650609And bring her after in the best aduantage;

651610Come Desdemona, I haue but an houre

652611Of loue, of worldly matters, and direction,

653612To spend with thee, we must obey the time.

654613Rod. Iago. Exit Moore and Desdemona.

655614Iag, What saiest thou noble heart?

656615Rod. What will I doe thinkest thou?

657616Iag. Why goe to bed and sleepe.

658617Rod. I will incontinently drowne my selfe.

659618Iag. Well, if thou doest, I shall neuer loue thee after it,

619Why, thou silly Gentleman.

661620Rod. It is sillinesse to liue, when to liue is a torment, and then we

662621haue a prescription, to dye when death is our Physition.

664622Iag. I ha look'd vpon the world for foure times seuen yeares,

665623and since I could distinguish betweene a benefit, and an iniury, I ne-

666624uer found a man that knew how to loue himselfe: ere I would say

667625I would drowne my selfe, for the loue of a Ginny Hen, I would

669626change my humanity with a Baboone.

670627Rod. What should I do? I confesse it is my shame to be so fond,

671628but it is not in my vertue to amend it.

672629Iag. Vertue? a fig, tis in our selues, that wee are thus, or thus,

673630our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are Gardiners, so that

674631if we will plant Nettles, or sow Lettice, set Isop, and weed vp Time;

676632supply it with one gender of hearbes, or distract it with many; ei-

677633ther to haue it sterrill with Idlenesse, or manur'd with Industry, why

678634the power, and corrigible Authority of this, lies in our wills. If the

679635ballance of our liues had not one scale of reason, to poise another of

680636sensuality; the blood and basenesse of our natures, would conduct

682637vs to most preposterous conclusions. But wee haue reason to coole

683638our raging motions, our carnall stings, our vnbitted lusts; whereof

684639I take this, that you call loue to be a sect, or syen.

686640Rod. It cannot be.

687641Iag. It is meerly a lust of the blood, and a permission of the will:

688642Come, be a man; drowne thy selfe? drowne Cats and blinde Pup-

689643pies: I professe me thy friend, and I confesse me knit to thy deser-

690644uing, with cables of perdurable toughnesse; I could neuer better

691645steede thee then now. Put money in thy purse; follow these warres,