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    <author>William Shakespeare</author>
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  <head>DRAMATIS PERSON&AElig;</head>
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   <castItem type="role"><role id="duke.">DUKE OF VENICE</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="bra.">BRABANTIO</role><roleDesc>a senator</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="sen.">Other Senators</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="gra.">GRATIANO</role><roleDesc>brother to Brabantio</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="lod.">LODOVICO</role><roleDesc>kinsman to Brabantio</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="oth.">OTHELLO</role><roleDesc>a noble Moor in the service of the Venetian state</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="cas.">CASSIO</role><roleDesc>his lieutenant</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="iago.">IAGO</role><roleDesc>his ancient</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="rod.">RODERIGO</role><roleDesc>a Venetian gentleman</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="mon.">MONTANO</role><roleDesc>Othello's predecessor in the government of Cyprus</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="clo.">Clown</role><roleDesc>servant to Othello</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="des.">DESDEMONA</role><roleDesc>daughter to Brabantio and wife to Othello</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="emil.">EMILIA</role><roleDesc>wife to Iago</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="bian.">BIANCA</role><roleDesc>mistress to Cassio</roleDesc></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="sailor">Sailor</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="mess.">Messenger</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="her.">Herald</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="officer">Officers</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="gent.">Gentlemen</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="mus.">Musicians</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"><role id="all.">All.</role></castItem>
   <castItem type="role"> and Attendants</castItem>
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  <stage type="setting">SCENE: Venice: a Sea-port in Cyprus.</stage>
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 <head>ACT I</head><lb n="2" ed="F1"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Venice.   A street. </stage>
<lb n="3" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter RODERIGO and IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="4" ed="F1"/><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="5" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="6" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="7" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>If ever I did dream <lb n="8" ed="F1"/>of such a matter,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Abhor me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="9" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Thou told'st me <lb n="10" ed="F1"/>thou didst hold him in thy hate.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="11" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Despise me, <lb n="12" ed="F1"/>if I do not.   Three great ones of the city,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="13" ed="F1"/></l><l>In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="14" ed="F1"/></l><l>Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="15" ed="F1"/></l><l>I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="16" ed="F1"/></l><l>But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="17" ed="F1"/></l><l>Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="18" ed="F1"/></l><l>Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And, in conclusion,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="19" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="20" ed="F1"/></l><l>'I have already chose my officer.'
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And what was he?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="21" ed="F1"/></l><l>Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="22" ed="F1"/></l><l>One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="23" ed="F1"/></l><l>A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="24" ed="F1"/></l><l>That never set a squadron in the field,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="25" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor the division of a battle knows
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="26" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="27" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein the toged consuls can propose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="28" ed="F1"/></l><l>As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="29" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is all his soldiership.   But he, sir, had the election:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="30" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="31" ed="F1"/></l><l>At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="32" ed="F1"/></l><l>Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="33" ed="F1"/></l><l>By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="34" ed="F1"/></l><l>He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="35" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="36" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="37" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why, there's no remedy; <lb n="38" ed="F1"/>'tis the curse of service,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="39" ed="F1"/></l><l>Preferment goes by letter and affection,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="40" ed="F1"/></l><l>And not by old gradation, where each second
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="41" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="42" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whether I in any just term am affined
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="43" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To love the Moor.

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="44" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="F">I would not follow him then.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="45" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O, sir, content you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="46" ed="F1"/></l><l>I follow him to serve my turn upon him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="47" ed="F1"/></l><l>We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="48" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cannot be truly follow'd.   You shall mark
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="49" ed="F1"/></l><l>Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="50" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="51" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="52" ed="F1"/></l><l>For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="53" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="54" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="55" ed="F1"/></l><l>Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="56" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="57" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do well thrive by them <lb n="58" ed="F1"/>and when they have lined their coats
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="59" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do themselves homage: <lb n="60" ed="F1"/>these fellows have some soul;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="61" ed="F1"/></l><l>And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="62" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="63" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="64" ed="F1"/></l><l>In following him, I follow but myself;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="65" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="66" ed="F1"/></l><l>But seeming so, for my peculiar end:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="67" ed="F1"/></l><l>For when my outward action doth demonstrate
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="68" ed="F1"/></l><l>The native act and figure of my heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="69" ed="F1"/></l><l>In compliment extern, 'tis not long after
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="70" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="71" ed="F1"/></l><l>For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="72" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>What a full fortune does the thicklips owe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="73" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If he can carry't thus!

<lb n="74" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Call up her father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="75" ed="F1"/></l><l>Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="76" ed="F1"/></l><l>Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="77" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="78" ed="F1"/></l><l>Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="79" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="80" ed="F1"/></l><l>As it may lose some color.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="81" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="82" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="83" ed="F1"/></l><l>As when, by night and negligence, the fire
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="84" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is spied in populous cities.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="85" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>What, ho, Brabantio!   Signior Brabantio, ho!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="86" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="87" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="88" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thieves! thieves!
<stage>BRABANTIO appears above, at a window.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="89" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>What is the reason of this terrible summons?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="90" ed="F1"/></l><l>What is the matter there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="91" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Signior, is all your family within?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="92" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Are your doors lock'd?

<lb n="93" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">Why, wherefore ask you this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="94" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on your gown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="95" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="96" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even now, now, very now, an old black ram
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="97" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise;
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="98" ed="F1"/></l><l>Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="99" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="100" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Arise, I say.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="101" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">What, have you lost your wits?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="102" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="103" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>Not I: what are you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="104" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="I">My name is Roderigo.

<lb n="105" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">The worser welcome:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="106" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="107" ed="F1"/></l><l>In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="108" ed="F1"/></l><l>My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="109" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being full of supper and distempering draughts,
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="110" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="111" ed="F1"/></l><l>To start my quiet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="112" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="I">Sir, sir, sir,--

<lb n="113" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">But thou must needs be sure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="114" ed="F1"/></l><l>My spirit and my place have in them power
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="115" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To make this bitter to thee.

<lb n="116" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="F">Patience, good sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="117" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="118" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My house is not a grange.

<lb n="119" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="F">Most grave Brabantio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="120" ed="F1"/></l><l>In simple and pure soul I come to you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="121" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>'Zounds, sir, you are one of those
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that will not serve God, <lb n="122" ed="F1"/>if the devil bid you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Because we come to do you service <lb n="123" ed="F1"/>and you
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think we are ruffians, you'll have your daughter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="124" ed="F1"/><lb/>covered with a Barbary horse; you'll
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>have your nephews <lb n="125" ed="F1"/>neigh to you; you'll have
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>coursers for cousins <lb n="126" ed="F1"/>and gennets for germans.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="127" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><p>What profane wretch art thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="128" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>I am one, sir, that comes to tell you
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>your daughter <lb n="129" ed="F1"/>and the Moor are now making
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the beast with two backs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="130" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="I">Thou art a villain.

<lb n="131" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">You are--a senator.

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="132" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="133" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="134" ed="F1"/></l><l>If 't be your pleasure and most wise consent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="135" ed="F1"/></l><l>As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="136" ed="F1"/></l><l>At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="137" ed="F1"/></l><l>Transported, with no worse nor better guard
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="138" ed="F1"/></l><l>But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="139" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="140" ed="F1"/></l><l>If this be known to you and your allowance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="141" ed="F1"/></l><l>We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="142" ed="F1"/></l><l>But if you know not this, my manners tell me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="143" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="144" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, from the sense of all civility,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="145" ed="F1"/></l><l>I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="146" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="147" ed="F1"/></l><l>I say again, hath made a gross revolt;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="148" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="149" ed="F1"/></l><l>In an extravagant and wheeling stranger
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="150" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of here and every where.   Straight satisfy yourself:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="151" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she be in her chamber or your house,
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="152" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let loose on me the justice of the state
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="153" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For thus deluding you.

<lb n="154" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">Strike on the tinder, ho!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="155" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give me a taper! call up all my people!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="156" ed="F1"/></l><l>This accident is not unlike my dream:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="157" ed="F1"/></l><l>Belief of it oppresses me already.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="158" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Light, I say! light!
<stage>[Exit above.</stage>

<lb n="159" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Farewell; for I must leave you:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="160" ed="F1"/></l><l>It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="161" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="162" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="163" ed="F1"/></l><l>However this may gall him with some check,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="164" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd
<lb n="151" ed="G"/><lb n="165" ed="F1"/></l><l>With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="166" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="167" ed="F1"/></l><l>Another of his fathom they have none,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="168" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lead their business: in which regard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="169" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="170" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet, for necessity of present life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="171" ed="F1"/></l><l>I must show out a flag and sign of love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="172" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="173" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="174" ed="F1"/></l><l>And there will I be with him. So, farewell.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>
<lb n="175" ed="F1"/><stage>Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="176" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>It is too true an evil: gone she is;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="177" ed="F1"/></l><l>And what's to come of my despised time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="178" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="179" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where didst thou see her?   O unhappy girl!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="180" ed="F1"/></l><l>With the Moor, say'st thou?   Who would be a father!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="181" ed="F1"/></l><l>How didst thou know 'twas she?   O, she deceives me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="182" ed="F1"/></l><l>Past thought!   What said she to you?   Get more tapers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="183" ed="F1"/></l><l>Raise all my kindred.   Are they married, think you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="184" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Truly, I think they are.

<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="185" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>O heaven!   How got she out?   <lb n="186" ed="F1"/>O treason of the blood!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="187" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="188" ed="F1"/></l><l>By what you see them act. Is there not charms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="189" ed="F1"/></l><l>By which the property of youth and maidhood
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="190" ed="F1"/></l><l>May he abused?   Have you not read, Roderigo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="191" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Of some such thing?

<lb n="192" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="F">Yes, sir, I have indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="193" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="194" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some one way, some another. Do you know
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="195" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="196" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>I think I can discover him, if you please
<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="197" ed="F1"/></l><l>To get good guard and go along with me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="198" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="199" ed="F1"/></l><l>I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="200" ed="F1"/></l><l>And raise some special officers of night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="201" ed="F1"/></l><l>On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
 <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="202" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Another street. </stage>
<lb n="203" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="204" ed="F1"/><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="205" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="206" ed="F1"/></l><l>To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="207" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="208" ed="F1"/></l><l>I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="209" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">'Tis better as it is.

<lb n="210" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, but he prated,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="211" ed="F1"/></l><l>And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="212" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against your honor
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That, with the little godliness I have,
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="213" ed="F1"/></l><l>I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="214" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are you fast married?   Be assured of this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="215" ed="F1"/></l><l>That the magnifico is much beloved,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="216" ed="F1"/></l><l>And hath in his effect a voice potential
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="217" ed="F1"/></l><l>As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="218" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="219" ed="F1"/></l><l>The law, with all his might to enforce it on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="220" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Will give him cable.

<lb n="221" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Let him do his spite;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="222" ed="F1"/></l><l>My services which I have done the signiory
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="223" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="224" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which, when I know that boasting is an honor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="225" ed="F1"/></l><l>I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="226" ed="F1"/></l><l>From men of royal siege, and my demerits

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="227" ed="F1"/></l><l>May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="228" ed="F1"/></l><l>As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="229" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that I love the gentle Desdemona,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="230" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would not my unhoused free condition
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="231" ed="F1"/></l><l>Put into circumscription and confine
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="232" ed="F1"/></l><l>For the sea's worth.   But, look! what lights come yond?
<lb n="233" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="234" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Those are the raised father and his friends:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="235" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You were best go in.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="236" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Not I; I must be found:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="237" ed="F1"/></l><l>My parts, my title and my perfect soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="238" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="239" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>By Janus, I think no.
<stage type="entrance">Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="240" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>The servants of the duke, <lb n="241" ed="F1"/>and my lieutenant.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="242" ed="F1"/></l><l>The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="243" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What is the news?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="244" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">The duke does greet you, general,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="245" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="246" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Even on the instant.

<lb n="247" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What is the matter, think you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="248" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Something from   Cyprus, as I may divine:
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="249" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is a business of some heat: the galleys
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="250" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="251" ed="F1"/></l><l>This very night at one another's heels,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="252" ed="F1"/></l><l>And many of the consuls raised and met,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="253" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are at the duke's already: you have been hotly call'd for;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="254" ed="F1"/></l><l>When, being not at your lodging to be found,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="255" ed="F1"/></l><l>The senate hath sent about three several quests
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="256" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To search you out.

<lb n="257" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">'Tis well I am found by you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="258" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will but spend a word here in the house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="259" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And go with you.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb n="260" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Ancient, what makes he here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="261" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="262" ed="F1"/></l><l>If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="263" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="I">I do not understand.

<lb n="264" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="Y">He's married.

<lb n="265" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">To who?
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter OTHELLO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="266" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?

<lb n="267" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Have with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="268" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Here comes another troop to seek for you.
<lb n="269" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="270" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>It is Brabantio.   General, be advised;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="271" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He comes to bad intent.
<stage type="entrance">Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons. </stage>

<lb n="272" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Holla! stand there!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="273" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="I">Signior, it is the Moor.

<lb n="274" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">Down with him, thief!
<stage>[They draw on both sides.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="275" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="276" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will <lb n="277" ed="F1"/>rust them.
<lb n="60" ed="G"/></l><l>Good signior, you shall more command with <lb n="278" ed="F1"/>years
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Than with your weapons.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="279" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>O thou foul thief, <lb n="280" ed="F1"/>where hast thou stow'd my daughter?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="281" ed="F1"/></l><l>Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="282" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="283" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she in chains of magic were not bound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="284" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="285" ed="F1"/></l><l>So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="286" ed="F1"/></l><l>The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="287" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="288" ed="F1"/></l><l>Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="289" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="290" ed="F1"/></l><l>Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="291" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="292" ed="F1"/></l><l>Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="293" ed="F1"/></l><l>That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="294" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="295" ed="F1"/></l><l>I therefore apprehend and do attach thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="296" ed="F1"/></l><l>For an abuser of the world, a practiser
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="297" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="298" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="299" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Subdue him at his peril.

<lb n="300" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Hold your hands,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="301" ed="F1"/></l><l>Both you of my inclining, and the rest:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="302" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="303" ed="F1"/></l><l>Without a prompter. Where will you that I go
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="304" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To answer this your charge?

<lb n="305" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">To prison, till fit time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="306" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of law and course of direct session
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="307" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Call thee to answer.

<lb n="308" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What if I do obey?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="309" ed="F1"/></l><l>How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="310" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose messengers are here about my side,
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="311" ed="F1"/></l><l>Upon some present business of the state
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="312" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bring me to him?</l></sp>
<sp who="officer"><speaker>First Off.</speaker> <lb n="313" ed="F1"/><l>'Tis true, most worthy signior;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="314" ed="F1"/></l><l>The duke's in council, and your noble self,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="315" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I am sure, is sent for.

<lb n="316" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">How! the duke in council!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="317" ed="F1"/></l><l>In this time of the night! Bring him away:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="318" ed="F1"/></l><l>Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="319" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or any of my brothers of the state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="320" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="321" ed="F1"/></l><l>For if such actions may have passage free,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="322" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.
<stage>[Exeunt. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
 <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="323" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A council-chamber.  The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending. </stage>
<lb n="324" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="325" ed="F1"/><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>There is no composition in these news
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="326" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That gives them credit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="327" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l part="F">Indeed, they are disproportion'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="328" ed="F1"/></l><l>My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="329" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">And mine, a hundred and forty.

<lb n="330" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>Sec. Sen.</speaker><l part="F">And mine, two hundred:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="331" ed="F1"/></l><l>But though they jump not on a just account,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="332" ed="F1"/></l><l>As in these cases, where the aim reports,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="333" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="334" ed="F1"/></l><l>A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="335" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Nay, it is possible enough to judgement:
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="336" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do not so secure me in the error,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="337" ed="F1"/></l><l>But the main articles I do approve
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="338" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">In fearful sense.

<lb n="339" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sailor"><speaker>Sail.</speaker><l part="F"><stage>[Within]</stage> What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!
<lb n="340" ed="F1"/>

<lb n="341" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="officer"><speaker>First Off.</speaker><l part="I">A messenger from the galleys.
<stage type="entrance">Enter a Sailor.</stage>

<lb n="342" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Now, what's the business?

<lb n="343" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sailor"><speaker>Sail.</speaker><l>The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="344" ed="F1"/></l><l>So was I bid report here to the state
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="345" ed="F1"/></l><l>By Signior Angelo.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="346" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="I">How say you by this change?

<lb n="347" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l part="F">This cannot be,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="348" ed="F1"/></l><l>By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="349" ed="F1"/></l><l>To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="350" ed="F1"/></l><l>The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="351" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let ourselves again but understand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="352" ed="F1"/></l><l>That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="353" ed="F1"/></l><l>So may he with more facile question bear it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="354" ed="F1"/></l><l>For that it stands not in such warlike brace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="355" ed="F1"/></l><l>But altogether lacks the abilities
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="356" ed="F1"/></l><l>That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="357" ed="F1"/></l><l>We must not think the Turk is so unskilful
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="358" ed="F1"/></l><l>To leave that latest which concerns him first,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="359" ed="F1"/></l><l>Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,
<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="360" ed="F1"/></l><l>To wake and wage a danger profitless.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="361" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.

<lb n="362" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="officer"><speaker>First Off.</speaker><l>Here is more news.
<lb n="363" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Messenger.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="364" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l>The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="365" ed="F1"/></l><l>Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="366" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have there injointed them with an after fleet.

<lb n="367" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l> Ay, so I thought.   How many, as you guess?

<lb n="368" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mess."><speaker>Mess.</speaker><l> Of thirty sail: and now they do re-stem
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="369" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="370" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,
<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="371" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your trusty and most valiant servitor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="372" ed="F1"/></l><l>With his free duty recommends you thus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="373" ed="F1"/></l><l>And prays you to believe him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="374" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="375" ed="F1"/></l><l>Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?

<lb n="376" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l>He's now in Florence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Write from us <lb n="378" ed="F1"/>to him; post-posthaste dispatch.

<lb n="379" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l>Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.
<lb n="380" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, <lb n="381" ed="F1"/>and Officers.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="382" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="383" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against the general enemy Ottoman.
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="384" ed="F1"/></l><l><stage>[To Brabantio]</stage> I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="385" ed="F1"/></l><l>We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="386" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="387" ed="F1"/></l><l>Neither my place nor aught I heard of business
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="388" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="389" ed="F1"/></l><l>Take hold on me, for my particular grief
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="390" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="391" ed="F1"/></l><l>That it engluts and swallows other sorrows
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="392" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And it is still itself.

<lb n="393" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Why, what's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="394" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="I">My daughter! O, my daughter!

<lb n="395" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke. sen."><speaker>Duke and Sen.</speaker><l part="Y">Dead?

