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A street.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter RODERIGO and IAGO</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.1>Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.2>That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.3>As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.4>'Sblood, but you will not hear me:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.5>If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.6>Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.7>Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.8>In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.9>Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.10>I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.11>But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.12>Evades them, with a bombast circumstance</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.13>Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.14>And, in conclusion,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.15>Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.16>'I have already chose my officer.'</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.17>And what was he?</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.18>Forsooth, a great arithmetician,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.19>One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.20>A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.21>That never set a squadron in the field,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.22>Nor the division of a battle knows</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.23>More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.24>Wherein the toged consuls can propose</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.25>As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.26>Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.27>And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.28>At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.29>Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.30>By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.31>He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.32>And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.33>By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.34>Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.35>Preferment goes by letter and affection,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.36>And not by old gradation, where each second</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.37>Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.38>Whether I in any just term am affined</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.39>To love the Moor.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.40>I would not follow him then.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.41>O, sir, content you;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.42>I follow him to serve my turn upon him:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.43>We cannot all be masters, nor all masters</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.44>Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.45>Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.46>That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.47>Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.48>For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.49>Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.50>Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.51>Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.52>And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.53>Do well thrive by them and when they have lined</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.54>their coats</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.55>Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.56>And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.57>It is as sure as you are Roderigo,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.58>Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.59>In following him, I follow but myself;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.60>Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.61>But seeming so, for my peculiar end:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.62>For when my outward action doth demonstrate</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.63>The native act and figure of my heart</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.64>In compliment extern, 'tis not long after</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.65>But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.66>For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.67>What a full fortune does the thicklips owe</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.68>If he can carry't thus!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.69>Call up her father,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.70>Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.71>Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.72>And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.73>Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.74>Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.75>As it may lose some colour.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.76>Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.77>Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.78>As when, by night and negligence, the fire</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.79>Is spied in populous cities.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.80>What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.81>Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.82>Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.83>Thieves! thieves!</A><br> <p><i>BRABANTIO appears above, at a window</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.84>What is the reason of this terrible summons?</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.85>What is the matter there?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.86>Signior, is all your family within?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.87>Are your doors lock'd?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.88>Why, wherefore ask you this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.89>'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.90>your gown;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.91>Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.92>Even now, now, very now, an old black ram</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.93>Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.94>Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.95>Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.96>Arise, I say.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.97> What, have you lost your wits?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.98>Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.99>Not I what are you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.100>My name is Roderigo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.101>The worser welcome:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.102>I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.103>In honest plainness thou hast heard me say</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.104>My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.105>Being full of supper and distempering draughts,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.106>Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.107>To start my quiet.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.108>Sir, sir, sir,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.109> But thou must needs be sure</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.110>My spirit and my place have in them power</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.111>To make this bitter to thee.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.112>Patience, good sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.113>What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.114>My house is not a grange.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.115>Most grave Brabantio,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.116>In simple and pure soul I come to you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.117>'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.118>serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.119>do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.120>have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.121>you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.122>coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.123>What profane wretch art thou?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.124>I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.125>and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.126>Thou art a villain.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.127>You are--a senator.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.128>This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.129>Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.130>If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.131>As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.132>At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.133>Transported, with no worse nor better guard</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.134>But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.135>To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.136>If this be known to you and your allowance,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.137>We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.138>But if you know not this, my manners tell me</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.139>We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.140>That, from the sense of all civility,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.141>I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.142>Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.143>I say again, hath made a gross revolt;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.144>Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.145>In an extravagant and wheeling stranger</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.146>Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.147>If she be in her chamber or your house,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.148>Let loose on me the justice of the state</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.149>For thus deluding you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.150>Strike on the tinder, ho!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.151>Give me a taper! call up all my people!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.152>This accident is not unlike my dream:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.153>Belief of it oppresses me already.</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.154>Light, I say! light!</A><br> <p><i>Exit above</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.155>Farewell; for I must leave you:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.156>It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.157>To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.158>Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.159>However this may gall him with some cheque,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.160>Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.161>With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.162>Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.163>Another of his fathom they have none,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.164>To lead their business: in which regard,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.165>Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.166>Yet, for necessity of present life,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.167>I must show out a flag and sign of love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.168>Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.169>Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.170>And there will I be with him. So, farewell.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> <p><i>Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.171>It is too true an evil: gone she is;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.172>And what's to come of my despised time</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.173>Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.174>Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.175>With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.176>How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.177>Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.178>Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.179>Truly, I think they are.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.180>O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.181>Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.182>By what you see them act. Is there not charms</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.183>By which the property of youth and maidhood</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.184>May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.185>Of some such thing?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.186>Yes, sir, I have indeed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.187>Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.188>Some one way, some another. Do you know</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.189>Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.190>I think I can discover him, if you please,</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.191>To get good guard and go along with me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.1.192>Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.193>I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.194>And raise some special officers of night.</A><br> <A NAME=1.1.195>On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. Another street.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.1>Though in the trade of war I have slain men,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.2>Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.3>To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.4>Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.5>I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.6>'Tis better as it is.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.7>Nay, but he prated,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.8>And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.9>Against your honour</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.10>That, with the little godliness I have,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.11>I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.12>Are you fast married? Be assured of this,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.13>That the magnifico is much beloved,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.14>And hath in his effect a voice potential</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.15>As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.16>Or put upon you what restraint and grievance</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.17>The law, with all his might to enforce it on,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.18>Will give him cable.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.19>Let him do his spite:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.20>My services which I have done the signiory</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.21>Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.22>Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.23>I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.24>From men of royal siege, and my demerits</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.25>May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.26>As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.27>But that I love the gentle Desdemona,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.28>I would not my unhoused free condition</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.29>Put into circumscription and confine</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.30>For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.31>Those are the raised father and his friends:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.32>You were best go in.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.33>Not I I must be found:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.34>My parts, my title and my perfect soul</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.35>Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.36>By Janus, I think no.</A><br> <p><i>Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.37>The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.38>The goodness of the night upon you, friends!</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.39>What is the news?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.40> The duke does greet you, general,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.41>And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.42>Even on the instant.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.43>What is the matter, think you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.44>Something from Cyprus as I may divine:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.45>It is a business of some heat: the galleys</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.46>Have sent a dozen sequent messengers</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.47>This very night at one another's heels,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.48>And many of the consuls, raised and met,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.49>Are at the duke's already: you have been</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.50>hotly call'd for;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.51>When, being not at your lodging to be found,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.52>The senate hath sent about three several guests</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.53>To search you out.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.54>'Tis well I am found by you.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.55>I will but spend a word here in the house,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.56>And go with you.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.57> Ancient, what makes he here?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.58>'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.59>If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.60>I do not understand.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.61>He's married.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.62>To who?</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter OTHELLO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.63>Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.64>Have with you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.65>Here comes another troop to seek for you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.66>It is Brabantio. General, be advised;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.67>He comes to bad intent.</A><br> <p><i>Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.68>Holla! stand there!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.69>Signior, it is the Moor.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.70>Down with him, thief!</A><br> <p><i>They draw on both sides</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.71>You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.72>Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.73>Good signior, you shall more command with years</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.74>Than with your weapons.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.75>O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.76>Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.77>For I'll refer me to all things of sense,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.78>If she in chains of magic were not bound,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.79>Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.80>So opposite to marriage that she shunned</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.81>The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.82>Would ever have, to incur a general mock,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.83>Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.84>Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.85>Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.86>That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.87>Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.88>That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.89>'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.90>I therefore apprehend and do attach thee</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.91>For an abuser of the world, a practiser</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.92>Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.93>Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.94>Subdue him at his peril.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.95>Hold your hands,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.96>Both you of my inclining, and the rest:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.97>Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.98>Without a prompter. Where will you that I go</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.99>To answer this your charge?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.100>To prison, till fit time</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.101>Of law and course of direct session</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.102>Call thee to answer.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.103>What if I do obey?</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.104>How may the duke be therewith satisfied,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.105>Whose messengers are here about my side,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.106>Upon some present business of the state</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.107>To bring me to him?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>First Officer</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.108>'Tis true, most worthy signior;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.109>The duke's in council and your noble self,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.110>I am sure, is sent for.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.2.111>How! the duke in council!</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.112>In this time of the night! Bring him away:</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.113>Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.114>Or any of my brothers of the state,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.115>Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.116>For if such actions may have passage free,</A><br> <A NAME=1.2.117>Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE III. A council-chamber.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.1>There is no composition in these news</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.2>That gives them credit.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.3>Indeed, they are disproportion'd;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.4>My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.5>And mine, a hundred and forty.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.6>And mine, two hundred:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.7>But though they jump not on a just account,--</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.8>As in these cases, where the aim reports,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.9>'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.10>A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.11>Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.12>I do not so secure me in the error,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.13>But the main article I do approve</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.14>In fearful sense.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>Sailor</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.15>[Within] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>First Officer</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.16>A messenger from the galleys.</A><br> <p><i>Enter a Sailor</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.17>Now, what's the business?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>Sailor</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.18>The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.19>So was I bid report here to the state</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.20>By Signior Angelo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.21>How say you by this change?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.22>This cannot be,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.23>By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.24>To keep us in false gaze. When we consider</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.25>The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.26>And let ourselves again but understand,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.27>That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.28>So may he with more facile question bear it,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.29>For that it stands not in such warlike brace,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.30>But altogether lacks the abilities</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.31>That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.32>We must not think the Turk is so unskilful</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.33>To leave that latest which concerns him first,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.34>Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.35>To wake and wage a danger profitless.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.36>Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>First Officer</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.37>Here is more news.</A><br> <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.38>The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.39>Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.40>Have there injointed them with an after fleet.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.41>Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.42>Of thirty sail: and now they do restem</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.43>Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.44>Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.45>Your trusty and most valiant servitor,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.46>With his free duty recommends you thus,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.47>And prays you to believe him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.48>'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.49>Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.50>He's now in Florence.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.51>Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.52>Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.</A><br> <p><i>Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.53>Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.54>Against the general enemy Ottoman.</A><br> <p><i>To BRABANTIO</i></p> <A NAME=1.3.55>I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.56>We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.57>So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.58>Neither my place nor aught I heard of business</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.59>Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.60>Take hold on me, for my particular grief</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.61>Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.62>That it engluts and swallows other sorrows</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.63>And it is still itself.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.64>Why, what's the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.65>My daughter! O, my daughter!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <A NAME=speech26><b>Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.66>Dead?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.67>Ay, to me;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.68>She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.69>By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.70>For nature so preposterously to err,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.71>Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.72>Sans witchcraft could not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.73>Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.74>Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.75>And you of her, the bloody book of law</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.76>You shall yourself read in the bitter letter</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.77>After your own sense, yea, though our proper son</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.78>Stood in your action.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.79>Humbly I thank your grace.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.80>Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.81>Your special mandate for the state-affairs</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.82>Hath hither brought.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <A NAME=speech31><b>Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.83>We are very sorry for't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.84>[To OTHELLO] What, in your own part, can you say to this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.85>Nothing, but this is so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.86>Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.87>My very noble and approved good masters,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.88>That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.89>It is most true; true, I have married her:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.90>The very head and front of my offending</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.91>Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.92>And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.93>For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.94>Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.95>Their dearest action in the tented field,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.96>And little of this great world can I speak,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.97>More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.98>And therefore little shall I grace my cause</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.99>In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.100>I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.101>Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.102>What conjuration and what mighty magic,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.103>For such proceeding I am charged withal,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.104>I won his daughter.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.105>A maiden never bold;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.106>Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.107>Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.108>Of years, of country, credit, every thing,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.109>To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.110>It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.111>That will confess perfection so could err</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.112>Against all rules of nature, and must be driven</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.113>To find out practises of cunning hell,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.114>Why this should be. I therefore vouch again</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.115>That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.116>Or with some dram conjured to this effect,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.117>He wrought upon her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.118>To vouch this, is no proof,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.119>Without more wider and more overt test</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.120>Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.121>Of modern seeming do prefer against him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.122>But, Othello, speak:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.123>Did you by indirect and forced courses</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.124>Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.125>Or came it by request and such fair question</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.126>As soul to soul affordeth?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.127>I do beseech you,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.128>Send for the lady to the Sagittary,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.129>And let her speak of me before her father:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.130>If you do find me foul in her report,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.131>The trust, the office I do hold of you,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.132>Not only take away, but let your sentence</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.133>Even fall upon my life.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.134>Fetch Desdemona hither.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.135>Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt IAGO and Attendants</i></p> <A NAME=1.3.136>And, till she come, as truly as to heaven</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.137>I do confess the vices of my blood,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.138>So justly to your grave ears I'll present</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.139>How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.140>And she in mine.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.141>Say it, Othello.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.142>Her father loved me; oft invited me;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.143>Still question'd me the story of my life,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.144>From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.145>That I have passed.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.146>I ran it through, even from my boyish days,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.147>To the very moment that he bade me tell it;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.148>Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.149>Of moving accidents by flood and field</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.150>Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.151>Of being taken by the insolent foe</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.152>And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.153>And portance in my travels' history:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.154>Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.155>Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.156>It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.157>And of the Cannibals that each other eat,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.158>The Anthropophagi and men whose heads</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.159>Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.160>Would Desdemona seriously incline:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.161>But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.162>Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.163>She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.164>Devour up my discourse: which I observing,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.165>Took once a pliant hour, and found good means</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.166>To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.167>That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.168>Whereof by parcels she had something heard,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.169>But not intentively: I did consent,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.170>And often did beguile her of her tears,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.171>When I did speak of some distressful stroke</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.172>That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.173>She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.174>She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.175>'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.176>She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.177>That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.178>And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.179>I should but teach him how to tell my story.