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Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration and what mighty magic,
For such proceeding I am charged withal,
I won his daughter."
But in fact he does insinuate his ancient service to the state. Othello makes conscious allusion to the type of exordium he is using, and in doing so echoes Quintilian's very phrase. Anyone studying Quintilian would certainly have been forced to master this fundamental division, which because of its importance is regularly labeled in the margin, "Caussarui genera." The particular phrase is also sometimes labeled in the margin "frons causae," because of the disputed reading. Both the division and the phrase were given special prominence. The school process, the conscious allusion, and the echo ought to settle the source of the shaping structure for this exordium.
Nor is this the only place where Shakspere has shown knowledge of the doctrine in this passage. Holofernes is also aware of the doctrine of insinuation.
Hol. Sir Nathaniel, haud credo.
Dull 'Twas not a hand credo; 'twas a pricket.
Hol. Most barbarous intimation! yet a kind of insinuation, as it were, in via, in way, of explication; facere, as it were, replication?'
Dull had dared to make a replication in way of explication which was a kind of insinuation that the omniscient Holofernes himself did not know his deer. Later the stylistic vagaries of Armado also come near to driving Holofernes distracted; "it insinuateth me of insanie: anne intellegis, domine? to make frantic, lunatic."14 I suppose it is failure to grasp this rhetorical sense of insinuate which has caused the Cam-bridge editors to put an obelus on the passage to signify that it is hopelessly corrupt. Other characters also use the word in senses bordering on the rhetorical, but we need not enumerate, Holofernes knew the use of insinuation'6 in explication. Othello and Holofernes together make it clear that Shakspere had a full grasp upon this passage from Quintilian as to types of exordium.
Holofernes has still other information for which Quintilian was in
u Othello, I, 3, 81-94. sa Loves Labor's Lost, IV, 2, 11-z 5.
" Love's Labor's Lost, V, x, 27-29. It was intended that Holofernes should say "It insinuateth me of insanig." Cf. Cicero, uaestiones Toscslanae (London, 1577, personal), p. H4r, Q,uia
nomen insanig.
u Wilson has much to say of the technical term insinuation, "A priuie beginning, or creeping in, otherwise called Insinuation, must then, and not els be vsed, when the Iudge is greened with vs, and our cause hated of the hearers" (Wilson, Rhetorigue (1909), pp. 99-103).
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