Note 125 — ACT III. SCENE I.
Reading edition
—when I touch her lip
I shall not feel his kisses]
“Imitated by Shakespeare in Othello, act iii. sc. 3.
‘I slept the next night well, was free and merry;
I found not Cassio’s kisses on her lips.’”
Reed.
If there be any imitation in the case, I believe it to be on the part of Dekker or Middleton. Malone ultimately assigned the production of Othello to 1604, having ascertained (on what evidence we know not) that it was acted in that year: but if it be imitated in the present passage, it must have been produced at an earlier period: see p. 3.