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1588Scoena Tertia.
1589Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and AEmilia.
1591All my abilities in thy behalfe.
1592AEmil. Good Madam do:
1593I warrant it greeues my Husband,
1594As if the cause were his.
1596But I will haue my Lord, and you againe
1597As friendly as you were.
1598Cassio. Bounteous Madam,
1600He's neuer any thing but your true Seruant.
1601Des. I know't: I thanke you: you do loue my Lord:
1602You haue knowne him long, and be you well assur'd
1604Then in a politique distance.
1605Cassio. I, but Lady,
1610My Generall will forget my Loue, and Seruice.
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1612I giue thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee,
1613If I do vow a friendship, Ile performe it
1615Ile watch him tame, and talke him out of patience;
1617Ile intermingle euery thing he do's
1619For thy Solicitor shall rather dye,
1620Then giue thy cause away.
1621Enter Othello, and Iago.
1622AEmil. Madam, heere comes my Lord.
1623Cassio. Madam, Ile take my leaue.
1628Iago. Hah? I like not that.
1630Iago. Nothing my Lord; or if---I know not what.
1634Seeing your comming.
1635Oth. I do beleeue 'twas he.
1636Des. How now my Lord?
1637I haue bin talking with a Suitor heere,
1639Oth. Who is't you meane?
1641If I haue any grace, or power to moue you,
1643For if he be not one, that truly loues' you,
1644That erres in Ignorance, and not in Cunning,
1645I haue no iudgement in an honest face.
1646I prythee call him backe.
1647Oth. Went he hence now?
1649That he hath left part of his greefe with mee
1654Des. Shall't be to night, at Supper?
1655Oth. No, not to night.
1656Des. To morrow Dinner then?
1658I meete the Captaines at the Cittadell.
1661I prythee name the time, but let it not
1662Exceed three dayes. Infaith hee's penitent:
1666T'encurre a priuate checke. When shall he come?
1667Tell me Othello. I wonder in my Soule
1668What you would aske me, that I should deny,
1670That came a woing wirh you? and so many a time
1672Hath tane your part, to haue so much to do
1673To bring him in? Trust me, I could do much.
1674Oth. Prythee no more: Let him come when he will:
1675I will deny thee nothing.
1676Des. Why, this is not a Boone:
1677'Tis as I should entreate you weare your Gloues,
1681Wherein I meane to touch your Loue indeed,
1683And fearefull to be granted.
1684Oth. I will deny thee nothing.
1685Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
1686To leaue me but a little to my selfe.
1687Des. Shall I deny you? No: farewell my Lord.
1690What ere you be, I am obedient. Exit.
1691Oth. Excellent wretch: Perdition catch my Soule
1692But I do loue thee: and when I loue thee not,
1693Chaos is come againe.
1694Iago. My Noble Lord.
1697When he woo'd my Lady, know of your loue?
1699Why dost thou aske?
1701No further harme.
1702Oth. Why of thy thought, Iago?
1703Iago. I did not thinke he had bin acquainted with hir.
1704Oth. O yes, and went betweene vs very oft.
1705Iago. Indeed?
1707Is he not honest?
1710Iago. My Lord, for ought I know.
1712Iago. Thinke, my Lord?
1713Oth. Thinke, my Lord? Alas, thou ecchos't me;
1718And when I told thee, he was of my Counsaile,
1722Some horrible Conceite. If thou do'st loue me,
1723Shew me thy thought.
1724Iago. My Lord, you know I loue you.
1726And for I know thou'rt full of Loue, and Honestie,
1732That Passion cannot rule.
1740Oth. Nay, yet there's more in this?
1741I prythee speake to me, as to thy thinkings,
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1743The worst of words.
1744Iago. Good my Lord pardon me,
1745Though I am bound to euery Acte of dutie,
1746I am not bound to that: All Slaues are free:
1747Vtter my Thoughts? Why say, they are vild, and falce?
1748As where's that Palace, whereinto foule things
1750Wherein vncleanly Apprehensions
1752With meditations lawfull?
1755A stranger to thy Thoughts.
1757Though I perchance am vicious in my guesse
1758(As I confesse it is my Natures plague
1760Shapes faults that are not) that your wisedome
1762Would take no notice, nor build your selfe a trouble
1764It were not for your quiet, nor your good,
1766To let you know my thoughts.
1768Iago. Good name in Man, & woman (deere my Lord)
1769Is the immediate Iewell of their Soules;
1771'Tis something, nothing;
1773But he that filches from me my good Name,
1774Robs me of that, which not enriches him,
1775And makes me poore indeed.
1776Oth. Ile know thy Thoughts.
1777Iago. You cannot, if my heart were in your hand,
1779Oth. Ha?
1781It is the greene-ey'd Monster, which doth mocke
1782The meate it feeds on. That Cuckold liues in blisse,
1783Who certaine of his Fate, loues not his wronger:
1784But oh, what damned minutes tels he ore,
1787Iago. Poore, and Content, is rich, and rich enough,
1789To him that euer feares he shall be poore:
1790Good Heauen, the Soules of all my Tribe defend
1791From Iealousie.
