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  • Title: Othello (Quarto 1, 1622)
  • Editor: Donald Bailey
  • ISBN: 978-1-55058-466-0

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    Author: William Shakespeare
    Editor: Donald Bailey
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    Othello (Quarto 1, 1622)

    21
    The Moore of Venice.

    Can hold the morties, --- What shall we heare of this?
    Gent. A segregation of the Turkish Fleete:
    For doe but stand vpon the banning shore,
    The chiding billow seemes to pelt the cloudes,
    765The winde shak'd surge, with high and monstrous mayne,
    Seemes to cast water, on the burning Beare,
    And quench the guards of th'euer fired pole,
    I neuer did, like molestation view,
    On the inchafed flood.
    770Mon. If that the Turkish Fleete
    Be not inshelter'd, and embayed, they are drown'd,
    It is impossible they beare it out.

    Enter a third Gentleman.

    Gent. Newes Lords, your warres are done:
    775The desperate Tempest hath so bang'd the
    Turke,
    That their designement halts: Another shippe of Venice hath seene
    A greeuous wracke and sufferance
    On most part of the Fleete.
    Mon. How, is this true?
    780Gent. The shippe is heere put in:
    A Veronessa, Michael Cassi}o,
    Leiutenant to the warlike Moore Othello,
    Is come ashore: the Moore himselfe at Sea,
    And is in full Commission here for Cypres,
    785Mon. I am glad on't, tis a worthy Gouernour.
    Gent. But this same Cassio, tho he speake of comfort,
    Touching the Turkish losse, yet he lookes sadly,
    And prayes the Moore be safe, for they were parted,
    With foule and violent Tempest.
    790Mon. Pray Heauen he be:
    For I haue seru'd him, and the man commands
    Like a full Souldier:
    Lets to the sea side, ho,
    As well to see the vessell that's come in,
    As
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