18761736Iag. To scan this thing no further, leaue it to time,

18771737Tho it be fit, that Cassio haue his place,

18781738For sure he fills it vp with great ability:

18791739Yet if you please to hold him off awhile,

18801740You shall by that perceiue him and his meanes;

18811741Note if your Lady straine her entertainement,

18821742With any strong or vehement importunity,

18831743Much will be seene in that, in the meane time,

18841744Let me be thought too busie in my feares,

18851745As worthy cause I haue, to feare I am;

18861746And hold her free, I doe beseech your honour.

18871747Oth. Feare not my gouernement.

18881748Iag. I once more take my leaue. Exit

18891749Oth. This fellowe's of exceeding honesty,

18901750And knowes all qualities, with a learned spirit

18911751Of humaine dealing: if I doe prooue her haggard,

18921752Tho that her Iesses were my deare heart strings,

18931753I'de whistle her off, and let her downe the wind,

18941754To prey at fortune. Happily, for I am blacke,

18951755And haue not those soft parts of conuersation,

18961756That Chamberers haue, or for I am declind

18971757Into the valt of yeares; yet that's not much,

18981758Shee's gone, I am abus'd, and my releife

18991759Must be to lothe her: O curse of marriage,

19001760That we can call these delicate creatures ours,

19011761And not their appetites: I had rather be a Toade,

19021762And liue vpon the vapor in a dungeon,

19031763Then keepe a corner in a thing I loue,

19041764For others vses: yet tis the plague of great ones,

19051765Prerogatiu'd are they lesse then the base,

19061766Tis desteny, vnshunnable, like death:

19071767Euen then this forked plague is fated to vs,

19081768When we doe quicken: Desdemona comes,

19101769If she be false, O then heauen mocks it selfe,

19111770I'le not beleeue it.

19121772Desd. How now my deare Othello?