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.180>And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.181>She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.182>And I loved her that she did pity them.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.183>This only is the witchcraft I have used:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.184>Here comes the lady; let her witness it.</A><br> <p><i>Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.185>I think this tale would win my daughter too.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.186>Good Brabantio,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.187>Take up this mangled matter at the best:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.188>Men do their broken weapons rather use</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.189>Than their bare hands.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.190>I pray you, hear her speak:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.191>If she confess that she was half the wooer,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.192>Destruction on my head, if my bad blame</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.193>Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.194>Do you perceive in all this noble company</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.195>Where most you owe obedience?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.196>My noble father,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.197>I do perceive here a divided duty:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.198>To you I am bound for life and education;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.199>My life and education both do learn me</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.200>How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.201>I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.202>And so much duty as my mother show'd</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.203>To you, preferring you before her father,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.204>So much I challenge that I may profess</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.205>Due to the Moor my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.206>God be wi' you! I have done.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.207>Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.208>I had rather to adopt a child than get it.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.209>Come hither, Moor:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.210>I here do give thee that with all my heart</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.211>Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.212>I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.213>I am glad at soul I have no other child:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.214>For thy escape would teach me tyranny,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.215>To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.216>Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.217>Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.218>Into your favour.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.219>When remedies are past, the griefs are ended</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.220>By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.221>To mourn a mischief that is past and gone</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.222>Is the next way to draw new mischief on.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.223>What cannot be preserved when fortune takes</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.224>Patience her injury a mockery makes.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.225>The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.226>He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.227>So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.228>We lose it not, so long as we can smile.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.229>He bears the sentence well that nothing bears</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.230>But the free comfort which from thence he hears,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.231>But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.232>That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.233>These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.234>Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.235>But words are words; I never yet did hear</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.236>That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.237>I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.238>The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.239>Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.240>known to you; and though we have there a substitute</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.241>of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.242>sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.243>voice on you: you must therefore be content to</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.244>slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.245>more stubborn and boisterous expedition.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.246>The tyrant custom, most grave senators,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.247>Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.248>My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnise</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.249>A natural and prompt alacrity</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.250>I find in hardness, and do undertake</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.251>These present wars against the Ottomites.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.252>Most humbly therefore bending to your state,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.253>I crave fit disposition for my wife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.254>Due reference of place and exhibition,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.255>With such accommodation and besort</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.256>As levels with her breeding.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.257>If you please,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.258>Be't at her father's.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.259>I'll not have it so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.260>Nor I.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.261> Nor I; I would not there reside,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.262>To put my father in impatient thoughts</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.263>By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.264>To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.265>And let me find a charter in your voice,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.266>To assist my simpleness.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.267>What would You, Desdemona?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.268>That I did love the Moor to live with him,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.269>My downright violence and storm of fortunes</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.270>May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.271>Even to the very quality of my lord:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.272>I saw Othello's visage in his mind,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.273>And to his honour and his valiant parts</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.274>Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.275>So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.276>A moth of peace, and he go to the war,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.277>The rites for which I love him are bereft me,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.278>And I a heavy interim shall support</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.279>By his dear absence. Let me go with him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.280>Let her have your voices.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.281>Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.282>To please the palate of my appetite,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.283>Nor to comply with heat--the young affects</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.284>In me defunct--and proper satisfaction.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.285>But to be free and bounteous to her mind:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.286>And heaven defend your good souls, that you think</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.287>I will your serious and great business scant</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.288>For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.289>Of feather'd Cupid seal with wanton dullness</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.290>My speculative and officed instruments,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.291>That my disports corrupt and taint my business,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.292>Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.293>And all indign and base adversities</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.294>Make head against my estimation!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.295>Be it as you shall privately determine,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.296>Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.297>And speed must answer it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.298>You must away to-night.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.299>With all my heart.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.300>At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.301>Othello, leave some officer behind,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.302>And he shall our commission bring to you;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.303>With such things else of quality and respect</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.304>As doth import you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.305>So please your grace, my ancient;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.306>A man he is of honest and trust:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.307>To his conveyance I assign my wife,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.308>With what else needful your good grace shall think</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.309>To be sent after me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.310>Let it be so.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.311>Good night to every one.</A><br> <p><i>To BRABANTIO</i></p> <A NAME=1.3.312>And, noble signior,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.313>If virtue no delighted beauty lack,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.314>Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>First Senator</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.315>Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.316>Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.317>She has deceived her father, and may thee.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers, & c</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.318>My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.319>My Desdemona must I leave to thee:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.320>I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.321>And bring them after in the best advantage.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.322>Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.323>Of love, of worldly matters and direction,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.324>To spend with thee: we must obey the time.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.325>Iago,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.326>What say'st thou, noble heart?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.327>What will I do, thinkest thou?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.328>Why, go to bed, and sleep.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.329>I will incontinently drown myself.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.330>If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.331>thou silly gentleman!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.332>It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.333>then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.334>O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.335>times seven years; and since I could distinguish</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.336>betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.337>that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.338>would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.339>would change my humanity with a baboon.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.340>What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.341>fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.342>Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.343>or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.344>our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.345>nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.346>thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.347>distract it with many, either to have it sterile</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.348>with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.349>power and corrigible authority of this lies in our</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.350>wills. If the balance of our lives had not one</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.351>scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.352>blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.353>to most preposterous conclusions: but we have</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.354>reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.355>stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this that</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.356>you call love to be a sect or scion.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.357>It cannot be.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.358>It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.359>the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyself! drown</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.360>cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.361>friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.362>cables of perdurable toughness; I could never</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.363>better stead thee than now. Put money in thy</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.364>purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour with</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.365>an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse. It</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.366>cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.367>love to the Moor,-- put money in thy purse,--nor he</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.368>his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.369>shalt see an answerable sequestration:--put but</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.370>money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.371>their wills: fill thy purse with money:--the food</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.372>that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.373>to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.374>change for youth: when she is sated with his body,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.375>she will find the error of her choice: she must</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.376>have change, she must: therefore put money in thy</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.377>purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.378>more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.379>thou canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.380>an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.381>too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.382>shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.383>drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.384>thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.385>to be drowned and go without her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.386>Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.387>the issue?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.388>Thou art sure of me:--go, make money:--I have told</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.389>thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.390>hate the Moor: my cause is hearted; thine hath no</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.391>less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.392>against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.393>thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.394>events in the womb of time which will be delivered.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.395>Traverse! go, provide thy money. We will have more</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.396>of this to-morrow. Adieu.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.397>Where shall we meet i' the morning?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.398>At my lodging.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.399>I'll be with thee betimes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.400>Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.401>What say you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.402>No more of drowning, do you hear?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.403>I am changed: I'll go sell all my land.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=1.3.404>Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.405>For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.406>If I would time expend with such a snipe.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.407>But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.408>And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.409>He has done my office: I know not if't be true;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.410>But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.411>Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.412>The better shall my purpose work on him.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.413>Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.414>To get his place and to plume up my will</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.415>In double knavery--How, how? Let's see:--</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.416>After some time, to abuse Othello's ear</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.417>That he is too familiar with his wife.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.418>He hath a person and a smooth dispose</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.419>To be suspected, framed to make women false.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.420>The Moor is of a free and open nature,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.421>That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.422>And will as tenderly be led by the nose</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.423>As asses are.</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.424>I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night</A><br> <A NAME=1.3.425>Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote><p> <H3>ACT II</h3> <h3>SCENE I. A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.1>What from the cape can you discern at sea?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>First Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.2>Nothing at all: it is a highwrought flood;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.3>I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.4>Descry a sail.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.5>Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.6>A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.7>If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.8>What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.9>Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.10>A segregation of the Turkish fleet:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.11>For do but stand upon the foaming shore,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.12>The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.13>The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.14>seems to cast water on the burning bear,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.15>And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.16>I never did like molestation view</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.17>On the enchafed flood.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.18>If that the Turkish fleet</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.19>Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.20>It is impossible they bear it out.</A><br> <p><i>Enter a third Gentleman</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.21>News, lads! our wars are done.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.22>The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.23>That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.24>Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.25>On most part of their fleet.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.26>How! is this true?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.27>The ship is here put in,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.28>A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.29>Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.30>Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.31>And is in full commission here for Cyprus.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.32>I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.33>But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.34>Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.35>And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.36>With foul and violent tempest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.37>Pray heavens he be;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.38>For I have served him, and the man commands</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.39>Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.40>As well to see the vessel that's come in</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.41>As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.42>Even till we make the main and the aerial blue</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.43>An indistinct regard.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>Third Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.44>Come, let's do so:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.45>For every minute is expectancy</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.46>Of more arrivance.</A><br> <p><i>Enter CASSIO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.47>Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.48>That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.49>Give him defence against the elements,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.50>For I have lost us him on a dangerous sea.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.51>Is he well shipp'd?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.52>His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.53>Of very expert and approved allowance;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.54>Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.55>Stand in bold cure.</A><br> <p><i>A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!'</i></p> <p><i>Enter a fourth Gentleman</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.56>What noise?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>Fourth Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.57>The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.58>Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.59>My hopes do shape him for the governor.</A><br> <p><i>Guns heard</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>Second Gentlemen</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.60>They do discharge their shot of courtesy:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.61>Our friends at least.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.62>I pray you, sir, go forth,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.63>And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.64>I shall.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.65>But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.66>Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.67>That paragons description and wild fame;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.68>One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.69>And in the essential vesture of creation</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.70>Does tire the ingener.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter second Gentleman</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.71>How now! who has put in?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.72>'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.73>Has had most favourable and happy speed:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.74>Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.75>The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands--</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.76>Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.77>As having sense of beauty, do omit</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.78>Their mortal natures, letting go safely by</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.79>The divine Desdemona.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.80>What is she?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.81>She that I spake of, our great captain's captain,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.82>Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.83>Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.84>A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.85>And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.86>That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.87>Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.88>Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.89>And bring all Cyprus comfort!</A><br> <p><i>Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Attendants</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.90>O, behold,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.91>The riches of the ship is come on shore!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.92>Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.93>Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.94>Before, behind thee, and on every hand,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.95>Enwheel thee round!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.96>I thank you, valiant Cassio.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.97>What tidings can you tell me of my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.98>He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.99>But that he's well and will be shortly here.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.100>O, but I fear--How lost you company?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.101>The great contention of the sea and skies</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.102>Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail.</A><br> <p><i>Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>Second Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.103>They give their greeting to the citadel;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.104>This likewise is a friend.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.105>See for the news.</A><br> <p><i>Exit Gentleman</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.106>Good ancient, you are welcome.</A><br> <p><i>To EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.107>Welcome, mistress.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.108>Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.109>That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.110>That gives me this bold show of courtesy.</A><br> <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.111>Sir, would she give you so much of her lips</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.112>As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.113>You'll have enough.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.114>Alas, she has no speech.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.115>In faith, too much;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.116>I find it still, when I have list to sleep:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.117>Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.118>She puts her tongue a little in her heart,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.119>And chides with thinking.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.120>You have little cause to say so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.121>Come on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.122>Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.123>Saints m your injuries, devils being offended,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.124>Players in your housewifery, and housewives' in your beds.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.125>O, fie upon thee, slanderer!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.126>Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.127>You rise to play and go to bed to work.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.128>You shall not write my praise.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.129>No, let me not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.130>What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.131>praise me?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.132>O gentle lady, do not put me to't;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.133>For I am nothing, if not critical.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.134>Come on assay. There's one gone to the harbour?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.135>Ay, madam.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.136>I am not merry; but I do beguile</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.137>The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.138>Come, how wouldst thou praise me?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.139>I am about it; but indeed my invention</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.140>Comes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.141>It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labours,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.142>And thus she is deliver'd.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.143>If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.144>The one's for use, the other useth it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.145>Well praised! How if she be black and witty?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.146>If she be black, and thereto have a wit,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.147>She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.148>Worse and worse.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.149>How if fair and foolish?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.150>She never yet was foolish that was fair;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.151>For even her folly help'd her to an heir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.152>These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.153>the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.154>her that's foul and foolish?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.155>There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.156>But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.157>O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worst best.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.158>But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deserving</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.159>woman indeed, one that, in the authority of her</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.160>merit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.161>She that was ever fair and never proud,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.162>Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.163>Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.164>Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.165>She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.166>Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.167>She that in wisdom never was so frail</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.168>To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.169>She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.170>See suitors following and not look behind,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.171>She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.172>To do what?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.173>To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.174>O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.175>of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.176>you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.177>counsellor?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.178>He speaks home, madam: You may relish him more in</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.179>the soldier than in the scholar.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.180>[Aside] He takes her by the palm: ay, well said,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.181>whisper: with as little a web as this will I</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.182>ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.183>her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courtship.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.184>You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.185>these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.186>been better you had not kissed your three fingers so</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.187>oft, which now again you are most apt to play the</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.188>sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellent</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.189>courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.190>to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!</A><br> <p><i>Trumpet within</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.191>The Moor! I know his trumpet.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.192>'Tis truly so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.193>Let's meet him and receive him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.194>Lo, where he comes!</A><br> <p><i>Enter OTHELLO and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.195>O my fair warrior!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.196> My dear Othello!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.197>It gives me wonder great as my content</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.198>To see you here before me. O my soul's joy!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.199>If after every tempest come such calms,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.200>May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.201>And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.202>Olympus-high and duck again as low</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.203>As hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.204>'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.205>My soul hath her content so absolute</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.206>That not another comfort like to this</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.207>Succeeds in unknown fate.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.208>The heavens forbid</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.209>But that our loves and comforts should increase,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.210>Even as our days do grow!