ACT THREE   Scene Three --奥瑟罗.

<p>[The garden of the castle.Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO,and EMILIA]</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Be thou assured,good Cassio,I will do</p> <p>All my abilites in thy behalf.</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>Good madam,do:I warrant it grieves my husband,</p> <p>As if the case were his.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>O,that&#8217;s an honest fellow.Do not doubt,Cassio,</p> <p>But I will have my lord and you again</p> <p>As friendly as you were.</p> <p>CASSIO</p> <p>Bounteous madam,</p> <p>Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,</p> <p>He&#8217;s never any thing but your true servant</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>I know&#8217;t; I thank you.You do love my lord:</p> <p>You have known him long;and be you well assured</p> <p>He shall in strangeness stand no further off</p> <p>Than in a polite distance.</p> <p>CASSIO</p> <p>Ay,but,lady,</p> <p>That policy may either last so long,</p> <p>Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,</p> <p>Or breed itself so out of circumstance,</p> <p>That,I being absent and my place supplied,</p> <p>My general will forget my love and service</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Do not doubt that;before Emilia here</p> <p>I give thee warrant of thy place:assure thee,</p> <p>If I do vow a friendship, I&#8217;ll perform it</p> <p>To the last article: my lord shall never rest;</p> <p>I&#8217;ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;</p> <p>His bed shall seem a school,his board a shrift;</p> <p>I&#8217;ll intermingle every thing he does</p> <p>With Cassio&#8217;s suit:therefore be merry,Cassio;</p> <p>For thy solicitor shall rather die</p> <p>Than give thy cause away.</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>Madam,here comes my lord.</p> <p>CASSIO</p> <p>Madam,I&#8217;ll take my leave.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Why,stay,and hear me speak.</p> <p>CASSIO</p> <p>Madam,not now:I am very ill at ease,</p> <p>Unfit for mine own purposes.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Well,do your discretion</p> <p>[ Exit CASSIO Enter OTHELLO and IAGO ]</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Ha!I like not that.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>What dost thou say?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Nothing, my lord:or if——I know not what.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Cassio,my lord! No,sure,I cannot think it,</p> <p>That he would steal away so guilty-like,</p> <p>Seeing you coming.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I do believe &#8217;twas he.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>How now,my lord!</p> <p>I have been talking with a suitor here,</p> <p>A man that languishes in your displeasure.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Who is&#8217;t you mean?</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Why, your lieutenant, Cassio.Good my lord,</p> <p>If I have any grace or power to move you,</p> <p>His present reconciliation take;</p> <p>For if he be not one that truly loves you,</p> <p>That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,</p> <p>I have no judgment in an honest face:</p> <p>I prithee,call him back.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Went he hence now?</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Ay,sooth;so humbled</p> <p>That he hath left part of his grief with me,</p> <p>To suffer with him.Good love,call him back.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Not now,sweet Desdemona;some other time.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>But shall&#8217;t be shortly?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>The sooner,sweet,for you</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Shall&#8217;t be to-night at supper?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>No,not to-night.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>To-morrow dinner,then?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I shall not dine at home;</p> <p>I meet the captains at the citadel.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Why,then,to-morrow night;or Tuesday morn;</p> <p>On Tuesday noon,or night;on Wednesday morn:</p> <p>I prithee,name the time,but let it not</p> <p>Exceed three days:in faith, he&#8217;s penitent;</p> <p>And yet his trespass,in our common reason——</p> <p>Save that,they say,the wars must make examples</p> <p>Out of their best——is not almost a fault</p> <p>To incur a private cheque When shall he come?</p> <p>Tell me,Othello:I wonder in my soul,</p> <p>What you would ask me, that I should deny,</p> <p>Or stand so mammering on.What!Michael Cassio,</p> <p>That came a-wooing with you,and so many at time,</p> <p>When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,</p> <p>Hath ta&#8217;en your part;to have so much to do</p> <p>To bring him in! Trust me,I could do much,——</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Prithee,no more:let him come when he will;</p> <p>I will deny thee nothing.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Why,ths is not a boon;</p> <p>&#8216;Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,</p> <p>Or feed on nourishing dishes,or keep you warm,</p> <p>Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit</p> <p>To your own person:nay,when I have a suit</p> <p>Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,</p> <p>It shall be full of poise and difficult weight</p> <p>And fearful to be granted.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I will deny thee nothing:</p> <p>Whereon,I do beseech thee,grant me this,</p> <p>To leave me but a little to myself.