"And with lascivious petulancy [she] sew'd For hymeneal dalliance, marriage _rights_." Marston, What You Will, iii. 1. Juliet might, to herself, speak of the "amorous rites," but for Desdemona to do so before the Senate of Venice! impossible. Would it not, then, be better to read _parts_? She had just said that it was "for his honours and his valiant _parts_" she loved him. * * * * * "Not to comply with heat the young affects In my defunct, and proper satisfaction;" The reading of Upton, Gifford, Singer, Dyce, etc., is "Not to comply with heat (the young affects In _me_ defunct) and proper satisfaction," and in proof of the validity of this punctuation Gifford quotes from Massinger: "And though the _youthful heats_, That look no further than your outward form, Are long since _buried in me_." Bondman, i. 3. I have no doubt that Massinger had the present passage in view, and understood it in the same way as these critics; and still there might be a printer's error in it of which he was not aware. (See on Rom. and Jul. iii. 3.) But can any one produce a single instance of Shakespeare's thus interposing a parenthesis between two substantives connected by a _copula_, or forming a sentence like that in the parenthesis? and what can be more rugged and disjointed than the whole passage as thus arranged? Would not the following not very violent corrections make the whole more Shakespearian and more harmonious? "Not to comply with heat _of_ the young affects, In my _distinct_ and proper satisfaction." 'Affects,' as Johnson rightly observed, is _passions_, not affections, and Othello styles them 'young,' either as they were new in him, and had not been gratified, or as belonging chiefly to youth. "For herself she's past These _youthful heats_." Fletch. Sea Voyage, ii. 2. '_Distinct_ and proper' means separate and peculiar. _Distinct_, the correction of 'defunct,' I regard as nearly certain. Its meaning here is separate. "Sheds stuff'd with lambs and goats, distinctly kept, Distinct the biggest, the more mean distinct, Distinct the youngest." Chapman, Odyss. ix. 34. * * * * * "He has a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected." I do not clearly see the sense of 'dispose' here, perhaps we should read _discourse_. ACT II. SC. 1. "A Veronesè, Michael Cassio." This is another instance of the poet's negligence or forgetfulness; for in the first Act he had called him a Florentine. Though the metre is perfect, it might be better to insert _nam'd_ or _one_. As in the old copies 'Veronese' is spelt _Veronessa_, Malone thought it was the ship that was so called; but that is not likely.