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.211>Amen to that, sweet powers!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.212>I cannot speak enough of this content;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.213>It stops me here; it is too much of joy:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.214>And this, and this, the greatest discords be</A><br> <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> <A NAME=2.1.215>That e'er our hearts shall make!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.216>[Aside] O, you are well tuned now!</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.217>But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.218>As honest as I am.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.219> Come, let us to the castle.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.220>News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.221>are drown'd.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.222>How does my old acquaintance of this isle?</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.223>Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.224>I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.225>I prattle out of fashion, and I dote</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.226>In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.227>Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.228>Bring thou the master to the citadel;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.229>He is a good one, and his worthiness</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.230>Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.231>Once more, well met at Cyprus.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.232>Do thou meet me presently at the harbour. Come</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.233>hither. If thou be'st valiant,-- as, they say, base</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.234>men being in love have then a nobility in their</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.235>natures more than is native to them--list me. The</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.236>lieutenant tonight watches on the court of</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.237>guard:--first, I must tell thee this--Desdemona is</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.238>directly in love with him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.239>With him! why, 'tis not possible.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.240>Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.241>Mark me with what violence she first loved the Moor,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.242>but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.243>and will she love him still for prating? let not</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.244>thy discreet heart think it. Her eye must be fed;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.245>and what delight shall she have to look on the</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.246>devil? When the blood is made dull with the act of</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.247>sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.248>give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.249>sympathy in years, manners and beauties; all which</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.250>the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.251>required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.252>find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.253>disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.254>instruct her in it and compel her to some second</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.255>choice. Now, sir, this granted,--as it is a most</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.256>pregnant and unforced position--who stands so</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.257>eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.258>does? a knave very voluble; no further</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.259>conscionable than in putting on the mere form of</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.260>civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.261>of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.262>none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.263>finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.264>counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.265>present itself; a devilish knave. Besides, the</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.266>knave is handsome, young, and hath all those</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.267>requisites in him that folly and green minds look</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.268>after: a pestilent complete knave; and the woman</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.269>hath found him already.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.270>I cannot believe that in her; she's full of</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.271>most blessed condition.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.272>Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks is made of</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.273>grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.274>have loved the Moor. Blessed pudding! Didst thou</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.275>not see her paddle with the palm of his hand? didst</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.276>not mark that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.277>Yes, that I did; but that was but courtesy.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.278>Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.279>to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.280>so near with their lips that their breaths embraced</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.281>together. Villanous thoughts, Roderigo! when these</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.282>mutualities so marshal the way, hard at hand comes</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.283>the master and main exercise, the incorporate</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.284>conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled by me: I</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.285>have brought you from Venice. Watch you to-night;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.286>for the command, I'll lay't upon you. Cassio knows</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.287>you not. I'll not be far from you: do you find</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.288>some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.289>too loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.290>other course you please, which the time shall more</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.291>favourably minister.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.292>Well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.293>Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.294>may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.295>even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.296>mutiny; whose qualification shall come into no true</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.297>taste again but by the displanting of Cassio. So</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.298>shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.299>the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.300>impediment most profitably removed, without the</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.301>which there were no expectation of our prosperity.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.302>I will do this, if I can bring it to any</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.303>opportunity.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.304>I warrant thee. Meet me by and by at the citadel:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.305>I must fetch his necessaries ashore. Farewell.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.306>Adieu.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.1.307>That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.308>That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.309>The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.310>Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.311>And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.312>A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.313>Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.314>I stand accountant for as great a sin,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.315>But partly led to diet my revenge,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.316>For that I do suspect the lusty Moor</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.317>Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.318>Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.319>And nothing can or shall content my soul</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.320>Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.321>Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.322>At least into a jealousy so strong</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.323>That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.324>If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.325>For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.326>I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.327>Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.328>For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.329>Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.330>For making him egregiously an ass</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.331>And practising upon his peace and quiet</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.332>Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:</A><br> <A NAME=2.1.333>Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. A street.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People following</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>Herald</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.2.1>It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.2>general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.3>importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.4>every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.5>some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.6>revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.7>beneficial news, it is the celebration of his</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.8>nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.9>proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.10>liberty of feasting from this present hour of five</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.11>till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the</A><br> <A NAME=2.2.12>isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE III. A hall in the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.1>Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.2>Let's teach ourselves that honourable stop,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.3>Not to outsport discretion.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.4>Iago hath direction what to do;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.5>But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.6>Will I look to't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.7> Iago is most honest.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.8>Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.9>Let me have speech with you.</A><br> <p><i>To DESDEMONA</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.10>Come, my dear love,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.11>The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.12>That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.13>Good night.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants</i></p> <p><i>Enter IAGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.14>Welcome, Iago; we must to the watch.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.15>Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not yet ten o' the</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.16>clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.17>of his Desdemona; who let us not therefore blame:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.18>he hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.19>she is sport for Jove.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.20>She's a most exquisite lady.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.21>And, I'll warrant her, fun of game.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.22>Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.23>What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.24>provocation.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.25>An inviting eye; and yet methinks right modest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.26>And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.27>She is indeed perfection.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.28>Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.29>have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.30>of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.31>the health of black Othello.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.32>Not to-night, good Iago: I have very poor and</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.33>unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.34>courtesy would invent some other custom of</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.35>entertainment.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.36>O, they are our friends; but one cup: I'll drink for</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.37>you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.38>I have drunk but one cup to-night, and that was</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.39>craftily qualified too, and, behold, what innovation</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.40>it makes here: I am unfortunate in the infirmity,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.41>and dare not task my weakness with any more.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.42>What, man! 'tis a night of revels: the gallants</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.43>desire it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.44>Where are they?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.45>Here at the door; I pray you, call them in.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.46>I'll do't; but it dislikes me.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.47>If I can fasten but one cup upon him,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.48>With that which he hath drunk to-night already,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.49>He'll be as full of quarrel and offence</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.50>As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.51>Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.52>To Desdemona hath to-night caroused</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.53>Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.54>Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.55>That hold their honours in a wary distance,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.56>The very elements of this warlike isle,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.57>Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.58>And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.59>Am I to put our Cassio in some action</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.60>That may offend the isle.--But here they come:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.61>If consequence do but approve my dream,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.62>My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter CASSIO; with him MONTANO and Gentlemen; servants following with wine</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.63>'Fore God, they have given me a rouse already.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.64>Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.65>a soldier.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.66>Some wine, ho!</A><br> <p><i>Sings</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.67>And let me the canakin clink, clink;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.68>And let me the canakin clink</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.69>A soldier's a man;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.70>A life's but a span;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.71>Why, then, let a soldier drink.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.72>Some wine, boys!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.73>'Fore God, an excellent song.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.74>I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.75>most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.76>your swag-bellied Hollander--Drink, ho!--are nothing</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.77>to your English.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.78>Is your Englishman so expert in his drinking?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.79>Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.80>drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.81>gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.82>can be filled.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.83>To the health of our general!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.84>I am for it, lieutenant; and I'll do you justice.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.85>O sweet England!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.86>King Stephen was a worthy peer,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.87>His breeches cost him but a crown;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.88>He held them sixpence all too dear,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.89>With that he call'd the tailor lown.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.90>He was a wight of high renown,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.91>And thou art but of low degree:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.92>'Tis pride that pulls the country down;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.93>Then take thine auld cloak about thee.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.94>Some wine, ho!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.95>Why, this is a more exquisite song than the other.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.96>Will you hear't again?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.97>No; for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.98>does those things. Well, God's above all; and there</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.99>be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.100>It's true, good lieutenant.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.101>For mine own part,--no offence to the general, nor</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.102>any man of quality,--I hope to be saved.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.103>And so do I too, lieutenant.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.104>Ay, but, by your leave, not before me; the</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.105>lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient. Let's</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.106>have no more of this; let's to our affairs.--Forgive</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.107>us our sins!--Gentlemen, let's look to our business.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.108>Do not think, gentlemen. I am drunk: this is my</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.109>ancient; this is my right hand, and this is my left:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.110>I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.111>speak well enough.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>All</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.112>Excellent well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.113>Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.114>To the platform, masters; come, let's set the watch.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.115>You see this fellow that is gone before;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.116>He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.117>And give direction: and do but see his vice;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.118>'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.119>The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.120>I fear the trust Othello puts him in.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.121>On some odd time of his infirmity,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.122>Will shake this island.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.123>But is he often thus?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.124>'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.125>He'll watch the horologe a double set,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.126>If drink rock not his cradle.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.127>It were well</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.128>The general were put in mind of it.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.129>Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.130>Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.131>And looks not on his evils: is not this true?</A><br> <p><i>Enter RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.132>[Aside to him] How now, Roderigo!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.133>I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.</A><br> <p><i>Exit RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.134>And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.135>Should hazard such a place as his own second</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.136>With one of an ingraft infirmity:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.137>It were an honest action to say</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.138>So to the Moor.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.139> Not I, for this fair island:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.140>I do love Cassio well; and would do much</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.141>To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?</A><br> <p><i>Cry within: 'Help! help!'</i></p> <p><i>Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.142>You rogue! you rascal!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.143>What's the matter, lieutenant?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.144>A knave teach me my duty!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.145>I'll beat the knave into a twiggen bottle.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.146>Beat me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.147> Dost thou prate, rogue?</A><br> <p><i>Striking RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.148>Nay, good lieutenant;</A><br> <p><i>Staying him</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.149>I pray you, sir, hold your hand.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.150>Let me go, sir,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.151>Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.152>Come, come,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.153>you're drunk.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.154>Drunk!</A><br> <p><i>They fight</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.155>[Aside to RODERIGO] Away, I say; go out, and cry a mutiny.</A><br> <p><i>Exit RODERIGO</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.156>Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.157>Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--sir;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.158>Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!</A><br> <p><i>Bell rings</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.159>Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.160>The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.161>You will be shamed for ever.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.162>What is the matter here?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.163>'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death.</A><br> <p><i>Faints</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.164>Hold, for your lives!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.165>Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir--Montano,--gentlemen,--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.166>Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.167>Hold! the general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.168>Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.169>Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.170>Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.171>For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.172>He that stirs next to carve for his own rage</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.173>Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.174>Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.175>From her propriety. What is the matter, masters?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.176>Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.177>Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.178>I do not know: friends all but now, even now,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.179>In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.180>Devesting them for bed; and then, but now--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.181>As if some planet had unwitted men--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.182>Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.183>In opposition bloody. I cannot speak</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.184>Any beginning to this peevish odds;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.185>And would in action glorious I had lost</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.186>Those legs that brought me to a part of it!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.187>How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.188>I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.189>Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.190>The gravity and stillness of your youth</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.191>The world hath noted, and your name is great</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.192>In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.193>That you unlace your reputation thus</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.194>And spend your rich opinion for the name</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.195>Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.196>Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.197>Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.198>While I spare speech, which something now</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.199>offends me,--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.200>Of all that I do know: nor know I aught</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.201>By me that's said or done amiss this night;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.202>Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.203>And to defend ourselves it be a sin</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.204>When violence assails us.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.205>Now, by heaven,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.206>My blood begins my safer guides to rule;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.207>And passion, having my best judgment collied,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.208>Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.209>Or do but lift this arm, the best of you</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.210>Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.211>How this foul rout began, who set it on;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.212>And he that is approved in this offence,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.213>Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.214>Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.215>Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.216>To manage private and domestic quarrel,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.217>In night, and on the court and guard of safety!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.218>'Tis monstrous. Iago, who began't?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.219>If partially affined, or leagued in office,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.220>Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.221>Thou art no soldier.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.222>Touch me not so near:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.223>I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.224>Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.225>Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.226>Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.227>Montano and myself being in speech,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.228>There comes a fellow crying out for help:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.229>And Cassio following him with determined sword,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.230>To execute upon him. Sir, this gentleman</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.231>Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.232>Myself the crying fellow did pursue,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.233>Lest by his clamour--as it so fell out--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.234>The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.235>Outran my purpose; and I return'd the rather</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.236>For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.237>And Cassio high in oath; which till to-night</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.238>I ne'er might say before. When I came back--</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.239>For this was brief--I found them close together,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.240>At blow and thrust; even as again they were</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.241>When you yourself did part them.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.242>More of this matter cannot I report:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.243>But men are men; the best sometimes forget:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.244>Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.245>As men in rage strike those that wish them best,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.246>Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.247>From him that fled some strange indignity,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.248>Which patience could not pass.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.249>I know, Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.250>Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.251>Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.252>But never more be officer of mine.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter DESDEMONA, attended</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.253>Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.254>I'll make thee an example.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.255>What's the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.256>All's well now, sweeting; come away to bed.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.257>Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.258>Lead him off.</A><br> <p><i>To MONTANO, who is led off</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.259>Iago, look with care about the town,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.260>And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.261>Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.262>To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.263>What, are you hurt, lieutenant?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.264>Ay, past all surgery.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.265>Marry, heaven forbid!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.266>Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.267>my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.268>myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.269>Iago, my reputation!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.270>As I am an honest man, I thought you had received</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.271>some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.272>in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.273>imposition: oft got without merit, and lost without</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.274>deserving: you have lost no reputation at all,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.275>unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.276>there are ways to recover the general again: you</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.277>are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.278>policy than in malice, even so as one would beat his</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.279>offenceless dog to affright an imperious lion: sue</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.280>to him again, and he's yours.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.281>I will rather sue to be despised than to deceive so</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.282>good a commander with so slight, so drunken, and so</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.283>indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.284>and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.285>fustian with one's own shadow? O thou invisible</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.286>spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.287>let us call thee devil!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.288>What was he that you followed with your sword? What</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.289>had he done to you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.290>I know not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.291>Is't possible?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.292>I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.293>a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.294>should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.295>their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.296>revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.297>Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.298>recovered?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.299>It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.300>to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.301>another, to make me frankly despise myself.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.302>Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.303>the place, and the condition of this country</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.304>stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.305>but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.306>I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.307>I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.308>such an answer would stop them all. To be now a</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.309>sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.310>beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.311>unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.312>Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.313>if it be well used: exclaim no more against it.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.314>And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.315>I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.316>You or any man living may be drunk! at a time, man.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.317>I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.318>is now the general: may say so in this respect, for</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.319>that he hath devoted and given up himself to the</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.320>contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.321>graces: confess yourself freely to her; importune</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.322>her help to put you in your place again: she is of</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.323>so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.324>she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.325>than she is requested: this broken joint between</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.326>you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and, my</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.327>fortunes against any lay worth naming, this</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.328>crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.329>You advise me well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.330>I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech94><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.331>I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.332>beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.333>I am desperate of my fortunes if they cheque me here.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech95><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.334>You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.335>must to the watch.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.336>CASSIO: Good night, honest Iago.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech96><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.337>And what's he then that says I play the villain?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.338>When this advice is free I give and honest,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.339>Probal to thinking and indeed the course</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.340>To win the Moor again? For 'tis most easy</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.341>The inclining Desdemona to subdue</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.342>In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.343>As the free elements. And then for her</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.344>To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.345>All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.346>His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.347>That she may make, unmake, do what she list,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.348>Even as her appetite shall play the god</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.349>With his weak function. How am I then a villain</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.350>To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.351>Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.352>When devils will the blackest sins put on,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.353>They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.354>As I do now: for whiles this honest fool</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.355>Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.356>And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.357>I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.358>That she repeals him for her body's lust;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.359>And by how much she strives to do him good,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.360>She shall undo her credit with the Moor.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.361>So will I turn her virtue into pitch,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.362>And out of her own goodness make the net</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.363>That shall enmesh them all.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter RODERIGO</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.364>How now, Roderigo!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech97><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.365>I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.366>hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.367>almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.368>cudgelled; and I think the issue will be, I shall</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.369>have so much experience for my pains, and so, with</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.370>no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech98><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=2.3.371>How poor are they that have not patience!</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.372>What wound did ever heal but by degrees?</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.373>Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.374>And wit depends on dilatory time.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.375>Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.376>And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.377>Though other things grow fair against the sun,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.378>Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.379>Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.380>Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.381>Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.382>Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.383>Nay, get thee gone.</A><br> <p><i>Exit RODERIGO</i></p> <A NAME=2.3.384>Two things are to be done:</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.385>My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.386>I'll set her on;</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.387>Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.388>And bring him jump when he may Cassio find</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.389>Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way</A><br> <A NAME=2.3.390>Dull not device by coldness and delay.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote><p> <H3>ACT III</h3> <h3>SCENE I. Before the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter CASSIO and some Musicians</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.1>Masters, play here; I will content your pains;</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.2>Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'</A><br> <p><i>Music</i></p> <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.3>Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.4>that they speak i' the nose thus?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>First Musician</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.5>How, sir, how!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.6>Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>First Musician</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.7>Ay, marry, are they, sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.8>O, thereby hangs a tail.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>First Musician</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.9>Whereby hangs a tale, sir?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.10>Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.11>But, masters, here's money for you: and the general</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.12>so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.13>sake, to make no more noise with it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>First Musician</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.14>Well, sir, we will not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.15>If you have any music that may not be heard, to't</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.16>again: but, as they say to hear music the general</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.17>does not greatly care.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>First Musician</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.18>We have none such, sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.19>Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.20>go; vanish into air; away!</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt Musicians</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.21>Dost thou hear, my honest friend?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.22>No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.23>Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.24>of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.25>the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.26>one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.27>wilt thou do this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.28>She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.29>shall seem to notify unto her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.30>Do, good my friend.</A><br> <p><i>Exit Clown</i></p> <p><i>Enter IAGO</i></p> <A NAME=3.1.31>In happy time, Iago.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.32>You have not been a-bed, then?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.33>Why, no; the day had broke</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.34>Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.35>To send in to your wife: my suit to her</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.36>Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.37>Procure me some access.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.38>I'll send her to you presently;</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.39>And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.40>Out of the way, that your converse and business</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.41>May be more free.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.42>I humbly thank you for't.</A><br> <p><i>Exit IAGO</i></p> <A NAME=3.1.43>I never knew</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.44>A Florentine more kind and honest.</A><br> <p><i>Enter EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.45>Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.46>For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.47>The general and his wife are talking of it;</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.48>And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.49>That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.50>And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.51>He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.52>And needs no other suitor but his likings</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.53>To take the safest occasion by the front</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.54>To bring you in again.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.55>Yet, I beseech you,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.56>If you think fit, or that it may be done,</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.57>Give me advantage of some brief discourse</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.58>With Desdemona alone.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.59>Pray you, come in;</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.60>I will bestow you where you shall have time</A><br> <A NAME=3.1.61>To speak your bosom freely.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.1.62>I am much bound to you.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. A room in the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.2.1>These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;</A><br> <A NAME=3.2.2>And by him do my duties to the senate:</A><br> <A NAME=3.2.3>That done, I will be walking on the works;</A><br> <A NAME=3.2.4>Repair there to me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.2.5>Well, my good lord, I'll do't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.2.6>This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>Gentleman</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.2.7>We'll wait upon your lordship.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE III. The garden of the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.1>Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.2>All my abilities in thy behalf.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.3>Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.4>As if the case were his.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.5>O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.6>But I will have my lord and you again</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.7>As friendly as you were.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.8>Bounteous madam,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.9>Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.10>He's never any thing but your true servant.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.11>I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.12>You have known him long; and be you well assured</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.13>He shall in strangeness stand no further off</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.14>Than in a polite distance.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.15>Ay, but, lady,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.16>That policy may either last so long,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.17>Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.18>Or breed itself so out of circumstance,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.19>That, I being absent and my place supplied,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.20>My general will forget my love and service.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.21>Do not doubt that; before Emilia here</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.22>I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.23>If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.24>To the last article: my lord shall never rest;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.25>I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.26>His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.27>I'll intermingle every thing he does</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.28>With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.29>For thy solicitor shall rather die</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.30>Than give thy cause away.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.31>Madam, here comes my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.32>Madam, I'll take my leave.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.33>Why, stay, and hear me speak.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.34>Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.35>Unfit for mine own purposes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.36>Well, do your discretion.</A><br> <p><i>Exit CASSIO</i></p> <p><i>Enter OTHELLO and IAGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.37>Ha! I like not that.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.38>What dost thou say?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.39>Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.40>Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.41>Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.42>That he would steal away so guilty-like,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.43>Seeing you coming.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.44> I do believe 'twas he.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.45>How now, my lord!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.46>I have been talking with a suitor here,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.47>A man that languishes in your displeasure.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.48>Who is't you mean?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.49>Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.50>If I have any grace or power to move you,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.51>His present reconciliation take;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.52>For if he be not one that truly loves you,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.53>That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.54>I have no judgment in an honest face:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.55>I prithee, call him back.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.56>Went he hence now?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.57>Ay, sooth; so humbled</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.58>That he hath left part of his grief with me,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.59>To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.60>Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.61>But shall't be shortly?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.62>The sooner, sweet, for you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.63>Shall't be to-night at supper?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.64>No, not to-night.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.65>To-morrow dinner, then?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.66>I shall not dine at home;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.67>I meet the captains at the citadel.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.68>Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.69>On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.70>I prithee, name the time, but let it not</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.71>Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.72>And yet his trespass, in our common reason--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.73>Save that, they say, the wars must make examples</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.74>Out of their best--is not almost a fault</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.75>To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.76>Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.77>What you would ask me, that I should deny,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.78>Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.79>That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.80>When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.81>Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.82>To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.83>Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.84>I will deny thee nothing.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.85>Why, this is not a boon;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.86>'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.87>Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.88>Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.89>To your own person: nay, when I have a suit</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.90>Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.91>It shall be full of poise and difficult weight</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.92>And fearful to be granted.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.93>I will deny thee nothing:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.94>Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.95>To leave me but a little to myself.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.96>Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.97>Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.98>Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.99>Whate'er you be, I am obedient.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.100>Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.101>But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.102>Chaos is come again.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.103>My noble lord--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.104> What dost thou say, Iago?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.105>Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.106>Know of your love?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.107>He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.108>But for a satisfaction of my thought;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.109>No further harm.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.110> Why of thy thought, Iago?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.111>I did not think he had been acquainted with her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.112>O, yes; and went between us very oft.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.113>Indeed!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.114>Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.115>Is he not honest?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.116>Honest, my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.117> Honest! ay, honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.118>My lord, for aught I know.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.119>What dost thou think?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.120>Think, my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.121>Think, my lord!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.122>By heaven, he echoes me,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.123>As if there were some monster in his thought</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.124>Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.125>I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.126>When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.127>And when I told thee he was of my counsel</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.128>In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.129>And didst contract and purse thy brow together,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.130>As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.131>Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.132>Show me thy thought.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.133>My lord, you know I love you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.134>I think thou dost;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.135>And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.136>And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.137>Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.138>For such things in a false disloyal knave</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.139>Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.140>They are close delations, working from the heart</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.141>That passion cannot rule.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.142>For Michael Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.143>I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.144>I think so too.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.145> Men should be what they seem;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.146>Or those that be not, would they might seem none!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.147>Certain, men should be what they seem.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.148>Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.149>Nay, yet there's more in this:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.150>I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.151>As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.152>The worst of words.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.153>Good my lord, pardon me:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.154>Though I am bound to every act of duty,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.155>I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.156>Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.157>As where's that palace whereinto foul things</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.158>Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.159>But some uncleanly apprehensions</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.160>Keep leets and law-days and in session sit</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.161>With meditations lawful?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.162>Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.163>If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.164>A stranger to thy thoughts.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.165>I do beseech you--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.166>Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.167>As, I confess, it is my nature's plague</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.168>To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.169>Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.170>From one that so imperfectly conceits,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.171>Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.172>Out of his scattering and unsure observance.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.173>It were not for your quiet nor your good,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.174>Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.175>To let you know my thoughts.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.176>What dost thou mean?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.177>Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.178>Is the immediate jewel of their souls:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.179>Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.180>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.181>But he that filches from me my good name</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.182>Robs me of that which not enriches him</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.183>And makes me poor indeed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.184>By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.185>You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.186>Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.187>Ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.188>O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.189>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.190>The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.191>Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.192>But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.193>Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.194>O misery!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.195>Poor and content is rich and rich enough,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.196>But riches fineless is as poor as winter</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.197>To him that ever fears he shall be poor.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.198>Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.199>From jealousy!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.200> Why, why is this?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.201>Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.202>To follow still the changes of the moon</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.203>With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.204>Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.205>When I shall turn the business of my soul</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.206>To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.207>Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.208>To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.209>Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.210>Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.211>Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.212>The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.213>For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.214>I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.215>And on the proof, there is no more but this,--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.216>Away at once with love or jealousy!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.217>I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.218>To show the love and duty that I bear you</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.219>With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.220>Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.221>Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.222>Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.223>I would not have your free and noble nature,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.224>Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.225>I know our country disposition well;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.226>In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.227>They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.228>Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.229>Dost thou say so?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.230>She did deceive her father, marrying you;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.231>And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.232>She loved them most.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.233>And so she did.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.234>Why, go to then;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.235>She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.236>To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.237>He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.238>I humbly do beseech you of your pardon</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.239>For too much loving you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.240>I am bound to thee for ever.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.241>I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.242>Not a jot, not a jot.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.243>I' faith, I fear it has.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.244>I hope you will consider what is spoke</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.245>Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.246>I am to pray you not to strain my speech</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.247>To grosser issues nor to larger reach</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.248>Than to suspicion.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.249>I will not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.250> Should you do so, my lord,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.251>My speech should fall into such vile success</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.252>As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.253>My lord, I see you're moved.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.254>No, not much moved:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.255>I do not think but Desdemona's honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.256>Long live she so! and long live you to think so!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.257>And yet, how nature erring from itself,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.258>Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.259>Not to affect many proposed matches</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.260>Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.261>Whereto we see in all things nature tends--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.262>Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.263>Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.264>But pardon me; I do not in position</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.265>Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.266>Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.267>May fall to match you with her country forms</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.268>And happily repent.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.269>Farewell, farewell:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.270>If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.271>Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.272>[Going] My lord, I take my leave.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.273>Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.274>Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.275>[Returning] My lord, I would I might entreat</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.276>your honour</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.277>To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.278>Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.279>For sure, he fills it up with great ability,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.280>Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.281>You shall by that perceive him and his means:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.282>Note, if your lady strain his entertainment</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.283>With any strong or vehement importunity;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.284>Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.285>Let me be thought too busy in my fears--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.286>As worthy cause I have to fear I am--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.287>And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech94><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.288>Fear not my government.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech95><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.289>I once more take my leave.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech96><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.290>This fellow's of exceeding honesty,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.291>And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.292>Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.293>Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.294>I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.295>To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.296>And have not those soft parts of conversation</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.297>That chamberers have, or for I am declined</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.298>Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.299>She's gone. I am abused; and my relief</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.300>Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.301>That we can call these delicate creatures ours,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.302>And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.303>And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.304>Than keep a corner in the thing I love</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.305>For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.306>Prerogatived are they less than the base;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.307>'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.308>Even then this forked plague is fated to us</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.309>When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.310>If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.311>I'll not believe't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech97><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.312>How now, my dear Othello!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.313>Your dinner, and the generous islanders</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.314>By you invited, do attend your presence.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech98><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.315>I am to blame.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech99><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.316> Why do you speak so faintly?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.317>Are you not well?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech100><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.318>I have a pain upon my forehead here.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech101><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.319>'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.320>Let me but bind it hard, within this hour</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.321>It will be well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech102><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.322> Your napkin is too little:</A><br> <p><i>He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.323>Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech103><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.324>I am very sorry that you are not well.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech104><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.325>I am glad I have found this napkin:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.326>This was her first remembrance from the Moor:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.327>My wayward husband hath a hundred times</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.328>Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.329>For he conjured her she should ever keep it,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.330>That she reserves it evermore about her</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.331>To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.332>And give't Iago: what he will do with it</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.333>Heaven knows, not I;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.334>I nothing but to please his fantasy.