Note 676 — CANTO THE THIRTEENTH.[653]
Reading edition
If I err not, "your Dane" is one of Iago's catalogue of nations "exquisite in their drinking."
["Your Dane, your German, and your swag-bellied Hollander—drink hoa! are nothing to your English." "Is your Englishman so exquisite in his drinking?" (So Collier and Knight. The Quarto reads "expert").—Othello, act ii. sc. 3, lines 71-74.]