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Alexander Pope [1747], The works of Shakespear in eight volumes. The Genuine Text (collated with all the former Editions, and then corrected and emended) is here settled: Being restored from the Blunders of the first Editors, and the Interpolations of the two Last: with A Comment and Notes, Critical and Explanatory. By Mr. Pope and Mr. Warburton (Printed for J. and P. Knapton, [and] S. Birt [etc.], London) [word count] [S11301].

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SCENE IV. Changes to another Street, before the Sagittary. Enter Othello, Iago, and attendants with Torches.

Iago.
Tho' in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' th' conscience
To do no contriv'd murther: I lack iniquity
Sometimes to do me service.—Nine or ten times
I thought to've jerk'd him here under the ribs.

Oth.
It's better as it is.

Iago.
Nay, but he prated,
And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
Against your honour;
That, with the little godliness I have,
I did full hard forbear him. But I pray, Sir,
Are you fast married? for, be sure of this,
That the Magnifico is much belov'd,
And hath in his effect a voice potential
¹ ^note

As double as the Duke's: he will divorce you,
Or put upon you what restraint or grievance

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The law (with all his might t'enforce it on)
Will give him cable.

Oth.
Let him do his spight:
My services, which I have done the Signory,
Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,
(Which, when I know that Boasting is an honour,
I shall promulgate) I fetch my Life and Being
From men of royal siege; and my demerits
May ² ^notespeak, unbonneting, to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reach'd. For know, Iago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine,
For the sea's worth. But look! what lights come yonder?
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