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter Iago</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech105><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.335>How now! what do you here alone?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech106><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.336>Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech107><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.337>A thing for me? it is a common thing--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech108><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.338>Ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech109><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.339>To have a foolish wife.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech110><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.340>O, is that all? What will you give me now</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.341>For the same handkerchief?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech111><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.342>What handkerchief?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech112><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.343>What handkerchief?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.344>Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.345>That which so often you did bid me steal.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech113><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.346>Hast stol'n it from her?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech114><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.347>No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.348>And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.349>Look, here it is.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech115><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.350> A good wench; give it me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech116><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.351>What will you do with 't, that you have been</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.352>so earnest</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.353>To have me filch it?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech117><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.354>[Snatching it] Why, what's that to you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech118><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.355>If it be not for some purpose of import,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.356>Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.357>When she shall lack it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech119><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.358>Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.359>Go, leave me.</A><br> <p><i>Exit EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.360>I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.361>And let him find it. Trifles light as air</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.362>Are to the jealous confirmations strong</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.363>As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.364>The Moor already changes with my poison:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.365>Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.366>Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.367>But with a little act upon the blood.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.368>Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.369>Look, where he comes!</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter OTHELLO</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.370>Not poppy, nor mandragora,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.371>Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.372>Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.373>Which thou owedst yesterday.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech120><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.374>Ha! ha! false to me?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech121><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.375>Why, how now, general! no more of that.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech122><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.376>Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.377>I swear 'tis better to be much abused</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.378>Than but to know't a little.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech123><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.379>How now, my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech124><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.380>What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.381>I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.382>I slept the next night well, was free and merry;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.383>I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.384>He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.385>Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech125><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.386>I am sorry to hear this.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech126><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.387>I had been happy, if the general camp,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.388>Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.389>So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.390>Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.391>Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.392>That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.393>Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.394>The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.395>The royal banner, and all quality,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.396>Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.397>And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.398>The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.399>Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech127><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.400>Is't possible, my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech128><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.401>Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.402>Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.403>Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.404>Thou hadst been better have been born a dog</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.405>Than answer my waked wrath!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech129><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.406>Is't come to this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech130><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.407>Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.408>That the probation bear no hinge nor loop</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.409>To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech131><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.410>My noble lord,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech132><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.411>If thou dost slander her and torture me,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.412>Never pray more; abandon all remorse;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.413>On horror's head horrors accumulate;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.414>Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.415>For nothing canst thou to damnation add</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.416>Greater than that.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech133><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.417> O grace! O heaven forgive me!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.418>Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.419>God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.420>That livest to make thine honesty a vice!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.421>O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.422>To be direct and honest is not safe.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.423>I thank you for this profit; and from hence</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.424>I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech134><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.425>Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech135><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.426>I should be wise, for honesty's a fool</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.427>And loses that it works for.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech136><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.428>By the world,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.429>I think my wife be honest and think she is not;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.430>I think that thou art just and think thou art not.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.431>I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.432>As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.433>As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.434>Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.435>I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech137><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.436>I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.437>I do repent me that I put it to you.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.438>You would be satisfied?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech138><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.439>Would! nay, I will.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech139><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.440>And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.441>Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.442>Behold her topp'd?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech140><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.443> Death and damnation! O!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech141><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.444>It were a tedious difficulty, I think,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.445>To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.446>If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.447>More than their own! What then? how then?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.448>What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.449>It is impossible you should see this,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.450>Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.451>As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.452>As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.453>If imputation and strong circumstances,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.454>Which lead directly to the door of truth,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.455>Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech142><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.456>Give me a living reason she's disloyal.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech143><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.457>I do not like the office:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.458>But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.459>Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.460>I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.461>And, being troubled with a raging tooth,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.462>I could not sleep.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.463>There are a kind of men so loose of soul,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.464>That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.465>One of this kind is Cassio:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.466>In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.467>Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.468>And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.469>Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.470>As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.471>That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.472>Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.473>Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech144><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.474>O monstrous! monstrous!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech145><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.475>Nay, this was but his dream.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech146><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.476>But this denoted a foregone conclusion:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.477>'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech147><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.478>And this may help to thicken other proofs</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.479>That do demonstrate thinly.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech148><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.480>I'll tear her all to pieces.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech149><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.481>Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.482>She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.483>Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.484>Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech150><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.485>I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech151><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.486>I know not that; but such a handkerchief--</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.487>I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.488>See Cassio wipe his beard with.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech152><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.489>If it be that--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech153><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.490>If it be that, or any that was hers,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.491>It speaks against her with the other proofs.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech154><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.492>O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.493>One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.494>Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.495>All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.496>'Tis gone.</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.497>Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.498>Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.499>To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.500>For 'tis of aspics' tongues!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech155><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.501>Yet be content.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech156><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.502>O, blood, blood, blood!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech157><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.503>Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech158><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.504>Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.505>Whose icy current and compulsive course</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.506>Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.507>To the Propontic and the Hellespont,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.508>Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.509>Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.510>Till that a capable and wide revenge</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.511>Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,</A><br> <p><i>Kneels</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.512>In the due reverence of a sacred vow</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.513>I here engage my words.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech159><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.514>Do not rise yet.</A><br> <p><i>Kneels</i></p> <A NAME=3.3.515>Witness, you ever-burning lights above,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.516>You elements that clip us round about,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.517>Witness that here Iago doth give up</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.518>The execution of his wit, hands, heart,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.519>To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.520>And to obey shall be in me remorse,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.521>What bloody business ever.</A><br> <p><i>They rise</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech160><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.522>I greet thy love,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.523>Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.524>And will upon the instant put thee to't:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.525>Within these three days let me hear thee say</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.526>That Cassio's not alive.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech161><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.527>My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.528>But let her live.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech162><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.529>Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.530>Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.531>To furnish me with some swift means of death</A><br> <A NAME=3.3.532>For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech163><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.3.533>I am your own for ever.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE IV. Before the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.1>Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.2>I dare not say he lies any where.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.3>Why, man?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.4>He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.5>is stabbing.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.6>Go to: where lodges he?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.7>To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.8>Can any thing be made of this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.9>I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.10>lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.11>to lie in mine own throat.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.12>Can you inquire him out, and be edified by report?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.13>I will catechise the world for him; that is, make</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.14>questions, and by them answer.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.15>Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.16>moved my lord on his behalf, and hope all will be well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.17>To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.18>therefore I will attempt the doing it.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.19>Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.20>I know not, madam.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.21>Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.22>Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.23>Is true of mind and made of no such baseness</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.24>As jealous creatures are, it were enough</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.25>To put him to ill thinking.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.26>Is he not jealous?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.27>Who, he? I think the sun where he was born</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.28>Drew all such humours from him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.29>Look, where he comes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.30>I will not leave him now till Cassio</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.31>Be call'd to him.</A><br> <p><i>Enter OTHELLO</i></p> <A NAME=3.4.32>How is't with you, my lord</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.33>Well, my good lady.</A><br> <p><i>Aside</i></p> <A NAME=3.4.34>O, hardness to dissemble!--</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.35>How do you, Desdemona?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.36>Well, my good lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.37>Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.38>It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.39>This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.40>Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.41>A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.42>Much castigation, exercise devout;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.43>For here's a young and sweating devil here,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.44>That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.45>A frank one.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.46> You may, indeed, say so;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.47>For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.48>A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.49>But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.50>I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.51>What promise, chuck?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.52>I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.53>I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.54>Lend me thy handkerchief.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.55>Here, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.56>That which I gave you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.57>I have it not about me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.58>Not?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.59> No, indeed, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.60>That is a fault.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.61>That handkerchief</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.62>Did an Egyptian to my mother give;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.63>She was a charmer, and could almost read</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.64>The thoughts of people: she told her, while</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.65>she kept it,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.66>'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.67>Entirely to her love, but if she lost it</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.68>Or made gift of it, my father's eye</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.69>Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.70>After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.71>And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.72>To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.73>Make it a darling like your precious eye;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.74>To lose't or give't away were such perdition</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.75>As nothing else could match.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.76>Is't possible?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.77>'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.78>A sibyl, that had number'd in the world</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.79>The sun to course two hundred compasses,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.80>In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.81>The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.82>And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.83>Conserved of maidens' hearts.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.84>Indeed! is't true?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.85>Most veritable; therefore look to't well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.86>Then would to God that I had never seen't!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.87>Ha! wherefore?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.88>Why do you speak so startingly and rash?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.89>Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.90>o' the way?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.91>Heaven bless us!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.92>Say you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.93>It is not lost; but what an if it were?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.94>How!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.95>I say, it is not lost.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.96>Fetch't, let me see't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.97>Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.98>This is a trick to put me from my suit:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.99>Pray you, let Cassio be received again.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.100>Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.101>Come, come;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.102>You'll never meet a more sufficient man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.103>The handkerchief!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.104> I pray, talk me of Cassio.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.105>The handkerchief!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.106> A man that all his time</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.107>Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.108>Shared dangers with you,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.109>The handkerchief!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.110>In sooth, you are to blame.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.111>Away!</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.112>Is not this man jealous?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.113>I ne'er saw this before.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.114>Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.115>I am most unhappy in the loss of it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.116>'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.117>They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.118>To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.119>They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!</A><br> <p><i>Enter CASSIO and IAGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.120>There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.121>And, lo, the happiness! go, and importune her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.122>How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.123>Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.124>That by your virtuous means I may again</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.125>Exist, and be a member of his love</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.126>Whom I with all the office of my heart</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.127>Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.128>If my offence be of such mortal kind</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.129>That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.130>Nor purposed merit in futurity,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.131>Can ransom me into his love again,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.132>But to know so must be my benefit;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.133>So shall I clothe me in a forced content,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.134>And shut myself up in some other course,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.135>To fortune's alms.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.136> Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.137>My advocation is not now in tune;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.138>My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.139>Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.140>So help me every spirit sanctified,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.141>As I have spoken for you all my best</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.142>And stood within the blank of his displeasure</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.143>For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.144>What I can do I will; and more I will</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.145>Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.146>Is my lord angry?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.147> He went hence but now,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.148>And certainly in strange unquietness.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.149>Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.150>When it hath blown his ranks into the air,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.151>And, like the devil, from his very arm</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.152>Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.153>Something of moment then: I will go meet him:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.154>There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.155>I prithee, do so.</A><br> <p><i>Exit IAGO</i></p> <A NAME=3.4.156>Something, sure, of state,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.157>Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practise</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.158>Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.159>Hath puddled his clear spirit: and in such cases</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.160>Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.161>Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.162>For let our finger ache, and it indues</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.163>Our other healthful members even to that sense</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.164>Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.165>Nor of them look for such observances</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.166>As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.167>I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.168>Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.169>But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.170>And he's indicted falsely.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.171>Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.172>And no conception nor no jealous toy</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.173>Concerning you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.174>Alas the day! I never gave him cause.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.175>But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.176>They are not ever jealous for the cause,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.177>But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.178>Begot upon itself, born on itself.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.179>Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.180>Lady, amen.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.181>I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.182>If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.183>And seek to effect it to my uttermost.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.184>I humbly thank your ladyship.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA</i></p> <p><i>Enter BIANCA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.185>Save you, friend Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.186>What make you from home?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.187>How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.188>I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.189>And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.190>What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.191>Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.192>More tedious than the dial eight score times?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.193>O weary reckoning!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.194> Pardon me, Bianca:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.195>I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.196>But I shall, in a more continuate time,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.197>Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,</A><br> <p><i>Giving her DESDEMONA's handkerchief</i></p> <A NAME=3.4.198>Take me this work out.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.199>O Cassio, whence came this?</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.200>This is some token from a newer friend:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.201>To the felt absence now I feel a cause:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.202>Is't come to this? Well, well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.203>Go to, woman!</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.204>Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.205>From whence you have them. You are jealous now</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.206>That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.207>No, in good troth, Bianca.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.208>Why, whose is it?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.209>I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.210>I like the work well: ere it be demanded--</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.211>As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.212>Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.213>Leave you! wherefore?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.214>I do attend here on the general;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.215>And think it no addition, nor my wish,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.216>To have him see me woman'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.217>Why, I pray you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.218>Not that I love you not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.219>But that you do not love me.</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.220>I pray you, bring me on the way a little,</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.221>And say if I shall see you soon at night.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.222>'Tis but a little way that I can bring you;</A><br> <A NAME=3.4.223>For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=3.4.224>'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote><p> <H3>ACT IV</h3> <h3>SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO and IAGO</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.1>Will you think so?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.2> Think so, Iago!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.3>What,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.4>To kiss in private?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.5>An unauthorized kiss.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.6>Or to be naked with her friend in bed</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.7>An hour or more, not meaning any harm?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.8>Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.9>It is hypocrisy against the devil:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.10>They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.11>The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.12>So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.13>But if I give my wife a handkerchief,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.14>What then?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.15>Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and, being hers,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.16>She may, I think, bestow't on any man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.17>She is protectress of her honour too:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.18>May she give that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.19>Her honour is an essence that's not seen;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.20>They have it very oft that have it not:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.21>But, for the handkerchief,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.22>By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.23>Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.24>As doth the raven o'er the infected house,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.25>Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.26>Ay, what of that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.27> That's not so good now.