...to undo, to ruin, to destroy. See Midsummer Kig/ifs Dream, aft v. line 374. and note. STEEVENS. 140. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul Let me not name it ] The abruptness of this soliloquy makes it obscure. The meaning, I think, is this : " I am here (says...

...[Exeunt. s Undoes. SCENE II. A Bedchamber: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. A Light burning. Enter OTHELLO. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let...it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of her's than snow, And smooth as monumental...

...or fordoes me quite.] To fordo is to undo, to rain, to destroy. STEEVENS. ACT V. SCENE II. Line 165. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it — ] The abruptness of this soliloquy makes it obscure. The meaning, I think, is this : — I am here...

...fordoes me quite. SCENE II. A BEDCHAMBER: DESDEMONA IN BED ASLEEP. A LIGHT BURNING. Enter Othello. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let...it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental...

...the reading of the folio, gentlemen, to that of the quarto, gentlewoman. P. 724.— 619.— 628. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars I—- It is the cause. I think Dr. Johnson has misapprehended the meaning of this passage, which is...

...quite.8 [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Bedchamber: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. A Light burning. Enter OTHELLO. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it9 to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that...

...quite.8 [Exeunt. SCENE II. A Bedchamber: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. A Light burning. Enter OTHELLO. Oth. It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul, — Let me not name it9 to you, you chaste stars! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter...

...to do justice? Is it the dread of shedding "blood? No ; it is not the action that shocks me, " but it is the cause, it is the cause, my soul; let me not " name it to you, ye chaste stars! it w the cause." JOHNSON. Othello, full of horror at the cruel action which he is...

...resolution to do justice ? Is it the dread of shedding blood ? No ; it is not the action that shocks me, but it is the cause, it is the cause, my soul ; let me not name it to you, ye chaste stars! it is the cause." — Mr. Steevens adds, that " Othello full of horror at the cruel...

...II. — A Bed-chamber: DESDEMONA in bed asleep. A light burning. SCENE II. THE MOOR OF VENICE. . 117 Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. — Yet I'll not shed her blood ; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental...