Act V Sc. 1
“And your unblest fate hies; strumpet, I come.”
As ‘hies’ is always, as far as I am aware, followed by some qualifying term, I add on or with the 4to, ‘apace.’
Sc. 2
“Put out the light, and then... put out the light!”
I adopt this punctuation of Warburton’s. He was going to say something further, but he stops, and contents himself with repeating his words.
“Should I repent me: but once put out thine.”
So the 4to; the folio for ‘thine’ has ‘thy light,’ which is far less effective.
“Oh, falsely, falsely murdered!”
It would not be possible, in the whole compass of poetry, to find a more glaring absurdity than this of making Desdemona speak after she had been smothered.
“Like the base Indian threw a pearl away
More worth than all his tribe.”
The folio reads ‘Iudean,’ and there has been great controversy on the subject. In any case the allusion is unknown.
“Their medicinal gum.”
The reading of the 4to; the folio has ‘medicinable.’ Mr. Dyce doubts if at that time ‘medicinal,’ with the accent on the penult, was in use; but this place might seem to prove it, and it may be so pronounced also in W. Tale, ii. 3. (See my note on Milton’s Sam. Ag. 627.) In it the French and not the Latin accentuation was followed.
“Where a malignant and a turban’d Turk.”
Perhaps here, as elsewhere, ‘Where’ has taken the place of When.