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.28>What,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.29>If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.30>Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.31>Who having, by their own importunate suit,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.32>Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.33>Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.34>But they must blab--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.35>Hath he said any thing?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.36>He hath, my lord; but be you well assured,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.37>No more than he'll unswear.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.38>What hath he said?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.39>'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.40>What? what?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.41>Lie--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.42> With her?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.43>With her, on her; what you will.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.44>Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.45>they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.46>--Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.47>confess, and be hanged for his labour;--first, to be</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.48>hanged, and then to confess.--I tremble at it.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.49>Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.50>passion without some instruction. It is not words</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.51>that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.52>--Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--O devil!--</A><br> <p><i>Falls in a trance</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.53>Work on,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.54>My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.55>And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.56>All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.57>My lord, I say! Othello!</A><br> <p><i>Enter CASSIO</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.58>How now, Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.59>What's the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.60>My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.61>This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.62>Rub him about the temples.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.63>No, forbear;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.64>The lethargy must have his quiet course:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.65>If not, he foams at mouth and by and by</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.66>Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.67>Do you withdraw yourself a little while,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.68>He will recover straight: when he is gone,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.69>I would on great occasion speak with you.</A><br> <p><i>Exit CASSIO</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.70>How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.71>Dost thou mock me?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.72> I mock you! no, by heaven.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.73>Would you would bear your fortune like a man!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.74>A horned man's a monster and a beast.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.75>There's many a beast then in a populous city,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.76>And many a civil monster.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.77>Did he confess it?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.78> Good sir, be a man;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.79>Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.80>May draw with you: there's millions now alive</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.81>That nightly lie in those unproper beds</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.82>Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.83>O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.84>To lip a wanton in a secure couch,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.85>And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.86>And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.87>O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.88>Stand you awhile apart;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.89>Confine yourself but in a patient list.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.90>Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.91>A passion most unsuiting such a man--</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.92>Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.93>And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.94>Bade him anon return and here speak with me;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.95>The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.96>And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.97>That dwell in every region of his face;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.98>For I will make him tell the tale anew,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.99>Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.100>He hath, and is again to cope your wife:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.101>I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.102>Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.103>And nothing of a man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.104>Dost thou hear, Iago?</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.105>I will be found most cunning in my patience;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.106>But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.107>That's not amiss;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.108>But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?</A><br> <p><i>OTHELLO retires</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.109>Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.110>A housewife that by selling her desires</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.111>Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.112>That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.113>To beguile many and be beguiled by one:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.114>He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.115>From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter CASSIO</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.116>As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.117>And his unbookish jealousy must construe</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.118>Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behavior,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.119>Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.120>The worser that you give me the addition</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.121>Whose want even kills me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.122>Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't.</A><br> <p><i>Speaking lower</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.123>Now, if this suit lay in Bianco's power,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.124>How quickly should you speed!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.125>Alas, poor caitiff!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.126>Look, how he laughs already!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.127>I never knew woman love man so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.128>Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.129>Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.130>Do you hear, Cassio?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.131>Now he importunes him</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.132>To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.133>She gives it out that you shall marry hey:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.134>Do you intend it?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.135>Ha, ha, ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.136>Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.137>I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee, bear some</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.138>charity to my wit: do not think it so unwholesome.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.139>Ha, ha, ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.140>So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.141>'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.142>Prithee, say true.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.143>I am a very villain else.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.144>Have you scored me? Well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.145>This is the monkey's own giving out: she is</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.146>persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.147>flattery, not out of my promise.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.148>Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.149>She was here even now; she haunts me in every place.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.150>I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.151>certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.152>and, by this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.153>Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.154>imports it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.155>So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so hales,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.156>and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.157>Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. O,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.158>I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.159>throw it to.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.160>Well, I must leave her company.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.161>Before me! look, where she comes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.162>'Tis such another fitchew! marry a perfumed one.</A><br> <p><i>Enter BIANCA</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.163>What do you mean by this haunting of me?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.164>Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.165>mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.166>I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.167>work?--A likely piece of work, that you should find</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.168>it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.169>This is some minx's token, and I must take out the</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.170>work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.171>you had it, I'll take out no work on't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.172>How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.173>By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.174>An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an you</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.175>will not, come when you are next prepared for.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.176>After her, after her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.177>'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the street else.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.178>Will you sup there?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.179>'Faith, I intend so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.180>Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very fain</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.181>speak with you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.182>Prithee, come; will you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.183>Go to; say no more.</A><br> <p><i>Exit CASSIO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.184>[Advancing] How shall I murder him, Iago?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.185>Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.186>O Iago!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.187>And did you see the handkerchief?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.188>Was that mine?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.189>Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.190>foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.191>hath given it his whore.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.192>I would have him nine years a-killing.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.193>A fine woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.194>Nay, you must forget that.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.195>Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.196>for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.197>stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.198>world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.199>an emperor's side and command him tasks.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.200>Nay, that's not your way.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.201>Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.202>with her needle: an admirable musician: O! she</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.203>will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so high</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.204>and plenteous wit and invention:--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.205>She's the worse for all this.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.206>O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.207>gentle a condition!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.208>Ay, too gentle.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.209>Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.210>O Iago, the pity of it, Iago!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.211>If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.212>patent to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.213>near nobody.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech94><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.214>I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech95><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.215>O, 'tis foul in her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech96><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.216>With mine officer!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech97><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.217>That's fouler.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech98><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.218>Get me some poison, Iago; this night: I'll not</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.219>expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.220>unprovide my mind again: this night, Iago.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech99><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.221>Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.222>the bed she hath contaminated.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech100><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.223>Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech101><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.224>And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.225>shall hear more by midnight.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech102><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.226>Excellent good.</A><br> <p><i>A trumpet within</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.227>What trumpet is that same?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech103><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.228>Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.229>Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.</A><br> <p><i>Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech104><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.230>Save you, worthy general!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech105><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.231>With all my heart, sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech106><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.232>The duke and senators of Venice greet you.</A><br> <p><i>Gives him a letter</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech107><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.233>I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.</A><br> <p><i>Opens the letter, and reads</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech108><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.234>And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech109><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.235>I am very glad to see you, signior</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.236>Welcome to Cyprus.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech110><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.237>I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech111><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.238>Lives, sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech112><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.239>Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.240>An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech113><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.241>Are you sure of that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech114><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.242>My lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech115><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.243>[Reads] 'This fail you not to do, as you will--'</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech116><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.244>He did not call; he's busy in the paper.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.245>Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech117><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.246>A most unhappy one: I would do much</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.247>To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech118><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.248>Fire and brimstone!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech119><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.249>My lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech120><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.250> Are you wise?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech121><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.251>What, is he angry?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech122><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.252> May be the letter moved him;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.253>For, as I think, they do command him home,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.254>Deputing Cassio in his government.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech123><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.255>Trust me, I am glad on't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech124><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.256>Indeed!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech125><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.257>My lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech126><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.258>I am glad to see you mad.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech127><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.259>Why, sweet Othello,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech128><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.260>[Striking her] Devil!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech129><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.261>I have not deserved this.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech130><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.262>My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.263>Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.264>Make her amends; she weeps.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech131><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.265>O devil, devil!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.266>If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.267>Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.268>Out of my sight!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech132><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.269>I will not stay to offend you.</A><br> <p><i>Going</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech133><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.270>Truly, an obedient lady:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.271>I do beseech your lordship, call her back.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech134><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.272>Mistress!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech135><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.273> My lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech136><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.274>What would you with her, sir?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech137><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.275>Who, I, my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech138><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.276>Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.277>Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.278>And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.279>And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.280>Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.281>Concerning this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.282>I am commanded home. Get you away;</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.283>I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.284>And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!</A><br> <p><i>Exit DESDEMONA</i></p> <A NAME=4.1.285>Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.286>I do entreat that we may sup together:</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.287>You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--Goats and monkeys!</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech139><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.288>Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.289>Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.290>Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.291>The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.292>Could neither graze nor pierce?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech140><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.293>He is much changed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech141><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.294>Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech142><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.295>He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.296>What he might be: if what he might he is not,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.297>I would to heaven he were!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech143><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.298>What, strike his wife!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech144><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.299>'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.300>That stroke would prove the worst!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech145><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.301>Is it his use?</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.302>Or did the letters work upon his blood,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.303>And new-create this fault?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech146><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.304>Alas, alas!</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.305>It is not honesty in me to speak</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.306>What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.307>And his own courses will denote him so</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.308>That I may save my speech: do but go after,</A><br> <A NAME=4.1.309>And mark how he continues.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech147><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.1.310>I am sorry that I am deceived in him.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. A room in the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.1>You have seen nothing then?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.2>Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.3>Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.4>But then I saw no harm, and then I heard</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.5>Each syllable that breath made up between them.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.6>What, did they never whisper?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.7>Never, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.8>Nor send you out o' the way?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.9>Never.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.10>To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.11>Never, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.12>That's strange.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.13>I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.14>Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.15>Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.16>If any wretch have put this in your head,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.17>Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.18>For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.19>There's no man happy; the purest of their wives</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.20>Is foul as slander.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.21>Bid her come hither: go.</A><br> <p><i>Exit EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=4.2.22>She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.23>That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.24>A closet lock and key of villanous secrets</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.25>And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.</A><br> <p><i>Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.26>My lord, what is your will?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.27>Pray, chuck, come hither.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.28>What is your pleasure?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.29>Let me see your eyes;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.30>Look in my face.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.31> What horrible fancy's this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.32>[To EMILIA] Some of your function, mistress;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.33>Leave procreants alone and shut the door;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.34>Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.35>Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.</A><br> <p><i>Exit EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.36>Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.37>I understand a fury in your words.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.38>But not the words.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.39>Why, what art thou?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.40>Your wife, my lord; your true</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.41>And loyal wife.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.42> Come, swear it, damn thyself</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.43>Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.44>Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.45>Swear thou art honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.46>Heaven doth truly know it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.47>Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.48>To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.49>O Desdemona! away! away! away!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.50>Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.51>Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.52>If haply you my father do suspect</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.53>An instrument of this your calling back,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.54>Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.55>Why, I have lost him too.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.56>Had it pleased heaven</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.57>To try me with affliction; had they rain'd</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.58>All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.59>Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.60>Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.61>I should have found in some place of my soul</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.62>A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.63>A fixed figure for the time of scorn</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.64>To point his slow unmoving finger at!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.65>Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.66>But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.67>Where either I must live, or bear no life;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.68>The fountain from the which my current runs,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.69>Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.70>Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.71>To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.72>Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.73>Ay, there, look grim as hell!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.74>I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.75>O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.76>That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.77>Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.78>That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.79>ne'er been born!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.80>Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.81>Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.82>Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.83>Committed! O thou public commoner!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.84>I should make very forges of my cheeks,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.85>That would to cinders burn up modesty,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.86>Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.87>Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.88>The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.89>Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.90>And will not hear it. What committed!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.91>Impudent strumpet!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.92> By heaven, you do me wrong.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.93>Are you not a strumpet?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.94>No, as I am a Christian:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.95>If to preserve this vessel for my lord</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.96>From any other foul unlawful touch</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.97>Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.98>What, not a whore?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.99> No, as I shall be saved.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.100>Is't possible?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.101> O, heaven forgive us!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.102>I cry you mercy, then:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.103>I took you for that cunning whore of Venice</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.104>That married with Othello.</A><br> <p><i>Raising his voice</i></p> <A NAME=4.2.105>You, mistress,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.106>That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.107>And keep the gate of hell!</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=4.2.108>You, you, ay, you!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.109>We have done our course; there's money for your pains:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.110>I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.111>Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.112>How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.113>'Faith, half asleep.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.114>Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.115>With who?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.116>Why, with my lord, madam.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.117>Who is thy lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.118> He that is yours, sweet lady.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.119>I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.120>I cannot weep; nor answer have I none,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.121>But what should go by water. Prithee, tonight</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.122>Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.123>And call thy husband hither.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.124>Here's a change indeed!</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.125>'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.126>How have I been behaved, that he might stick</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.127>The small'st opinion on my least misuse?</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.128>What is your pleasure, madam?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.129>How is't with you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.130>I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.131>Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.132>He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.133>I am a child to chiding.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.134>What's the matter, lady?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.135>Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.136>Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.137>As true hearts cannot bear.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.138>Am I that name, Iago?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.139>What name, fair lady?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.140>Such as she says my lord did say I was.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.141>He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.142>Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.143>Why did he so?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.144>I do not know; I am sure I am none such.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.145>Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.146>Hath she forsook so many noble matches,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.147>Her father and her country and her friends,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.148>To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.149>It is my wretched fortune.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.150>Beshrew him for't!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.151>How comes this trick upon him?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.152>Nay, heaven doth know.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.153>I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.154>Some busy and insinuating rogue,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.155>Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.156>Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.157>Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.158>If any such there be, heaven pardon him!