I.i.39 (361,9) If I in any just term am affin’d] Affine is the reading of the third quarto and the first folio.  The second quarto and all the modern editions have assign’d.  The meaning is, Do I stand within any such terms of propinquit or relation to the Moor, as that it is my duty to love him?

I.i.49 (362,1) honest knaves] Knave is here for servant, but with a mixture of sly contempt.

I.i.63 (362,2) In compliment extern] In that which I do only for an outward shew of civility.

I.i.76 (363,3) As when, by night and negligence, the fire/Is spied in populous cities] [Warburton, objecting to “by”:  Is spred] The particle is used equivocally; the same liberty is taken by writers more correct.

  The wonderful creature! a woman of reason! 
  Never grave out of pride, never gay out of season.

I.i.115 (364,4) What profane wretch art thou?] That is, what wretch of gross and licentious language? In that sense Shakespeare often uses the word profane.

I.i.124 (365,6) this odd even] The even of night is midnight, the time when night is divided into even parts.

I.i.149 (366,7) some check] Some rebuke.

I.i.150 (366,8) cast him] That is, dismiss him; reject him.  We still say, a cast coat, and a cast serving-man.

I.i.162 (366,9) And what’s to come of my despised time] [W:  despited] Despised time, is time of no value; time in which

  “There’s nothing serious in mortality,
  The wine of life is drawn, and the mere dregs
  Are left, this vault to brag of.” Macbeth.

I.i.173 (367,2) By which the property of youth and maidhood/May be abus’d?] By which the faculties of a young virgin may be infatuated, and made subject to illusions and to false imagination.

  “Wicked dreams abuse
  The curtain’d sleep.” Macbeth.

I.ii.2 (368,3) stuff o’ the conscience] This expression to common readers appears harsh. Stuff of the conscience is, substance, or essence of the conscience. Stuff is a word of great force in the Teutonic languages.  The elements are called in Dutch, Hoefd stoffen, or head stuffs.

I.ii.13 (368,4) And hath, in his effect, a voice potential/As double as the duke’s] [Warburton had given a source in Dioscorides and Theocritus for “double”] This note has been much censured by Mr. Upton, who denies, that the quotation is in Dioscorides, and disputes, not without reason, the interpretation of Theocritus.