-the famous school of England call'd "Winchester, famous I mean for the goose," &c. Again, Ben Jonson, in his poem called An Execration on Vulcan: -this a sparkle of that fire let loose, "That was lock'd up in the Winchestrian goose, "Bred on the back in time of Popery, "When Venus there maintain'd a mystery.” In an ancient satire called Cocke Lorelles Bote, bl. let. printed by Wynkyn de Worde, no date, is the following list of the different residences of harlots: "There came such a wynde fro Winchester, "Some at saynt Kateryns stroke agrounde, "Some at saynte Gyles I trowe: "Also in Ave Mari Aly and at Westmenster; "And some in Shordyche drewe theder, "With grete lamentacyon; "And by cause they have lost that fayre place, "They wyll bylde at Colman hedge in space," &c. Hence the old proverbial simile, "As common as Coleman Hedge" now Coleman-Street. STEEVENS. There are more hard, bombastical phrases, in the serious part of this play, than, I believe, can be picked out of any other six plays of Shakspere. Take the the following specimens :-Tortive,-persistive,-pro traflive,-importless,-insisture,—deracinate,-dividable. And in the next act,-past-proportion,-unrespective,propugnation, self-assumption,-self-admission,-assubjugate,-kingdom'd, &c. TYRWHITT. THE END. OTHELLO. BY WILL. SHAKSPERE: Printed Complete from the TEXT of SAM. JOHNSON and GEO. STEEVENS, And revised from the last Editions. When Learning's triumph o'er her barb'rous foes DR. SAMUEL JOHNSON. LONDON: Printed for, and under the direction of, MDCCLX X X V. |