Works: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, volume 6
Works: the Text Carefully Restored According to the First Editions, volume 6
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616
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Digitized by Google » 380 OTHELLO, ACT I And let me find a charter in your Vi>tcey T' assist my simpleness. Duke. What would you, Desdemona ? Des. That I did love the Moor to live with hiin, My downright violence and storm of fortunes'® May trumpet to the world : my heart's subdued Even to the very quality of my lord : I saw Othello's visage in his mind ; And to his honours, and his valiant parts. Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, A moth of peace, ...and he go to the war. The rites for which I love him are bereft me, And I a heavy interim shall support By his dear absence.'* Let me go with him. Oth. Your voices, lords : 'beseech you, let her will Have a free way. Vouch with me. Heaven, I therefore beg it not. To please the palate of my appetite ; Nor to comply with heat (the young aflRscts In me defunct) and proper satisfaction ; " ^ Thus the folio and the quarto of 1630: the quarto of 16tS has scorn instead of storm. Scorn will not cohere with violenett unless by making it express a quality of Desdemona herself, not of her fortunes ; the sense in that case being, '* my downright violence of behaviour, and scorn of fortune." She evidently means the violence and storm of fortunes which she has braved or encountered in marrying the Moor, and not any thing of a violent or scornful temper in herself.
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