1792Oth. Why? why is this?
1794To follow still the changes of the Moone
1796Is to be resolu'd: Exchange me for a Goat,
1799Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me Iealious,
1800To say my wife is faire, feeds well, loues company,
1801Is free of Speech, Sings, Playes, and Dances:
1802Where Vertue is, these are more vertuous.
1803Nor from mine owne weake merites, will I draw
1806Ile see before I doubt; when I doubt, proue;
1807And on the proofe, there is no more but this,
1808Away at once with Loue, or Iealousie.
1810To shew the Loue and Duty that I beare you
1811With franker spirit. Therefore (as I am bound)
1812Receiue it from me. I speake not yet of proofe:
1814Weare your eyes, thus: not Iealious, nor Secure:
1815I would not haue your free, and Noble Nature,
1816Out of selfe-Bounty, be abus'd: Looke too't:
1818In Venice, they do let Heauen see the prankes
1819They dare not shew their Husbands.
1821Is not to leaue't vndone, but kept vnknowne.
1823Iago. She did deceiue her Father, marrying you,
1825She lou'd them most.
1827Iago. Why go too then:
1830He thought 'twas Witchcraft.
1831But I am much too blame:
1832I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
1833For too much louing you.
1834Oth. I am bound to thee for euer.
1836Oth. Not a iot, not a iot.
1839Comes from your Loue.
1840But I do see y'are moou'd:
1843Then to Suspition.
1844Oth. I will not.
1847Which my Thoughts aym'd not.
1848Cassio's my worthy Friend:
1849My Lord, I see y'are mou'd.
1850Oth. No, not much mou'd:
1853And long liue you to thinke so.
1855Iago. I, there's the point:
1856As (to be bold with you)
1858Of her owne Clime, Complexion, and Degree,
1859Whereto we see in all things, Nature tends:
1861Foule disproportions, Thoughts vnnaturall.
1862But (pardon me) I do not in position
1864Her will, recoyling to her better iudgement,
1865May fal to match you with her Country formes,
1866And happily repent.
1867Oth. Farewell, farewell:
1868If more thou dost perceiue, let me know more:
1869Set on thy wife to obserue.
1870Leaue me Iago.
1871Iago. My Lord, I take my leaue.
1872Othel. Why did I marry?
1874Sees, and knowes more, much more then he vnfolds.
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1875Iago. My Lord, I would I might intreat your Honor
1876To scan this thing no farther: Leaue it to time,
1880You shall by that perceiue him, and his meanes:
1881Note if your Lady straine his Encertainment
1882With any strong, or vehement importunitie,
1883Much will be seene in that: In the meane time,
1884Let me be thought too busie in my feares,
1885(As worthy cause I haue to feare I am)
1886And hold her free, I do beseech your Honor.
1887Oth. Feare not my gouernment.
1890And knowes all Quantities with a learn'd Spirit
1891Of humane dealings. If I do proue her Haggard,
1894To prey at Fortune. Haply, for I am blacke,
1896That Chamberers haue: Or for I am declin'd
1897Into the vale of yeares (yet that's not much)
1898Shee's gone. I am abus'd, and my releefe
1900That we can call these delicate Creatures ours,
1901And not their Appetites? I had rather be a Toad,
1902And liue vpon the vapour of a Dungeon,
1903Then keepe a corner in the thing I loue
1904For others vses. Yet 'tis the plague to Great-ones,
1907Euen then, this forked plague is Fated to vs,
1908When we do quicken. Looke where she comes:
1909Enter Desdemona and AEmilia.
1911Ile not beleeue't.
1913Your dinner, and the generous Islanders
1914By you inuited, do attend your presence.
1915Oth. I am too blame.
1917Are you not well?
1918Oth. I haue a paine vpon my Forehead, heere.
1919Des. Why that's with watching, 'twill away againe.
1920Let me but binde it hard, within this houre
1921It will be well.
1922Oth. Your Napkin is too little:
1923Let it alone: Come, Ile go in with you. Exit.
1925AEmil. I am glad I haue found this Napkin:
1927My wayward Husband hath a hundred times
1931To kisse, and talke too. Ile haue the worke tane out,
1932And giu't Iago: what he will do with it
1933Heauen knowes, not I:
1935Enter Iago.
1936Iago. How now? What do you heere alone?
1937AEmil. Do not you chide: I haue a thing for you.
1938Iago. You haue a thing for me?
1939It is a common thing---
1940AEmil. Hah?
1942AEmil. Oh, is that all? What will you giue me now
1943For that same Handkerchiefe.
1944Iago. What Handkerchiefe?
1945AEmil. What Handkerchiefe?
1950And to th'aduantage, I being heere, took't vp:
1951Looke, heere 'tis.
1952Iago. A good wench, giue it me.
1953AEmil. What will you do with't, that you haue bene
1955Iago. Why, what is that to you?
1957Giu't me againe. Poore Lady, shee'l run mad
1959Iago. Be not acknowne on't:
1964As proofes of holy Writ. This may do something.