<lb n="396" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, to me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="397" ed="F1"/></l><l>She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted
<lb n="61" ed="G"/><lb n="398" ed="F1"/></l><l>By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="399" ed="F1"/></l><l>For nature so preposterously to err,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="400" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="401" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sans witchcraft could not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="402" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="403" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="404" ed="F1"/></l><l>And you of her, the bloody book of law
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="405" ed="F1"/></l><l>You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="406" ed="F1"/></l><l>After your own sense, yea, though our proper son
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="407" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Stood in your action.

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="408" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">Humbly I thank your grace.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="409" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="410" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your special mandate for the state-affairs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="411" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Hath hither brought.

<lb n="412" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke. sen."><speaker>Duke and Sen.</speaker><l part="F">We are very sorry for 't.

<lb n="413" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l><stage>[To Othello]</stage> What, in your own part, can you say to this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="414" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>Nothing, but this is so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="415" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="416" ed="F1"/></l><l>My very noble and approved good masters,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="417" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="418" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is most true; true, I have married her:
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="419" ed="F1"/></l><l>The very head and front of my offending
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="420" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath this extent, no more.   Rude am I in my speech,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="421" ed="F1"/></l><l>And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="422" ed="F1"/></l><l>For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="423" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="424" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their dearest action in the tented field,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="425" ed="F1"/></l><l>And little of this great world can I speak,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="426" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="427" ed="F1"/></l><l>And therefore little shall I grace my cause
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="428" ed="F1"/></l><l>In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="429" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="430" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of my whole course of love; <lb n="431" ed="F1"/>what drugs, what charms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="432" ed="F1"/></l><l>What conjuration and what mighty magic,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="433" ed="F1"/></l><l>For such proceeding I am charged withal,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="434" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I won his daughter.

<lb n="435" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">A maiden never bold;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="436" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="437" ed="F1"/></l><l>Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="438" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of years, of country, credit, every thing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="439" ed="F1"/></l><l>To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="440" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is a judgement maim'd and most imperfect
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="441" ed="F1"/></l><l>That will confess perfection so could err
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="442" ed="F1"/></l><l>Against all rules of nature, and must be driven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="443" ed="F1"/></l><l>To find out practices of cunning hell,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="444" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why this should be.   I therefore vouch again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="445" ed="F1"/></l><l>That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="446" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or with some dram conjured to this effect,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="447" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">He wrought upon her.

<lb n="448" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">To vouch this, is no proof,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="449" ed="F1"/></l><l>Without more wider and more overt test
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="450" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="451" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of modern seeming do prefer against him.
<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="452" ed="F1"/></l><l>First Sen. But, Othello, speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="453" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did you by indirect and forced courses
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="454" ed="F1"/></l><l>Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="455" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or came it by request and such fair question
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="456" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As soul to soul affordeth?

<lb n="457" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I do beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="458" ed="F1"/></l><l>Send for the lady to the Sagittary,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="459" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let her speak of me before her father:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="460" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you do find me foul in her report,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="461" ed="F1"/></l><l>The trust, the office I do hold of you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="462" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not only take away, but let your sentence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="463" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Even fall upon my life.

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="464" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Fetch Desdemona hither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="465" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Ancient, conduct them; <lb n="466" ed="F1"/>you best know the place.
<stage>[Exeunt Iago and Attendants. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="467" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, till she come, as truly as to heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="468" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do confess the vices of my blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="469" ed="F1"/></l><l>So justly to your grave ears I'll present
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="470" ed="F1"/></l><l>How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="471" ed="F1"/></l><l>And she in mine.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="472" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Say it, Othello.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="473" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Her father loved me; oft invited me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="474" ed="F1"/></l><l>Still question'd me the story of my life,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="475" ed="F1"/></l><l>From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
<lb n="131" ed="G"/><lb n="476" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I have pass'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="477" ed="F1"/></l><l>I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="478" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the very moment that he bade me tell it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="479" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="480" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of moving accidents by flood and field,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="481" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="482" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of being taken by the insolent foe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="483" ed="F1"/></l><l>And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="484" ed="F1"/></l><l>And portance in my travels' history:
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="485" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="486" ed="F1"/></l><l>Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="487" ed="F1"/></l><l>It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="488" ed="F1"/></l><l>And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="489" ed="F1"/></l><l>The Anthropophagi and men whose heads
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="490" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="491" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would Desdemona seriously incline:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="492" ed="F1"/></l><l>But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="493" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="494" ed="F1"/></l><l>She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="495" ed="F1"/></l><l>Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="496" ed="F1"/></l><l>Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="497" ed="F1"/></l><l>To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="498" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="499" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="500" ed="F1"/></l><l>But not intentively: I aid consent,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="501" ed="F1"/></l><l>And often did beguile her of her tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="502" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I did speak of some distressful stroke
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="503" ed="F1"/></l><l>That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="504" ed="F1"/></l><l>She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="505" ed="F1"/></l><l>She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="506" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="507" ed="F1"/></l><l>She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="508" ed="F1"/></l><l>That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="509" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="510" ed="F1"/></l><l>I should but teach him how to tell my story,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="511" ed="F1"/></l><l>And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="512" ed="F1"/></l><l>She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="513" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I loved her that she did pity them.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="514" ed="F1"/></l><l>This only is the witchcraft I have used:
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="515" ed="F1"/></l><l>Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
<lb n="516" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="517" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>I think this tale would win my daughter too.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="518" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good Brabantio,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Take up this mangled matter at the best:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="519" ed="F1"/></l><l>Men do their broken weapons rather use
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="520" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than their bare hands.

<lb n="521" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">I pray you, hear her speak:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="522" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she confess that she was half the wooer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="523" ed="F1"/></l><l>Destruction on my head, if my bad blame
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="524" ed="F1"/></l><l>Light on the man!   Come hither, gentle mistress:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="525" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do you perceive in all this noble company
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="526" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Where most you owe obedience?

<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="527" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">My noble father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="528" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do perceive here a divided duty:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="529" ed="F1"/></l><l>To you I am bound for life and education;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="530" ed="F1"/></l><l>My life and education both do learn me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="531" ed="F1"/></l><l>How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="532" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="533" ed="F1"/></l><l>And so much duty as my mother show'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="534" ed="F1"/></l><l>To you, preferring you before her father,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="535" ed="F1"/></l><l>So much I challenge that I may profess
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="536" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Due to the Moor my lord.

<lb n="537" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">God be wi' you! I have done.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="538" ed="F1"/></l><l>Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="539" ed="F1"/></l><l>I had rather to adopt a child than get it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="540" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come hither, Moor:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="541" ed="F1"/></l><l>I here do give thee that with all my heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="542" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="543" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="544" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am glad at soul I have no other child;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="545" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="546" ed="F1"/></l><l>To hang clogs on them.   I have done, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="547" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Let me speak like yourself, <lb n="548" ed="F1"/>and lay a sentence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="549" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers
<lb n="201" ed="G"/></l><l>Into your favor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="550" ed="F1"/></l><l>When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="551" ed="F1"/></l><l>By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="552" ed="F1"/></l><l>To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="553" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="554" ed="F1"/></l><l>What cannot be preserved when fortune takes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="555" ed="F1"/></l><l>Patience her injury a mockery makes.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="556" ed="F1"/></l><l>The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="557" ed="F1"/></l><l>He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="558" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;
<lb n="211" ed="G"/><lb n="559" ed="F1"/></l><l>We lose it not, so long as we can smile.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="560" ed="F1"/></l><l>He bears the sentence well that nothing bears
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="561" ed="F1"/></l><l>But the free comfort which from thence he hears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="562" ed="F1"/></l><l>But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="563" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="564" ed="F1"/></l><l>These sentences, to sugar, or to gall,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="565" ed="F1"/></l><l>Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="566" ed="F1"/></l><l>But words are words; I never yet did hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="567" ed="F1"/></l><l>That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="568" ed="F1"/></l><l>I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="569" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><p>The Turk with a most mighty preparation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="570" ed="F1"/><lb/>makes for Cyprus.   Othello, the fortitude
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of the place is <lb n="571" ed="F1"/>best known to you; and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>though we have there a substitute <lb n="572" ed="F1"/>of most
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a <lb n="573" ed="F1"/>sovereign
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>mistress of effects, throws a more safer <lb n="574" ed="F1"/>voice
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>on you: you must therefore be content to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>slubber <lb n="575" ed="F1"/>the gloss of your new fortunes with
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this more stubborn <lb n="576" ed="F1"/>and boisterous expedition.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="577" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>The tyrant custom, most grave senators,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="578" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="579" ed="F1"/></l><l>My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnize
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="580" ed="F1"/></l><l>A natural and prompt alacrity
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="581" ed="F1"/></l><l>I find in hardness, and do undertake
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="582" ed="F1"/></l><l>These present wars against the Ottomites.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="583" ed="F1"/></l><l>Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="584" ed="F1"/></l><l>I crave fit disposition for my wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="585" ed="F1"/></l><l>Due reference of place and exhibition,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="586" ed="F1"/></l><l>With such accommodation and besort
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="587" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As levels with her breeding.</l></sp>
<sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker>
<lb n="240" ed="G"/><l part="F">If you please,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="588" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Be't at her father's.

<lb n="589" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l part="F">I'll not have it so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="590" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Nor I.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="591" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Nor I; I would not there reside,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="592" ed="F1"/></l><l>To put my father in impatient thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="593" ed="F1"/></l><l>By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="594" ed="F1"/></l><l>To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="595" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let me find a charter in your voice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="596" ed="F1"/></l><l>To assist my simpleness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="597" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>What would you, Desdemona?

<lb n="249" ed="G"/><lb n="598" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>That I did love the Moor to live with him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="599" ed="F1"/></l><l>My downright violence and storm of fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="600" ed="F1"/></l><l>May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="601" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even to the very quality of my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="602" ed="F1"/></l><l>I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="603" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to his honors and his valiant parts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="604" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="605" ed="F1"/></l><l>So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="606" ed="F1"/></l><l>A moth of peace, and he go to the war,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="607" ed="F1"/></l><l>The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="608" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I a heavy interim shall support
<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="609" ed="F1"/></l><l>By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="610" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Let her have your voices.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="611" ed="F1"/></l><l>Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="612" ed="F1"/></l><l>To please the palate of my appetite,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="613" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor to comply with heat--the young affects
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="614" ed="F1"/></l><l>In me defunct--and proper satisfaction,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="615" ed="F1"/></l><l>But to be free and bounteous to her mind:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="616" ed="F1"/></l><l>And heaven defend your good souls, that you think
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="617" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will your serious and great business scant
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="618" ed="F1"/></l><l>For she is with me: no, when light-wing'd toys
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="619" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dullness
<lb n="271" ed="G"/><lb n="620" ed="F1"/></l><l>My speculative and officed instruments,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="621" ed="F1"/></l><l>That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="622" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="623" ed="F1"/></l><l>And all indign and base adversities
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="624" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make head against my estimation!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="625" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>Be it as you shall privately determine,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="626" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="627" ed="F1"/></l><l>And speed must answer it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="628" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l part="I">You must away to-night.

<lb n="629" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">With all my heart.

<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="630" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l>At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="631" ed="F1"/></l><l>Othello, leave some officer behind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="632" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he shall our commission bring to you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="633" ed="F1"/></l><l>With such things else of quality and respect
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="634" ed="F1"/></l><l>As doth import you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="635" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>So please your grace, my ancient;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="636" ed="F1"/></l><l>A man he is of honesty and trust:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="637" ed="F1"/></l><l>To his conveyance I assign my wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="638" ed="F1"/></l><l>With what else needful your good grace shall think
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="639" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To be sent after me.

<lb n="640" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="duke."><speaker>Duke.</speaker><l part="F">Let it be so.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="641" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good night to every one. <stage>[To Bra.]</stage> And, noble signior,
<lb n="290" ed="G"/><lb n="642" ed="F1"/></l><l>If virtue no delighted beauty lack,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="643" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.

<lb n="644" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="sen."><speaker>First Sen.</speaker><l>Adieu, brave Moor; use Desdemona well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="645" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bra."><speaker>Bra.</speaker><l>Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="646" ed="F1"/></l><l>She has deceived her father, and may thee.
<stage>[Exeunt Duke, Senators, Officers, &amp;c.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="647" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="648" ed="F1"/></l><l>My Desdemona must I leave to thee:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="649" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee, let thy wife attend on her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="650" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bring them after in the best advantage.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="651" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come Desdemona; I have but an hour
<lb n="300" ed="G"/><lb n="652" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of love, of worldly matters and direction,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="653" ed="F1"/></l><l>To spend with thee: we must obey the time.
<stage>[Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="654" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Iago,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="655" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>What say'st thou, noble heart?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="656" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>What will I do, thinkest thou?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="657" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why, go to bed, and sleep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="658" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>I will incontinently drown myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="659" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>If thou dost, I shall never love thee
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>after. Why, <lb n="660" ed="F1"/>thou silly gentleman!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="661" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>It is silliness to live when to live is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>torment; <lb n="662" ed="F1"/>and then have we a prescription to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>die when death is <lb n="663" ed="F1"/>our physician.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="664" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>O villanous!   I have looked upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the world <lb n="665" ed="F1"/>for four times seven years; and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>since I could distinguish <lb n="666" ed="F1"/>betwixt a benefit and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>an injury, I never found man that <lb n="667" ed="F1"/>knew how
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to love himself. Ere I would say, I would
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="668" ed="F1"/><lb/>drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>would <lb n="669" ed="F1"/>change my humanity with a baboon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="670" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>What should I do?   I confess it is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>my shame <lb n="671" ed="F1"/>to be so fond; but it is not in my
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>virtue to amend it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="672" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>we are <lb n="673" ed="F1"/>thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to the which <lb n="674" ed="F1"/>our wills are gardeners; so
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that if we will plant nettles, <lb n="675" ed="F1"/>or sow lettuce.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>set hyssop and weed up thyme, <lb n="676" ed="F1"/>supply it with
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>one gender of herbs, or distract it with <lb n="677" ed="F1"/>many,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="678" ed="F1"/><lb/>with industry, why, the power and corrigible
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>authority <lb n="679" ed="F1"/>of this lies in our wills. If
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the balance of our lives <lb n="680" ed="F1"/>had not one scale of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>reason to poise another of sensuality, <lb n="681" ed="F1"/>the blood
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and baseness of our natures would <lb n="682" ed="F1"/>conduct us
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to most preposterous conclusions: but we <lb n="683" ed="F1"/>have
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="684" ed="F1"/><lb/>stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I take this
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that you <lb n="685" ed="F1"/>call love to be a sect or scion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="686" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>It cannot be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="687" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>It is merely a lust of the blood and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>a permission <lb n="688" ed="F1"/>of the will.   Come, be a man.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Drown thyself! drown <lb n="689" ed="F1"/>cats and blind puppies.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>I have professed me thy friend <lb n="690" ed="F1"/>and I confess
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>me knit to thy deserving with cables of <lb n="691" ed="F1"/>perdurable
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>toughness; I could never better stead
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thee <lb n="692" ed="F1"/>than now. Put money in thy purse; follow
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thou the <lb n="693" ed="F1"/>wars; defeat thy favor with an
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>usurped beard; I say, <lb n="694" ed="F1"/>put money in thy purse.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>It cannot be that Desdemona <lb n="695" ed="F1"/>should long continue
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>her love to the Moor,--put money in <lb n="696" ed="F1"/>thy
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>purse,--nor he his to her: it was a violent
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>commencement, <lb n="697" ed="F1"/>and thou shalt see an answerable
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>sequestration:--<lb n="698" ed="F1"/>put but money in thy
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>purse.   These Moors <lb n="699" ed="F1"/>are changeable in their
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>wills:--fill thy purse with money:--<lb n="700" ed="F1"/>the food
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that to him now is as luscious as locusts, <lb n="701" ed="F1"/>shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>She <lb n="702" ed="F1"/>must change for youth: when she is sated
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>with his body, <lb n="703" ed="F1"/>she will find the error of her
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>choice: she must have change, she must: therefore
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>put money <lb n="704" ed="F1"/>in thy purse. If thou wilt
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>needs damn thyself, do <lb n="705" ed="F1"/>it a more delicate way
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>than drowning. Make all the money <lb n="706" ed="F1"/>thou
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>canst: if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="707" ed="F1"/><lb/>an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be <lb n="708" ed="F1"/>not too hard for my wits and all the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>tribe of hell, thou <lb n="709" ed="F1"/>shalt enjoy her; therefore
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>make money. A pox of drowning <lb n="710" ed="F1"/>thyself! it
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>is clean out of the way: seek thou rather <lb n="711" ed="F1"/>to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="712" ed="F1"/><lb/>drowned and go without her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="713" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>depend on <lb n="714" ed="F1"/>the issue?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="715" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Thou art sure of me:--go, make
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>money:--I have <lb n="716" ed="F1"/>told thee often, and I re-tell
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thee again and again, I <lb n="717" ed="F1"/>hate the Moor: my
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>cause is hearted; thine hath no less <lb n="718" ed="F1"/>reason.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="719" ed="F1"/><lb/>him; if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thyself a <lb n="720" ed="F1"/>pleasure, me a sport.   There are
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>many events in the <lb n="721" ed="F1"/>womb of time which will
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be delivered.   Traverse! go, <lb n="722" ed="F1"/>provide thy
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>money.   We will have more of this
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to-morrow. <lb n="723" ed="F1"/>Adieu.

<lb n="381" ed="G"/><lb n="724" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Where shall we meet i' the morning?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="725" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>At my lodging.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="726" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>I'll be with thee betimes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="727" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>What say you?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>No more of drowning, do you hear?

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>I am changed: <lb n="728" ed="F1"/>I'll go sell all my
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>land.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="729" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;
<lb n="390" ed="G"/><lb n="730" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="731" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I would time expend with such a snipe,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="732" ed="F1"/></l><l>But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="733" ed="F1"/></l><l>And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="734" ed="F1"/></l><l>He hath done my office: I know not if't be true;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="735" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="736" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="737" ed="F1"/></l><l>The better shall my purpose work on him.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="738" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cassio's a proper man: let me see now:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="739" ed="F1"/></l><l>To get his place and to plume up my will
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="740" ed="F1"/></l><l>In double knavery--How, how ?--Let's see:--
<lb n="401" ed="G"/><lb n="741" ed="F1"/></l><l>After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="742" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he is too familiar with his wife.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="743" ed="F1"/></l><l>He hath a person and a smooth dispose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="744" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be suspected, framed to make women false.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="745" ed="F1"/></l><l>The Moor is of a free and open nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="746" ed="F1"/></l><l>That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="747" ed="F1"/></l><l>And will as tenderly be led by the nose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="748" ed="F1"/></l><l>As asses are.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="749" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
<lb n="410" ed="G"/><lb n="750" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
<stage>[Exit. </stage>
</l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
 
<div1 type="act" n="2">
 <head>ACT II</head><lb n="751" ed="F1"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near the quay. </stage>
<lb n="752" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="753" ed="F1"/><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>What from the cape can you discern at sea?