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.159>A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.160>Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.161>What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.162>The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.163>Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.164>O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.165>And put in every honest hand a whip</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.166>To lash the rascals naked through the world</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.167>Even from the east to the west!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.168>Speak within door.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.169>O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.170>That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.171>And made you to suspect me with the Moor.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.172>You are a fool; go to.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.173>O good Iago,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.174>What shall I do to win my lord again?</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.175>Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.176>I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.177>If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.178>Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.179>Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.180>Delighted them in any other form;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.181>Or that I do not yet, and ever did.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.182>And ever will--though he do shake me off</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.183>To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.184>Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.185>And his unkindness may defeat my life,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.186>But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.187>It does abhor me now I speak the word;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.188>To do the act that might the addition earn</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.189>Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.190>I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.191>The business of the state does him offence,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.192>And he does chide with you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.193>If 'twere no other--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.194>'Tis but so, I warrant.</A><br> <p><i>Trumpets within</i></p> <A NAME=4.2.195>Hark, how these instruments summon to supper!</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.196>The messengers of Venice stay the meat;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.197>Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA</i></p> <p><i>Enter RODERIGO</i></p> <A NAME=4.2.198>How now, Roderigo!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.199>I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.200>What in the contrary?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.201>Every day thou daffest me with some device, Iago;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.202>and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.203>all conveniency than suppliest me with the least</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.204>advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.205>it, nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.206>already I have foolishly suffered.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.207>Will you hear me, Roderigo?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.208>'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.209>performances are no kin together.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.210>You charge me most unjustly.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.211>With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.212>my means. The jewels you have had from me to</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.213>deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.214>votarist: you have told me she hath received them</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.215>and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.216>respect and acquaintance, but I find none.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.217>Well; go to; very well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.218>Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.219>not very well: nay, I think it is scurvy, and begin</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.220>to find myself fobbed in it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.221>Very well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.222>I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.223>known to Desdemona: if she will return me my</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.224>jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.225>unlawful solicitation; if not, assure yourself I</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.226>will seek satisfaction of you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.227>You have said now.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.228>Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.229>Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and even from</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.230>this instant to build on thee a better opinion than</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.231>ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.232>taken against me a most just exception; but yet, I</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.233>protest, I have dealt most directly in thy affair.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.234>It hath not appeared.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.235>I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.236>suspicion is not without wit and judgment. But,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.237>Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.238>have greater reason to believe now than ever, I mean</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.239>purpose, courage and valour, this night show it: if</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.240>thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.241>take me from this world with treachery and devise</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.242>engines for my life.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech94><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.243>Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech95><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.244>Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.245>to depute Cassio in Othello's place.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech96><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.246>Is that true? why, then Othello and Desdemona</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.247>return again to Venice.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech97><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.248>O, no; he goes into Mauritania and takes away with</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.249>him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.250>lingered here by some accident: wherein none can be</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.251>so determinate as the removing of Cassio.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech98><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.252>How do you mean, removing of him?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech99><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.253>Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's place;</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.254>knocking out his brains.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech100><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.255>And that you would have me to do?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech101><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.256>Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.257>He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.258>go to him: he knows not yet of his horrorable</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.259>fortune. If you will watch his going thence, which</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.260>I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one,</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.261>you may take him at your pleasure: I will be near</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.262>to second your attempt, and he shall fall between</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.263>us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.264>me; I will show you such a necessity in his death</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.265>that you shall think yourself bound to put it on</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.266>him. It is now high suppertime, and the night grows</A><br> <A NAME=4.2.267>to waste: about it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech102><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.268>I will hear further reason for this.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech103><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.2.269>And you shall be satisfied.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE III. Another room In the castle.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA and Attendants</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.1>I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.2>O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.3>Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.4>Your honour is most welcome.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.5>Will you walk, sir?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.6>O,--Desdemona,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.7>My lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.8>Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.9>forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.10>I will, my lord.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.11>How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.12>He says he will return incontinent:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.13>He hath commanded me to go to bed,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.14>And bade me to dismiss you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.15>Dismiss me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.16>It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,.</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.17>Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.18>We must not now displease him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.19>I would you had never seen him!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.20>So would not I my love doth so approve him,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.21>That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns--</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.22>Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.23>I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.24>All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds!</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.25>If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.26>In one of those same sheets.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.27>Come, come you talk.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.28>My mother had a maid call'd Barbara:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.29>She was in love, and he she loved proved mad</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.30>And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;'</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.31>An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.32>And she died singing it: that song to-night</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.33>Will not go from my mind; I have much to do,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.34>But to go hang my head all at one side,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.35>And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.36>Shall I go fetch your night-gown?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.37>No, unpin me here.</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.38>This Lodovico is a proper man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.39>A very handsome man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.40>He speaks well.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.41>I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.42>to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.43>[Singing] The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.44>Sing all a green willow:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.45>Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.46>Sing willow, willow, willow:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.47>The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.48>Sing willow, willow, willow;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.49>Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.50>Lay by these:--</A><br> <p><i>Singing</i></p> <A NAME=4.3.51>Sing willow, willow, willow;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.52>Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:--</A><br> <p><i>Singing</i></p> <A NAME=4.3.53>Sing all a green willow must be my garland.</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.54>Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,-</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.55>Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.56>It's the wind.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.57>[Singing] I call'd my love false love; but what</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.58>said he then?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.59>Sing willow, willow, willow:</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.60>If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men!</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.61>So, get thee gone; good night Ate eyes do itch;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.62>Doth that bode weeping?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.63>'Tis neither here nor there.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.64>I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men!</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.65>Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,--</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.66>That there be women do abuse their husbands</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.67>In such gross kind?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.68>There be some such, no question.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.69>Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.70>Why, would not you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.71>No, by this heavenly light!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.72>Nor I neither by this heavenly light;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.73>I might do't as well i' the dark.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.74>Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.75>The world's a huge thing: it is a great price.</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.76>For a small vice.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.77>In troth, I think thou wouldst not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.78>In troth, I think I should; and undo't when I had</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.79>done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.80>joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.81>gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.82>exhibition; but for the whole world,--why, who would</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.83>not make her husband a cuckold to make him a</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.84>monarch? I should venture purgatory for't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.85>Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.86>For the whole world.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.87>Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.88>having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.89>own world, and you might quickly make it right.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.90>I do not think there is any such woman.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.91>Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.92>store the world they played for.</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.93>But I do think it is their husbands' faults</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.94>If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.95>And pour our treasures into foreign laps,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.96>Or else break out in peevish jealousies,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.97>Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.98>Or scant our former having in despite;</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.99>Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.100>Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.101>Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.102>And have their palates both for sweet and sour,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.103>As husbands have. What is it that they do</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.104>When they change us for others? Is it sport?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.105>I think it is: and doth affection breed it?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.106>I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.107>It is so too: and have not we affections,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.108>Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.109>Then let them use us well: else let them know,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.110>The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=4.3.111>Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,</A><br> <A NAME=4.3.112>Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote><p> <H3>ACT V</h3> <h3>SCENE I. Cyprus. A street.</h3> <p><blockquote> <i>Enter IAGO and RODERIGO</i> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.1>Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.2>Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.3>Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.4>It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.5>And fix most firm thy resolution.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.6>Be near at hand; I may miscarry in't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.7>Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.</A><br> <p><i>Retires</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.8>I have no great devotion to the deed;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.9>And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.10>'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.11>I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.12>And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.13>Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.14>Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.15>He calls me to a restitution large</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.16>Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.17>As gifts to Desdemona;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.18>It must not be: if Cassio do remain,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.19>He hath a daily beauty in his life</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.20>That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.21>May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.22>No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.</A><br> <p><i>Enter CASSIO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.23>I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!</A><br> <p><i>Makes a pass at CASSIO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.24>That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.25>But that my coat is better than thou know'st</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.26>I will make proof of thine.</A><br> <p><i>Draws, and wounds RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.27>O, I am slain!</A><br> <p><i>IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.28>I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!</A><br> <p><i>Falls</i></p> <p><i>Enter OTHELLO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.29>The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.30>O, villain that I am!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.31>It is even so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.32>O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.33>'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.34>That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.35>Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.36>And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.37>Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.38>Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.</A><br> <p><i>Exit</i></p> <p><i>Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.39>What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.40>'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.41>O, help!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.42>Hark!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.43>O wretched villain!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.44>Two or three groan: it is a heavy night:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.45>These may be counterfeits: let's think't unsafe</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.46>To come in to the cry without more help.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.47>Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.48>Hark!</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter IAGO, with a light</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.49>Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.50>Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.51>We do not know.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.52> Did not you hear a cry?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.53>Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.54>What's the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.55>This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.56>The same indeed; a very valiant fellow.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.57>What are you here that cry so grievously?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.58>Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.59>Give me some help.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.60>O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.61>I think that one of them is hereabout,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.62>And cannot make away.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.63>O treacherous villains!</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.64>What are you there? come in, and give some help.</A><br> <p><i>To LODOVICO and GRATIANO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.65>O, help me here!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.66>That's one of them.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.67>O murderous slave! O villain!</A><br> <p><i>Stabs RODERIGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>RODERIGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.68>O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.69>Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.70>How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.71>What may you be? are you of good or evil?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.72>As you shall prove us, praise us.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.73>Signior Lodovico?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.74>He, sir.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.75>I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.76>Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.77>How is't, brother!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.78>My leg is cut in two.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.79>Marry, heaven forbid!</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.80>Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.</A><br> <p><i>Enter BIANCA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.81>What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.82>Who is't that cried!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.83>O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.84>Cassio, Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.85>O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.86>Who they should be that have thus many led you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.87>No.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.88>I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.89>Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.90>To bear him easily hence!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.91>Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.92>Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.93>To be a party in this injury.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.94>Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.95>Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.96>Alas my friend and my dear countryman</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.97>Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.98>What, of Venice?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.99>Even he, sir; did you know him?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.100>Know him! ay.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.101>Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.102>These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.103>That so neglected you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.104>I am glad to see you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.105>How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.106>Roderigo!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.107>He, he 'tis he.</A><br> <p><i>A chair brought in</i></p> <A NAME=5.1.108>O, that's well said; the chair!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.109>Some good man bear him carefully from hence;</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.110>I'll fetch the general's surgeon.</A><br> <p><i>To BIANCA</i></p> <A NAME=5.1.111>For you, mistress,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.112>Save you your labour. He that lies slain</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.113>here, Cassio,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.114>Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.115>None in the world; nor do I know the man.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.116>[To BIANCA] What, look you pale? O, bear him out</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.117>o' the air.</A><br> <p><i>CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off</i></p> <A NAME=5.1.118>Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.119>Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.120>Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.121>Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.122>Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.123>Though tongues were out of use.</A><br> <p><i>Enter EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.124>'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.125>Cassio hath here been set on in the dark</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.126>By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.127>He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.128>Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.129>This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.130>Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.</A><br> <p><i>To BIANCA</i></p> <A NAME=5.1.131>What, do you shake at that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.132>He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.133>O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.134>Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>BIANCA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.135>I am no strumpet; but of life as honest</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.136>As you that thus abuse me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.137>As I! foh! fie upon thee!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.1.138>Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.139>Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.140>Emilia run you to the citadel,</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.141>And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.142>Will you go on? I pray.</A><br> <p><i>Aside</i></p> <A NAME=5.1.143>This is the night</A><br> <A NAME=5.1.144>That either makes me or fordoes me quite.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </blockquote> <h3>SCENE II. A bedchamber in the castle: DESDEMONA in bed asleep;</h3> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.1>a light burning.</A><br> <p><i>Enter OTHELLO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech1><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.2>It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul,--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.3>Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.4>It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.5>Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.6>And smooth as monumental alabaster.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.7>Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.8>Put out the light, and then put out the light:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.9>If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.10>I can again thy former light restore,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.11>Should I repent me: but once put out thy light,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.12>Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.13>I know not where is that Promethean heat</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.14>That can thy light relume. When I have pluck'd the rose,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.15>I cannot give it vital growth again.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.16>It must needs wither: I'll smell it on the tree.</A><br> <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> <A NAME=5.2.17>Ah balmy breath, that dost almost persuade</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.18>Justice to break her sword! One more, one more.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.19>Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.20>And love thee after. One more, and this the last:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.21>So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.22>But they are cruel tears: this sorrow's heavenly;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.23>It strikes where it doth love. She wakes.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech2><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.24>Who's there? Othello?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech3><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.25>Ay. Desdemona.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech4><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.26>Will you come to bed, my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech5><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.27>Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech6><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.28>Ay, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech7><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.29>If you bethink yourself of any crime</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.30>Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.31>Solicit for it straight.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech8><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.32>Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech9><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.33>Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.34>I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.35>No; heaven forfend! I would not kill thy soul.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech10><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.36>Talk you of killing?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech11><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.37>Ay, I do.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech12><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.38>Then heaven</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.39>Have mercy on me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech13><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.40> Amen, with all my heart!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech14><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.41>If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech15><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.42>Hum!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech16><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.43>And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.44>When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.45>Since guiltiness I know not; but yet I feel I fear.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech17><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.46>Think on thy sins.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech18><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.47> They are loves I bear to you.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech19><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.48>Ay, and for that thou diest.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech20><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.49>That death's unnatural that kills for loving.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.50>Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.51>Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.52>These are portents; but yet I hope, I hope,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.53>They do not point on me.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech21><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.54>Peace, and be still!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech22><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.55>I will so. What's the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech23><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.56>That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.57>Thou gavest to Cassio.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech24><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.58>No, by my life and soul!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.59>Send for the man, and ask him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech25><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.60>Sweet soul, take heed,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.61>Take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech26><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.62>Ay, but not yet to die.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech27><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.63>Yes, presently:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.64>Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.65>For to deny each article with oath</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.66>Cannot remove nor choke the strong conception</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.67>That I do groan withal. Thou art to die.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech28><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.68>Then Lord have mercy on me!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech29><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.69>I say, amen.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech30><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.70>And have you mercy too! I never did</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.71>Offend you in my life; never loved Cassio</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.72>But with such general warranty of heaven</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.73>As I might love: I never gave him token.