III.iv.26 (457,5) cruzadoes] [A Portugueze coin, in value three shillings sterling. Dr. GREY.] So called from the cross stamped upon it. III.iv.46 (458,6) The hearts, of old, gave hands] [Warburton explains this is an allusion to James the First's practice of creating baronets for money and emends to "The hands of old gave hearts"] The historical observation is very judicious and acute, but of the emendation there is no need. She says, that her hand gave away _her heart_. He goes on with his suspicion, and the hand which he had before called _frank_, he now terms _liberal_; then proceeds to remark, that _the hand was formerly given by the heart_; but now it neither gives it, nor is given by it. III.iv.51 (459,7) salt and sullen rheum]--_salt and_ sorry rheum] The old quarto has, --_salt and_ sullen _rheum_--- That is, a _rheum obstinately troublesome_. I think this better. III.iv.70 (459,8) A Sybil, that had numbred in the world The sun to course two hundred compasses] The expression is not very infrequent; we say, _I counted the clock to strike four_; so she _number'd_ the sun _to course_, to run _two hundred compasses_, two hundred annual circuits. III.iv.79 (460,1) Why do you speak so startingly, and rash?] Is _vehement, violent_. III.iv.103 (461,2) 'Tis not a year, or two, shews us a man] From this line it may be conjectured, that the author intended the action of the play to be considered as longer than is marked by any note of time. Since their arrival at Cyprus, to which they were hurried on their wedding-night, the fable seems to have been in one continual progress, nor can I see any vacuity into which a _year or two_, or even a month or two, could be put. On the night of Othello's arrival, a feast was proclaimed; at that feast Cassio was degraded, and immediately applies to Desdemona to get him restored. Iago indeed advises Othello to hold him off a while, but there is no reason to think, that he has been held off long. A little longer interval would increase the probability of the story, though it might violate the rules of the drama. See Act. 5. Sc. 2. (see 1765, VIII, 416, 1) III.iv.113 (461,3) the duty of my heart] --_the office _of my heart_.] The elder quarto reads, --_the_ duty _of my heart_. The author used the more proper word, and then changed it, I suppose, for fashionable diction; but, as fashion is a very weak protectress, the old word is now ready to resume its place. III.iv.119 (462,4) But to know so, must be my benefit] "Si nequeo placidas affari Caesaris aures, "Saltem aliquis veniat, qui mihi dicat, abi." III.iv.125 (462,7) in favour] In _look_, in _countenance_. III.iv.128 (462,8) within the blank of his displeasure] Within the _shot_ of his anger. III.iv.141 (463,9) some unhatch'd practice] Some treason that has not taken effect. III.iv.146 (463,1) for let our finger ach, And it endues our other healthful members Even to that sense of pain]