engines
“for my life—Devise,”
OTHELLO, iv. 2. 216.
“Seems to mean, contrive racks, tortures, etc.”
(RITSON)
. Does it not rather signify“Contrive artful means to
destroy my life” ? (
“An engine [device], Artificium, Ingenium.”
Coles's Lat. and Engl.
Dict.
)
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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