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech31><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.74>By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in's hand.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.75>O perjured woman! thou dost stone my heart,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.76>And makest me call what I intend to do</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.77>A murder, which I thought a sacrifice:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.78>I saw the handkerchief.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech32><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.79>He found it then;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.80>I never gave it him: send for him hither;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.81>Let him confess a truth.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech33><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.82>He hath confess'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech34><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.83>What, my lord?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech35><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.84>That he hath used thee.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech36><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.85>How? unlawfully?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech37><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.86>Ay.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech38><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.87>He will not say so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech39><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.88>No, his mouth is stopp'd;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.89>Honest Iago hath ta'en order for't.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech40><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.90>O! my fear interprets: what, is he dead?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech41><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.91>Had all his hairs been lives, my great revenge</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.92>Had stomach for them all.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech42><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.93>Alas! he is betray'd and I undone.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech43><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.94>Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech44><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.95>O, banish me, my lord, but kill me not!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech45><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.96>Down, strumpet!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech46><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.97>Kill me to-morrow: let me live to-night!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech47><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.98>Nay, if you strive--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech48><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.99>But half an hour!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech49><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.100> Being done, there is no pause.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech50><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.101>But while I say one prayer!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech51><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.102>It is too late.</A><br> <p><i>He stifles her</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech52><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.103>[Within] My lord , my lord! what, ho! my lord, my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech53><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.104>What noise is this? Not dead? not yet quite dead?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.105>I that am cruel am yet merciful;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.106>I would not have thee linger in thy pain: So, so.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech54><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.107>[Within] What, ho! my lord, my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech55><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.108>Who's there?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech56><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.109>[Within] O, good my lord, I would speak a word with you!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech57><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.110>Yes: 'tis Emilia. By and by. She's dead.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.111>'Tis like she comes to speak of Cassio's death.--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.112>The noise was here. Ha! no more moving?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.113>Still as the grave. Shall she come in? were't good?--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.114>I think she stirs again:--no. What's best to do?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.115>If she come in, she'll sure speak to my wife:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.116>My wife! my wife! what wife? I have no wife.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.117>O insupportable! O heavy hour!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.118>Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.119>Of sun and moon, and that the affrighted globe</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.120>Should yawn at alteration.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech58><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.121>[Within] I do beseech you</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.122>That I may speak with you, O, good my lord!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech59><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.123>I had forgot thee: O, come in, Emilia;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.124>Soft; by and by. Let me the curtains draw.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.125>Where art thou?</A><br> <p><i>Unlocks the door</i></p> <p><i>Enter EMILIA</i></p> <A NAME=5.2.126>What's the matter with thee now?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech60><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.127>O, my good lord, yonder's foul murders done!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech61><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.128>What, now?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech62><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.129>But now, my lord.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech63><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.130>It is the very error of the moon;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.131>She comes more nearer earth than she was wont,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.132>And makes men mad.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech64><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.133>Cassio, my lord, hath kill'd a young Venetian</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.134>Call'd Roderigo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech65><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.135> Roderigo kill'd!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.136>And Cassio kill'd!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech66><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.137>No, Cassio is not kill'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech67><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.138>Not Cassio kill'd! then murder's out of tune,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.139>And sweet revenge grows harsh.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech68><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.140>O, falsely, falsely murder'd!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech69><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.141>Alas, what cry is that?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech70><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.142>That! what?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech71><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.143>Out, and alas! that was my lady's voice.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.144>Help! help, ho! help! O lady, speak again!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.145>Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech72><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.146>A guiltless death I die.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech73><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.147>O, who hath done this deed?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech74><b>DESDEMONA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.148>Nobody; I myself. Farewell</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.149>Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!</A><br> <p><i>Dies</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech75><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.150>Why, how should she be murder'd?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech76><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.151>Alas, who knows?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech77><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.152>You heard her say herself, it was not I.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech78><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.153>She said so: I must needs report the truth.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech79><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.154>She's, like a liar, gone to burning hell:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.155>'Twas I that kill'd her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech80><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.156>O, the more angel she,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.157>And you the blacker devil!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech81><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.158>She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech82><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.159>Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech83><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.160>She was false as water.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech84><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.161>Thou art rash as fire, to say</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.162>That she was false: O, she was heavenly true!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech85><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.163>Cassio did top her; ask thy husband else.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.164>O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.165>But that I did proceed upon just grounds</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.166>To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech86><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.167>My husband!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech87><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.168>Thy husband.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech88><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.169>That she was false to wedlock?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech89><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.170>Ay, with Cassio. Nay, had she been true,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.171>If heaven would make me such another world</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.172>Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.173>I'ld not have sold her for it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech90><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.174>My husband!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech91><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.175> Ay, 'twas he that told me first:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.176>An honest man he is, and hates the slime</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.177>That sticks on filthy deeds.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech92><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.178>My husband!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech93><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.179>What needs this iteration, woman? I say thy husband.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech94><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.180>O mistress, villany hath made mocks with love,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.181>My husband say that she was false!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech95><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.182>He, woman;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.183>I say thy husband: dost understand the word?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.184>My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech96><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.185>If he say so, may his pernicious soul</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.186>Rot half a grain a day! he lies to the heart:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.187>She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech97><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.188>Ha!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech98><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.189>Do thy worst:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.190>This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.191>Than thou wast worthy her.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech99><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.192>Peace, you were best.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech100><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.193>Thou hast not half that power to do me harm</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.194>As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.195>As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.196>I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.197>Though I lost twenty lives.--Help! help, ho! help!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.198>The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!</A><br> <p><i>Enter MONTANO, GRATIANO, IAGO, and others</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech101><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.199>What is the matter? How now, general!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech102><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.200>O, are you come, Iago? you have done well,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.201>That men must lay their murders on your neck.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech103><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.202>What is the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech104><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.203>Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.204>He says thou told'st him that his wife was false:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.205>I know thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.206>Speak, for my heart is full.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech105><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.207>I told him what I thought, and told no more</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.208>Than what he found himself was apt and true.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech106><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.209>But did you ever tell him she was false?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech107><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.210>I did.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech108><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.211>You told a lie, an odious, damned lie;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.212>Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.213>She false with Cassio!--did you say with Cassio?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech109><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.214>With Cassio, mistress. Go to, charm your tongue.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech110><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.215>I will not charm my tongue; I am bound to speak:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.216>My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed,--</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech111><b>All</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.217>O heavens forfend!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech112><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.218>And your reports have set the murder on.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech113><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.219>Nay, stare not, masters: it is true, indeed.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech114><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.220>'Tis a strange truth.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech115><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.221>O monstrous act!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech116><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.222> Villany, villany, villany!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.223>I think upon't, I think: I smell't: O villany!--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.224>I thought so then:--I'll kill myself for grief:--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.225>O villany, villany!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech117><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.226>What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech118><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.227>Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.228>'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.229>Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech119><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.230>O! O! O!</A><br> <p><i>He falls on the bed</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech120><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.231> Nay, lay thee down and roar;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.232>For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.233>That e'er did lift up eye.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech121><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.234>[Rising] O, she was foul!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.235>I scarce did know you, uncle: there lies your niece,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.236>Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopp'd:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.237>I know this act shows horrible and grim.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech122><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.238>Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.239>Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.240>Shore his old thread in twain: did he live now,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.241>This sight would make him do a desperate turn,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.242>Yea, curse his better angel from his side,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.243>And fall to reprobation.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech123><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.244>'Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.245>That she with Cassio hath the act of shame</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.246>A thousand times committed; Cassio confess'd it:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.247>And she did gratify his amorous works</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.248>With that recognizance and pledge of love</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.249>Which I first gave her; I saw it in his hand:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.250>It was a handkerchief, an antique token</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.251>My father gave my mother.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech124><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.252>O heaven! O heavenly powers!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech125><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.253>Come, hold your peace.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech126><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.254>'Twill out, 'twill out: I peace!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.255>No, I will speak as liberal as the north:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.256>Let heaven and men and devils, let them all,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.257>All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech127><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.258>Be wise, and get you home.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech128><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.259>I will not.</A><br> <p><i>IAGO offers to stab EMILIA</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech129><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.260>Fie!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.261>Your sword upon a woman?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech130><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.262>O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.263>I found by fortune and did give my husband;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.264>For often, with a solemn earnestness,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.265>More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.266>He begg'd of me to steal it.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech131><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.267>Villanous whore!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech132><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.268>She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.269>And I did give't my husband.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech133><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.270>Filth, thou liest!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech134><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.271>By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.272>O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.273>Do with so good a woman?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech135><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.274>Are there no stones in heaven</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.275>But what serve for the thunder?--Precious villain!</A><br> <p><i>He runs at IAGO IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech136><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.276>The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech137><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.277>Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech138><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.278>He's gone, but his wife's kill'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech139><b>MONTANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.279>'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.280>Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.281>Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.282>But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.283>For 'tis a damned slave.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech140><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.284>I am not valiant neither,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.285>But ever puny whipster gets my sword:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.286>But why should honour outlive honesty?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.287>Let it go all.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech141><b>EMILIA</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.288>What did thy song bode, lady?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.289>Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.290>And die in music.</A><br> <p><i>Singing</i></p> <A NAME=5.2.291>Willow, willow, willow,--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.292>Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.293>So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.294>So speaking as I think, I die, I die.</A><br> <p><i>Dies</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech142><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.295>I have another weapon in this chamber;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.296>It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper:--</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.297>O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech143><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.298>[Within] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.299>Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech144><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.300>Look in upon me then and speak with me,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.301>Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.</A><br> <p><i>Re-enter GRATIANO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech145><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.302>What is the matter?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech146><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.303>Behold, I have a weapon;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.304>A better never did itself sustain</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.305>Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.306>That, with this little arm and this good sword,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.307>I have made my way through more impediments</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.308>Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.309>Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.310>Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.311>Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.312>And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.313>Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.314>Man but a rush against Othello's breast,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.315>And he retires. Where should Othello go?</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.316>Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.317>Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.318>This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.319>And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.320>Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.321>Whip me, ye devils,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.322>From the possession of this heavenly sight!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.323>Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.324>Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.325>O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.326>Oh! Oh! Oh!</A><br> <p><i>Enter LODOVICO. MONTANO, CASSIO carried in a chair, and Officers with IAGO, prisoner</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech147><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.327>Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech148><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.328>That's he that was Othello: here I am.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech149><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.329>Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech150><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.330>I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.331>If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.</A><br> <p><i>Wounds IAGO</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech151><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.332>Wrench his sword from him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech152><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.333>I bleed, sir; but not kill'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech153><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.334>I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.335>For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech154><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.336>O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.337>Fall'n in the practise of a damned slave,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.338>What shall be said to thee?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech155><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.339>Why, any thing:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.340>An honourable murderer, if you will;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.341>For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech156><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.342>This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.343>Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech157><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.344>Ay.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech158><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.345>Dear general, I never gave you cause.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech159><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.346>I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.347>Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.348>Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech160><b>IAGO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.349>Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.350>From this time forth I never will speak word.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech161><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.351>What, not to pray?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech162><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.352> Torments will ope your lips.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech163><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.353>Well, thou dost best.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech164><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.354>Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.355>Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.356>Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.357>And here another: the one of them imports</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.358>The death of Cassio to be undertook</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.359>By Roderigo.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech165><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.360>O villain!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech166><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.361>Most heathenish and most gross!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech167><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.362>Now here's another discontented paper,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.363>Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.364>Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.365>But that belike Iago in the interim</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.366>Came in and satisfied him.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech168><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.367>O the pernicious caitiff!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.368>How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.369>That was my wife's?</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech169><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.370>I found it in my chamber:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.371>And he himself confess'd but even now</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.372>That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.373>Which wrought to his desire.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech170><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.374>O fool! fool! fool!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech171><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.375>There is besides in Roderigo's letter,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.376>How he upbraids Iago, that he made him</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.377>Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.378>That I was cast: and even but now he spake,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.379>After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.380>Iago set him on.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech172><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.381>You must forsake this room, and go with us:</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.382>Your power and your command is taken off,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.383>And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.384>If there be any cunning cruelty</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.385>That can torment him much and hold him long,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.386>It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.387>Till that the nature of your fault be known</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.388>To the Venetian state. Come, bring him away.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech173><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.389>Soft you; a word or two before you go.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.390>I have done the state some service, and they know't.</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.391>No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.392>When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.393>Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.394>Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.395>Of one that loved not wisely but too well;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.396>Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.397>Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.398>Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.399>Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.400>Albeit unused to the melting mood,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.401>Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.402>Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.403>And say besides, that in Aleppo once,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.404>Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.405>Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.406>I took by the throat the circumcised dog,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.407>And smote him, thus.</A><br> <p><i>Stabs himself</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech174><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.408>O bloody period!</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech175><b>GRATIANO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.409> All that's spoke is marr'd.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech176><b>OTHELLO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.410>I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.411>Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.</A><br> <p><i>Falls on the bed, and dies</i></p> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech177><b>CASSIO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.412>This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.413>For he was great of heart.</A><br> </blockquote> <A NAME=speech178><b>LODOVICO</b></a> <blockquote> <A NAME=5.2.414>[To IAGO] O Spartan dog,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.415>More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.416>Look on the tragic loading of this bed;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.417>This is thy work: the object poisons sight;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.418>Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.419>And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.420>For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.421>Remains the censure of this hellish villain;</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.422>The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.423>Myself will straight aboard: and to the state</A><br> <A NAME=5.2.424>This heavy act with heavy heart relate.</A><br> <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> </body> </html>