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<H3>ACT I</h3>
<h3>SCENE I. Venice. A street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter RODERIGO and IAGO</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.1>Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.2>That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.3>As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.4>'Sblood, but you will not hear me:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.5>If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.6>Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.7>Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.8>In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.9>Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.10>I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.11>But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.12>Evades them, with a bombast circumstance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.13>Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.14>And, in conclusion,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.15>Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.16>'I have already chose my officer.'</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.17>And what was he?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.18>Forsooth, a great arithmetician,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.19>One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.20>A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.21>That never set a squadron in the field,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.22>Nor the division of a battle knows</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.23>More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.24>Wherein the toged consuls can propose</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.25>As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.26>Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.27>And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.28>At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.29>Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.30>By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.31>He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.32>And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.33>By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.34>Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.35>Preferment goes by letter and affection,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.36>And not by old gradation, where each second</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.37>Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.38>Whether I in any just term am affined</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.39>To love the Moor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.40>I would not follow him then.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.41>O, sir, content you;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.42>I follow him to serve my turn upon him:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.43>We cannot all be masters, nor all masters</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.44>Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.45>Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.46>That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.47>Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.48>For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.49>Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.50>Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.51>Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.52>And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.53>Do well thrive by them and when they have lined</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.54>their coats</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.55>Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.56>And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.57>It is as sure as you are Roderigo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.58>Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.59>In following him, I follow but myself;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.60>Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.61>But seeming so, for my peculiar end:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.62>For when my outward action doth demonstrate</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.63>The native act and figure of my heart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.64>In compliment extern, 'tis not long after</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.65>But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.66>For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.67>What a full fortune does the thicklips owe</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.68>If he can carry't thus!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.69>Call up her father,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.70>Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.71>Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.72>And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.73>Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.74>Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.75>As it may lose some colour.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.76>Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.77>Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.78>As when, by night and negligence, the fire</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.79>Is spied in populous cities.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.80>What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.81>Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.82>Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.83>Thieves! thieves!</A><br>
<p><i>BRABANTIO appears above, at a window</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.84>What is the reason of this terrible summons?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.85>What is the matter there?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.86>Signior, is all your family within?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.87>Are your doors lock'd?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.88>Why, wherefore ask you this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.89>'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.90>your gown;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.91>Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.92>Even now, now, very now, an old black ram</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.93>Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.94>Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.95>Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.96>Arise, I say.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.97> What, have you lost your wits?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.98>Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.99>Not I what are you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.100>My name is Roderigo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.101>The worser welcome:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.102>I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.103>In honest plainness thou hast heard me say</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.104>My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.105>Being full of supper and distempering draughts,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.106>Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.107>To start my quiet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.108>Sir, sir, sir,--</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.109> But thou must needs be sure</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.110>My spirit and my place have in them power</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.111>To make this bitter to thee.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.112>Patience, good sir.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.113>What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.114>My house is not a grange.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.115>Most grave Brabantio,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.116>In simple and pure soul I come to you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.117>'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.118>serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.119>do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.120>have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.121>you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.122>coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.123>What profane wretch art thou?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.124>I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.125>and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.126>Thou art a villain.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.127>You are--a senator.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech35><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.128>This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.129>Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.130>If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.131>As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.132>At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.133>Transported, with no worse nor better guard</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.134>But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.135>To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.136>If this be known to you and your allowance,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.137>We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.138>But if you know not this, my manners tell me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.139>We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.140>That, from the sense of all civility,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.141>I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.142>Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.143>I say again, hath made a gross revolt;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.144>Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.145>In an extravagant and wheeling stranger</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.146>Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.147>If she be in her chamber or your house,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.148>Let loose on me the justice of the state</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.149>For thus deluding you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.150>Strike on the tinder, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.151>Give me a taper! call up all my people!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.152>This accident is not unlike my dream:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.153>Belief of it oppresses me already.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.154>Light, I say! light!</A><br>
<p><i>Exit above</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.155>Farewell; for I must leave you:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.156>It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.157>To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.158>Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.159>However this may gall him with some cheque,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.160>Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.161>With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.162>Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.163>Another of his fathom they have none,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.164>To lead their business: in which regard,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.165>Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.166>Yet, for necessity of present life,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.167>I must show out a flag and sign of love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.168>Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.169>Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.170>And there will I be with him. So, farewell.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
<p><i>Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.171>It is too true an evil: gone she is;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.172>And what's to come of my despised time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.173>Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.174>Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.175>With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.176>How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.177>Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.178>Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.179>Truly, I think they are.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.180>O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.181>Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.182>By what you see them act. Is there not charms</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.183>By which the property of youth and maidhood</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.184>May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.185>Of some such thing?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.186>Yes, sir, I have indeed.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech43><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.187>Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.188>Some one way, some another. Do you know</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.189>Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech44><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.190>I think I can discover him, if you please,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.191>To get good guard and go along with me.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech45><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.1.192>Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.193>I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.194>And raise some special officers of night.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.1.195>On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE II. Another street.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.1>Though in the trade of war I have slain men,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.2>Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.3>To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.4>Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.5>I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.6>'Tis better as it is.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.7>Nay, but he prated,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.8>And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.9>Against your honour</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.10>That, with the little godliness I have,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.11>I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.12>Are you fast married? Be assured of this,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.13>That the magnifico is much beloved,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.14>And hath in his effect a voice potential</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.15>As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.16>Or put upon you what restraint and grievance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.17>The law, with all his might to enforce it on,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.18>Will give him cable.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.19>Let him do his spite:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.20>My services which I have done the signiory</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.21>Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.22>Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.23>I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.24>From men of royal siege, and my demerits</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.25>May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.26>As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.27>But that I love the gentle Desdemona,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.28>I would not my unhoused free condition</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.29>Put into circumscription and confine</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.30>For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.31>Those are the raised father and his friends:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.32>You were best go in.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.33>Not I I must be found:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.34>My parts, my title and my perfect soul</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.35>Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.36>By Janus, I think no.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.37>The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.38>The goodness of the night upon you, friends!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.39>What is the news?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.40> The duke does greet you, general,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.41>And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.42>Even on the instant.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.43>What is the matter, think you?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.44>Something from Cyprus as I may divine:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.45>It is a business of some heat: the galleys</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.46>Have sent a dozen sequent messengers</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.47>This very night at one another's heels,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.48>And many of the consuls, raised and met,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.49>Are at the duke's already: you have been</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.50>hotly call'd for;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.51>When, being not at your lodging to be found,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.52>The senate hath sent about three several guests</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.53>To search you out.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.54>'Tis well I am found by you.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.55>I will but spend a word here in the house,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.56>And go with you.</A><br>
<p><i>Exit</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.57> Ancient, what makes he here?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.58>'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.59>If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.60>I do not understand.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.61>He's married.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.62>To who?</A><br>
<p><i>Re-enter OTHELLO</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech18><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.63>Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech19><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.64>Have with you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>CASSIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.65>Here comes another troop to seek for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.66>It is Brabantio. General, be advised;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.67>He comes to bad intent.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech22><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.68>Holla! stand there!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech23><b>RODERIGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.69>Signior, it is the Moor.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.70>Down with him, thief!</A><br>
<p><i>They draw on both sides</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>IAGO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.71>You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech26><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.72>Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.73>Good signior, you shall more command with years</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.74>Than with your weapons.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.75>O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.76>Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.77>For I'll refer me to all things of sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.78>If she in chains of magic were not bound,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.79>Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.80>So opposite to marriage that she shunned</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.81>The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.82>Would ever have, to incur a general mock,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.83>Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.84>Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.85>Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.86>That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.87>Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.88>That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.89>'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.90>I therefore apprehend and do attach thee</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.91>For an abuser of the world, a practiser</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.92>Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.93>Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.94>Subdue him at his peril.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.95>Hold your hands,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.96>Both you of my inclining, and the rest:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.97>Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.98>Without a prompter. Where will you that I go</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.99>To answer this your charge?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech29><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.100>To prison, till fit time</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.101>Of law and course of direct session</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.102>Call thee to answer.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.103>What if I do obey?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.104>How may the duke be therewith satisfied,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.105>Whose messengers are here about my side,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.106>Upon some present business of the state</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.107>To bring me to him?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech31><b>First Officer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.108>'Tis true, most worthy signior;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.109>The duke's in council and your noble self,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.110>I am sure, is sent for.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.2.111>How! the duke in council!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.112>In this time of the night! Bring him away:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.113>Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.114>Or any of my brothers of the state,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.115>Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.116>For if such actions may have passage free,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.2.117>Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt</i></p>
</blockquote>
<h3>SCENE III. A council-chamber.</h3>
<p><blockquote>
<i>The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending</i>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech1><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.1>There is no composition in these news</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.2>That gives them credit.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech2><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.3>Indeed, they are disproportion'd;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.4>My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech3><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.5>And mine, a hundred and forty.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech4><b>Second Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.6>And mine, two hundred:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.7>But though they jump not on a just account,--</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.8>As in these cases, where the aim reports,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.9>'Tis oft with difference--yet do they all confirm</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.10>A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech5><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.11>Nay, it is possible enough to judgment:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.12>I do not so secure me in the error,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.13>But the main article I do approve</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.14>In fearful sense.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech6><b>Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.15>[Within] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech7><b>First Officer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.16>A messenger from the galleys.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Sailor</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech8><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.17>Now, what's the business?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech9><b>Sailor</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.18>The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.19>So was I bid report here to the state</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.20>By Signior Angelo.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech10><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.21>How say you by this change?