Othello (Modern)

 26864.2
 4.2.0.12687Enter Othello and Emilia.
 4.2.12688Othello
 You have seen nothing then?
 4.2.22689Emilia
 Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.
 4.2.32690Othello
 Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.
 4.2.42691Emilia
 But then I saw no harm; and then I heard
 4.2.52692Each syllable that breath made up between them.
 4.2.62693Othello
 What? Did they never whisper?
 4.2.72694Emilia
 Never, my lord.
 4.2.82695Othello
 Nor send you out o'th'way?
 4.2.92696Emilia
 Never.
 4.2.102697Othello
 To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?
 4.2.112698Emilia
 Never, my lord.
 4.2.122699Othello
 That's strange.
 4.2.132700Emilia
 I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
 4.2.142701Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
 4.2.152702Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
 4.2.162703If any wretch have put this in your head,
 4.2.172704Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse,
 4.2.182705For if she be not honest, chaste, and true,
 4.2.192706There's no man happy. The purest of their wives
 4.2.202707Is foul as slander.
 2708Othello
 Is foul as slander.  Bid her come hither--go.
 4.2.20.1Exit Emilia.
 4.2.212709She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd
 4.2.222710That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
 4.2.232711A closet lock and key of villainous secrets,
 4.2.242712And yet she'll kneel and pray--I have seen her do't.
 4.2.252713Enter Desdemona and Emilia.
 4.2.262714Desdemona
 My lord, what is your will?
 2715Othello
 My lord, what is your will?  Pray you, chuck, come hither.
 4.2.272716Desdemona
 What is your pleasure?
 2717Othello
 What is your pleasure?  Let me see your eyes;
 4.2.28Look in my face.
 2718Desdemona
 Look in my face.  What horrible fancy's this?
 4.2.292719Othello
 [To Emilia] Some of your function, mistress,
 4.2.302720Leave procreants alone and shut the door,
 4.2.312721Cough or cry "hem!" if anybody come.
 4.2.322722Your mystery, your mystery--nay, dispatch!
 4.2.32.1Exit Emilia.
 4.2.332723Desdemona
 [Kneeling] Upon my knee, what doth your speech import?
 4.2.342724I understand a fury in your words,
 4.2.35But not the words.
 2725Othello
 But not the words.  Why? What art thou?
 4.2.362726Desdemona
 Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife.
 4.2.372727Othello
 Come, swear it; damn thyself,
 4.2.382728Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves
 4.2.392729Should fear to seize thee. Therefore be double damned:
 4.2.402730Swear thou art honest.
 2731Desdemona
 Swear thou art honest.  Heaven doth truly know it.
 4.2.412732Othello
 Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.
 4.2.422733Desdemona
 [Rising] To whom, my lord? 2734With whom? How am I false?
 4.2.432735Othello
 Ah Desdemon, away, away, away.
 4.2.442736Desdemona
 Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?
 4.2.452737Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?
 4.2.462738If haply you my father do suspect
 4.2.472739An instrument of this your calling back,
 4.2.482740Lay not your blame on me; if you have lost him,
 4.2.492741I have lost him too.
 2742Othello
 I have lost him too.  Had it pleased heaven
 4.2.502743To try me with affliction, had they rained
 4.2.512744All kind of sores and shames on my bare head,
 4.2.522745Steeped me in poverty to the very lips,
 4.2.532746Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,
 4.2.542747I should have found in some place of my soul
 4.2.552748A drop of patience. But, alas, to make me
 4.2.562749The fixèd figure for the time of scorn
 4.2.572750To point his slow and moving finger at!
 4.2.582751Yet could I bear that too, well, very well;
 4.2.592752But there where I have garnered up my heart,
 4.2.602753Where either I must live or bear no life,
 4.2.612754The fountain from the which my current runs
 4.2.622755Or else dries up--to be discarded thence--
 4.2.632756Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads
 4.2.642757To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,
 4.2.652758Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin;
 4.2.662759I here look grim as hell.
 4.2.672760Desdemona
 I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.
 4.2.682761Othello
 Oh ay, as summer flies are in the shambles,
 4.2.692762That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,
 4.2.702763Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet
 4.2.712764That the sense aches at thee,
 4.2.722765Would thou had'st ne'er been born!
 4.2.732766Desdemona
 Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
 4.2.742767Othello
 Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
 4.2.752768Made to write "whore" upon? What committed?
 4.2.762769Committed? O thou public commoner,
 4.2.772770I should make very forges of my cheeks
 4.2.782771That would to cinders burn up modesty
 4.2.792772Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed?
 4.2.802773Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks;
 4.2.812774The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
 4.2.822775Is hushed within the hollow mine of earth
 4.2.832776And will not hear't--what committed?--impudent strumpet!
 4.2.842777Desdemona
 By heaven, you do me wrong.
 4.2.852778Othello
 Are not you a strumpet?
 2779Desdemona
 Are not you a strumpet?  No, as I am a Christian.
