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or this ( ii. 118 f.):

I pass to another point. In the last illustration the reader will observe not only that ‘overflows’ abound, but that they follow one another in an unbroken series of nine lines. So long a series could not, probably, be found outside Macbeth and the last plays. A series of two or three is not uncommon; but a series of more than three is rare in the early plays, and far from common in the plays of the second period (König).

I thought it might be useful for our present purpose, to count the series of four and upwards in the four tragedies, in the parts of Timon attributed by Mr. Fleay to Shakespeare, and in Coriolanus, a play of the last period. I have not excluded rhymed lines in the two places where they occur, and perhaps I may say that my idea of an ‘overflow’ is more exacting than König’s. The reader will understand the following table at once if I say that, according to it, Othello contains three passages where a series of four successive overflowing