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech11><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.22>This cannot be,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.23>By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.24>To keep us in false gaze. When we consider</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.25>The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.26>And let ourselves again but understand,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.27>That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.28>So may he with more facile question bear it,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.29>For that it stands not in such warlike brace,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.30>But altogether lacks the abilities</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.31>That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.32>We must not think the Turk is so unskilful</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.33>To leave that latest which concerns him first,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.34>Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.35>To wake and wage a danger profitless.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech12><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.36>Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech13><b>First Officer</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.37>Here is more news.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech14><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.38>The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.39>Steering with due course towards the isle of Rhodes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.40>Have there injointed them with an after fleet.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech15><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.41>Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.42>Of thirty sail: and now they do restem</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.43>Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.44>Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.45>Your trusty and most valiant servitor,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.46>With his free duty recommends you thus,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.47>And prays you to believe him.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech17><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.48>'Tis certain, then, for Cyprus.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.49>Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech18><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.50>He's now in Florence.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech19><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.51>Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech20><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.52>Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.</A><br>
<p><i>Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers</i></p>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech21><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.53>Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.54>Against the general enemy Ottoman.</A><br>
<p><i>To BRABANTIO</i></p>
<A NAME=1.3.55>I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.56>We lack'd your counsel and your help tonight.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech22><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.57>So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.58>Neither my place nor aught I heard of business</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.59>Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.60>Take hold on me, for my particular grief</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.61>Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.62>That it engluts and swallows other sorrows</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.63>And it is still itself.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech23><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.64>Why, what's the matter?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.65>My daughter! O, my daughter!</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech25><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<A NAME=speech26><b>Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.66>Dead?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech27><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.67>Ay, to me;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.68>She is abused, stol'n from me, and corrupted</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.69>By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.70>For nature so preposterously to err,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.71>Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.72>Sans witchcraft could not.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech28><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.73>Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.74>Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.75>And you of her, the bloody book of law</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.76>You shall yourself read in the bitter letter</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.77>After your own sense, yea, though our proper son</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.78>Stood in your action.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech29><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.79>Humbly I thank your grace.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.80>Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.81>Your special mandate for the state-affairs</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.82>Hath hither brought.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech30><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<A NAME=speech31><b>Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.83>We are very sorry for't.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech32><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.84>[To OTHELLO] What, in your own part, can you say to this?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech33><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.85>Nothing, but this is so.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech34><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.86>Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.87>My very noble and approved good masters,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.88>That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.89>It is most true; true, I have married her:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.90>The very head and front of my offending</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.91>Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.92>And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.93>For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.94>Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.95>Their dearest action in the tented field,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.96>And little of this great world can I speak,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.97>More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.98>And therefore little shall I grace my cause</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.99>In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.100>I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.101>Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.102>What conjuration and what mighty magic,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.103>For such proceeding I am charged withal,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.104>I won his daughter.</A><br>
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<A NAME=speech35><b>BRABANTIO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.105>A maiden never bold;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.106>Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motion</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.107>Blush'd at herself; and she, in spite of nature,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.108>Of years, of country, credit, every thing,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.109>To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on!</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.110>It is a judgment maim'd and most imperfect</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.111>That will confess perfection so could err</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.112>Against all rules of nature, and must be driven</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.113>To find out practises of cunning hell,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.114>Why this should be. I therefore vouch again</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.115>That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.116>Or with some dram conjured to this effect,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.117>He wrought upon her.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech36><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.118>To vouch this, is no proof,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.119>Without more wider and more overt test</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.120>Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.121>Of modern seeming do prefer against him.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech37><b>First Senator</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.122>But, Othello, speak:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.123>Did you by indirect and forced courses</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.124>Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.125>Or came it by request and such fair question</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.126>As soul to soul affordeth?</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech38><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.127>I do beseech you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.128>Send for the lady to the Sagittary,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.129>And let her speak of me before her father:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.130>If you do find me foul in her report,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.131>The trust, the office I do hold of you,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.132>Not only take away, but let your sentence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.133>Even fall upon my life.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech39><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.134>Fetch Desdemona hither.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech40><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.135>Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.</A><br>
<p><i>Exeunt IAGO and Attendants</i></p>
<A NAME=1.3.136>And, till she come, as truly as to heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.137>I do confess the vices of my blood,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.138>So justly to your grave ears I'll present</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.139>How I did thrive in this fair lady's love,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.140>And she in mine.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech41><b>DUKE OF VENICE</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.141>Say it, Othello.</A><br>
</blockquote>
<A NAME=speech42><b>OTHELLO</b></a>
<blockquote>
<A NAME=1.3.142>Her father loved me; oft invited me;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.143>Still question'd me the story of my life,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.144>From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.145>That I have passed.</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.146>I ran it through, even from my boyish days,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.147>To the very moment that he bade me tell it;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.148>Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.149>Of moving accidents by flood and field</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.150>Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.151>Of being taken by the insolent foe</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.152>And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.153>And portance in my travels' history:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.154>Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.155>Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.156>It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.157>And of the Cannibals that each other eat,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.158>The Anthropophagi and men whose heads</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.159>Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.160>Would Desdemona seriously incline:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.161>But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.162>Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.163>She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.164>Devour up my discourse: which I observing,</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.165>Took once a pliant hour, and found good means</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.166>To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart</A><br>
<A NAME=1.3.167>That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,</A><br>