That look no further than your outward form,
Are long since buried in me."
Bondman, i. 3.
I have no doubt that Massinger had the present passage in view, and understood it in the same way as these critics; and still there might be a printer's error in it of which he was not aware. (See on Rom. and Jul. iii. 3.) But can any one produce a single instance of Shakespeare's thus interposing a parenthesis between two substantives connected by a copula, or forming a sentence like that in the parenthesis? and what can be more rugged and disjointed than the whole passage as thus arranged? Would not the following not very violent corrections make the whole more Shakespearian and more harmonious?
"Not to comply with heat of the young affects,
In my distinct and proper satisfaction."
'Affects,' as Johnson rightly observed, is passions, not affections, and Othello styles them 'young,' either as they were new in him, and had not been gratified, or as belonging chiefly to youth.
"For herself she's past
These youthful heats."
Fletch. Sea Voyage, ii. 2.