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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 VII. Manent Lodovico, and Iago.

Lod.
Is this the noble Moor, whom our full Senate
Call all-in-all sufficient? &wlquo;this the Nature,
&wlquo;Which passion could not shake? ² ^note

whose solid virtue
&wlquo;The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
&wlquo;Could neither raze, nor pierce?

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Iago.
He is much chang'd.

Lod.
Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?

Iago.
He's what he is; I may not breathe my censure.
What he might be, if what he might he is not,
I would to heaven, he were!

Lod.
What, strike his wife!

Iago.
'Faith, that was not so well; yet 'would I knew,
That stroke would prove the worst.

Lod.
Is it his use?
Or did the letters work upon his blood,
And new-create this fault?

Iago.
Alas, alas!
It is not honesty in me to speak
What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,
And his own courses will denote him so,
That I may save my speech. Do but go after,
And mark how he continues.

Lod.
I'm sorry, that I am deceiv'd in him. [Exeunt.
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