Act I. iii. 20

TROILUS AND CRESSIDA.

Aga. "But the protractive trials of Great Jove
To find persistive constancy in men?

The fineness of which metal is not found
In fortune's love."

27-" Distinction, with a broad and powerful fan
Puffing at all, winnows the light away;

And what hath mass, or matter, by itself
Lies rich in virtue, and unmingled."

Heb. xii. 6" For whom the Lord loveth, Hee chasteneth: and Hee scourgeth every sonne that He receiveth."

Job xxiii. 10-" But Hee knoweth my way and trieth me, and I shall come foorth like the gold.”

Zech. xiii. 9-" And will fine them as the silver is fined, and will trie them as golde is tried."

Luke xxii. 31-"And the Lord sayde, Simon, Simon, beholde Satan hath desired you, to winnow you as wheate. But I have prayed for thee that thy faith faile not, therefore when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren."

Act I. iii. 240

"The worthiness of praise distains his worth,

If that the prais'd himself bring the praise forth." Prov. xxvii. 2-"Let another man praise thee, and not thine owne mouth: a stranger, and not thine owne lips."

Act II. i. 120-Thersites. "I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools."

Prov. xiii. 20-" He that walketh with the wise shall be wise, but a companion of fooles shall be afflicted."

Ecclus. ix. 16, 17—“ Aske counsell of the wise. Let thy talke be with the wise."

Act II. ii. 57

Hector. "Tis mad idolatry

To make the service greater than the God."

Matt. xxiii. 17-"Ye fooles and blinde, whether is greater, the gold or the Temple that sanctifieth the gold?" 19-"Whether is greater, the offering, or the altar which sanctifieth the offering.'

Act II. ii. 81

"Why she is a Pearle,

Whose price hath launch'd above a thousand ships,

And turn'd crown'd kings to merchants."

Matt. xiii. 45-"Like to a merchant that seeketh good pearles which when he had found one of great price, went and solde all that he had and bought it."

Act II. ii. 171

“Have eares more deafe than adders to the voice

Of any true decision."

Ps. lviii. 4-"Like ye deafe adder that stoppeth his eare, which heareth not the voyce of the inchanter, though he be most expert in charming."

Act II. iii. 20-Thersites. "I have said my prayers, and devil Envy say Amen."

Genevan Note on I Cor. xiv. 16-" One uttereth the prayers, and all the company answered, Amen.”

Act III. i. 135-"Why they are vipers: is love a generation of vipers."

Matt. iii. 7—“O generation of vipers," Tyn., Cran., Gen.,
Author.

Wic.-"generaciouns of eddris."

Rheims-"ye vipers brood."

And so in Matt. xii. 34, Matt. xxiii. 33.

In Luke iii. 7 the 1557 edition of Genevan gives "offspring of vipers," but subsequent editions "generation of vipers."

Act III. iii. 71—

Patro. "They pass by strangely: they were us'd to bend,
To send their smiles before them to Achilles :
To come as humbly as they us'd to creep

To holy altars."

Achilles. "What! am I poor of late?

'Tis certain, greatness, once fall'n out with fortune,
Must fall out with men too: what the declin'd is

He shall as soon read in the eyes of others

As feel in his own fall."

Prov. xiv. 20-"The poore is hated even of his owne neighbour, but the friends of the rich are many."

Prov. xix. 4-7-" Riches gather many friends: but the poore is separated from his neighbour. Many reverence the face of the prince, and every man is friend to him that giveth gifts. All the brethren of the poore doe hate him, how much more will his friends depart farre from him."

Ecclus. xiii. 22-"If a rich man fal, his friends set him up againe, but when the poore falleth, his friends drive him away."

Act IV. i. 75

"Fair Diomed, you do as chapmen do,

Dispraise the thing that you desire to buy."

Prov. xx. 14-"It is naught, it is naught saith the buyer, but when he is gone apart, he boasteth."

Act IV. iv. 79

"Alas, a kind of godly jealousy

(Which, I beseech you, call virtuous sin)

Makes me afraid."

Cressida. "O heavens! you love me not."

2 Cor. xi. 2-" For I am jelous over you, with a godly jealousie : for I have prepared you for one husband, to present you as a pure virgine."

Tyn., Cran., Gen., Author.-"godly jealousy."

Wic.-"I love you bi the love of God."

Rheims "I emulate you with the emulation of God."

Act IV. iv. 87

"But I can tell, that in each grace of these

There lurks a still and dumb discoursive devil

That tempts most cunningly. But be not tempted."

2 Cor. xi. 3-"But I feare least as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtiltie, so your mindes shoulde be corupt from the simplicitie that is in Christ."

Act V. i. 53-Thersites. "Here's Agamemnon-an honest fellow enough, and one that loves Quailes, but he has not so much Braine as eare-wax."

"Loves Quailes," i.e., is full of fleshy desires. The figure is derived from an incident in the history of the Israelites.

Num. xi. 32—“Then there went forth a winde from the Lord and brought quailes from the sea."

Ps. lxxviii. 29-" So they did eate and were well filled: for he gave them their desire. They were not turned from their lust." Gen. Met. Ps. lxxviii.—“ Requiring such a kind of meat as served to their lust."

The place where the quails came was called "the graves of Lust," because of the punishment which fell upon the Israelites, and the meaning read into the incident is sufficiently shown in the Genevan Note in Psalm lxxviii. "Such is the nature of concupiscence, that the more it hath, the more it lusteth."

Act V. iv. 32-Thersites. "I think they have swallowed one another: I would laugh at that miracle: yet in a sort, lechery eats itself."

A reference to the miracle of Aaron's rod, which was turned

into a serpent.

Exod. vii. 12—“For they cast downe every man his rod, and they were turned into serpents: But Aaron's rod devoured their rods."

THE TRAGEDIE OF OTHELLO THE MOORE OF

VENICE.

"To 1604 the composition of 'Othello' can be confidently assigned. It was produced at Whitehall on November 1st, and was doubtless the first new piece by Shakespeare that was acted before King James."

Act I. i. 71

Iago. "And, though he in a fertile Clymate dwell,

Plague him with flies."

Genevan chapter heading-" Egypt is plagued with noysome flies."

Act I. i. 155-"Though I doe hate him as I do hell-paines." Ps. xviii. 4- "The paines of hell came about mee: the snares of death overtook me."

Ps. cxvi. 3-" The paines of hell gat hold upon me."

Psalter bound up with Genevan Bible.

Act I. ii. 6

"Nay but he prated

And spoke such scurvy, and provoking termes

Against your Honor, that with the little godlinesse I have,

I did full hard forbeare him."

I.e., forbearance is a duty of the godly.

Col. iii. 12-" Now therefore as the elect of God, holy and beloved, put on the bowels of mercies, kindenesse, humblenesse of minde, meekenesse, long suffering. Forbearing one another and forgiving one another, if any man have a quarel to another."

Act I. iii. 82-" Rude am I, in my speech."

2 Cor. xi. 6—" Though I be rude in speaking, yet I am not so in knowledge."

Wic.-"unlerned in word."

Tyn., Cran., Gen.—“ rude in speaking.”
Rheims, Author.-" rude in speech."