<lb n="754" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>First Gent.</speaker><l>Nothing at all: it is a high-wrought flood;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="755" ed="F1"/></l><l>I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="756" ed="F1"/></l><l>Descry a sail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="757" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="758" ed="F1"/></l><l>A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="759" ed="F1"/></l><l>If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="760" ed="F1"/></l><l>What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="761" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can hold the mortise?   What shall we hear of this?

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="762" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><l>A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="763" ed="F1"/></l><l>For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="764" ed="F1"/></l><l>The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="765" ed="F1"/></l><l>The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous mane,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="766" ed="F1"/></l><l>Seems to cast water on the burning bear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="767" ed="F1"/></l><l>And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="768" ed="F1"/></l><l>I never did like molestation view
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="769" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">On the enchafed flood.

<lb n="770" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">If that the Turkish fleet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="771" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd;
<lb n="19" ed="G"/><lb n="772" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is impossible they bear it out.
<lb n="773" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a third Gentleman.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="774" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Third Gent.</speaker><l>News, lads! our wars are done.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="775" ed="F1"/></l><l>This desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="776" ed="F1"/></l><l>That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="777" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="778" ed="F1"/></l><l>On most part of their fleet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="779" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="I">How! is this true?

<lb n="780" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Third Gent.</speaker><l part="F">The ship is here put in,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="781" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="782" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is come on shore: the Moor himself at sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="783" ed="F1"/></l><l>And is in full commission here for Cyprus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="784" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>I am glad on't; <lb n="785" ed="F1"/>'tis a worthy governor.</l></sp>
<sp who="gent."><speaker>Third Gent.</speaker><lb n="31" ed="G"/><lb n="786" ed="F1"/><l>But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="787" ed="F1"/></l><l>Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="788" ed="F1"/></l><l>And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="789" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With foul and violent tempest.

<lb n="790" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">Pray heavens he be;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="791" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I have served him, and the man commands
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="792" ed="F1"/></l><l>Like a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="793" ed="F1"/></l><l>As well to see the vessel that's come in
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="794" ed="F1"/></l><l>As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="795" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="796" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">An indistinct regard.

<lb n="797" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Third Gent.</speaker><l part="F" n="40">Come, let's do so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="798" ed="F1"/></l><l>For every minute is expectancy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="799" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of more arrivance.
<lb n="800" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CASSIO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="801" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="802" ed="F1"/></l><l>That so approve the Moor! O, let the heavens
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="803" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give him defence against the elements,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="804" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I have lost him on a dangerous sea.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="805" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>Is he well shipp'd?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="806" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>His bark is stoutly timber'd, and his pilot
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="807" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of very expert and approved allowance;
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="808" ed="F1"/></l><l>Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="809" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stand in bold cure.
<lb n="810" ed="F1"/><stage>[A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!']</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter a fourth Gentleman.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="811" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>What noise?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="812" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Fourth Gent.</speaker><l>The town is empty; on the brow o' the sea
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="813" ed="F1"/></l><l>Stand ranks of people, and they cry 'A sail!'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="814" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>My hopes do shape him for the governor.
<stage>[Guns heard. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="815" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><l>They do discharge their shot of courtesy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="816" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Our friends at least.

<lb n="817" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">I pray you, sir, go forth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="818" ed="F1"/></l><l>And give us truth who 'tis that is arrived.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="819" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><l>I shall.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="820" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>But, good lieutenant, is your general wived?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="821" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Most fortunately: he hath achieved a maid
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="822" ed="F1"/></l><l>That paragons description and wild fame;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="823" ed="F1"/></l><l>One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="824" ed="F1"/></l><l>And in the essential vesture of creation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="825" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Does tire the ingener.
<lb n="826" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter second Gentleman.</stage>
<lb n="827" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">How now! who has put in?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="828" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><l>'Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="829" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Has had most favorable and happy speed:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="830" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tempests themselves, high seas and howling winds,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="831" ed="F1"/></l><l>The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="832" ed="F1"/></l><l>Traitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,--
<lb n="71" ed="G"/><lb n="833" ed="F1"/></l><l>As having sense of beauty, do omit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="834" ed="F1"/></l><l>Their mortal natures, letting so safely by
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="835" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The divine Desdemona.

<lb n="836" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">What is she?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="837" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>She that I spake of, <lb n="838" ed="F1"/>our great captain's captain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="839" ed="F1"/></l><l>Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="840" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="841" ed="F1"/></l><l>A se'nnight's speed. Great Jove, Othello guard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="842" ed="F1"/></l><l>And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="843" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he may bless this bay with his tall ship,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="844" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="845" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">And bring all Cyprus comfort!
<lb n="846" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Attendants.</stage>
<lb n="847" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">O, behold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="848" ed="F1"/></l><l>The riches of the ship is come on shore!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="849" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="850" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="851" ed="F1"/></l><l>Before, behind thee and on every hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="852" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Enwheel thee round!

<lb n="853" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">I thank you, valiant Cassio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="854" ed="F1"/></l><l>What tidings can you tell me of my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="855" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught
<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="856" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that he's well and will be shortly here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="857" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>O, but I fear--<lb n="858" ed="F1"/>How lost you company?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="859" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>The great contention of the sea and skies
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="860" ed="F1"/></l><l>Parted our fellowship--But, hark! a sail.
<lb n="861" ed="F1"/><stage>[Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="862" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Sec. Gent.</speaker><l>They give their greeting to the citadel:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="863" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">This likewise is a friend.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="864" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">See for the news.
<stage>[Exit Gentleman.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="865" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good ancient, you are welcome. <stage>[To Emilia]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Welcome, mistress:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="866" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="867" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="868" ed="F1"/></l><l>That gives me this bold show of courtesy.
<stage>[Kissing her.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="869" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="870" ed="F1"/></l><l>As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="871" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You'ld have enough.

<lb n="872" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Alas, she has no speech.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="873" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>In faith, too much;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="874" ed="F1"/></l><l>I find it still, when I have list to sleep:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="875" ed="F1"/></l><l>Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="876" ed="F1"/></l><l>She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="877" ed="F1"/></l><l>And chides with thinking.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="878" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>You have little cause to say so.

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="879" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Come on, come on; you are pictures out of <lb n="880" ed="F1"/>doors,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="881" ed="F1"/></l><l>Saints in your injuries, devils being offended,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="882" ed="F1"/></l><l>Players in your housewifery, and housewives in your <lb n="883" ed="F1"/>beds.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="884" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>O, fie upon thee, slanderer!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="885" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="886" ed="F1"/></l><l>You rise to play and go to bed to work.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="887" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="I">You shall not write my praise.

<lb n="888" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">No, let me not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="889" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst <lb n="890" ed="F1"/>praise me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="891" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O gentle lady, do not put me to 't;
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="892" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I am nothing, if not critical.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="893" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Come on, assay. <lb n="894" ed="F1"/>There's one gone to the harbor?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="895" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Ay, madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="896" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I am not merry; but I do beguile
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="897" ed="F1"/></l><l>The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="898" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, how wouldst thou praise me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="899" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am about it; but indeed my invention
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Comes <lb n="900" ed="F1"/>from my pate as birdlime does from frize;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>It plucks <lb n="901" ed="F1"/>out brains and all: but my Muse labors,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And thus she <lb n="902" ed="F1"/>is deliver'd.
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="903" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="904" ed="F1"/></l><l>The one's for use, the other useth it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="905" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Well praised! <lb n="906" ed="F1"/>How if she be black and witty?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="907" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>If she be black, and thereto have a wit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="908" ed="F1"/></l><l>She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="909" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Worse and worse.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="910" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>How if fair and foolish?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="911" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>She never yet was foolish that was fair;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="912" ed="F1"/></l><l>For even her folly help'd her to an heir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="913" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>These are old fond paradoxes to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>make fools <lb n="914" ed="F1"/>laugh i' the alehouse. What miserable
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>praise hast thou <lb n="915" ed="F1"/>for her that's foul and foolish?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="916" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="917" ed="F1"/></l><l>But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="918" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>worst <lb n="919" ed="F1"/>best. But what praise couldst thou bestow
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>on a deserving <lb n="920" ed="F1"/>woman indeed, one that,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>in the authority of her <lb n="921" ed="F1"/>merit, did justly put on
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the vouch of very malice <lb n="922" ed="F1"/>itself?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="923" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>She that was ever fair and never proud,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="924" ed="F1"/></l><l>Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,
<lb n="151" ed="G"/><lb n="925" ed="F1"/></l><l>Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="926" ed="F1"/></l><l>Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="927" ed="F1"/></l><l>She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="928" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="929" ed="F1"/></l><l>She that in wisdom never was so frail
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="930" ed="F1"/></l><l>To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="931" ed="F1"/></l><l>She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="932" ed="F1"/></l><l>See suitors following and not look behind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="933" ed="F1"/></l><l>She was a wight, if ever such wight were,--

<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="934" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>To do what?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="935" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="936" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>O most lame and impotent conclusion!
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Do <lb n="937" ed="F1"/>not learn of him, Emilia, though
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>he be thy husband.   <lb n="938" ed="F1"/>How say you, Cassio? is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>he not a most profane and liberal <lb n="939" ed="F1"/>counsellor?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="940" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>He speaks home, madam: you may
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>relish <lb n="941" ed="F1"/>him more in the soldier than in the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>scholar.

<lb n="942" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p> <stage>Aside</stage> He takes her by the palm:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>ay, well said, whisper: <lb n="943" ed="F1"/>with as little a web as
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this will I ensnare as great <lb n="944" ed="F1"/>a fly as Cassio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Ay, smile upon her, do; I will gyve thee <lb n="945" ed="F1"/>in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thine own courtship.   You say true; 'tis so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>indeed: <lb n="946" ed="F1"/>if such tricks as these strip you out of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>your lieutenantry, <lb n="947" ed="F1"/>it had been better you had
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>not kissed your three fingers <lb n="948" ed="F1"/>so oft, which now
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>again you are most apt to play <lb n="949" ed="F1"/>the sir in.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Very good; well kissed! an excellent courtesy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="950" ed="F1"/><lb/>'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to your <lb n="951" ed="F1"/>lips? would they were clyster-pipes
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>for your <lb n="952" ed="F1"/>sake! <stage>[Trumpet within.]</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="953" ed="F1"/></p><l>The Moor!
<lb n="180" ed="G"/></l><l>I know his trumpet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="954" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>'Tis truly so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="955" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Let's meet him and receive him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="956" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Lo, where he comes!
<lb n="957" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="958" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">O my fair warrior!

<lb n="959" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">My dear Othello!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="960" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>It gives me wonder great as my content
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="961" ed="F1"/></l><l>To see you here before me. <lb n="962" ed="F1"/>O my soul's joy!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="963" ed="F1"/></l><l>If after every tempest come such calms,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="964" ed="F1"/></l><l>May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="965" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let the laboring bark climb hills of seas
<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="966" ed="F1"/></l><l>Olympus-high and duck again as low
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="967" ed="F1"/></l><l>As hell's from heaven!   If it were now to die,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="968" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="969" ed="F1"/></l><l>My soul hath her content so absolute
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="970" ed="F1"/></l><l>That not another comfort like to this
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="971" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Succeeds in unknown fate.

<lb n="972" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">The heavens forbid
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="973" ed="F1"/></l><l>But that our loves <lb n="974" ed="F1"/>and comforts should increase,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="975" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Even as our days do grow!

<lb n="976" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Amen to that, sweet powers!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="977" ed="F1"/></l><l>I cannot speak enough of this content;
<lb n="199" ed="G"/><lb n="978" ed="F1"/></l><l>It stops me here; it is too much of joy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="979" ed="F1"/></l><l>And this, and this, the greatest discords be
<stage>[Kissing her.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="980" ed="F1"/></l><l>That e'er our hearts shall make!

<lb n="981" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l> <stage>[Aside]</stage> O, you are well tuned now!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But I'll set down <lb n="982" ed="F1"/>the pegs that make this music,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">As honest as I am.

<lb n="983" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Come, let us to the castle.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="984" ed="F1"/></l><l>News, friends; our wars are done, <lb n="985" ed="F1"/>the Turks are drown'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="986" ed="F1"/></l><l>How does my old acquaintance of this isle?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="987" ed="F1"/></l><l>Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="988" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="989" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="990" ed="F1"/></l><l>In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="991" ed="F1"/></l><l>Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="992" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bring thou the master to the citadel;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="993" ed="F1"/></l><l>He is a good one, and his worthiness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="994" ed="F1"/></l><l>Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="995" ed="F1"/></l><l>Once more, well met at Cyprus.
<lb n="996" ed="F1"/><stage>[Exeunt Othello, Desdemona, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="997" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Do thou meet me presently at the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>harbor. <lb n="998" ed="F1"/>Come hither. If thou be'st valiant,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>--as, they say, base men <lb n="999" ed="F1"/>being in love have
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>then a nobility in their natures <lb n="1000" ed="F1"/>more than is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>native to them,--list me. The lieutenant tonight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1001" ed="F1"/><lb/>watches on the court of guard:--first, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>must tell <lb n="1002" ed="F1"/>thee this--Desdemona is directly in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>love with him.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1003" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>With him! why, 'tis not possible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1004" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be instructed. <lb n="1005" ed="F1"/>Mark me with what violence
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>she first loved <lb n="1006" ed="F1"/>the Moor, but for bragging and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>telling her fantastical <lb n="1007" ed="F1"/>lies: and will she love
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>him still for prating? let not thy discreet <lb n="1008" ed="F1"/>heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think it.   Her eye must be fed; and what
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>delight <lb n="1009" ed="F1"/>shall she have to look on the devil?
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>When the blood <lb n="1010" ed="F1"/>is made dull with the act of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>sport, there should be, again <lb n="1011" ed="F1"/>to inflame it and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to give satiety a fresh appetite, <lb n="1012" ed="F1"/>loveliness in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>favor, sympathy in years, manners <lb n="1013" ed="F1"/>and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>beauties; all which the Moor is defective in: now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1014" ed="F1"/><lb/>for want of these required conveniences, her
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>delicate <lb n="1015" ed="F1"/>tenderness will find itself abused, begin
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to heave the <lb n="1016" ed="F1"/>gorge, disrelish and abhor the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Moor; very nature will <lb n="1017" ed="F1"/>instruct her in it and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>compel her to some second choice. <lb n="1018" ed="F1"/>Now, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this granted,--as it is a most pregnant and unforced
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1019" ed="F1"/><lb/>position--who stands so eminent in the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>degree of <lb n="1020" ed="F1"/>this fortune as Cassio does? a knave
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>very voluble; no <lb n="1021" ed="F1"/>further conscionable than in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>putting on the mere form <lb n="1022" ed="F1"/>of civil and humane
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>seeming, for the better compassing <lb n="1023" ed="F1"/>of his salt
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and most hidden loose affection? <lb n="1024" ed="F1"/>why, none;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>finder of occasions, <lb n="1025" ed="F1"/>that has an eye can stamp
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and counterfeit advantages, <lb n="1026" ed="F1"/>though true advantage
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>never present itself; <lb n="1027" ed="F1"/>a devilish knave.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Besides, the knave is handsome, young, <lb n="1028" ed="F1"/>and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hath all those requisites in him that folly and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>green <lb n="1029" ed="F1"/>minds look after: a pestilent complete
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>knave; and the <lb n="1030" ed="F1"/>woman hath found him
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1031" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>I cannot believe that in her; she's
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>full of most <lb n="1032" ed="F1"/>blessed condition.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1033" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Blessed fig's-end! the wine she drinks
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>is <lb n="1034" ed="F1"/>made of grapes: if she had been blessed, she
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>would <lb n="1035" ed="F1"/>never have loved the Moor. Blessed
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>pudding! Didst thou <lb n="1036" ed="F1"/>not see her paddle with
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the palm of his hand? didst not <lb n="1037" ed="F1"/>mark that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1038" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>Yes, that I did; but that was but
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>courtesy.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1039" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Lechery, by this hand; an index and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>obscure <lb n="1040" ed="F1"/>prologue to the history of lust and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>foul thoughts.   <lb n="1041" ed="F1"/>They met so near with their
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>lips that their breaths <lb n="1042" ed="F1"/>embraced together. Villanous
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thoughts, Roderigo! when <lb n="1043" ed="F1"/>these mutualities
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>so marshal the way, hard at hand
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1044" ed="F1"/><lb/>comes the master and main exercise, the incorporate
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1045" ed="F1"/><lb/>conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be you ruled
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>by me: I have <lb n="1046" ed="F1"/>brought you from Venice.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Watch you to-night; for <lb n="1047" ed="F1"/>the command, I'll
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>lay't upon you. Cassio knows you <lb n="1048" ed="F1"/>not. I'll
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>not be far from   you: do you find some occasion
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1049" ed="F1"/><lb/>to anger Cassio, either by speaking too
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>loud, or <lb n="1050" ed="F1"/>tainting his discipline; or from what
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>other course <lb n="1051" ed="F1"/>you please, which the time shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>more favorably <lb n="1052" ed="F1"/>minister.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1053" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1054" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Sir, he is rash and very sudden in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>choler, and <lb n="1055" ed="F1"/>haply may strike at you: provoke
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>him, that he may; for <lb n="1056" ed="F1"/>even out of that will I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>cause these of Cyprus to mutiny; <lb n="1057" ed="F1"/>whose qualification
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>shall come into no true taste again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1058" ed="F1"/><lb/>but by the displanting of Cassio. So shall you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1059" ed="F1"/><lb/>have a shorter journey to your desires by the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>means I <lb n="1060" ed="F1"/>shall then have to prefer them; and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the impediment <lb n="1061" ed="F1"/>most profitably removed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>without the which there were <lb n="1062" ed="F1"/>no expectation
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of our prosperity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1063" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>I will do this, if I can bring it to any
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1064" ed="F1"/><lb/>opportunity.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1065" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>I warrant thee. Meet me by and by
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>at the <lb n="1066" ed="F1"/>citadel: I must fetch his necessaries
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>ashore. <lb n="1067" ed="F1"/>Farewell.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1068" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l>Adieu.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb n="295" ed="G"/><lb n="1069" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1070" ed="F1"/></l><l>That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1071" ed="F1"/></l><l>The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1072" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1073" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1074" ed="F1"/></l><l>A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1075" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1076" ed="F1"/></l><l>I stand accountant for as great a sin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1077" ed="F1"/></l><l>But partly led to diet my revenge,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1078" ed="F1"/></l><l>For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1079" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1080" ed="F1"/></l><l>Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1081" ed="F1"/></l><l>And nothing can or shall content my soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1082" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1083" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="1084" ed="F1"/></l><l>At least into a jealousy so strong
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1085" ed="F1"/></l><l>That judgement cannot cure. Which thing to do,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1086" ed="F1"/></l><l>If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1087" ed="F1"/></l><l>For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1088" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1089" ed="F1"/></l><l>Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1090" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1091" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1092" ed="F1"/></l><l>For making him egregiously an ass
<lb n="319" ed="G"/><lb n="1093" ed="F1"/></l><l>And practising upon his peace and quiet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1094" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1095" ed="F1"/></l><l>Knavery's plain face is never seen till used.
<stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
 <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="1096" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A street. </stage>
<lb n="1097" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People following.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1098" ed="F1"/><sp who="her."><speaker>Her.</speaker><p>It is Othello's pleasure, our noble
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and valiant <lb n="1099" ed="F1"/>general, that, upon certain tidings
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>now arrived, <lb n="1100" ed="F1"/>importing the mere perdition of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the Turkish fleet, <lb n="1101" ed="F1"/>every man put himself into
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>triumph; some to dance, <lb n="1102" ed="F1"/>some to make bonfires,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>each man to what sport and <lb n="1103" ed="F1"/>revels his
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>addiction leads him: for, besides these beneficial
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1104" ed="F1"/><lb/>news, it is the celebration of his nuptial.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>So <lb n="1105" ed="F1"/>much was his pleasure should be proclaimed
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>All offices <lb n="1106" ed="F1"/>are open, and there is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>full liberty of feasting from this <lb n="1107" ed="F1"/>present hour
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of five till the bell have told eleven. Heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1108" ed="F1"/><lb/>bless the isle of Cyprus and our noble general
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1109" ed="F1"/><lb/>Othello!
<stage>[Exeunt.</stage></p></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
<head>SCENE III</head>
<stage type="setting">A hall in the castle. </stage>
<lb n="1110" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1111" ed="F1"/><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1112" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1113" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not to outsport discretion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1114" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Iago hath direction what to do;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1115" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, notwithstanding, with my personal eye
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1116" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Will I look to't.

<lb n="1117" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Iago is most honest.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1118" ed="F1"/></l><l>Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1119" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me have speech with you.</l>
<l><stage>[To Desdemona]</stage> Come, my dear love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1120" ed="F1"/></l><l>The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1121" ed="F1"/></l><l>That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1122" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good night.
<lb n="1123" ed="F1"/><stage>[Exeunt Othello, Desdemona, and Attendants.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1124" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Welcome, Iago; we must to the watch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1125" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Not this hour, lieutenant; 'tis not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>yet ten <lb n="1126" ed="F1"/>o' the clock.   Our general casts us
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thus early for the <lb n="1127" ed="F1"/>love of his Desdemona;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>who let us not therefore blame: <lb n="1128" ed="F1"/>he hath not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>yet made wanton the night with her; and <lb n="1129" ed="F1"/>she
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>is sport for Jove.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1130" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>She's a most exquisite lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1131" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>And, I'll warrant her, full of game.

<lb n="21" ed="G"/><lb n="1132" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Indeed, she's a most fresh and delicate creature.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1133" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>What an eye she has! <lb n="1134" ed="F1"/>methinks it
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>sounds a parley of provocation.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1135" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>An inviting eye; <lb n="1136" ed="F1"/>and yet methinks
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>right modest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1137" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>And when she speaks, <lb n="1138" ed="F1"/>is it not an
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>alarum to love?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1139" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>She is indeed perfection.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1140" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Well, happiness to their sheets!
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Come, lieutenant, <lb n="1141" ed="F1"/>I have a stoup of wine; and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>here without are a <lb n="1142" ed="F1"/>brace of Cyprus gallants
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that would fain have a measure <lb n="1143" ed="F1"/>to the health
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of black Othello.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1144" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Not to-night, good Iago: I have very
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>poor <lb n="1145" ed="F1"/>and unhappy brains for drinking: I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>could well wish <lb n="1146" ed="F1"/>courtesy would invent some
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>other custom of <lb n="1147" ed="F1"/>entertainment.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1148" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O, they are our friends; but one cup:
<lb n="39" ed="G"/></l><l>I'll <lb n="1149" ed="F1"/>drink for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1150" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I have drunk but one cup to-night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and that <lb n="1151" ed="F1"/>was craftily qualified too, and, behold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>what innovation <lb n="1152" ed="F1"/>it makes here: I am
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>unfortunate in the infirmity, and <lb n="1153" ed="F1"/>dare not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>task my weakness with any more.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1154" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>What, man! 'tis a night of revels;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the gallants <lb n="1155" ed="F1"/>desire it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1156" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Where are they?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1157" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Here at the door; I pray you, call
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>them in.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1158" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I'll do 't; but it dislikes me.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1159" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
<lb n="51" ed="G"/><lb n="1160" ed="F1"/></l><l>With that which he hath drunk to-night already,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1161" ed="F1"/></l><l>He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1162" ed="F1"/></l><l>As my young mistress' dog.   <lb n="1163" ed="F1"/>Now, my sick fool Roderigo,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1164" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1165" ed="F1"/></l><l>To Desdemona hath to-night caroused
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1166" ed="F1"/></l><l>Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1167" ed="F1"/></l><l>Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1168" ed="F1"/></l><l>That hold their honors in a wary distance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1169" ed="F1"/></l><l>The very elements of this warlike isle,
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1170" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1171" ed="F1"/></l><l>And they watch too. <lb n="1172" ed="F1"/>Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1173" ed="F1"/></l><l>Am I to put our Cassio in some action
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1174" ed="F1"/></l><l>That may offend the isle.--But here they come:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1175" ed="F1"/><lb n="1176" ed="F1"/></l><l>If consequence do but approve my dream,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1177" ed="F1"/></l><l>My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter CASSIO; with him MONTANO and Gentlemen; Servants following with wine.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1178" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>'Fore God, they have given me a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>rouse already.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1179" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><p>Good faith, a little one; not past a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>pint, as I am a <lb n="1180" ed="F1"/>soldier.

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1181" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Some wine, ho!
 <lb ed="G"/><lb n="1182" ed="F1"/></l><l> <stage>[Sings]</stage> And let me the canakin clink, clink;
<lb n="1183" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let me the canakin clink:
<lb n="1184" ed="F1"/></l><l>A soldier's but a man;</l>
<l>A life's but a span;
<lb n="1185" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, then, let a soldier drink.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1186" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some wine, boys!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1187" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>'Fore God, an excellent song.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1188" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>I learned it in England, where, indeed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>they are <lb n="1189" ed="F1"/>most potent in potting: your
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Dane, your German, <lb n="1190" ed="F1"/>and your swag-bellied
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="81"/>Hollander--Drink, ho!--are <lb n="1191" ed="F1"/>nothing to your English.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1192" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Is your Englishman so expert in his
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1193" ed="F1"/><lb/>drinking?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1194" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Why, he drinks you, with facility,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>your Dane <lb n="1195" ed="F1"/>dead drunk; he sweats not to overthrow
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>your Almain; <lb n="1196" ed="F1"/>he gives your Hollander
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>a vomit, ere the next <lb n="1197" ed="F1"/>pottle can be filled.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1198" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>To the health of our general!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1199" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><p>I am for it, lieutenant; and I'll do
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you justice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1200" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O sweet England!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1201" ed="F1"/></l><l>King Stephen was a worthy peer, <lb n="1202" ed="F1"/>His breeches cost him but a crown;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1203" ed="F1"/></l><l>He held them sixpence all too dear, <lb n="1204" ed="F1"/>With that he call'd the tailor lown.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1205" ed="F1"/></l><l>He was a wight of high renown, <lb n="1206" ed="F1"/>And thou art but of low degree:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1207" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis pride that pulls the country down; <lb n="1208" ed="F1"/>Then take thine auld cloak about thee.
<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="1209" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some wine, ho!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1210" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Why, this is a more exquisite song
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>than the <lb n="1211" ed="F1"/>other.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1212" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Will you hear't again?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1213" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>No; for I hold him to be unworthy
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of his place <lb n="1214" ed="F1"/>that does those things.   Well,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>God's above all; and <lb n="1215" ed="F1"/>there be souls must be
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>saved, and there be souls must <lb n="1216" ed="F1"/>not be saved.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1217" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>It's true, good lieutenant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1218" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>For mine own part,--no offence to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>the general, <lb n="1219" ed="F1"/>nor any man of quality,--I hope
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to be saved.

<lb n="112" ed="G"/><lb n="1220" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>And so do I too, lieutenant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1221" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Ay, but, by your leave, not before
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>me; the <lb n="1222" ed="F1"/>lieutenant is to be saved before the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>ancient. Let's have <lb n="1223" ed="F1"/>no more of this; let's to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>our affairs.--Forgive us our <lb n="1224" ed="F1"/>sins!--Gentlemen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>let's look to our business. Do not <lb n="1225" ed="F1"/>think,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>gentlemen, I am drunk: this is my ancient;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this <lb n="1226" ed="F1"/>is my right hand, and this is my left: I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>am not drunk <lb n="1227" ed="F1"/>now; I can stand well enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and speak well enough.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1228" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="all."><speaker>All.</speaker><l>Excellent well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1229" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Why, very well then; you must not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think then <lb n="1230" ed="F1"/>that I am drunk.
<stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1231" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><p>To the platform, masters; come,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>let's set the <lb n="1232" ed="F1"/>watch.

<lb n="126" ed="G"/><lb n="1233" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>You see this fellow that is gone before;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1234" ed="F1"/></l><l>He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1235" ed="F1"/></l><l>And give direction: and do but see his vice;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1236" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1237" ed="F1"/></l><l>The one as long as the other: 'tis pity of him.
<lb n="131" ed="G"/><lb n="1238" ed="F1"/></l><l>I fear the trust Othello puts him in,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1239" ed="F1"/></l><l>On some odd time of his infirmity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1240" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Will shake this island.

<lb n="1241" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">But is he often thus?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1242" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1243" ed="F1"/></l><l>He'll watch the horologe a double set,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1244" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">If drink rock not his cradle.

<lb n="1245" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">It were well
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1246" ed="F1"/></l><l>The general were put in mind of it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1247" ed="F1"/></l><l>Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature
<lb n="139" ed="G"/><lb n="1248" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1249" ed="F1"/></l><l>And looks not on his evils: is not this true?
<lb n="1250" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter RODERIGO.</stage>

<lb n="1251" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l> <stage>[Aside to him]</stage> How now, Roderigo!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1252" ed="F1"/></l><l>I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.
<stage>[Exit Roderigo,</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1253" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>And 'tis great pity that the noble Moor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1254" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should hazard such a place as his own second
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1255" ed="F1"/></l><l>With one of an ingraft infirmity:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1256" ed="F1"/></l><l>It were an honest action to say
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">So <lb n="1257" ed="F1"/>to the Moor.

<lb n="1258" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Not I, for this fair island:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1259" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do love Cassio well; and would do much
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1260" ed="F1"/></l><l>To cure him of this evil--But, hark! what noise?
<stage>[Cry within: 'Help! help!' </stage>
<lb n="1261" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1262" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="I">You rogue! you rascal!

<lb n="1263" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">What's the matter, lieutenant?

<lb n="151" ed="G"/><lb n="1264" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>A knave teach me my duty!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I'll beat the <lb n="1265" ed="F1"/>knave into a twiggen bottle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1266" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><l part="I">Beat me!

<lb n="1267" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="Y">Dost thou prate, rogue?
<stage>[Striking Roderigo.</stage>

<lb n="1268" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, good lieutenant;
<stage>[Staying him.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1269" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I pray you, sir, hold your hand.

<lb n="1270" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Let me go, sir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1271" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Or I'll knock you o'er the mazzard.

<lb n="1272" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l part="F">Come, come, you're drunk.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1273" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Drunk!
<stage>[They fight.</stage>

<lb n="1274" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l> <stage>Aside to Roderigo</stage> Away, I say; go out, and cry a mutiny.
<stage>[Exit Roderigo. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1275" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nay, good lieutenant,--alas, gentlemen;--
<lb n="159" ed="G"/><lb n="1276" ed="F1"/></l><l>Help, ho!--Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,-sir;--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1277" ed="F1"/></l><l>Help, masters!--Here's a goodly watch indeed!
<stage>[Bell rings. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1278" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who's that which rings the bell?--Diablo, ho!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1279" ed="F1"/></l><l>The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1280" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You will be shamed for ever.
<lb n="1281" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants.</stage>

<lb n="1282" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What is the matter here?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1283" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death.
<stage>[Faints. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1284" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Hold, for your lives!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1285" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Hold, ho! Lieutenant,--sir,--Montano,--gentlemen,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1286" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have you forgot all sense of place and duty?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1287" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hold! the general speaks to you; hold, hold, for shame!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1288" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1289" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are we turn'd Turks, and to ourselves do that
<lb n="171" ed="G"/><lb n="1290" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1291" ed="F1"/></l><l>For Christian shame, put by this barbarous brawl:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1292" ed="F1"/></l><l>He that stirs next to carve for his own rage
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1293" ed="F1"/></l><l>Holds his soul light; he dies upon his motion.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1294" ed="F1"/></l><l>Silence that dreadful bell: it frights the isle
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1295" ed="F1"/></l><l>From her propriety.   What is the matter, masters?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1296" ed="F1"/></l><l>Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1297" ed="F1"/></l><l>Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee.

<lb n="179" ed="G"/><lb n="1298" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I do not know: friends all but now, even now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1299" ed="F1"/></l><l>In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1300" ed="F1"/></l><l>Devesting them for bed; and then, but now--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1301" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if some planet had unwitted men--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1302" ed="F1"/></l><l>Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1303" ed="F1"/></l><l>In opposition bloody.   I cannot speak
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1304" ed="F1"/></l><l>Any beginning to this peevish odds;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1305" ed="F1"/></l><l>And would in action glorious I had lost
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1306" ed="F1"/></l><l>Those legs that brought me to a part of it!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1307" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>How comes it, Michael, you are thus forgot?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1308" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I pray you, pardon me; I cannot speak.

<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="1309" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Worthy Montano, you were wont be civil;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1310" ed="F1"/></l><l>The gravity and stillness of your youth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1311" ed="F1"/></l><l>The world hath noted, and your name is great
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1312" ed="F1"/></l><l>In mouths of wisest censure: what's the matter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1313" ed="F1"/></l><l>That you unlace your reputation thus
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1314" ed="F1"/></l><l>And spend your rich opinion for the name
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1315" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of a night-brawler? give me answer to it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1316" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1317" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your officer, Iago, can inform you,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1318" ed="F1"/></l><l>While I spare speech, which something now offends me,--
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="1319" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of all that I do know: nor know I aught
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1320" ed="F1"/></l><l>By me that's said or done amiss this night;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1321" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unless self-charity be sometimes a vice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1322" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to defend ourselves it be a sin
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1323" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">When violence assails us.

<lb n="1324" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Now, by heaven,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1325" ed="F1"/></l><l>My blood begins my safer guides to rule;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1326" ed="F1"/></l><l>And passion, having my best judgement collied,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1327" ed="F1"/></l><l>Assays to lead the way: if I once stir,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1328" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or do but lift this arm. the best of you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1329" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall sink in my rebuke. Give me to know
<lb n="210" ed="G"/><lb n="1330" ed="F1"/></l><l>How this foul rant began, who set it on;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1331" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he that is approved in this offence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1332" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though he had twinn'd with me, both at a birth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1333" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall lose me. What! in a town of war,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1334" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet wild, the people's hearts brimful of fear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1335" ed="F1"/></l><l>To manage private and domestic quarrel,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1336" ed="F1"/></l><l>In night, and on the court and guard of safety!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1337" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis monstrous.   Iago, who began 't?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1338" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mon."><speaker>Mon.</speaker><l>If partially affined, or leagued in office,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1339" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou dost deliver more or less than truth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1340" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Thou art no soldier.

<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="1341" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Touch me not so near:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1342" ed="F1"/></l><l>I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1343" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1344" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet, I persuade myself, to speak the truth
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1345" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall nothing wrong him. Thus it is, general.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1346" ed="F1"/></l><l>Montano and myself being in speech,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1347" ed="F1"/></l><l>There comes a fellow crying out for help;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1348" ed="F1"/></l><l>And Cassio following him with determined sword,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1349" ed="F1"/></l><l>To execute upon him.   Sir, this gentleman
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1350" ed="F1"/></l><l>Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:
<lb n="230" ed="G"/><lb n="1351" ed="F1"/></l><l>Myself the crying fellow did pursue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1352" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lest by his clamor--as it so fell out--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1353" ed="F1"/></l><l>The town might fall in fright: he, swift of foot,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1354" ed="F1"/></l><l>Outran my purpose; and I return'd the rather
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1355" ed="F1"/></l><l>For that I heard the clink and fall of swords,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1356" ed="F1"/></l><l>And Cassio high in oath; which till to-night
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1357" ed="F1"/></l><l>I ne'er might say before. When I came back--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1358" ed="F1"/></l><l>For this was brief--I found them close together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1359" ed="F1"/></l><l>At blow and thrust; even as again they were
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1360" ed="F1"/></l><l>When you yourself did part them.
<lb n="240" ed="G"/><lb n="1361" ed="F1"/></l><l>More of this matter cannot I report:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1362" ed="F1"/></l><l>But men are men; the best sometimes forget:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1363" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1364" ed="F1"/></l><l>As men in rage strike those that wish them best,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1365" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet surely Cassio, I believe, received
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1366" ed="F1"/></l><l>From him that fled some strange indignity,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1367" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Which patience, could not pass.

<lb n="1368" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I know, Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1369" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1370" ed="F1"/></l><l>Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1371" ed="F1"/></l><l>But never more be officer of mine.
<lb n="1372" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter DESDEMONA, attended.</stage>
<lb n="250" ed="G"/><lb n="1373" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look, if my gentle love be not raised up!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1374" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll make thee an example.

<lb n="1375" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">What's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1376" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>All's well now, sweeting; <lb n="1377" ed="F1"/>come away to bed.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Sir, for your hurts, <lb n="1378" ed="F1"/>myself will be your surgeon:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Lead him off.
<stage>[To Montano, who is led off.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1379" ed="F1"/></l><l>Iago, look with care about the town,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1380" ed="F1"/></l><l>And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1381" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1382" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.
<stage>[Exeunt all but Iago and Cassio. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1383" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>What, are you hurt, lieutenant?

