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

the censure-] i. e. the sentence.

• The beauties of this play impress themselves so strongly upon the attention of the reader, that they can draw no aid from critical illustration. The fiery openness of Othello, magnanimous, artless, and credulous, boundless in his confidence, ardent in his affection, inflexible in his resolution, and obdurate in his revenge; the cool malignity of Iago, silent in his resentment, subtle in his designs, and studious at once of his interest and his vengeance; the soft simplicity of Desdemona, confident of merit, and conscious of innocence, her artless perseverance in her suit, and her slowness to suspect that she can be suspected, are such proofs of Shakspeare's skill in human nature, as, I suppose, it is vain to seek in any modern writer. The gradual progress which lago makes in the Moor's conviction, and the circumstances which he employs to enflame him, are so artfully natural, that, though it will perhaps not be said of him as he says of himself, that he is a man not easily jealous, yet we cannot but pity him, when at last we find him perplexed in the extreme.

There is always danger, lest wickedness, conjoined with abilities, should steal upon esteem, though it misses of approbation; but the character of Iago is so conducted, that he is from the first scene to the last hated and despised.

Even the inferior characters of this play would be very conspicuous in any other piece, not only for their justness, but their strength. Čassio is brave, benevolent, and honest, ruined only by his want of stubbornness to resist an insidious invitation. Roderigo's suspicious credulity, and impatient submission to the cheats which he sees practised upon him, and which by persuasion he suffers to be repeated, exhibit a strong picture of a weak mind betrayed by unlawful desires to a false friend; and the virtue of Emilia is such as we often find, worn loosely, but not cast off, easy to commit small crimes, but quickened and alarmed at atrocious villainies.

The scenes from the beginning to the end are busy, varied by happy interchanges, and regularly promoting the progression of

the story; and the narrative in the end, though it tells but what is known already, yet is necessary to produce the death of Othello.

Had the scene opened in Cyprus, and the preceding incidents been occasionally related, there had been little wanting to a drama of the most exact and scrupulous regularity. JOHNSON.

FINIS

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additions, iii. 250; vi. 402; viii. again, i. 27

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allow, ii. 9; iii. 494; v. 83; arbitrator, v. 302

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appeared, vii. 198

vii. 446

arch, viii. 377
argentine, viii. 327
argier, i. 21
argosies, iii. 7

argument, ii. 249, 352; iii. 146;
iv. 436; v. 178; vii. 37
arm, viii. 100

armed staves, v. 77

aroint, iv. 87.

a-row, iv. 66

art, v. 141; vii. 319
articulate, vii. 135
articulated, iv. 501
artificial, ii. 351; vii. 7
as, iii. 550

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Asher-house, vi. 340
aspect, iv. 20
aspersion, i. 75
assay, ix. 171, 305
assinego, vi. 427

assistance, vii. 210

assurance, iii, 402; ix, 260

assured, iv. 38, 224

astonished, v. 242
astringer, iii. 305
Até, ii. 231

at friend, iii. 537
at hand, iv. 430

atomies, iii. 155; ix. 26

atone, iv. 302; vii. 98, 212;

viii. 18; ix. 385

attasked, vii. 372

appointment, ii. 146; vi. 485; attent, ix. 142

attended, vi. 90; vii. 137

attorney, vi. 248

attorneyship, v. 365

apprehensive, v. 89; vii. 289

attornied, iii, 438

apprehension, v. 300

attribute, ix. 152
attributive, vi. 433
avaunt, vi. 311
averring, viii. 126
audacious, ii. 454
Audrey, ili. 162
augurs, iv. 143

B

Baccare, iii. 365

baiting, vi. 381

bale, vii. 110

baleful, v. 361

balked, iv. 407
balm, iv. 373
Banbury-cheese, i. 210

band, iv. 48, 295; vii. 401
ban-dogs, v. 394
banked, iv. 277

banning, v. 351

banns, vii. 62; viii. 387

aukward, viii. 321.
aunt, iii. 497
authentick, iii. 245
awful, i. 171; v. 78
awless, vi. 177
aye, i. 46

aye-remaining, viii. 284

bavin, iv. 473

bawcock, iii. 444
bay, ii. 124

bays, viii. 314

bay-windows, ii. 77
beak, i. 18

beam, vi. 515

bear, ii. 276; v. 16; vii. 260
bear him, v. 297

beard, iv. 485; v. 193; ix.
184
bearded, iii. 143

banquet, iii. 423; vi. 381; vii. bearing, ii. 228; iii. 32

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bearing-cloth, iii. 492

beat, v. 398

beating, i. 101

beavers, v. 77; ix. 144
beck, vii. 27

becomed, ix. 94

becomings, vii. 358

bedlam beggars, viii. 387
beetle, v. 22; ix. 154

beg, ii. 478

behave, vii. 53

behaviour, iv. 193

behest, i. 58

bases, viii. 266

baseness, vii. 453

basilico-like, iv. 203

being, viii. 25

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bastard, ii. 153; iv. 201, 443; be-mete, iii. 407

bat, viii. 447

bate, i. 221'; iii. 397; v. 201

bated, iv. 489; ix. 268

bating, ix. 67

batlet, iii. 133

batten, ix. 221

bending, v. 256

bends, vii. 377

benefit, v. 362

bent, ii. 272; ix. 169

benumbed, vi. 437

battle, vi. 145

bergomask, ii. 384

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