 4.2.862780If to preserve this vessel for my lord
 4.2.872781From any other foul unlawful touch
 4.2.882782Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
 4.2.892783Othello
 What, not a whore?
 2784Desdemona
 What, not a whore?  No, as I shall be saved.
 4.2.902785Othello
 Is't possible?
 2786Desdemona
 Is't possible?  O heaven, forgive us.
 4.2.912787Othello
 I cry you mercy then.
 4.2.922788I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
 4.2.932789That married with Othello.
 4.2.93.12790Enter Emilia.
 That married with Othello.  [To Emilia] You, mistress,
 4.2.942791That have the office opposite to Saint Peter
 4.2.952792And keeps the gate of hell. You, you! Ay, you.
 4.2.962793We have done our course. [Giving her money] There's money for your pains.
 4.2.972794I pray you turn the key and keep our counsel.
 4.2.97.1Exit [Othello].
 4.2.982795Emilia
 Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
 4.2.992796How do you, madam? How do you, my good lady?
 4.2.1002797Desdemona
 Faith, half asleep.
 4.2.1012798Emilia
 Good madam, 2799what's the matter with my lord?
 4.2.1022800Desdemona
 With who?
 2801Emilia
 With who?  Why, with my lord, madam.
 4.2.1032802Desdemona
 Who is thy lord?
 2803Emilia
 Who is thy lord?  He that is yours, sweet lady.
 4.2.1042804Desdemona
 I have none. Do not talk to me, Emilia.
 4.2.1052805I cannot weep, nor answers have I none
 4.2.1062806But what should go by water. Prithee tonight
 4.2.1072807Lay on my bed my wedding sheets, remember,
 4.2.1082808And call thy husband hither.
 2809Emilia
 And call thy husband hither.  Here's a change indeed.
 4.2.108.1Exit [Emilia].
 4.2.1092810Desdemona
 'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
 4.2.1102811How have I been behaved that he might stick
 4.2.1112812The smallest opinion on my least misuse?
 4.2.1122813Enter Iago and Emilia.
 4.2.1132814Iago
 What is your pleasure, madam? 2815How is't with you?
 4.2.1142816Desdemona
 I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
 4.2.1152817Do it with gentle means and easy tasks.
 4.2.1162818He might have chid me so, for in good faith
 4.2.1172819I am a child to chiding.
 2820Iago
 I am a child to chiding.  What is the matter, lady?
 4.2.1182821Emilia
 Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
 4.2.1192822Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her
 4.2.1202823That true hearts cannot bear it.
 4.2.1212824Desdemona
 Am I that name, Iago?
 2825Iago
 Am I that name, Iago?  What name, fair lady?
 4.2.1222826Desdemona
 Such as she said my lord did say I was.
 4.2.1232827Emilia
 He called her whore! A beggar in his drink
 4.2.1242828Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
 4.2.1252829Iago
 Why did he so?
 4.2.1262830Desdemona
 I do not know; I am sure I am none such.
 4.2.1272831Iago
 Do not weep, do not weep--alas the day!
 4.2.1282832Emilia
 Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
 4.2.1292833Her father, and her country, and her friends,
 4.2.1302834To be called whore? Would it not make one weep?
 4.2.1312835Desdemona
 It is my wretched fortune.
 2836Iago
 It is my wretched fortune.  Beshrew him for't!
 4.2.1322837How comes this trick upon him?
 2838Desdemona
 How comes this trick upon him?  Nay, heaven doth know.
 4.2.1332839Emilia
 I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
 4.2.1342840Some busy and insinuating rogue,
 4.2.1352841Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
 4.2.1362842Have not devised this slander; I will be hanged else.
 4.2.1372843Iago
 Fie, there is no such man! It is impossible.
 4.2.1382844Desdemona
 If any such there be, heaven pardon him.
 4.2.1392845Emilia
 A halter pardon him 2846and hell gnaw his bones.
 4.2.1402847Why should he call her whore? 2848Who keeps her company?
 4.2.1412849What place? What time? 2850What form? What likelihood?
 4.2.1422851The Moor's abused by some most villainous knave,
 4.2.1432852Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
 4.2.1442853O heavens, that such companions thou'd'st unfold
 4.2.1452854And put in every honest hand a whip
 4.2.1462855To lash the rascals naked through the world
 4.2.1472856Even from the east to th'west.
 2857Iago
 Even from the east to th'west.  Speak within door.
 4.2.1482858Emilia
 Oh, fie upon them! Some such squire he was
 4.2.1492859That turned your wit the seamy side without
 4.2.1502860And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
 4.2.1512861Iago
 You are a fool; go to.
 2862Desdemona
 You are a fool; go to.  Alas, Iago,
 4.2.1522863What shall I do to win my lord again?
 4.2.1532864Good friend, go to him; for by this light of heaven,
 4.2.1542865I know not how I lost him.
 4.2.154.1[She kneels.]
 I know not how I lost him.  Here I kneel.
