellent courtesy_;--] This I think should be printed, _well kiss'd_! an _excellent courtesy_! Spoken when Cassio kisses his hand, and Desdemona courtesies. [The old quarto confirms Dr. Johnson's emendation. STEEVENS.] II.i.208 (406,1) I prattle out of fashion] Out of method, without any settled order of discourse. II.i.211 (406,2) the master] The pilot of the ship. II.i.223 (406,3) Lay thy finger thus] On thy mouth, to stop it while thou art listening to a wiser man. II.i.252 (407,5) green minds] Minds unripe, minds not yet fully formed. II.i.254 (408,6) she is full of most bless'd condition] Qualities, disposition of mind. II.i.274 (408,7) tainting his discipline] Throwing a slur upon hie discipline. II.i.279 (408,8) sudden in choler] _Sudden_, is precipitately violent. II.i.283 (408,9) whose qualification shall come into no true taste again] Whose resentment shall not be so _qualified_ or _tempered_, as to be _well tasted_, as not to retain _some bitterness_. The phrase is harsh, at least to our ears. II.i.306 (409,1) like a poisonous mineral] This is philosophical. Mineral poisons kill by corrosion. II.i.314 (411,4) I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip] A phrase from the art of wrestling. II.i.321 (411,6) Knavery's plain face is never seen] An honest man acts upon a plan, and forecasts his designs; but a knave depends upon temporary and local opportunities, and never knows his own purpose, but at the time of execution. II.iii.14 (413,8) Our general cast us] That is, _appointed us to our stations_. To _cast the play_, is, in the stile of the theatres, to assign to every actor his proper part.