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Shall I deny you? no:farewell,my lord.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Farewell, my Desdemona:I&#8217;ll come to thee straight</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Emilia,come.Be as your fancies teach you;</p> <p>Whate&#8217;er you be,I am obedient.</p> <p>[Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,</p> <p>But I do love thee!and when I love thee not,</p> <p>Chaos is come again.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>My noble lord——</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>What dost thou say,Iago?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Did Michael Cassio,when you woo&#8217;d my lady,</p> <p>Know of your love?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>But for a satisfaction of my thought;</p> <p>No further harm.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Why of thy thought,Iago?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I did not think he had been acquainted with her.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>O,yes;and went between us very oft.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Indeed!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Indeed!ay,indeed:discern&#8217;st thou aught in that?</p> <p>Is he not honest?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Honest,my lord!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Honest!ay,honest.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>My lord, for aught I know.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>What dost thou think?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Think,my lord!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Think,my lord!</p> <p>By heaven, he echoes me,</p> <p>As if there were some monster in his thought</p> <p>Too hideous to be shown.Thou dost mean something:</p> <p>I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,</p> <p>When Cassio left my wife:what didst not like?</p> <p>And when I told thee he was of my counsel</p> <p>In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst &#8216;Indeed!&#8217;</p> <p>And didst contract and purse thy brow together,</p> <p>As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain</p> <p>Some horrible conceit:if thou dost love me,</p> <p>Show me thy thought.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>My lord,you know I love you.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I think thou dost;</p> <p>And,for I know thou&#8217;rt full of love and honesty,</p> <p>And weigh&#8217;st thy words before thou givest them breath,</p> <p>Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:</p> <p>For such things in a false disloyal knave</p> <p>Are tricks of custom, but in a man that&#8217;s just</p> <p>They are close delations, working from the heart</p> <p>That passion Cannot rule.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>For Michael Cassio,</p> <p>I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I think so too.</p> <p>LAGO</p> <p>Men should be what they seem;</p> <p>Or those that be not,would they might seem none!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Certain, men should be what they seem.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Why,then, I think Cassio&#8217;s an honest man.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Nay, yet there&#8217;s more in this:</p> <p>I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,</p> <p>As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts</p> <p>The worst of words.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Good my lord,pardon me:</p> <p>Though I am bound to every act of duty,</p> <p>I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.</p> <p>Utter my thoughts? Why,say they are vile and false;</p> <p>As where&#8217;s that palace whereinto foul things</p> <p>Sometimes intrude not?who has a breast so pure,</p> <p>But some uncleanly apprehensions</p> <p>Keep leets and law-days and in session sit</p> <p>With meditations lawful?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Thou dost conspire against thy friend,Iago,</p> <p>If thou but think&#8217;st him wrong&#8217;d and makest his ear</p> <p>A stranger to thy thoughts</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I do beseech you——</p> <p>Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,</p> <p>As,I confess,it is my nature&#8217;s plague</p> <p>To spy into abuses,and oft my jealousy</p> <p>Shapes faults that are not——that your wisdom yet,</p> <p>From one that so imperfectly conceits,</p> <p>Would take no notice,nor build yourself a trouble</p> <p>Out of his scattering and unsure observance.</p> <p>It were not for your quiet nor your good,</p> <p>Nor for my manhood, honesty,or wisdom,</p> <p>To let you know my thoughts.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>What dost thou mean?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,</p> <p>Is the immediate jewel of their souls:</p> <p>Who steals my purse steals trash ;&#8217;tis something,nothing;</p> <p>&#8216;Twas mine,&#8217;tis his, and has been slave to thousands:</p> <p>But he that filches from me my good name</p> <p>Robs me of that which not enriches him</p> <p>And makes me poor indeed.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>By heaven, I&#8217;ll know thy thoughts.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;</p> <p>Nor shall not, whilst&#8217;tis in my custody.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Ha!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>O,beware,my lord,of jealousy;</p> <p>It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock</p> <p>The meat it feeds on;that cuckold lives in bliss</p> <p>Who,certain of his fate,loves not his wronger;</p> <p>But, O,what damned minutes tells he o&#8217;er</p> <p>Who dotes, yet doubts,suspects, yet strongly loves!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>O misery!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Poor and content is rich and rich enough,</p> <p>But riches fineless is as poor as winter</p> <p>To him that ever fears he shall be poor.</p> <p>Good heaven,the souls of all my tribe defend</p> <p>From jealousy!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Why, why is this?</p> <p>Think&#8217;st thou I&#8217;ld make a lie of jealousy,</p> <p>To follow still the changes of the moon</p> <p>With fresh suspicions?No;to be once in doubt</p> <p>Is once to be resolved:exchange me for a goat,</p> <p>When I shall turn the business of my soul</p> <p>To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,</p> <p>Matching thy inference.&#8217;Tis not to make me jealous</p> <p>To say my wife is fair,feeds well,loves company,</p> <p>Is free of speech,sings,plays and dances well;</p> <p>Where virtue is,these are more virtuous:</p> <p>Nor from mine own weak meritswill I draw</p> <p>The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt ;</p> <p>For she had eyes, and chose me. No,Iago;</p> <p>I&#8217;ll see before I doubt;when I doubt, prove;</p> <p>And on the proof,there is no more but this,——</p> <p>Away at once with love or jealousy!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I am glad of it;for now I shall have reason</p> <p>To show the love and duty that I bearyou</p> <p>With franker spirit:therefore, as I am bound,</p> <p>Receive it from me.I speak not yet of proof.</p> <p>Look to your wife;observe her well with Cassio;</p> <p>Wear your eye thus,not jealous nor secure:</p> <p>I would not have your free and noble nature,</p> <p>Out of self-bounty,be abused;look to&#8217;t:</p> <p>I know our country disposition well;</p> <p>In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks</p> <p>They dare not show their husbands;their best conscience</p> <p>Is not to leave&#8217;t undone, but keep&#8217;t unknown.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Dost thou say so?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>She did deceive her father,marrying you;</p> <p>And when she seem&#8217;d to shake and fear your looks,</p> <p>She loved them most.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>And so she did.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Why, go to then;</p> <p>She that,so young, could give out such a seeming,</p> <p>To sealher father&#8217;s eyes up close as oak-</p> <p>He thought &#8217;twas witchcraft——but I am much to blame;</p> <p>I humbly do beseech you of your pardon</p> <p>For too much loving you.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I am bound to thee for ever.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I see this hath a little dash&#8217;d your spirits.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Not a jot,not a jot.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I&#8217; faith,I fear it has.</p> <p>I hope yod will consider what is spoke</p> <p>Comes from my love.But I do see you&#8217;re moved:</p> <p>I am to pray you not to strain my speech</p> <p>To grosserissues nor to larger reach</p> <p>Than to suspicion.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I will not.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Should you do so,my lord,</p> <p>My speech should fall into such vile success</p> <p>As my thoughts aim not at.Cassio&#8217;s my worthy friend——</p> <p>My lord,I see you&#8217;re moved.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>No, not much moved:</p> <p>I do not think but Desdemona&#8217;s honest.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Long live she so! and long live you to think so!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>And yet,how nature erring from itself,——</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Ay, there&#8217;s the point:as——to be bold with you——</p> <p>Not to affect many proposedmatches</p> <p>Of her own clime,complexion,and degree,</p> <p>Whereto we see in all things nature tends——</p> <p>Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank ,</p> <p>Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.</p> <p>But Pardon me;I do not in position</p> <p>Distinctly speak of her;though I may fear</p> <p>Her will,recoiling to her better judgment,</p> <p>May fall to match you with her country forms</p> <p>And happily repent.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Farewell,farewell:</p> <p>If more thou dost perceive,let me know more;</p> <p>Set on thy wife to observe:leave me ,Iago:</p> <p>IAGO[Going]</p> <p>My lord, I take my leave.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Why did I marry?This honest creature doubtless</p> <p>Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>[Returning] My lord,I would I might entreat</p> <p>your honour</p> <p>To scanthis thing no further;leave it to time:</p> <p>Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,</p> <p>For sure, he fills it up with great ability,</p> <p>Yet,if you please to hold him off awhile,</p> <p>You shall by that perceive him and his means:</p> <p>Note,if your lady strain his entertainment</p> <p>With any strong or vehementimportunity;</p> <p>Much will be seen in that.In the mean time,</p> <p>Let me be thought too busy in my fears——</p> <p>As worthy cause I have to fear I am——</p> <p>And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Fear not my government.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I once more take my leave.