<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="1384" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Ay, past all surgery.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1385" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Marry, heaven forbid!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1386" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Reputation, reputation, reputation! O,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>I have <lb n="1387" ed="F1"/>lost my reputation!   I have lost the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>immortal part of <lb n="1388" ed="F1"/>myself, and what remains is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>bestial. My reputation, <lb n="1389" ed="F1"/>Iago, my reputation!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1390" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>As I am  an honest man, I thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you had <lb n="1391" ed="F1"/>received some bodily wound; there is
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>more sense in that <lb n="1392" ed="F1"/>than in reputation. Reputation
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>is an idle and most false <lb n="1393" ed="F1"/>imposition; oft
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>got without merit, and lost without deserving:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1394" ed="F1"/><lb/>you have lost no reputation at all, unless you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1395" ed="F1"/><lb/>repute yourself such a loser.   What, man!
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>there are <lb n="1396" ed="F1"/>ways to recover the general again:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you are <lb n="1397" ed="F1"/>but now cast in his mood, a punishment
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>more in policy <lb n="1398" ed="F1"/>than in malice; even so as one
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>would beat his offenceless <lb n="1399" ed="F1"/>dog to affright an
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>imperious lion: sue to <lb n="1400" ed="F1"/>him again, and he's
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>yours.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1401" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I will rather sue to be despised than
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to deceive <lb n="1402" ed="F1"/>so good a commander with so slight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>so drunken, and so <lb n="1403" ed="F1"/>indiscreet an officer.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Drunk? and speak parrot? and <lb n="1404" ed="F1"/>squabble?
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>swagger? swear? and discourse fustian <lb n="1405" ed="F1"/>with
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>one's own shadow?   O thou invisible spirit of
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1406" ed="F1"/><lb/>wine, if thou hast no name to be known by,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>let us call <lb n="1407" ed="F1"/>thee devil!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1408" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>What was he that you followed with
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>your <lb n="1409" ed="F1"/>sword?  What had he done to you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1410" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I know not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1411" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Is't possible?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1412" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I remember a mass of things, but
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>nothing distinctly; <lb n="1413" ed="F1"/>a quarrel, but nothing
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>wherefore. O God, that <lb n="1414" ed="F1"/>men should put an
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>enemy in their mouths to steal away <lb n="1415" ed="F1"/>their
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1416" ed="F1"/><lb/>revel and applause transform   ourselves into
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>beasts!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1417" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Why, but you are now well enough:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>how <lb n="1418" ed="F1"/>came you thus recovered?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1419" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>It hath pleased the devil drunkenness
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to give <lb n="1420" ed="F1"/>place to the devil wrath: one unperfectness
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>shows me <lb n="1421" ed="F1"/>another, to make me
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>frankly despise myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1422" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Come, you are too severe a moraler:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>as the <lb n="1423" ed="F1"/>time, the place, and the condition of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this country stands, <lb n="1424" ed="F1"/>I could heartily wish this
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>had not befallen; but, since it is as <lb n="1425" ed="F1"/>it is,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>mend it for your own good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1426" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I will ask him for my place again;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>he shall tell <lb n="1427" ed="F1"/>me I am a drunkard!   Had I as
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>many mouths as Hydra, <lb n="1428" ed="F1"/>such an answer
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>would stop them all.   To be now a sensible
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1429" ed="F1"/><lb/>man, by and by a fool, and presently   a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>beast! O <lb n="1430" ed="F1"/>strange! Every inordinate cup
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>is unblessed and the ingredient <lb n="1431" ed="F1"/>is a devil.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1432" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Come, come, good wine is a good
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>familiar <lb n="1433" ed="F1"/>creature, if it be well used: exclaim
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>no more against it. <lb n="1434" ed="F1"/>And, good lieutenant, I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think you think I love <lb n="1435" ed="F1"/>you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1436" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I have well approved it, sir. I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>drunk!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1437" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>You or any man living may be drunk
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>at a <lb n="1438" ed="F1"/>time, man. I'll tell you what you shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>do. Our general's <lb n="1439" ed="F1"/>wife is now the general: I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>may say so in this respect, <lb n="1440" ed="F1"/>for that he hath
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>devoted and given up himself to the <lb n="1441" ed="F1"/>contemplation,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>mark, and denotement of her parts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1442" ed="F1"/><lb/>and graces: confess yourself freely to her;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>importune <lb n="1443" ed="F1"/>her help to put you in your place
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>again: she is <lb n="1444" ed="F1"/>of so free, so kind, so apt, so
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>blessed a disposition, <lb n="1445" ed="F1"/>she holds it a vice in her
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>goodness not to do more <lb n="1446" ed="F1"/>than she is requested:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>this broken joint between <lb n="1447" ed="F1"/>you and her husband
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>entreat her to splinter; and, my <lb n="1448" ed="F1"/>fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>against any lay worth naming, this crack of
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1449" ed="F1"/><lb/>your love shall grow stronger than it was
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>before.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1450" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>You advise me well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1451" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>I protest, in the sincerity of love and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>honest <lb n="1452" ed="F1"/>kindness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1453" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I think it freely; and betimes in the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>morning <lb n="1454" ed="F1"/>I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to undertake <lb n="1455" ed="F1"/>for me: I am desperate of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>my fortunes if they check me here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1456" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>You are in the right.   Good night.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="340"/>lieutenant; I <lb n="1457" ed="F1"/>must to the watch.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1458" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Good night, honest Iago.
<lb n="1459" ed="F1"/><stage>[Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1460" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>And what's he then <lb n="1461" ed="F1"/>that says I play the villain?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1462" ed="F1"/></l><l>When this advice is free I give and honest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1463" ed="F1"/></l><l>Probal to thinking and indeed the course
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1464" ed="F1"/></l><l>To win the Moor again?   <lb n="1465" ed="F1"/>For 'tis most easy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1466" ed="F1"/></l><l>The inclining Desdemona to subdue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1467" ed="F1"/></l><l>In any honest suit: she's framed as fruitful
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1468" ed="F1"/></l><l>As the free elements. And then for her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1469" ed="F1"/></l><l>To win the Moor--were't to renounce his baptism,
<lb n="350" ed="G"/><lb n="1470" ed="F1"/></l><l>All seals and symbols of redeemed sin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1471" ed="F1"/></l><l>His soul is so enfetter'd to her love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1472" ed="F1"/></l><l>That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1473" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even as her appetite shall play the god
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1474" ed="F1"/></l><l>With his weak function.   How am I then a villain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1475" ed="F1"/></l><l>To counsel Cassio to this parallel course,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1476" ed="F1"/></l><l>Directly to his good?   Divinity of hell!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1477" ed="F1"/></l><l>When devils will the blackest sins put on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1478" ed="F1"/></l><l>They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1479" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I do now: for whiles this honest fool
<lb n="360" ed="G"/><lb n="1480" ed="F1"/></l><l>Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1481" ed="F1"/></l><l>And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1482" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1483" ed="F1"/></l><l>That she repeals him for her body's lust;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1484" ed="F1"/></l><l>And by how much she strives to do him good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1485" ed="F1"/></l><l>She shall undo her credit with the Moor,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1486" ed="F1"/></l><l>So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1487" ed="F1"/></l><l>And out of her own goodness make the net
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1488" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That shall enmesh them all.
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter RODERIGO.</stage>
<lb n="1489" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">How now, Roderigo!
<lb n="1490" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1491" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="rod."><speaker>Rod.</speaker><p>I do follow here in the chase, not <lb n="1492" ed="F1"/>like
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1493" ed="F1"/><lb/>cry. My money is almost spent; I have been
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>to-night <lb n="1494" ed="F1"/>exceedingly well cudgelled; and I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think the issue <lb n="1495" ed="F1"/>will be, I shall have so much
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>experience for my pains, <lb n="1496" ed="F1"/>and so, with no
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>money at all and a little more wit, return
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1497" ed="F1"/><lb/>again to Venice.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1498" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>How poor are they that have not patience!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1499" ed="F1"/></l><l>What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1500" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1501" ed="F1"/></l><l>And wit depends on dilatory time.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1502" ed="F1"/></l><l>Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee,
<lb n="381" ed="G"/><lb n="1503" ed="F1"/></l><l>And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1504" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though other things grow fair against the sun,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1505" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1506" ed="F1"/></l><l>Content thyself awhile.   By the mass, 'tis morning;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1507" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1508" ed="F1"/></l><l>Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1509" ed="F1"/></l><l>Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1510" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nay, get thee gone. <stage>[Exit Roderigo.]</stage> <lb n="1511" ed="F1"/>Two things are to be done:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1512" ed="F1"/></l><l>My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;
<lb n="390" ed="G"/><lb n="1513" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll set her on;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1514" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1515" ed="F1"/></l><l>Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1516" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dull not device by coldness and delay.
<stage>[Exit.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
 
<div1 type="act" n="3">
 <head>ACT III</head><lb n="1517" ed="F1"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Before the Castle. </stage>
<lb n="1518" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CASSIO and some Musicians.  </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1519" ed="F1"/><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1520" ed="F1"/></l><l>Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'
<stage>Music. </stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter Clown.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1521" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Why, masters, have your instruments
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>been in Naples, <lb n="1522" ed="F1"/>that they speak i' the nose
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thus?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1523" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mus."><speaker>First Mus.</speaker><l>How, sir, how!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1524" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><l>Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1525" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mus."><speaker>First Mus.</speaker><l>Ay, marry, are they, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1526" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><l>O, thereby hangs a tail.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1527" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="mus."><speaker>First Mus.</speaker><l>Whereby hangs a tale, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1528" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Marry, sir, by many a wind-instrument
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that I <lb n="1529" ed="F1"/>know. But, masters, here's money
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>for you: and the general <lb n="1530" ed="F1"/>so likes your music,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that he desires you, for love's <lb n="1531" ed="F1"/>sake, to make
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>no more noise with it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1532" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mus."><speaker>First Mus.</speaker><l>Well, sir, we will not.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1533" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>If you have any music that may not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>be heard, <lb n="1534" ed="F1"/>to 't again: but, as they say, to hear
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>music the general <lb n="1535" ed="F1"/>does not greatly care.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1536" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="mus."><speaker>First Mus.</speaker><l>We have none such, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1537" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>Then put up your pipes in your bag,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>for I'll <lb n="1538" ed="F1"/>away: go; vanish into air; away!
<stage>Exeunt Musicians.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1539" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Dost thou hear, my honest friend?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1540" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>No, I hear not your honest friend; <lb n="1541" ed="F1"/>I
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hear you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1542" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>Prithee, keep up thy quillets.   There's
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>a poor <lb n="1543" ed="F1"/>piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that attends <lb n="1544" ed="F1"/>the general's wife be
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>stirring, tell her there's one Cassio entreats
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1545" ed="F1"/><lb/>her a little favour of speech: wilt thou do this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1546" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>She is stirring, sir: if she will stir
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hither, I shall <lb n="1547" ed="F1"/>seem to notify unto her.
<lb n="1548" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="I">Do, good my friend.
<stage>Exit Clown.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter IAGO.</stage>
<lb n="1549" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">In happy time, Iago,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1550" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>You have not been a-bed, then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1551" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Why, no; the day had broke
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Before we parted. <lb n="1552" ed="F1"/>I have made bold, Iago,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To send in to your wife: <lb n="1553" ed="F1"/>my suit to her
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1554" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Procure me some access.

<lb n="1555" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">I'll send her to you presently;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1556" ed="F1"/></l><l>And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1557" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of the way, that your converse and business
<lb n="41" ed="G"/><lb n="1558" ed="F1"/></l><l>May be more free.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1559" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I humbly thank you for't.       <stage>Exit Iago.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I never knew
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1560" ed="F1"/></l><l>A Florentine more kind and honest.
<lb n="1561" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter EMILIA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1562" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Good morrow, good lieutenant: I am sorry
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1563" ed="F1"/></l><l>For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1564" ed="F1"/></l><l>The general and his wife are talking of it;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1565" ed="F1"/></l><l>And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1566" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1567" ed="F1"/></l><l>And great affinity and that in wholesome wisdom
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1568" ed="F1"/></l><l>He might not but refuse you, but he protests he loves you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1569" ed="F1"/></l><l>And needs no other suitor but his likings
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>To take the safest occasion by the front
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1570" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To bring you in again.

<lb n="1571" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Yet, I beseech you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1572" ed="F1"/></l><l>If you think fit, or that it may be done,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1573" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give me advantage of some brief discourse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1574" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">With Desdemona alone.

<lb n="1575" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Pray you, come in:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1576" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will bestow you where you shall have time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1577" ed="F1"/></l><l>To speak your bosom   freely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1578" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I am much bound to you.
<stage>Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
 <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="1579" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A   room in the castle. </stage>
<lb n="1580" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1581" ed="F1"/><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1582" ed="F1"/></l><l>And by him do my duties to the senate:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1583" ed="F1"/></l><l>That done, I will be walking on the works;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1584" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Repair there to me.

<lb n="1585" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Well, my good lord, I'll do't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1586" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see 't?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1587" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="gent."><speaker>Gent.</speaker><l>We'll wait upon your lordship.
<stage>Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="3">
 <head>SCENE III</head><lb n="1588" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">The garden of the castle. </stage>
<lb n="1589" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and   EMILIA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1590" ed="F1"/><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1591" ed="F1"/></l><l>All my abilities in thy behalf.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1592" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Good madam, do: <lb n="1593" ed="F1"/>I warrant it grieves my husband,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1594" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if the case were his.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1595" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1596" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I will have my lord and you again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1597" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As friendly as you were.

<lb n="1598" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Bounteous madam,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1599" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1600" ed="F1"/></l><l>He's never any thing but your true servant.

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="1601" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I know't; I thank you.   You do love my lord:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1602" ed="F1"/></l><l>You have known him long; and be you well assured
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1603" ed="F1"/></l><l>He shall in strangeness stand no further off
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1604" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than in a politic distance.

<lb n="1605" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Ay, but, lady,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1606" ed="F1"/></l><l>That policy may either last so long,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1607" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1608" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1609" ed="F1"/></l><l>That, I being absent and my place supplied,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1610" ed="F1"/></l><l>My general will forget my love and service.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1611" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Do not doubt that; before Emilia here
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1612" ed="F1"/></l><l>I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1613" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1614" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the last article: my lord shall never rest;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1615" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll watch him   tame and talk him out of patience;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1616" ed="F1"/></l><l>His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1617" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll intermingle every thing he does
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1618" ed="F1"/></l><l>With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1619" ed="F1"/></l><l>For thy solicitor shall rather die
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1620" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than give thy cause away.
<lb n="1621" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1622" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Madam, here comes my lord.

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="1623" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Madam, I'll take my leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1624" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why, stay, and hear me speak.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1625" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1626" ed="F1"/></l><l>Unfit for mine own purposes.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1627" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Well, do your discretion.
<stage>Exit Cassio.</stage>
<stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO and IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1628" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Ha! I like not that.

<lb n="1629" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What dost thou say?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1630" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1631" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1632" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Cassio, my lord!   No, sure, I cannot think it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1633" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he would steal away so guilty-like,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1634" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Seeing you coming.

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="1635" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I do believe 'twas he.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1636" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>How now, my lord!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1637" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have been talking with a suitor here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1638" ed="F1"/></l><l>A man that languishes in your displeasure.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1639" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Who is't you mean?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1640" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1641" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I have any grace or power to move you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1642" ed="F1"/></l><l>His present reconciliation take;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1643" ed="F1"/></l><l>For if he be not one that truly loves you,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1644" ed="F1"/></l><l>That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="1645" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have no judgement in an honest face:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1646" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I prithee, call him back.

<lb n="1647" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Went he hence now?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1648" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Ay, sooth; so humbled
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1649" ed="F1"/></l><l>That he hath left part of his grief with me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1650" ed="F1"/></l><l>To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1651" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1652" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">But shall 't be shortly?

<lb n="1653" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">The sooner, sweet, for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1654" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">Shall't be to-night at supper?

<lb n="1655" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">No, not to-night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1656" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">To-morrow dinner, then?

<lb n="1657" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I shall not dine at home;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1658" ed="F1"/></l><l>I meet the captains at the citadel.

<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="1659" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1660" ed="F1"/></l><l>On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1661" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee, name the time, but let it not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1662" ed="F1"/></l><l>Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1663" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet his trespass, in our common reason--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1664" ed="F1"/></l><l>Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1665" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of their best--is not almost a fault
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1666" ed="F1"/></l><l>To incur a private check. When shall he come?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1667" ed="F1"/></l><l>Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1668" ed="F1"/></l><l>What you would ask me, that I should deny,
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="1669" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1670" ed="F1"/></l><l>That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1671" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1672" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1673" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1674" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1675" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I will deny thee nothing.

<lb n="1676" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Why, this is not a boon;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1677" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1678" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1679" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1680" ed="F1"/></l><l>To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
<lb n="81" ed="G"/><lb n="1681" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1682" ed="F1"/></l><l>It shall be full of poise and difficult weight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1683" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And fearful to be granted.

<lb n="1684" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I will deny thee nothing:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1685" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1686" ed="F1"/></l><l>To leave me but a little to myself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1687" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1688" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1689" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Emilia, come.   Be as your fancies teach you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1690" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whate'er you be, I am obedient.
<stage>Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia.</stage>

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="1691" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Excellent wretch!   Perdition catch my soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1692" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1693" ed="F1"/></l><l>Chaos is come again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1694" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">My noble lord,--

<lb n="1695" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What dost thou say, Iago?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1696" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Did Michael Cassio, <lb n="1697" ed="F1"/>when you woo'd my lady,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Know of your love?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1698" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>He did, from first to last: <lb n="1699" ed="F1"/>why dost thou ask?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1700" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>But for a satisfaction of my thought;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1701" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">No further harm.

<lb n="1702" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Why of thy thought, Iago?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1703" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I did not think he had been acquainted with her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1704" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O, yes; and went between us very oft.

<lb n="101" ed="G"/><lb n="1705" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Indeed!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1706" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1707" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is he not honest?

<lb n="1708" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="Y">Honest, my lord!

<lb n="1709" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Honest! ay, honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1710" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>My lord, for aught I know.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1711" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>What dost thou think?

<lb n="1712" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="Y">Think, my lord!

<lb n="1713" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Think my lord!
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>By heaven, he echoes me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1714" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if there were some monster in his thought
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1715" ed="F1"/></l><l>Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:
<lb n="109" ed="G"/><lb n="1716" ed="F1"/></l><l>I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1717" ed="F1"/></l><l>When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1718" ed="F1"/></l><l>And when I told thee he was of my counsel
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1719" ed="F1"/></l><l>In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1720" ed="F1"/></l><l>And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1721" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1722" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1723" ed="F1"/></l><l>Show me thy thought.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1724" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">My lord, you know I love you.

<lb n="1725" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I think thou dost;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1726" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1727" ed="F1"/></l><l>And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="1728" ed="F1"/></l><l>Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1729" ed="F1"/></l><l>For such things in a false disloyal knave
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1730" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1731" ed="F1"/></l><l>They are close delations, working from   the heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1732" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That passion cannot rule.

<lb n="1733" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">For Michael Cassio
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1734" ed="F1"/></l><l>I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1735" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I think so too.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1736" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Men should be what they seem;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1737" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or those that be not, would they might seem none!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1738" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Certain, men should be what they seem.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1739" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="1740" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Nay, yet there's more in this:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1741" ed="F1"/></l><l>I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1742" ed="F1"/></l><l>As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1743" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">The worst of words.

<lb n="1744" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Good my lord, pardon me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1745" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though I am bound to every act of duty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1746" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1747" ed="F1"/></l><l>Utter my thoughts?   Why, say they are vile and false;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1748" ed="F1"/></l><l>As where's that palace whereinto foul things
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1749" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1750" ed="F1"/></l><l>But some uncleanly apprehensions
<lb n="140" ed="G"/><lb n="1751" ed="F1"/></l><l>Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1752" ed="F1"/></l><l>With meditations lawful?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1753" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1754" ed="F1"/></l><l>If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1755" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A stranger to thy thoughts.

<lb n="1756" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">I do beseech you--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1757" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1758" ed="F1"/></l><l>As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1759" ed="F1"/></l><l>To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1760" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1761" ed="F1"/></l><l>From one that so imperfectly conceits,
<lb n="150" ed="G"/><lb n="1762" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1763" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1764" ed="F1"/></l><l>It were not for your quiet nor your good,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1765" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1766" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To let you know my thoughts.

<lb n="1767" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What dost thou mean?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1768" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1769" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1770" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who steals my purse steals trash; <lb n="1771" ed="F1"/>'tis something, nothing;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1772" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1773" ed="F1"/></l><l>But he that filches from me my good name
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="1774" ed="F1"/></l><l>Robs me of that which not enriches him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1775" ed="F1"/></l><l>And makes me poor indeed.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1776" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1777" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1778" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1779" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1780" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1781" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1782" ed="F1"/></l><l>The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1783" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1784" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="1785" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1786" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O misery!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1787" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1788" ed="F1"/></l><l>But riches fineless is as poor as winter
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1789" ed="F1"/></l><l>To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1790" ed="F1"/></l><l>Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1791" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">From jealousy!

<lb n="1792" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Why, why is this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1793" ed="F1"/></l><l>Think'st thou I'ld make a life of jealousy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1794" ed="F1"/></l><l>To follow still the changes of the moon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1795" ed="F1"/></l><l>With fresh suspicions?   No; to be once in doubt
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1796" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,
<lb n="181" ed="G"/><lb n="1797" ed="F1"/></l><l>When I shall turn the business of my soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1798" ed="F1"/></l><l>To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1799" ed="F1"/></l><l>Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1800" ed="F1"/></l><l>To say my wife is fair,--feeds well, loves company,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1801" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1802" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1803" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1804" ed="F1"/></l><l>The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1805" ed="F1"/></l><l>For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1806" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1807" ed="F1"/></l><l>And on the proof, there is no more but this,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1808" ed="F1"/></l><l>Away at once with love or jealousy!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1809" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1810" ed="F1"/></l><l>To show the love and duty that I bear you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1811" ed="F1"/></l><l>With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1812" ed="F1"/></l><l>Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1813" ed="F1"/></l><l>Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1814" ed="F1"/></l><l>Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1815" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would not have your free and noble nature,
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="1816" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1817" ed="F1"/></l><l>I know our country disposition well;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1818" ed="F1"/></l><l>In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1819" ed="F1"/></l><l>They dare not show their husbands; <lb n="1820" ed="F1"/>their best conscience
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1821" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is not to leave 't undone, but keep't unknown.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1822" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Dost thou say so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1823" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>She did deceive her father, marrying you;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1824" ed="F1"/></l><l>And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1825" ed="F1"/></l><l>She loved them most.

<lb n="1826" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="Y">And so she did.

<lb n="1827" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Why, go to then;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1828" ed="F1"/></l><l>She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1829" ed="F1"/></l><l>To seel her father's eyes up close as oak--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1830" ed="F1"/></l><l>He thought 'twas witchcraft--<lb n="1831" ed="F1"/>but I am much to blame;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1832" ed="F1"/></l><l>I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1833" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For too much loving you.

<lb n="1834" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I am bound to thee for ever.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1835" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1836" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Not a jot, not a jot.

<lb n="1837" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">I' faith, I fear it has.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1838" ed="F1"/></l><l>I hope you will consider what is spoke
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1839" ed="F1"/></l><l>Comes from my love.   <lb n="1840" ed="F1"/>But I do see you're moved:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1841" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am to pray you not to strain my speech
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1842" ed="F1"/></l><l>To grosser issues nor to larger reach
<lb n="220" ed="G"/><lb n="1843" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than to suspicion.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1844" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">I will not.

<lb n="1845" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Should you do so, my lord,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1846" ed="F1"/></l><l>My speech should fall into such vile success
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1847" ed="F1"/></l><l>As my thoughts aim not at.   <lb n="1848" ed="F1"/>Cassio's my worthy friend--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1849" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My lord, I see you're moved.

<lb n="1850" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">No, not much moved:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1851" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do not think but Desdemona's honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1852" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Long live she so! <lb n="1853" ed="F1"/>and long live you to think so!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1854" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>And yet, how nature erring, from itself,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1855" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Ay, there's the point: <lb n="1856" ed="F1"/>as--to be bold with you--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1857" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not to affect many proposed matches
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1858" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1859" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whereto we see in all things nature tends-
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1860" ed="F1"/></l><l>Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1861" ed="F1"/></l><l>Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1862" ed="F1"/></l><l>But pardon me; I do not in position
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1863" ed="F1"/></l><l>Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1864" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her will, recoiling to her better judgement,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1865" ed="F1"/></l><l>May fall to match you with her country forms
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1866" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And happily repent.

<lb n="1867" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Farewell, farewell:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1868" ed="F1"/></l><l>If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1869" ed="F1"/></l><l>Set on thy wife to observe: <lb n="1870" ed="F1"/>leave me, Iago.</l></sp>
<sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker>
 <stage>Going</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1871" ed="F1"/><l>My lord, I take my leave.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1872" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Why did I marry? <lb n="1873" ed="F1"/>This honest creature doubtless
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1874" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.</l></sp>
<sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker>
 <stage>Returning</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1875" ed="F1"/><l>My lord, I would I might entreat your honour
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1876" ed="F1"/></l><l>To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1877" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1878" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, sure, he fills it up with great ability,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1879" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1880" ed="F1"/></l><l>You shall by that perceive him and his means:
<lb n="250" ed="G"/><lb n="1881" ed="F1"/></l><l>Note, if your lady strain his entertainment
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1882" ed="F1"/></l><l>With any strong or vehement importunity;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1883" ed="F1"/></l><l>Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1884" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me be thought too busy in my fears--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1885" ed="F1"/></l><l>As worthy cause I have to fear I am--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1886" ed="F1"/></l><l>And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1887" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Fear not my government.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1888" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I once more take my leave.
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1889" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1890" ed="F1"/></l><l>And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1891" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
<lb n="261" ed="G"/><lb n="1892" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though that her jesses--were my dear heartstrings,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1893" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1894" ed="F1"/></l><l>To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1895" ed="F1"/></l><l>And have not those soft parts of conversation
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1896" ed="F1"/></l><l>That chamberers have, or for I am declined
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1897" ed="F1"/></l><l>Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1898" ed="F1"/></l><l>She's gone.   I am abused; and my relief
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1899" ed="F1"/></l><l>Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1900" ed="F1"/></l><l>That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
<lb n="270" ed="G"/><lb n="1901" ed="F1"/></l><l>And not their appetites!   I had rather be a toad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1902" ed="F1"/></l><l>And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1903" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than keep a corner in the thing I love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1904" ed="F1"/></l><l>For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1905" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prerogatived are they less than the base;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1906" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1907" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even then this forked plague is fated to us
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1908" ed="F1"/></l><l>When we do quicken.   Desdemona comes:
<lb n="1909" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1910" ed="F1"/></l><l>If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1911" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I'll not believe 't.

<lb n="1912" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">How now, my dear Othello!
<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="1913" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your dinner, and the generous islanders
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1914" ed="F1"/></l><l>By you invited, do attend your presence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1915" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">I am to blame.

<lb n="1916" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Why do you speak so faintly?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1917" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are you not well?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1918" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I have a pain upon my forehead here.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1919" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1920" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1921" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">It will be well.

<lb n="1922" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Your napkin is too little:
<stage>He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1923" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1924" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I am very sorry that you are not well.
<stage>Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1925" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>I am glad I have found this napkin:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1926" ed="F1"/></l><l>This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1927" ed="F1"/></l><l>My wayward husband hath a hundred times
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1928" ed="F1"/></l><l>Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1929" ed="F1"/></l><l>For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1930" ed="F1"/></l><l>That she reserves it evermore about her
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1931" ed="F1"/></l><l>To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1932" ed="F1"/></l><l>And give't Iago: what he will do with it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1933" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven knows, not I;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1934" ed="F1"/></l><l>I nothing but to please his fantasy.
<lb n="1935" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1936" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>How now! what do you here alone?

<lb n="301" ed="G"/><lb n="1937" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1938" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>A thing for me? <lb n="1939" ed="F1"/>it is a common thing--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1940" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1941" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>To have a foolish wife.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1942" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>O, is that all?   What will you give me now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1943" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For that same handkerchief?

<lb n="1944" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">What handkerchief?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1945" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>What handkerchief!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1946" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1947" ed="F1"/></l><l>That which so often you did bid me steal.

<lb n="310" ed="G"/><lb n="1948" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Hast stol'n it from her?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1949" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1950" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, to the advantage, I, being here, took 't up.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1951" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Look, here it is.

<lb n="1952" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">A good wench; give it me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1953" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>What will you do with't, that you have been so earnest
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1954" ed="F1"/></l><l>To have me filch it?</l></sp>
<sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker>
 <stage>Snatching it</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1955" ed="F1"/><l>Why, what's that to you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1956" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>If it be not for some purpose of import,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1957" ed="F1"/></l><l>Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1958" ed="F1"/></l><l>When she shall lack it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1959" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Be not acknown on't; <lb n="1960" ed="F1"/>I have use for it.
<lb n="320" ed="G"/></l><l>Go, leave me.
<stage>Exit Emilia. </stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1961" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1962" ed="F1"/></l><l>And let him find it. Trifles light as air
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1963" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are to the jealous confirmations strong
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1964" ed="F1"/></l><l>As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1965" ed="F1"/></l><l>The Moor already changes with my poison:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1966" ed="F1"/></l><l>Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1967" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1968" ed="F1"/></l><l>But with a little act upon the blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1969" ed="F1"/></l><l>Burn like the mines of sulphur. I did say so:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1970" ed="F1"/><lb n="1971" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Look, where he comes!
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter OTHELLO.</stage>
<lb n="330" ed="G"/></l><l part="F">Not poppy, nor mandragora,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1972" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1973" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1974" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Which thou owedst yesterday.

<lb n="1975" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Ha! ha! false to me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1976" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why, how now, general! no more of that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1977" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1978" ed="F1"/></l><l>I swear 'tis better to be much abused
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1979" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than but to know't a little.

<lb n="1980" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">How now, my lord!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1981" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1982" ed="F1"/></l><l>I saw 't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1983" ed="F1"/></l><l>I slept the next night well, was free and merry;
<lb n="341" ed="G"/><lb n="1984" ed="F1"/></l><l>I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1985" ed="F1"/></l><l>He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1986" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1987" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am sorry to hear this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1988" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I had been happy, if the general camp,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1989" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1990" ed="F1"/></l><l>So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1991" ed="F1"/></l><l>Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1992" ed="F1"/></l><l>Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
<lb n="350" ed="G"/><lb n="1993" ed="F1"/></l><l>That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1994" ed="F1"/></l><l>Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1995" ed="F1"/></l><l>The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1996" ed="F1"/></l><l>The royal banner, and all quality,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1997" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1998" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="1999" ed="F1"/></l><l>The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2000" ed="F1"/></l><l>Farewell!   Othello's occupation's gone!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2001" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Is't possible, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2002" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
<lb n="360" ed="G"/><lb n="2003" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2004" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or, by the worth of man's eternal soul,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2005" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2006" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Than answer my waked wrath!

<lb n="2007" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Is 't come to this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2008" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2009" ed="F1"/></l><l>That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2010" ed="F1"/></l><l>To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2011" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>My noble lord,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2012" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>If thou dost slander her and torture me,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2013" ed="F1"/></l><l>Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
<lb n="370" ed="G"/><lb n="2014" ed="F1"/></l><l>On horror's head horrors accumulate;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2015" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2016" ed="F1"/></l><l>For nothing canst thou to damnation add
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2017" ed="F1"/></l><l>Greater than that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2018" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O grace! O heaven forgive me!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2019" ed="F1"/></l><l>Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2020" ed="F1"/></l><l>God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2021" ed="F1"/></l><l>That livest to make thine honesty a vice!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2022" ed="F1"/></l><l>O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2023" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be direct and honest is not safe.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2024" ed="F1"/></l><l>I thank you for this profit; and from hence
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2025" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2026" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2027" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I should be wise, for honesty's a fool
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2028" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And loses that it works for.

<lb n="2029" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">By the world,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2030" ed="F1"/></l><l>I think my wife be honest and think she is not;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2031" ed="F1"/></l><l>I think that thou art just and think thou art not.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2032" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2033" ed="F1"/></l><l>As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2034" ed="F1"/></l><l>As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2035" ed="F1"/></l><l>Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2036" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2037" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2038" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do repent me that I put it to you.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2039" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">You would be satisfied?

<lb n="2040" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Would! nay, I will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2041" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2042" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on-
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2043" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Behold her topp'd?

<lb n="2044" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Death and damnation! O!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2045" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2046" ed="F1"/></l><l>To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2047" ed="F1"/></l><l>If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2048" ed="F1"/></l><l>More than their own! What then? how then?
<lb n="401" ed="G"/><lb n="2049" ed="F1"/></l><l>What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2050" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is impossible you should see this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2051" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2052" ed="F1"/></l><l>As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2053" ed="F1"/></l><l>As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2054" ed="F1"/></l><l>If imputation and strong circumstances,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2055" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which lead directly to the door of truth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2056" ed="F1"/></l><l>Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2057" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Give me a living reason she's disloyal.

<lb n="410" ed="G"/><lb n="2058" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I do not like the office:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2059" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, sith, I am enter'd in this cause so far,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2060" ed="F1"/></l><l>Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2061" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2062" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, being troubled with a raging tooth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2063" ed="F1"/></l><l>I could not sleep.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>There are a kind of men <lb n="2064" ed="F1"/>so loose of soul,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That in their sleeps will mutter <lb n="2065" ed="F1"/>their affairs:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>One of this kind is Cassio:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2066" ed="F1"/></l><l>In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
<lb n="420" ed="G"/><lb n="2067" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2068" ed="F1"/></l><l>And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2069" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2070" ed="F1"/></l><l>As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2071" ed="F1"/></l><l>That grew upon my lips; then laid his leg
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Over my thigh, <lb n="2072" ed="F1"/>and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Cried 'Cursed fate <lb n="2073" ed="F1"/>that gave thee to the Moor!'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2074" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">O monstrous! monstrous!

<lb n="2075" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, this was but his dream.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2076" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>But this denoted a foregone conclusion:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2077" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.

<lb n="430" ed="G"/><lb n="2078" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>And this may help to thicken other proofs
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2079" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That do demonstrate thinly.

<lb n="2080" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I'll tear her all to pieces.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2081" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2082" ed="F1"/></l><l>She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2083" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2084" ed="F1"/></l><l>Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2085" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2086" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I know not that: but such a handkerchief--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2087" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2088" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">See Cassio wipe his beard with.

<lb n="2089" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">If it be that,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2090" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>If it be that, or any that was hers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2091" ed="F1"/></l><l>It speaks against her with the other proofs.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2092" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2093" ed="F1"/></l><l>One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2094" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2095" ed="F1"/></l><l>All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>'Tis gone.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2096" ed="F1"/></l><l>Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2097" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2098" ed="F1"/></l><l>To tyrannous hate!   Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2099" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">For 'tis of aspics' tongues!

<lb n="450" ed="G"/><lb n="2100" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Yet be content.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2101" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O, blood, blood, blood!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2102" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Patience, I say, your mind perhaps may change.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2103" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2104" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose icy current and compulsive course
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2105" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2106" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2107" ed="F1"/></l><l>Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2108" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2109" ed="F1"/></l><l>Till that a capable and wide revenge
<lb n="460" ed="G"/><lb n="2110" ed="F1"/></l><l>Swallow them up.   Now, by yond marble heaven,
<stage>Kneels</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2111" ed="F1"/></l><l>In the due reverence of a sacred vow
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2112" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I here engage my words.

<lb n="2113" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Do not rise yet.
<stage>Kneels</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2114" ed="F1"/></l><l>Witness, you   ever-burning   lights above,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2115" ed="F1"/></l><l>You elements that clip us round about,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2116" ed="F1"/></l><l>Witness that here Iago doth give up
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2117" ed="F1"/></l><l>The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2118" ed="F1"/></l><l>To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2119" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to obey shall be in me remorse,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2120" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">What bloody business ever.
<stage>They rise.</stage>

<lb n="2121" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I greet thy love,
<lb n="470" ed="G"/><lb n="2122" ed="F1"/></l><l>Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2123" ed="F1"/></l><l>And will upon the instant put thee to 't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2124" ed="F1"/></l><l>Within these three days let me hear thee say
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2125" ed="F1"/></l><l>That Cassio's not alive.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2126" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>My friend is dead; <lb n="2127" ed="F1"/>'tis done at your request:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2128" ed="F1"/></l><l>But let her live.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2129" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Damn her, lewd minx! <lb n="2130" ed="F1"/>O, damn her!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2131" ed="F1"/></l><l>Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2132" ed="F1"/></l><l>To furnish me with some swift means of death
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2133" ed="F1"/></l><l>For the fair devil. <lb n="2134" ed="F1"/>Now art thou my lieutenant.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2135" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am your own for ever.
<stage>Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="4">
 <head>SCENE IV</head><lb n="2136" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">Before the castle. </stage>
<lb n="2137" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2138" ed="F1"/><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Cassio <lb n="2139" ed="F1"/>lies?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2140" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><l>I dare not say he lies any where.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2141" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why, man?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2142" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>He's a soldier, and for one to say a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>soldier lies, <lb n="2143" ed="F1"/>is stabbing.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2144" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Go to: where lodges he?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2145" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>To tell you where he lodges, is to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>tell you where <lb n="2146" ed="F1"/>I lie.

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2147" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Can any thing be made of this?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2148" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I know not where he lodges, and for
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>me to devise <lb n="2149" ed="F1"/>a lodging and say he lies here or
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>he lies there, were <lb n="2150" ed="F1"/>to lie in mine own throat.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2151" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>Can you inquire him out, and be
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>edified by <lb n="2152" ed="F1"/>report?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2153" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>I will catechize the world for him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that is, make <lb n="2154" ed="F1"/>questions, and by them answer.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2155" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><p>Seek him, bid him come hither: tell
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>him I <lb n="2156" ed="F1"/>have moved my lord on his behalf, and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hope all will <lb n="2157" ed="F1"/>be well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2158" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="clo."><speaker>Clo.</speaker><p>To do this is within the compass of
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>man's wit; <lb n="2159" ed="F1"/>and therefore I will attempt the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>doing it.
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2160" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Where should I lose that handkerchief, <lb n="2161" ed="F1"/>Emilia?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2162" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>I know not, madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2163" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2164" ed="F1"/></l><l>Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2165" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2166" ed="F1"/></l><l>As jealous creatures are, it were enough
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2167" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To put him to ill thinking.

<lb n="2168" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Is he not jealous?

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="2169" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Who, he?   I think the sun where he was born
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2170" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Drew all such humours from him.

<lb n="2171" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Look, where he comes.
<lb n="2172" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2173" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I will not leave him now till Cassio
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Be <lb n="2174" ed="F1"/>call'd to him.
<stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO.</stage>
<lb n="2175" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">How is't with you, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2176" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Well, my good lady.   <stage>Aside</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>O, hardness to dissemble!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2177" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">How do you, Desdemona?

<lb n="2178" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Well, my good lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2179" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Give me your hand: <lb n="2180" ed="F1"/>this hand is moist, my lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2181" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>It yet hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2182" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2183" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2184" ed="F1"/></l><l>A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2185" ed="F1"/></l><l>Much castigation, exercise devout;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2186" ed="F1"/></l><l>For here's a young and sweating devil here,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2187" ed="F1"/></l><l>That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2188" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">A frank one.

<lb n="2189" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">You may, indeed, say so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2190" ed="F1"/></l><l>For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2191" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2192" ed="F1"/></l><l>But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2193" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2194" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>What promise, chuck?

<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2195" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2196" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2197" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Lend me thy handkerchief.

<lb n="2198" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Here, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2199" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">That which I gave you.

<lb n="2200" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">I have it not about me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2201" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Not?

<lb n="2202" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="Y">No, indeed, my lord.

<lb n="2203" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">That is a fault.
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>That handkerchief
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2204" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did an Egyptian to my mother give;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2205" ed="F1"/></l><l>She was a charmer, and could almost read
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2206" ed="F1"/></l><l>The thoughts of people: she told her, while she kept it,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2207" ed="F1"/></l><l>'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2208" ed="F1"/></l><l>Entirely to her love, but if she lost it
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2209" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or made a gift of it, my father's eye
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2210" ed="F1"/></l><l>Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2211" ed="F1"/></l><l>After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2212" ed="F1"/></l><l>And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2213" ed="F1"/></l><l>To give it her. I did so: and take heed on 't;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2214" ed="F1"/></l><l>Make it a darling like your precious eye;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2215" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lose't or give't away were such perdition
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2216" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">As nothing else could match.

<lb n="2217" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Is't possible?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2218" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2219" ed="F1"/></l><l>A sibyl, that had number'd in the world
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2220" ed="F1"/></l><l>The sun to course two hundred compasses,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2221" ed="F1"/></l><l>In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2222" ed="F1"/></l><l>The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2223" ed="F1"/></l><l>And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2224" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Conserved of maidens' hearts.

<lb n="2225" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Indeed! is't true?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2226" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Most veritable; therefore look to 't well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2227" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Then would to God that I had never seen 't!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2228" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Ha! wherefore?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2229" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why do you speak so startingly and rash?

<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2230" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out o' the way?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2231" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Heaven bless us!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2232" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Say you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2233" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>It is not lost; but what an if it were?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2234" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>How!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2235" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">I say, it is not lost.

<lb n="2236" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Fetch 't, let me see 't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2237" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2238" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is a trick to put me from my suit:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2239" ed="F1"/></l><l>Pray you, let Cassio be received again.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2240" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Fetch me the handkerchief: <lb n="2241" ed="F1"/>my mind misgives.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="2242" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Come, come;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>You'll never meet a more sufficient <lb n="2243" ed="F1"/>man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2244" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">The handkerchief!</l></sp>
<sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker>
<l part="F">I pray, talk me of Cassio.

<lb ed="G"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">The handkerchief!

<lb n="2245" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">A man that all his time
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2246" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2247" ed="F1"/></l><l>Shared dangers with you,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2248" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>The handkerchief!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2249" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>In sooth, you are to blame.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2250" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Away!
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2251" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Is not this man jealous?

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="2252" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I ne'er saw this before.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2253" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2254" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am most unhappy in the loss of it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2255" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2256" ed="F1"/></l><l>They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2257" ed="F1"/></l><l>They eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2258" ed="F1"/></l><l>They belch us.   <lb n="2259" ed="F1"/><lb n="2260" ed="F1"/>Look you, Cassio and my husband!
<stage type="entrance">Enter CASSIO and IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2261" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2262" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, lo, the happiness I go, and importune her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2263" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>How now, good Cassio! what's the news with <lb n="2264" ed="F1"/>you?

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="2265" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2266" ed="F1"/></l><l>That by your virtuous means I may again
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2267" ed="F1"/></l><l>Exist, and be a member of his love
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2268" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom I with all the office of my heart
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2269" ed="F1"/></l><l>Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2270" ed="F1"/></l><l>If my offence be of such mortal kind
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2271" ed="F1"/></l><l>That nor my service past, nor present sorrows,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2272" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor purposed merit in futurity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2273" ed="F1"/></l><l>Can ransom me into his love again,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2274" ed="F1"/></l><l>But to know so must be my benefit;
<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2275" ed="F1"/></l><l>So shall I clothe me in a forced content,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2276" ed="F1"/></l><l>And shut myself up in some other course,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2277" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To fortune's alms.

<lb n="2278" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2279" ed="F1"/></l><l>My advocation is not now in tune;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2280" ed="F1"/></l><l>My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2281" ed="F1"/></l><l>Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2282" ed="F1"/></l><l>So help me every spirit sanctified,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2283" ed="F1"/></l><l>As I have spoken for you all my best
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2284" ed="F1"/></l><l>And stood within the blank of his displeasure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2285" ed="F1"/></l><l>For my free speech! you must awhile be patient:
<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="2286" ed="F1"/></l><l>What I can do I will; and more I will
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2287" ed="F1"/></l><l>Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2288" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Is my lord angry?

<lb n="2289" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">He went hence but now,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2290" ed="F1"/></l><l>And certainly in strange unquietness.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2291" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Can he be angry?   I have seen the cannon,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2292" ed="F1"/></l><l>When it hath blown his ranks into the air,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2293" ed="F1"/></l><l>And, like the devil, from his very arm
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2294" ed="F1"/></l><l>Puff'd his own brother:--and can he be angry?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2295" ed="F1"/></l><l>Something of moment then: I will go meet him:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2296" ed="F1"/></l><l>There's matter in't indeed, if he be angry.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2297" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">I prithee, do so.
<stage>Exit Iago.</stage></l>
<l part="F">Something, sure, of state,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2298" ed="F1"/></l><l>Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2299" ed="F1"/></l><l>Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2300" ed="F1"/></l><l>Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2301" ed="F1"/></l><l>Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2302" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though great ones are their object.   'Tis even so;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2303" ed="F1"/></l><l>For let our finger ache, and it indues
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2304" ed="F1"/></l><l>Our other healthful members even to that sense
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2305" ed="F1"/></l><l>Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2306" ed="F1"/></l><l>Nor of them look for such observances
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2307" ed="F1"/></l><l>As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much. Emilia,
<lb n="151" ed="G"/><lb n="2308" ed="F1"/></l><l>I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2309" ed="F1"/></l><l>Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2310" ed="F1"/></l><l>But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2311" ed="F1"/></l><l>And he's indicted falsely.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2312" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Pray heaven it be <lb n="2313" ed="F1"/>state-matters, as you think,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>And no conception <lb n="2314" ed="F1"/>nor no jealous toy
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Concerning you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2315" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Alas the day! I never gave him cause.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2316" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;
<lb n="160" ed="G"/><lb n="2317" ed="F1"/></l><l>They are not ever jealous for the cause,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2318" ed="F1"/></l><l>But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2319" ed="F1"/></l><l>Begot upon itself, born on itself.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2320" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2321" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Lady, amen.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2322" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I will go seek him.   Cassio, walk here about:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2323" ed="F1"/></l><l>If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2324" ed="F1"/></l><l>And seek to effect it to my uttermost.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2325" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I humbly thank your ladyship.
<stage>Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia.</stage>
<lb n="2326" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter BIANCA.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2327" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="I">Save you, friend Cassio!

<lb n="2328" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">What make you from home?
<lb n="170" ed="G"/><lb n="2329" ed="F1"/></l><l>How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2330" ed="F1"/></l><l>I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2331" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2332" ed="F1"/></l><l>What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2333" ed="F1"/></l><l>Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2334" ed="F1"/></l><l>More tedious than the dial eight score times?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2335" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">O weary reckoning!

<lb n="2336" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Pardon me, Bianca:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2337" ed="F1"/></l><l>I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2338" ed="F1"/></l><l>But I shall, in a more continuate time,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2339" ed="F1"/></l><l>Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
<stage>Giving her Desdemona's handkerchief.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2340" ed="F1"/></l><l>Take me this work out.

<lb n="180" ed="G"/><lb n="2341" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>O Cassio, whence came this?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2342" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is some token from a newer friend:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2343" ed="F1"/></l><l>To the felt absence now I feel a cause:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2344" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Is't come to this? Well, well.

<lb n="2345" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Go to, woman!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2346" ed="F1"/></l><l>Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2347" ed="F1"/></l><l>From whence you have them.   You are jealous now
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2348" ed="F1"/></l><l>That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2349" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">No, in good troth, Bianca.

<lb n="2350" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="F">Why, whose is it?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2351" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I know not, sweet: <lb n="2352" ed="F1"/>I found it in my chamber.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2353" ed="F1"/></l><l>I like the work well: ere it be demanded--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2354" ed="F1"/></l><l>As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2355" ed="F1"/></l><l>Take it, and do 't; and leave me for this time.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2356" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>Leave you! wherefore?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2357" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>I do attend here on the general;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2358" ed="F1"/></l><l>And think it no addition, nor my wish,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2359" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">To have him see me woman'd.

<lb n="2360" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="F">Why, I pray you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2361" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="I">Not that I love you not.

<lb n="2362" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l part="F">But that you do not love me.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2363" ed="F1"/></l><l>I pray you, bring me on the way a little,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2364" ed="F1"/></l><l>And say if I shall see you soon at night.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2365" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>'Tis but a little way that I can bring you;
<lb n="200" ed="G"/><lb n="2366" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2367" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><l>'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced.
<lb n="2368" ed="F1"/><stage>Exeunt. </stage></l></sp>
</div2>
</div1>
 
<div1 type="act" n="4">
 <head>ACT IV</head><lb n="2369" ed="F1"/>
<div2 type="scene" n="1">
<head>SCENE I</head>
<stage type="setting">Cyprus. Before the castle. </stage>
<lb n="2370" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO and IAGO.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2371" ed="F1"/><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Will you think so?

<lb n="2372" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Think so, Iago!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2373" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>What,
<lb ed="G"/></p><l part="I">To kiss in private?

<lb n="2374" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">An unauthorized kiss.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2375" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Or to be naked with her friend in bed
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2376" ed="F1"/></l><l>An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2377" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2378" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is hypocrisy against the devil:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2379" ed="F1"/></l><l>They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2380" ed="F1"/></l><l>The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2381" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:
<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2382" ed="F1"/></l><l>But if I give my wife a handkerchief,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2383" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>What then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2384" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and, being hers,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2385" ed="F1"/></l><l>She may, I think, bestow't on any man.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2386" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>She is protectress of her honour too:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2387" ed="F1"/></l><l>May she give that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2388" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Her honour is an essence that's not seen;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2389" ed="F1"/></l><l>They have it very oft that have it not:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2390" ed="F1"/></l><l>But, for the handkerchief,--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2391" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2392" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2393" ed="F1"/></l><l>As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2394" ed="F1"/></l><l>Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2395" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Ay, what of that?

<lb n="2396" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="Y">That's not so good now.

<lb n="2397" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">What,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2398" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or heard him say,--as knaves be such abroad,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2399" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who having, by their own importunate suit,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2400" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2401" ed="F1"/></l><l>Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2402" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But they must blab--

<lb n="2403" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Hath he said any thing?

<lb n="30" ed="G"/><lb n="2404" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>He hath, my lord; but be you well assured,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2405" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">No more than he'll unswear.

<lb n="2406" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What hath he said?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2407" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2408" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>What? what?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2409" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Lie--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2410" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">With her?

<lb n="2411" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">With her, on her; what you will.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2412" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>on her, <lb n="2413" ed="F1"/>when they belie her. Lie with her!
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>that's fulsome.--<lb n="2414" ed="F1"/>Handkerchief--confessions--
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>handkerchief!--To confess, <lb n="2415" ed="F1"/>and be hanged for
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>his labour;--first, to be hanged, <lb n="2416" ed="F1"/>and then to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>confess.--I tremble at it. Nature would not
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2417" ed="F1"/><lb/>invest herself in such shadowing passion with-
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>out some <lb n="2418" ed="F1"/>instruction.   It is not words that
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>shake me thus. Pish! <lb n="2419" ed="F1"/>Noses, ears, and lips.--
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>Is't possible?--Confess--handkerchief!--<lb n="2420" ed="F1"/>O
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>devil!
<stage>Falls in a trance.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2421" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Work on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2422" ed="F1"/></l><l>My medicine, work!   Thus credulous fools are caught;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2423" ed="F1"/></l><l>And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2424" ed="F1"/></l><l>All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2425" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">My lord, I say! Othello!
<lb n="2426" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter CASSIO.</stage>
<lb n="2427" ed="F1"/></l><l part="F">How now, Cassio!

<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2428" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>What's the matter?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2429" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2430" ed="F1"/></l><l>This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2431" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="I">Rub him about the temples.</l></sp>
<sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker>
<l part="F">No, forbear;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2432" ed="F1"/></l><l>The lethargy must have his quiet course:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2433" ed="F1"/></l><l>If not, he foams at mouth and by and by
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2434" ed="F1"/></l><l>Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2435" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2436" ed="F1"/></l><l>He will recover straight: when he is gone,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2437" ed="F1"/></l><l>I would on great occasion speak with you.
<stage>Exit Cassio,</stage>
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2438" ed="F1"/></l><l>How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2439" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Dost thou mock me?

<lb n="2440" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">I mock you! no, by heaven.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2441" ed="F1"/></l><l>Would you would bear your fortune like a man!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2442" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>A horned man's a monster and a beast.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2443" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>There's many a beast then in a populous city,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2444" ed="F1"/></l><l>And many a civil monster.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2445" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Did he confess it?

<lb n="2446" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Good sir, be a man;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2447" ed="F1"/></l><l>Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2448" ed="F1"/></l><l>May draw with you: there's millions now alive
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2449" ed="F1"/></l><l>That nightly lie in those unproper beds
<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2450" ed="F1"/></l><l>Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2451" ed="F1"/></l><l>O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2452" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2453" ed="F1"/></l><l>And to suppose her chaste!   No, let me know;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2454" ed="F1"/></l><l>And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2455" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.

<lb n="2456" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Stand you awhile apart;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2457" ed="F1"/></l><l>Confine yourself but in a patient list.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2458" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2459" ed="F1"/></l><l>A passion most unsuiting such a man--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2460" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2461" ed="F1"/></l><l>And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2462" ed="F1"/></l><l>Bade him anon return and here speak with me;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2463" ed="F1"/></l><l>The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2464" ed="F1"/></l><l>And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2465" ed="F1"/></l><l>That dwell in every region of his face;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2466" ed="F1"/></l><l>For I will make him tell the tale anew,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2467" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2468" ed="F1"/></l><l>He hath, and is again to cope your wife:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2469" ed="F1"/></l><l>I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2470" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2471" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And nothing of a man.

<lb n="90" ed="G"/><lb n="2472" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Dost thou hear, Iago?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2473" ed="F1"/></l><l>I will be found most cunning in my patience;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2474" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.

<lb n="2475" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">That's not amiss;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2476" ed="F1"/></l><l>But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
<stage>Othello retires.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2477" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2478" ed="F1"/></l><l>A housewife that by selling her desires
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2479" ed="F1"/></l><l>Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2480" ed="F1"/></l><l>That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2481" ed="F1"/></l><l>To beguile many and be beguiled by one:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2482" ed="F1"/></l><l>He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2483" ed="F1"/></l><l>From the excess of laughter. Here he comes:

<lb n="2484" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter CASSIO.</stage>
<lb n="101" ed="G"/><lb n="2485" ed="F1"/></l><l>As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2486" ed="F1"/></l><l>And his unbookish jealousy must construe
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2487" ed="F1"/></l><l>Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behaviour,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2488" ed="F1"/></l><l>Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2489" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>The worser that you give me the addition
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2490" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whose want even kills me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2491" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on't.
<stage>Speaking lower</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2492" ed="F1"/></l><l>Now, if this suit lay in Bianca's power,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2493" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">How quickly should you speed!

<lb n="2494" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l part="F">Alas, poor caitiff!

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="2495" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Look, how he laughs already!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2496" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I never knew woman love man so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2497" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2498" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2499" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="I">Do you hear, Cassio?

<lb n="2500" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Now he importunes him
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2501" ed="F1"/></l><l>To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2502" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>She gives it out that you shall marry her:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2503" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do you intend it?

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2504" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Ha, ha, ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2505" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2506" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>I marry her! what? a customer! Prithee,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>bear <lb n="2507" ed="F1"/>some charity to my wit; do not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>think it <lb n="2508" ed="F1"/>so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2509" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2510" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>'Faith, the cry goes that you shall
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>marry her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2511" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Prithee, say true.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2512" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am a very villain else.

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="2513" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Have you scored me?   Well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2514" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>This is the monkey's own giving out:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2515" ed="F1"/><lb/>she is persuaded I will marry her, <lb n="2516" ed="F1"/>out of her
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>own love and flattery, not out of my promise.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2517" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Iago beckons me; now he begins the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>story.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2518" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>She was here even now; she haunts
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>me in every <lb n="2519" ed="F1"/>place. I was the other day talking
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>on the sea-bank <lb n="2520" ed="F1"/>with certain Venetians; and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>thither comes the <lb n="2521" ed="F1"/>bauble, and, by this hand,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>she falls me thus about my neck--

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2522" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>his gesture imports <lb n="2523" ed="F1"/>it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2524" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>me; <lb n="2525" ed="F1"/>so hales, and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2526" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Now he tells how she plucked him to
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>my chamber.   <lb n="2527" ed="F1"/>O, I see that nose of yours.
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>but not that dog I <lb n="2528" ed="F1"/>shall throw it to.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2529" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Well, I must leave her company.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2530" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Before me! look, where she comes.
<lb n="2531" ed="F1"/>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2532" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>'Tis such another fitchew! marry, a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>perfumed one.
<stage type="entrance">Enter BIANCA.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2533" ed="F1"/></p><p>What do you mean by this haunting of me?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2534" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><p>Let the devil and his dam haunt
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you! What <lb n="2535" ed="F1"/>did you mean by that same handkerchief
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you gave <lb n="2536" ed="F1"/>me even now? I was a fine
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>fool to take it. I must take <lb n="2537" ed="F1"/>out the work?--
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>A likely piece of work, that you should <lb n="2538" ed="F1"/>find it
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>in your chamber, and not know who left it
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>there?   <lb n="2539" ed="F1"/>This is some minx's token, and I must
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>take out the work?   <lb n="2540" ed="F1"/>There; give it your
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hobby-horse: wheresoever you had <lb n="2541" ed="F1"/>it, I'll take
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>out no work on 't.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2542" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>How now, my sweet Bianca! <lb n="2543" ed="F1"/>how
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>now! how now!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2544" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>By heaven, that should be my
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>handkerchief!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2545" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="bian."><speaker>Bian.</speaker><p>An you'll come to supper to-night,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you may; an <lb n="2546" ed="F1"/>you will not, come when you
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>are next prepared for.
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2547" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>After her, after her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2548" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><p>'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>street else.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2549" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Will you sup there?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2550" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>'Faith, I intend so.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2551" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Well, I may chance to see you; for
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>I would very <lb n="2552" ed="F1"/>fain speak with you.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2553" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="cas."><speaker>Cas.</speaker><l>Prithee, come; will you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2554" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Go to; say no more.
<stage>Exit Cassio.</stage></l></sp>
<sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker>
 <stage>Advancing</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2555" ed="F1"/><p>How   shall I murder
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>him, Iago?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2556" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Did you perceive how he laughed at
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>his vice?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2557" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O Iago!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2558" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>And did you see the handkerchief?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2559" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Was that mine?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2560" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Yours, by this hand: and to see how
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>he prizes <lb n="2561" ed="F1"/>the foolish woman your wife!
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>she gave it him, and he <lb n="2562" ed="F1"/>hath given it his
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>whore.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2563" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>I would have him nine years a-
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>killing.   <lb n="2564" ed="F1"/>A fine woman! a fair woman! a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>sweet woman!

<lb n="190" ed="G"/><lb n="2565" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Nay, you must forget that.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2566" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>damned to-night; <lb n="2567" ed="F1"/>for she shall not live: no,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>my heart is turned to <lb n="2568" ed="F1"/>stone; I strike it, and it
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>hurts my hand.   O, the world <lb n="2569" ed="F1"/>hath not a
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2570" ed="F1"/><lb/>side and command him tasks.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2571" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Nay, that's not your way.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2572" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Hang her! I do but say what she is:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>so delicate <lb n="2573" ed="F1"/>with her needle: an admirable
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>musician: O! she will sing <lb n="2574" ed="F1"/>the savageness out
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of a bear: of so high and plenteous <lb n="2575" ed="F1"/>wit and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>invention:

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2576" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>She's the worse for all this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2577" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>O, a thousand thousand times: <lb n="2578" ed="F1"/>and
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>then, of so gentle a condition!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2579" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Ay, too gentle.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2580" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Nay, that's certain: <lb n="2581" ed="F1"/>but yet the pity
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>of it, Iago!   O Iago, the pity of it, <lb n="2582" ed="F1"/>Iago!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2583" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>If you are so fond over her iniquity,
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>give her <lb n="2584" ed="F1"/>patent to offend; for, if it touch not
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you, it comes near <lb n="2585" ed="F1"/>nobody.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2586" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2587" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>O, 'tis foul in her.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2588" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>With mine officer!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2589" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>That's fouler.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2590" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Get me some poison, Iago; this night:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>I'll not <lb n="2591" ed="F1"/>expostulate with her, lest her body
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>and beauty unprovide <lb n="2592" ed="F1"/>my mind again: this
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>night, Iago.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2593" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>Do it not with poison, strangle her in
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>her bed, <lb n="2594" ed="F1"/>even the bed she hath contaminated.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2595" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><p>Good, good: <lb n="2596" ed="F1"/>the justice of it pleases:
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>very good.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2597" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><p>And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2598" ed="F1"/><lb/>you shall hear more by midnight.

<lb n="2599" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2600" ed="F1"/><p>Excellent good. <stage>A trumpet within.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/></p><l>What trumpet is that same?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2601" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Something from   Venice, sure. <lb n="2602" ed="F1"/>'Tis Lodovico
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Come from the duke: and, <lb n="2603" ed="F1"/>see, your wife is with him.
<stage type="entrance">Enter LODOViCO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2604" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l part="I">Save you, worthy general!

<lb n="2605" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">With all my heart, sir,

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2606" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>The duke and senators of Venice greet you.
<stage>Gives him a letter. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2607" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.
<stage>Opens letter, and reads. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2608" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2609" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>I am very glad to see you, signior;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2610" ed="F1"/></l><l>Welcome to Cyprus.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2611" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2612" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Lives, sir.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2613" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2614" ed="F1"/></l><l>An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2615" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Are you sure of that?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2616" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>My lord?</l></sp>
<sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker>
 <stage>Reads</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2617" ed="F1"/><p>'This fail you not to do, as
<lb ed="G"/><lb/>you will--'

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2618" ed="F1"/></p></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>He did not call; he's busy in the paper.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2619" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2620" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>A most unhappy one: I would do much
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2621" ed="F1"/></l><l>To atone them, for the love I bear Cassio.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2622" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Fire and brimstone!

<lb n="2623" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="Y">My lord?

<lb n="2624" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Are you wise?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2625" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">What, is he angry?

<lb n="2626" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l part="F">May be the letter moved him;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2627" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, as I think, they do command him home,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2628" ed="F1"/></l><l>Deputing Cassio in his government.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2629" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Trust me, I am glad on't.

<lb n="2630" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="Y">Indeed!

<lb n="2631" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">My lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2632" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">I am glad to see you mad.

<lb n="2633" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Why, sweet Othello,--</l></sp>
<sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker>
 <stage>Striking her</stage>
<lb n="251" ed="G"/><lb n="2634" ed="F1"/><l>Devil!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2635" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I have not deserved this.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2636" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2637" ed="F1"/></l><l>Though I should swear I saw't: 'tis very much:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2638" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Make her amends; she weeps.

<lb n="2639" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">O devil, devil!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2640" ed="F1"/></l><l>If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2641" ed="F1"/></l><l>Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2642" ed="F1"/></l><l>Out of my sight!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2643" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I will not stay to offend you.
<stage>Going.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2644" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>Truly, an obedient lady:
<lb n="260" ed="G"/><lb n="2645" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do beseech your lordship, call her back.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2646" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Mistress!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2647" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">My lord?

<lb n="2648" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">What would you with her, sir?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2649" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>Who, I, my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2650" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2651" ed="F1"/></l><l>Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2652" ed="F1"/></l><l>And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2653" ed="F1"/></l><l>And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2654" ed="F1"/></l><l>Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2655" ed="F1"/></l><l>Concerning   this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2656" ed="F1"/></l><l>I am commanded home. Get you away;
<lb n="270" ed="G"/><lb n="2657" ed="F1"/></l><l>I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2658" ed="F1"/></l><l>And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!
<stage>Exit Desdemona.</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2659" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cassio shall have my place.   And, sir, tonight,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2660" ed="F1"/></l><l>I do entreat that we may sup together:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2661" ed="F1"/></l><l>You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.--<lb n="2662" ed="F1"/>Goats and monkeys!
<stage>Exit. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2663" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2664" ed="F1"/></l><l>Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2665" ed="F1"/></l><l>Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2666" ed="F1"/></l><l>The shot of accident, nor dart of chance,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2667" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Could neither graze nor pierce?

<lb n="2668" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">He is much changed.

<lb n="280" ed="G"/><lb n="2669" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2670" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2671" ed="F1"/></l><l>What he might be: if what he might he is not,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2672" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I would to heaven he were!

<lb n="2673" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l part="F">What, strike his wife!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2674" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2675" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">That stroke would prove the worst!

<lb n="2676" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l part="F">Is it his use?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2677" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or did the letters work upon his blood,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2678" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And new-create this fault?

<lb n="2679" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Alas, alas!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2680" ed="F1"/></l><l>It is not honesty in me to speak
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2681" ed="F1"/></l><l>What I have seen and known.   You shall observe him,
<lb n="290" ed="G"/><lb n="2682" ed="F1"/></l><l>And his own courses will denote him so
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2683" ed="F1"/></l><l>That I may save my speech: do but go after,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2684" ed="F1"/></l><l>And mark how he continues.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2685" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="lod."><speaker>Lod.</speaker><l>I am sorry that I am deceived in him.
<stage>Exeunt.</stage></l></sp>
</div2>
<div2 type="scene" n="2">
 <head>SCENE II</head><lb n="2686" ed="F1"/>
<stage type="setting">A room in the castle.</stage>
<lb n="2687" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA.  </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2688" ed="F1"/><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>You have seen nothing then?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2689" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2690" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2691" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2692" ed="F1"/></l><l>Each syllable that breath made up between them.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2693" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">What, did they never whisper?

<lb n="2694" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">Never, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2695" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Nor send you out o' the way?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2696" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Never.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2697" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?

<lb n="10" ed="G"/><lb n="2698" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Never, my lord.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2699" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>That's strange.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2700" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2701" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2702" ed="F1"/></l><l>Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2703" ed="F1"/></l><l>If any wretch have put this in your head,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2704" ed="F1"/></l><l>Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2705" ed="F1"/></l><l>For, if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2706" ed="F1"/></l><l>There's no man happy; the purest of their wives
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2707" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Is foul as slander.

<lb n="2708" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Bid her come hither: go.
<stage>Exit Emilia.</stage>
<lb n="20" ed="G"/><lb n="2709" ed="F1"/></l><l>She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2710" ed="F1"/></l><l>That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2711" ed="F1"/></l><l>A closet lock and key of villanous secrets:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2712" ed="F1"/></l><l>And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.
<lb n="2713" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA. </stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2714" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">My lord, what is your will?

<lb n="2715" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Pray, chuck, come hither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2716" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">What is your pleasure?

<lb n="2717" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Let me see your eyes;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Look in my face.

<lb n="2718" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">What horrible fancy's this?</l></sp>
<sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker>
 <stage>To Emilia</stage>
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2719" ed="F1"/><l>Some of your function, mistress;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2720" ed="F1"/></l><l>Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2721" ed="F1"/></l><l>Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2722" ed="F1"/></l><l>Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.
<stage>Exit Emilia.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2723" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2724" ed="F1"/></l><l>I understand a fury in your words,
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>But not the words.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2725" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Why, what art thou?

<lb n="2726" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Your wife, my lord; your true
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">And loyal wife.

<lb n="2727" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Come, swear it, damn thyself;
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Lest, <lb n="2728" ed="F1"/>being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
<lb ed="G"/></l><l>Should <lb n="2729" ed="F1"/>fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn'd:
<lb ed="G"/></l><l part="I">Swear <lb n="2730" ed="F1"/>thou art honest.

<lb n="2731" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Heaven doth truly know it.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2732" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.

<lb n="40" ed="G"/><lb n="2733" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>To whom, my lord? <lb n="2734" ed="F1"/>with whom? how am I false?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2735" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O Desdemona! away! away! away!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2736" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Alas the heavy day!   Why do you weep?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2737" ed="F1"/></l><l>Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2738" ed="F1"/></l><l>If haply you my father do suspect
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2739" ed="F1"/></l><l>An instrument of this your calling back,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2740" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lay not your blame on me: if you have lost him,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2741" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Why, I have lost him too.

<lb n="2742" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">Had it pleased heaven
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2743" ed="F1"/></l><l>To try me with affliction; had they rain'd
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2744" ed="F1"/></l><l>All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,
<lb n="50" ed="G"/><lb n="2745" ed="F1"/></l><l>Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2746" ed="F1"/></l><l>Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2747" ed="F1"/></l><l>I should have found in some place of my soul
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2748" ed="F1"/></l><l>A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2749" ed="F1"/></l><l>A fixed figure for the time of scorn
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2750" ed="F1"/></l><l>To point his slow unmoving finger at!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2751" ed="F1"/></l><l>Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2752" ed="F1"/></l><l>But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2753" ed="F1"/></l><l>Where either I must live, or bear no life;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2754" ed="F1"/></l><l>The fountain from the which my current runs,
<lb n="60" ed="G"/><lb n="2755" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2756" ed="F1"/></l><l>Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2757" ed="F1"/></l><l>To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2758" ed="F1"/></l><l>Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,--
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2759" ed="F1"/></l><l>Ay, there, look grim as hell!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2760" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2761" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2762" ed="F1"/></l><l>That quicken even with blowing.   O thou weed,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2763" ed="F1"/></l><l>Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2764" ed="F1"/></l><l>That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!

<lb n="70" ed="G"/><lb n="2765" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2766" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2767" ed="F1"/></l><l>Made to write 'whore' upon?   What committed!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2768" ed="F1"/></l><l>Committed! O thou public commoner!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2769" ed="F1"/></l><l>I should make very forges of my cheeks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2770" ed="F1"/></l><l>That would to cinders burn up modesty,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2771" ed="F1"/></l><l>Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2772" ed="F1"/></l><l>Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2773" ed="F1"/></l><l>The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2774" ed="F1"/></l><l>Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth.
<lb n="80" ed="G"/><lb n="2775" ed="F1"/></l><l>And will not hear it. What committed!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2776" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Impudent strumpet!

<lb n="2777" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">By heaven, you do me wrong.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2778" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">Are not you a strumpet?

<lb n="2779" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">No, as I am a Christian:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2780" ed="F1"/></l><l>If to preserve this vessel for my lord
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2781" ed="F1"/></l><l>From any other foul unlawful touch

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2782" ed="F1"/></l><l>Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2783" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="I">What, not a whore?

<lb n="2784" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">No, as I shall be saved.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2785" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l>Is't possible?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2786" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">O, heaven forgive us!

<lb n="2787" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="oth."><speaker>Oth.</speaker><l part="F">I cry you mercy, then:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2788" ed="F1"/></l><l>I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2789" ed="F1"/></l><l>That married with Othello. <stage>Raising his voice</stage>
<lb n="90" ed="G"/></l><l>You, mistress,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2790" ed="F1"/><lb n="2791" ed="F1"/></l><l>That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2792" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">And keep the gate of hell!
<stage type="entrance">Re-enter EMILIA.</stage></l>
<l part="F">You, you, ay, you!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2793" ed="F1"/></l><l>We have done our course; there's money for your pains:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2794" ed="F1"/></l><l>I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2795" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2796" ed="F1"/></l><l>How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2797" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Faith, half asleep.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2798" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Good madam, <lb n="2799" ed="F1"/>what's the matter with my lord?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2800" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>With who?

<lb n="100" ed="G"/><lb n="2801" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Why, with my lord, madam.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2802" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">Who is thy lord?

<lb n="2803" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l part="F">He that is yours, sweet lady.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2804" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2805" ed="F1"/></l><l>I cannot weep; nor answer have I none,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2806" ed="F1"/></l><l>But what should go by water.   Prithee, tonight
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2807" ed="F1"/></l><l>Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2808" ed="F1"/></l><l>And call thy husband hither.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2809" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Here's a change indeed!
<stage>Exit.</stage>

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2810" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2811" ed="F1"/></l><l>How have I been behaved, that he might stick
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2812" ed="F1"/></l><l>The small'st opinion on my least misuse?
<lb n="2813" ed="F1"/><stage type="entrance">Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO.</stage>

<lb n="110" ed="G"/><lb n="2814" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>What is your pleasure, madam? <lb n="2815" ed="F1"/>How is't with you?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2816" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I cannot tell.   Those that do teach young babes
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2817" ed="F1"/></l><l>Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2818" ed="F1"/></l><l>He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2819" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">I am a child to chiding.

<lb n="2820" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">What's the matter, lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2821" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2822" ed="F1"/></l><l>Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2823" ed="F1"/></l><l>As true hearts cannot bear.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2824" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">Am I that name, Iago?

<lb n="2825" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">What name, fair lady?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2826" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>Such as she says my lord did say I was.

<lb n="120" ed="G"/><lb n="2827" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2828" ed="F1"/></l><l>Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2829" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Why did he so?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2830" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>I do not know; I am sure I am none such.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2831" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Do not weep, do not weep.   Alas the day!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2832" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>Hath   she forsook so many noble matches,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2833" ed="F1"/></l><l>Her father and her country and her friends,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2834" ed="F1"/></l><l>To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2835" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="I">It is my wretched fortune.

<lb n="2836" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Beshrew him for't!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2837" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">How comes this trick upon him?

<lb n="2838" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l part="F">Nay, heaven doth know.

<lb n="130" ed="G"/><lb n="2839" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2840" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some busy and insinuating rogue,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2841" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2842" ed="F1"/></l><l>Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2843" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l>Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible.

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2844" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="des."><speaker>Des.</speaker><l>If any such there be, heaven pardon him!

<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2845" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="emil."><speaker>Emil.</speaker><l>A halter pardon him! <lb n="2846" ed="F1"/>and hell gnaw his bones!
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2847" ed="F1"/></l><l>Why should he call her whore? <lb n="2848" ed="F1"/>who keeps her company?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2849" ed="F1"/></l><l>What place? what time? <lb n="2850" ed="F1"/>what form? what likelihood?
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2851" ed="F1"/></l><l>The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2852" ed="F1"/></l><l>Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
<lb n="141" ed="G"/><lb n="2853" ed="F1"/></l><l>O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2854" ed="F1"/></l><l>And put in every honest hand a whip
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2855" ed="F1"/></l><l>To lash the rascals naked through the world
<lb ed="G"/><lb n="2856" ed="F1"/></l><l part="I">Even from the east to the west!

<lb n="2857" ed="F1"/></l></sp><sp who="iago."><speaker>Iago.</speaker><l part="F">Speak within door.