had her? Some one way, some another.-Do you know Where we may apprehend her and the Moor? Rod. I think, I can discover him, if you please To get good guard, and go along with me. Bra. Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; I may command at most:-Get weapons, ho! SCENE II.-The same.-Another Street. Yet do I hold it very stuff o'the conscience, Oth. 'Tis better as it is. lago. Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms That, with the little godliness I have, I did full bard forbear him. But, I pray, Sir, Oth. Let him do his spite: My services, which I have done the signiory, Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know, [our, (Which, when I know that boasting is an houI shall promulgate,) I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege, + and my demerits May speak, unbonnetted, to as proud a fortune As this that I have reach'd: For know, lago, But that I love the gentle Desdemona, I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumspection and confine Iago. Marry, to-Come, captain, will you go! Oth. Have with you. Cas. Here comes another troop to seek for you. Oth. Holla! stand there ! [They draw on both sides. Jago. You, Roderigo! come, Sir, I am for you, Oth. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them. [years, Good signior, you shall more command with Than with your weapons. Bra. O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter? Damn'd as thou art, thon hast enchanted her : That waken motion: I'll have it disputed on; Oth. Hold your hands, Both you of my inclining, and the rest : For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it Without a prompter.-Where will you that I go To answer this your charge ? Bra. To prison: till fit time Of law, and course of direct session, Oth. What if I do obey ? How may the duke be therewith satisfied; OF VENICE Of. 'Tis true, most worthy signior, Bra. How! the duke in council! In this time of the night!-Bring him away: Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own: Duke. There is no composition in these [news, That gives them credit. 1 Sea. Indeed, they are disproportion'd; My letters say, a hundred and seven gallies. Dake. And mine, a hundred and forty. 2 Sen. And mine two hundred : But though they jump not on a just account, (As in these cases, where the aim reports, Tis oft with difference,) yet do they all confirm A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus. Duke. Nay, it is possible enough to judg ment; I do not so secure me in the error, In fearful sense. , OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERICO Duke. Valiant Othello, we must straight em- Against the general enemy Ottoman. I did not see you; welcome, gentle Signior; Take hold on me; for my particular grief Duke. Why, what's the matter? Bra. Ay, to me; She is abus'd, stolen from me, and corrupted Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense, Duke. Whoe'er he be, that in this foul pro- Hath thus beguil'd your daughter of herself, Sailor. [Within.] What ho! what ho! what You shall yourself read in the bitter letter, ho! Enter an OFFICER, with a SAILOR. Of. A messenger from the gallies. Sailor. The Turkish preparation makes for So was I bid report here to the state, Duke. How say you by this change? 1 Sen. This cannot be, By no assay of reason; 'tis pageant, To keep us in false gaze: When we consider of this, We must not think the Turk is so unskilful, After your own sense; yea, though our proper Stood in your action. † Bra. Humbly I thank your grace. Here is the man, this Moor; whom now it Bra. Nothing but this is so. Oth. Most potent, grave, and reverend sig niors, My very noble and approv'd good masters, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace; Till now some nine moons wasted, they have Duke. Nay, in all confidence, he's not for And little of this great world can I speak, Rhodes. Of. Here is more news. Enter a MESSENGER. Mess. The Ottomites, reverend and gracious, Have there injointed them with an after fleet. Mess. Of thirty sail : and now do they restem Their backward course, bearing with frank ap(tano, pearance Their purposes toward Cyprus.-Signior Mon- Dake. Tis certain then for Cyprus. Marcus Lucchesé, is he not in town?. 1 Sen. He's now in Florence. More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver What conjuration, and what mighty magic, Bra. A maiden never bold; ture, Of years, of country, credit, every thing.- Duke. Write from us; wish him post-post-Why this should be. I therefore vouch again, Take up this mangled matter at the best: Bra. I pray you, hear her speak; affec-If she confess that she was half the wooer, Destruction on my head, if my bad blame Light on the man!-Come hither, gentle mistress; Or came it by request, and such fair question As soul to soul affordeth? Oth. I do beseech you, Send for the lady to the Sagittary, İ And let her speak of me before her father: If you do find me foul in her report, Duke. Fetch Desdemona hither. Oth. Ancient, conduct them; you best know the place. [Exeunt IAGO and Attendants. And, till she coine, as truly as to heaven. I do confess the vices of my blood, So justly to your grave ears I'll present How I did thrive in this fair lady's love, And she in mine. Duke. Say it, Othello. Oth. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; I ran it through, even from my boyish days, It was my hint to speak, such was the process Would Desdemona serionsly incline: [thence; means To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart, 'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful; wish'd Do you perceive in all this noble company, Des. My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you, I am bound for life and education; And so much duty as my mother show'd Bra. God be with you!-I have done :— I here do give thee that with all my heart, Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart Ljewel, sake, I would keep from thee.-For your a sentence, [lovers Which as a grise, or step, may help these Into your favours. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and goue, He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow, row. These sentences, to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equivocal: I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of pass-state. she That heaven had made her such a man; she thank'd me ; And bade me if I had a friend that lov'd her, ter too. Duke. The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus:-Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you: And though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a inore safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber j the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war I find in hardness; and do undertake With such accommodation and besort, Duke. If you please, Be't at her father's. Bra. I'll not have it so. Oth. Nor I. Des. Nor I; I would not there reside, Duke. What would you, Desdemona ? Des. That I did love the Moor to live with My downright violence and storm of fortunes Even to the very quality of my lord: worldly matters, and direction, Rod. Iago. Iago. What say'st thou, noble heart? Rod. It is silliness to live, when to live is a jugo. O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four times seven years; and since I could distinguish between a benefit and an insub-jury, I never found a man that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I would drown myself for the love of a Guinea-hen, † I would change my humanity with a baboon." The rights for which I love him, are bereft me, By his dear absence: Let me go with him. Have a free way. Rod. What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so foud; but it is not in virtue to amend it. Iago. Virtue? a fig! 'tis in ourselves, that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are our gardens; to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce; set let hyssop, and weed up thyme: supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many; either to have it steril with idleness, or manured with industry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous couclusions: But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts: whereof I take this, that you call-love, to be a sect, or scion. Vouch with me, heaven; I therefore beg it not I will your serious and great business scant, of feather'd Cupid seel § with wanton dulness Duke. Be it as you shall privately determine, Either for her stay or going: the affair cries, haste, And speed must answer it: you must hence to-night. Des. To-night, my lord? Duke. This night. Oth. With all my heart. Rod. It cannot be. Iago. It is merely a lust of the blood, and a Come, be a man; permission of the wi!!. Drown thyself? drown cats and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable toughness; I could never better stead Put money in thy purse; folthee than now. in thy low these wars; defeat thy favour with an usurped beard; I say, put money It cannot be, that Desdemona should purse. long continue her love to the Moor,-put money in thy purse ;-nor he his to her: it was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration ;-put but money Duke. At nine i'the morning here we'll meet in thy purse.-These Moors are changeable in again. Othello, leave some officer behind, And be shall our cominission bring to you; Oth. Please your grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust: [think To bis conveyance I assign my wife, well. Bra. Look to her, Moor; have a quick eye to see; She has deceiv'd her fatber, and may thee. Ereunt DUKE, SENATORS, OFFICERS, &c. • Quality means profession; i. e. the life of a soldier. ✰ Because. 6 Blind. Helmet. their wills;-fill thy purse with money: the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She must change for youth: when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice. She must have change, she must: therefore put money in thy purse.-If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thou canst: If sanctimony and a frail vow, betwist an erring ¶ barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian, be not too hard for my wits, aud all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy, than to be drowned and go without her. Rod. Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, If I depend on the issue? of me;-Go, make Iago. Thou art sure money :-I have told thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor: My cause is hearted: thine hath no less reason: Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thy The cant term for a prostitute. A sect is what the gardeners call a 1. c. Alter your effernate visage, by Waudtring. 2 E If I would tiine expend with such a snipe, see : me Enter MONTANO and Two GENTLEMEN. Mon. What from the cape can you discern at sea ? 1 Gent. Nothing at all: it is a high-wrought Blood; I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main, Mon. Methinks, the wind hath spoke aloud at A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements: 2 Gent. A segregation of the Turkish fleet: Seems to cast water on the burning bear $ On th' enchafed flood. Mon. If that the Turkish fleet Mon. How! is this true ? 3 Gent. The ship is here put in, A Veronesé; Michael Cassio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor, Othello, Is come on shore: the Moor himself's at sea, And is in full commission here for Cyprus. Mon. I am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor. 3 Gent. But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort, Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly, Aud prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted With foul and violent tempest. Mon. 'Pray heaven he be; For I have serv'd him, and the man commands 3 Gent. Come, let's do so; Cas. I pray you, Sir, go forth, (Exit. Mon. But, good lieutenant, is your general wiv'd? Cas. Most unfortunately: he hath achiev'd a That paragons description and wild fame : Re-enter second GENTLEMAN. 2 Gent. 'Tis one lago, ancient to the general. Gas. He has had most favourable and happy speed: Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling The gutter'd rocks, and congregated sands,- Be not inshelter'd and embay'd, they are The divine Desdemona. drown'd; It is impossible they bear it out. Enter a third GENTLEMAN. 3 Gent. News, lords! our wars are done; The desperate tempest hath so bang'd the Turks, That their designment halts: A noble ship of Venice Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance |