lieutenantry

If such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in.

Act II. Scene I. Othello, the Moor of Venice 1914

You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in.

Othello, the Moor of Venice 1604

You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in.

Othello William Shakespeare 1590

You say true; ’tis so, indeed: if such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft, which now again you are most apt to play the sir in.

Othello, the Moore of Venice 2004

173, 'Such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry.'

The Coverley Papers Various

III. xi.39 (196,6) he alone/Dealt on lieutenantry] I know not whether the meaning is, that Caesar acted only as lieutenant at Philippi, or that he made his attempts only on lieutenants, and left the generals to Antony.

Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies Samuel Johnson 1746