1965The Moore already changes with my poyson:
1966Dangerous conceites, are in their Natures poysons,
1968But with a little acte vpon the blood,
1970Enter Othello.
1971Looke where he comes: Not Poppy, nor Mandragora,
1972Nor all the drowsie Syrrups of the world
1976Iago. Why how now Generall? No more of that.
1978I sweare 'tis better to be much abus'd,
1979Then but to know't a little.
1980Iago. How now, my Lord?
1982I saw't not, thought it not: it harm'd not me:
1985He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolne,
1986Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
1988Oth. I had beene happy, if the generall Campe,
1990So I had nothing knowne. Oh now, for euer
1991Farewell the Tranquill minde; farewell Content;
1992Farewell the plumed Troopes, and the bigge Warres,
1993That makes Ambition, Vertue! Oh farewell;
1994Farewell the neighing Steed, and the shrill Trumpe,
1995The Spirit-stirring Drum, th'Eare-piercing Fife,
1996The Royall Banner, and all Qualitie,
1997Pride, Pompe, and Circumstance of glorious Warre:
1999Th'immortall Ioues dread Clamours, counterfet,
2000Farewell: Othello's Occupation's gone.
2003Be sure of it: Giue me the Occular proofe,
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2004Or by the worth of mine eternall Soule,
2005Thou had'st bin better haue bin borne a Dog
2006Then answer my wak'd wrath.
2007Iago. Is't come to this?
2009That the probation beare no Hindge, nor Loope,
2010To hang a doubt on: Or woe vpon thy life.
2011Iago. My Noble Lord.
2013Neuer pray more: Abandon all remorse
2014On Horrors head, Horrors accumulate:
2015Do deeds to make Heauen weepe, all Earth amaz'd;
2016For nothing canst thou to damnation adde,
2017Greater then that.
2018Iago. O Grace! O Heauen forgiue me!
2019Are you a Man? Haue you a Soule? or Sense?
2020God buy you: take mine Office. Oh wretched Foole,
2022Oh monstrous world! Take note, take note (O World)
2024I thanke you for this profit, and from hence
2028And looses that it workes for.
2029Oth. By the World,
2031I thinke that thou art iust, and thinke thou art not:
2033As Dians Visage, is now begrim'd and blacke
2034As mine owne face. If there be Cords, or Kniues,
2038I do repent me, that I put it to you.
2040Oth. Would? Nay, and I will.
2043Behold her top'd?
2044Oth. Death, and damnation. Oh!
2048More then their owne. What then? How then?
2051Were they as prime as Goates, as hot as Monkeyes,
2053As Ignorance, made drunke. But yet, I say,
2055Which leade directly to the doore of Truth,
2061I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately,
2062And being troubled with a raging tooth,
2063I could not sleepe. There are a kinde of men,
2067Let vs be wary, let vs hide our Loues,
2068And then (Sir) would he gripe, and wring my hand:
2070As if he pluckt vp kisses by the rootes,
2071That grew vpon my lippes, laid his Leg ore my Thigh,
2073That gaue thee to the Moore.
2075Iago. Nay, this was but his Dreame.
2077'Tis a shrew'd doubt, though it be but a Dreame.
2078Iago, And this may helpe to thicken other proofes,
2079That do demonstrate thinly.
2080Oth. Ile teare her all to peeces.
2082She may be honest yet: Tell me but this,
2084Spotted with Strawberries, in your wiues hand?
2087(I am sure it was your wiues) did I to day
2088See Cassio wipe his Beard with.
2089Oth. If it be that.
2090Iago. If it be that, or any, it was hers.
2093One is too poore, too weake for my reuenge.
2094Now do I see 'tis true. Looke heere Iago,
2095All my fond loue thus do I blow to Heauen. 'Tis gone,
2096Arise blacke vengeance, from the hollow hell,
2097Yeeld vp (O Loue) thy Crowne, and hearted Throne
2098To tyrannous Hate. Swell bosome with thy fraught,
2099For 'tis of Aspickes tongues.
2100Iago. Yet be content.
2101Oth. Oh blood, blood, blood.
2103Oth. Neuer Iago. Like to the Ponticke Sea,
2105Neu'r keepes retyring ebbe, but keepes due on
2106To the Proponticke, and the Hellespont:
2107Euen so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace
2108Shall neu'r looke backe, neu'r ebbe to humble Loue,
2109Till that a capeable, and wide Reuenge
2110Swallow them vp. Now by yond Marble Heauen,
2111In the due reuerence of a Sacred vow,
2112I heere engage my words.
2114Witnesse you euer-burning Lights aboue,
2115You Elements, that clip vs round about,
2116Witnesse that heere Iago doth giue vp
2117The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
2121Oth. I greet thy loue,
2122Not with vaine thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
2123And will vpon the instant put thee too't.
2125That Cassio's not aliue.
2126Iago. My Friend is dead:
2127'Tis done at your Request.
2128But let her liue.
2129Oth. Damne her lewde Minx:
2130O damne her, damne her.
2131Come go with me a-part, I will withdraw
2133For the faire Diuell.
2134Now art thou my Lieutenant.
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