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.
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