[Takes off his sword.
'Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.'
[Puts out the light.
'If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, &c.'
Note XIII.
V. 2. 86. Mr Singer, in his second edition, has here invented a reading of the first Quarto, from a misinterpretation of Steevens's note. He says, 'After this speech of Othello, the elder Quarto adds an invocation from Desdemona, consisting only of "God! God! God!"' Steevens's words, which Mr Singer adopted in his first edition, were 'consisting only of the sacred name thrice repeated.'
Note XIV.
V. 2. 243. Mr Collier in his Notes and Emendations and in the appendix to Coleridge's Lectures gives 'now' as the insertion of his MS. corrector. In the note on this passage in his second edition of Shakespeare, he says: 'Here in this line is omitted in the Folio, 1623, but inserted in the corr. fo. 1632.'
Note XV.
V. 2. 284, 285. The reading given in the text is that of the Quartos, substantially. The first has literatim thus: