1368Othe. I know Iago

1369Thy honestie, and loue doth mince this matter,

1370Making it light to Cassio: Cassio, I loue thee,

1371But neuer more be Officer of mine.

1373Looke if my gentle Loue be not rais'd vp:

1374Ile make thee an example.

1375Des. What is the matter (Deere?)

1376Othe. All's well, Sweeting:

1377Come away to bed. Sir for your hurts,

1378My selfe will be your Surgeon. Lead him off:

1379Iago, looke with care about the Towne,

1380And silence those whom this vil'd brawle distracted.

1381Come Desdemona, 'tis the Soldiers life,

1382To haue their Balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. Exit.

1383Iago. What are you hurt Lieutenant?

1384Cas. I, past all Surgery.

1385Iago. Marry Heauen forbid.

1386Cas. Reputation, Reputation, Reputation: Oh I haue

1387lost my Reputation. I haue lost the immortall part of

1388myselfe, and what remaines is bestiall. My Reputation,

1389Iago, my Reputation.

1390Iago. As I am an honest man I had thought you had

1391receiued some bodily wound; there is more sence in that

1392then in Reputation. Reputation is an idle, and most false

1393imposition; oft got without merit, aud lost without de-

1394seruing. You haue lost no Reputation at all, vnlesse you

1395repute your selfe such a looser. What man, there are

1396more wayes to recouer the Generall againe. You are

1397but now cast in his moode, (a punishment more in poli-

1398cie, then in malice) euen so as one would beate his of-

1399fencelesse dogge, ro affright an Imperious Lyon. Sue to

1400him againe, and he's yours.

1401Cas. I will rather sue to be despis'd, then to deceiue

1402so good a Commander, with so slight, so drunken, and so

1403indiscreet an Officer. Drunke? And speake Parrat? And

1404squabble? Swagger? Sweare? And discourse Fustian

1405with ones owne shadow? Oh thou invisible spirit of

1406Wine, if thou hast no name to be knowne by, let vs call

1407thee Diuell.

1408Iago. What was he that you follow'd with your

1409Sword? What had he done to you?

1410Cas. I know not.

1411Iago. Is't possible?

1412Cas. I remember a masse of things, but nothing di-

1413stinctly: a Quarrell, but nothing wherefore. Oh, that

1414men should put an Enemie in their mouthes, to steale a-

1415way their Braines? that we should with ioy, pleasance,

1416reuell and applause, transforme our selues into Beasts.

1417Iago. Why? But you are now well enough: how

1418came you thus recouered?

1419Cas. It hath pleas'd the diuell drunkennesse, to giue

1420place to the diuell wrath, one vnperfectnesse, shewes me

1421another to make me frankly despise my selfe.

1422Iago. Come, you are too seuere a Moraller. As the

1423Time, the Place, & the Condition of this Country stands

1424I could hartily wish this had not befalne: but since it is, as

1425it is, mend it for your owne good.

1426Cas. I will aske him for my Place againe, he shall tell

1427me, I am a drunkard: had I as many mouthes as Hydra,

1428such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sen-

1429sible man, by and by a Foole, and presently a Beast. Oh

1430strange! Euery inordinate cup is vnbless'd, and the Ingre-

1431dient is a diuell.

1432Iago. Come, come: good wine, is a good famillar

1433Creature, if it be well vs'd: exclaime no more against it.

1434And good Lieutenant, I thinke, you thinke I loue

1435you.

1436Cassio. I haue well approued it, Sir. I drunke?

1437Iago. You, or any man liuing, may be drunke at a

1438time man. I tell you what you shall do: Our General's

1439Wife, is now the Generall. I may say so, in this respect,

1440for that he hath deuoted, and giuen vp himselfe to the

1441Contemplation, marke: and deuotement of her parts

1442and Graces. Confesse your selfe freely to her: Impor-

1443tune her helpe to put you in your place againe. She is

1444of so free, so kinde, so apt, so blessed a disposition,

1445she holds it a vice in her goodnesse, not to do more

1446then she is requested. This broken ioynt betweene

1447you, and her husband, entreat her to splinter. And my

1448Fortunes against any lay worth naming, this cracke of

1449your Loue, shall grow stronger, then it was before.

1450Cassio. You aduise me well.

1451Iago. I protest in the sinceritie of Loue, and honest

1452kindnesse.

1453Cassio. I thinke it freely: and betimes in the mor-

1454ning, I will beseech the vertuous Desdemona to vndertake

1455for me: I am desperate of my Fortunes if they check me.

1456Iago. You are in the right: good night Lieutenant, I

1457must to the Watch.

1458Cassio. Good night, honest Iago.

1460Iago. And what's he then,

1461That saies I play the Villaine?

1462When this aduise is free I giue, and honest,

1463Proball to thinking, and indeed the course

1464To win the Moore againe.

1465For 'tis most easie

1466Th'inclyning Desdemona to subdue

1467In any honest Suite. She's fram'd as fruitefull

1468As the free Elements. And then for her

1469To win the Moore, were to renownce his Baptisme,

1470All Seales, and Simbols of redeemed sin:

1471His Soule is so enfetter'd to her Loue,

1472That she may make, vnmake, do what she list,

1473Euen as her Appetite shall play the God,

1474With his weake Function. How am I then a Villaine,

1475To Counsell Cassio to this paralell course,

1476Directly to his good? Diuinitie of hell,

1477When diuels will the blackest sinnes put on,

1478They do suggest at first with heauenly shewes,

1479As I do now. For whiles this honest Foole

1480Plies Desdemona, to repaire his Fortune,

1481And she for him, pleades strongly to the Moore,

1482Ile powre this pestilence into his eare:

1483That she repeales him, for her bodies Lust'

1484And by how much she striues to do him good,

1485She shall vndo her Credite with the Moore.

1486So will I turne her vertue into pitch,

1487And out of her owne goodnesse make the Net,

1488That shall en-mash them all.

1489How now Rodorigo?

1491Rodorigo. I do follow heere in the Chace, not

1492like a Hound that hunts, but one that filles vp the

1493Crie. My Money is almost spent; I haue bin to night

1494exceedingly well Cudgell'd: And I thinke the issue

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