Music Reference ID Work Character RSC Line Number RSC Text Norton Oxford Line Number Norton Oxford Text F1 Character F1 Text First Edition Character First Edition Text Third Edition Text Through Line Number Q1 Q2 Q3 Arden Line Number Arden Text Oxford Line Number Oxford Text Cambridge Line Number Cambridge Text Comments
1121 Othello Othello 3.3.188 To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, | Is free of speech, ^sings, plays, and dances^ well. Oth. To say my wife is faire, feeds well, loues company, | Is free of Speech, Sings, Playes, and Dances: 1800 3.3.188 3.3.188 …dances well - 3.3.186
1122 Othello Othello 3.3.356 Farewell the neighing steed, and the ^shrill trump^, | The ^spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife^ Oth. Farewell the neighing Steed, and the shrill Trumpe, | The Spirit-stirring Drum, th'Eare piercing Fife 1994 3.3.354 …th'ear-piercing fife 3.3.353 …neighing steed and… 3.3.352 …neighing steed and…the'ear-piercing…
1123 Othello Desdemona 3.4.119 My advocation is not now ^in tune^. Des. My Aduocation is not now in Tune 2279 3.4.124 3.4.119 3.4.117
1124 Othello Othello 4.1.179 Hang her, I do but say what she is--so delicate with | her needle, an ^admirable musician^. O, she will ^sing^ the | savageness out of a bear! Othe. Hang her, I do but say what she is: so delicate | with her Needle: an admirable Musitian. Oh she will | sing the Sauagenesse out of a Beare 2572 4.1.184 …musician. O, she… 4.1.181 musician - O…bear - 4.1.177 musician - O…bear -
1125 Othello SD 4.1.202 A ^trumpet^ - - A trumpet 4.1.208 [A trumpet within.] 4.1.204 Trumpet sounds within 4.1.200 A trumpet [sounds within]
1126 Othello Othello 4.1.203 What ^trumpet^ is that same? Othe. What Trumpet is that same? 2600 4.1.208 What trumpet is that same? 4.1.205 What trumpet is that same? 4.1.201 What trumpet is that same?
1127 Othello SD 4.2.173 [^Flourish^ within] - - 4.2.170 [Trumpets.] 4.2.169 [Trumpets sound within] 4.2.168 [Trumpets sound within]
1128 Othello Iago 4.2.174 Hark how these ^instruments^ summon you to supper. Iago Hearke, how these Instruments summon to supper 2883 …summon you to… 4.2.171 Hark how these instruments summon to supper 4.2.170 Hark how these instruments summon to supper: 4.2.168 Hark how these instuments summon to supper!
1129 Othello Desdemona 4.3.27 she had a ^song^ of ‘willow’, | An old thing ‘twas, but it expressed her fortune, | And she died ^singing^ it. That ^song^ tonight | Will not go from my mind . . . And ^sing it^, like poor Barbary. Des. She had a Song of Willough, | An old thing 'twas: but it express'd her Fortune, | And she dy'd singing it. That Song to night, | Will not go from my mind … | And sing it like poore Brabarie: 2998 ...she has a song…, that Song to night, | Will not goe from my mind - harke, who's that knocks? 4.3.26 ...fortune | and she died singing it. That... 4.3.26 She had a 'Song of Willow - | … 4.3.27 She had a song of willow;…
1130 Othello Desdemona 4.3.38 [^sings^] 'The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, | ^Sing^ all a green willow. . . . ^Sing^ willow, willow, willow . . . Des. The poore Soule sat singing, by a Sicamour tree. | Sing all a greene Willough ... 3011 - 4.3.39 [Sings.]… 4.3.36 (sings)… 4.3.38 [Sings]… Q2 and Q3 have SD here: Desdemona sings. Q2 also prints "sat sighing by a sicamour tree", not "singing"