 4.2.1552866If ere my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
 4.2.1562867Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
 4.2.1572868Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense
 4.2.1582869Delighted them in any other form,
 4.2.1592870Or that I do not yet, and ever did,
 4.2.1602871And ever will--though he do shake me off
 4.2.1612872To beggarly divorcement--love him dearly,
 4.2.1622873Comfort forswear me. [She stands.] Unkindness may do much,
 4.2.1632874And his unkindness may defeat my life,
 4.2.1642875But never taint my love. I cannot say "whore."
 4.2.1652876It does abhor me now I speak the word;
 4.2.1662877To do the act that might the addition earn,
 4.2.1672878Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.
 4.2.1682879Iago
 I pray you be content; 'tis but his humor.
 4.2.1692880The business of the state does him offence,
 4.2.1702880.1And he does chide with you.
 2881Desdemona
 If 'twere no other--
 2882Iago
 If 'twere no other--  It is but so, I warrant.
 4.2.170.1[Trumpets within]
 4.2.1712883Hark how these instruments summon to supper.
 4.2.1722884The messengers of Venice stays the meat.
 4.2.1732885Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.
 4.2.1742886Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia.
 4.2.1752887Enter Roderigo.
 4.2.1762888How now Roderigo?
 4.2.1772889Roderigo
 I do not find 2890that thou deal'st justly with me.
 4.2.1782891Iago
 What in the contrary?
 4.2.1792892Roderigo
 Every day thou doff'st me with some device, 2893Iago, and rather, as it seems to me now, keep'st from 2894me all conveniency, then suppliest me with the least 2895advantage of hope. I will indeed no longer endure it. Nor 2896am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what already I 2897have foolishly suffered.
 4.2.1802898Iago
 Will you hear me, Roderigo?
 4.2.1812899Roderigo
 Faith, I have heard too much, and your words and 2900performances are no kin together.
 4.2.1822901Iago
 You charge me most unjustly.
 4.2.1832902Roderigo
 With naught but truth. I have wasted 2903myself out of my means; the jewels you have had from 2904me to deliver Desdemona would half have corrupted a 2905votarist. You have told me she hath received them, 2906and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden 2907respect and acquaintance, but I find none.
 4.2.1842908Iago
 Well, go to, very well.
 4.2.1852909Roderigo
 "Very well, go to!" I cannot "go to," man, nor 2910tis not "very well." By this hand, I say 'tis very scurvy, and begin to 2911find myself fopped in it.
 4.2.1862912Iago
 Very well.
 4.2.1872913Roderigo
 I tell you, 'tis not very well! I will make 2914myself known to Desdemona. If she will return me my 2915jewels, I will give over my suit and repent my 2916unlawful solicitation. If not, assure yourself, I will seek 2917satisfaction of you.
 4.2.1882918Iago
 You have said now.
 4.2.1892919Roderigo
 Ay, and said nothing but what I protest 2920intendment of doing.
 4.2.1902921Iago
 Why, now I see there's mettle in thee, and 2922even from this instant do build on thee a better 2923opinion than ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo. 2924Thou hast taken against me a most just 2925exception, but yet I protest I have dealt most directly in thy 2926affair.
 4.2.1912927Roderigo
 It hath not appeared.
 4.2.1922928Iago
 I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and 2929your suspicion is not without wit and judgment. 2930But, Roderigo, if thou hast that in thee indeed which 2931I have greater reason to believe now than ever--I 2932mean purpose, courage, and valor--this night 2933show it. If thou the next night following enjoy not 2934Desdemona, take me from this world with 2935treachery and devise engines for my life.
 4.2.1932936Roderigo
 Well, what is it? Is it within reason and 2937compass? 
 4.2.1942938Iago
 Sir, there is especial commission come from 2939Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place.
 4.2.1952940Roderigo
 Is that true? Why then Othello and Desdemona 2941return again to Venice.
 4.2.1962942Iago
 Oh no, he goes into Mauritania and taketh 2943away with him the fair Desdemona, unless his 2944abode be lingered here by some accident, 2945wherein none can be so determinate as the removing of 2946Cassio.
 4.2.1972947Roderigo
 How do you mean removing him?
 4.2.1982948Iago
 Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's 2949place--knocking out his brains.
 4.2.1992950Roderigo
 And that you would have me to do.
 4.2.2002951Iago
 Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a 2952right. He sups to night with a harlotry, and thither 2953will I go to him. He knows not yet of his honorable 2954fortune. If you will watch his going thence--which 2955I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one--2956you may take him at your pleasure. I will be near 2957to second your attempt, and he shall fall between 2958us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with 2959me; I will show you such a necessity in his death that 2960you shall think yourself bound to put it on him. It 2961is now high supper time, and the night grows to waste. 2962About it.
 4.2.2012963Roderigo
 I will hear further reason for this.
 4.2.2022964Iago
 And you shall be satisfied.
 4.2.202.1Exeunt.
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