nd observe how Brabantio's dream prepares for his recurrence to
the notion of philtres, and how both prepare for carrying on the plot of
the arraignment of Othello on this ground.

_Ib._ sc. 2.--

"_Oth._ 'Tis better as it is."

How well these few words impress at the outset the truth of Othello's own
character of himself at the end--"that he was not easily wrought!" His
self-government contradistinguishes him throughout from Leontes.

_Ib._ Othello's speech:--

... "And my demerits
May speak, _unbonneted_."

The argument in Theobald's note, where "and bonneted" is suggested, goes
on the assumption that Shakespeare could not use the same word differently
in different places; whereas I should conclude, that as in the passage in
_Lear_ the word is employed in its direct meaning, so here it is used
metaphorically; and this is confirmed by what has escaped the editors,
that it is not "I," but "my demerits" that may speak unbonneted,--without
the symbol of a petitioning inferior.

_Ib._ sc. 3. Othello's speech:--

"So please your grace, my ancient;
A man he is of honesty and trust:
To his conveyance I assign my wife."

Compare this with the behaviour of Leontes to his true friend Camillo.

_Ib._--

"_Bra._ Look to her, Moor; if thou hast eyes to see;
She has deceived her father, and may thee.

_Oth._ My life upon her faith."

In real life, how do we look back to little speeches as presentimental of,
or contrasted with, an affecting event! Even so, Shakespeare, as secure of
being read over and over, of becoming a family friend, provides this
passage for his readers, and leaves it to them.

_Ib._ Iago's speech:--

"Virtue? a fig! 'tis in ourselves, that we are thus, or thus," &c.

This speech comprises the passionless character of Iago. It is all will in
intellect; and therefore he is here a bold partizan of a truth, but yet of
a truth converted into a falsehood by the absence of all the necessary
modifications caused by the frail nature of man. And then comes the last
sentiment:--

"Our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts,
whereof I take this, that you call--love, to be a sect or scion!"

Here is the true Iagoism of, alas! how many! Note Iago's pride of mastery
in the repetition of "Go, make money!" to his anticipated dupe, even
stronger than his love of lucre: and when Roderigo is completely won,--

"I am chang'd. I'll go sell all my land,"--

when the effect