</p> <p>[Eexit]</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>This fellow&#8217;s of exceeding honesty,</p> <p>And knows all qualities,with a learned spirit,</p> <p>Of human dealings.If I do prove her haggard,</p> <p>Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,</p> <p>I&#8217;ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,</p> <p>To pray at fortune.Haply,for I am black</p> <p>And have not those soft parts of conversation</p> <p>That chamberers have,or for I am declined</p> <p>Into the valeof years,——yet that&#8217;s not much——</p> <p>She&#8217;s gone.I am abused;and my relief</p> <p>Must be to loathe her.O curse of marriage,</p> <p>That we can call these delicate creatures ours,</p> <p>And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,</p> <p>And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,</p> <p>Than keep a corner in the thing I love</p> <p>For others&#8217;uses.Yet,&#8217;tis the plague of great ones;</p> <p>Prerogatived are they less than the base;</p> <p>&#8216;Tis destiny unshunnable,like death:</p> <p>Even then this forked plague is fated to us</p> <p>When we do quicken ,Desdemona comes:</p> <p>[Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA]</p> <p>If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!</p> <p>I&#8217;ll not believe&#8217;t.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>How now, my dear Othello!</p> <p>Your dinner,and the generousislanders</p> <p>By you invited,do attend your presence.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I am to blame.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>Why do you speak so faintly?</p> <p>Are you not well?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I have a pain upon my forehead here.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>&#8216;Faith,that&#8217;s with watching;&#8217;twill away again:</p> <p>Let me but bind it hard,within this hour</p> <p>It will be well.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Your napkin is too little:</p> <p>[He putsthe handkerchief from him ;and it drops]</p> <p>let it alone.Come,I&#8217;ll go in with you.</p> <p>DESDEMONA</p> <p>I am very sorry that you are not well.</p> <p>[Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>I am glad I have found this napkin:</p> <p>This was her first remembrancefrom the Moor:</p> <p>My wayward husband hath a hundred times</p> <p>Woo&#8217;dme to steal it;but she so loves the token,</p> <p>For he conjured her she should ever keep it,</p> <p>That she reserves it evermore about her</p> <p>To kiss talk to.I&#8217;ll have the work ta&#8217;en out ,</p> <p>And give&#8217;t Iago:what he will do with it</p> <p>Heaven knows,not I;</p> <p>I nothing but to please his fantasy.</p> <p>[Re-enter IAGO]</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>How now! what do you here alone?</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>Do not you chide;I have a thing for you.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>A thing for me? it is a common thing——</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>Ha!</p> <p>LAGO</p> <p>To have a foolish wife.</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>O,is that all? What will you give me now</p> <p>For the same handkerchief?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>What handkerchief?</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>What handkerchief?</p> <p>Why,that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;</p> <p>That which so often you did bidme steal.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Hast stol&#8217;n it from her?</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>No,&#8217;faith; she let it drop by negligence.</p> <p>And,to the advantage,I,being here,took&#8217;t up.</p> <p>Look,here it is.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>A good wench; give it me.</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>What will you do with&#8217;t , that you have been</p> <p>so earnest</p> <p>To have me filch it?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>[Snatching it]Why,what&#8217;s that to you?</p> <p>EMILIA</p> <p>If it be not for some purpose of import,</p> <p>Give&#8217;t me again:poor lady,she&#8217;ll run mad</p> <p>When she shall lack it.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Be not acknown on&#8217;t;I have use for it.</p> <p>Go,leave me.</p> <p>[Exit EMILIA]</p> <p>I will in Cassio&#8217;s lodging lose this napkin,</p> <p>And let him find it.Trifles light as air</p> <p>Are to the jealous confirmations strong</p> <p>As proofs of holy writ:this may do something.</p> <p>The Moor already changes with my poison:</p> <p>Dangerous conceits are,in their natures,poisons.</p> <p>Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,</p> <p>But with a little act upon the blood.</p> <p>Burn like the minesof Sulphur.I did say so:</p> <p>Look,where he comes!</p> <p>[Re-enter OTHELLO]</p> <p>Not poppy,nor mandragora,</p> <p>Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,</p> <p>Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep</p> <p>Which thon owedst yesterday.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Ha!ha!false to me?</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Why,how now,general!no more of that.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Avaunt! be gone!thou hast set me on the rack:</p> <p>I swear &#8217;tis better to be much abused</p> <p>Than but to know&#8217;t a little.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>How now,my lord!</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>What sense had I of her stol&#8217;n hours of lust?</p> <p>I saw&#8217;tnot,thought it not,it harm&#8217;dnot me:</p> <p>I slept the next night well,was free and merry;</p> <p>I found not Cassio&#8217;s kisses on her lips:</p> <p>He that is robb&#8217;d, not wanting what is stol&#8217;n,</p> <p>Let him not know&#8217;t,and he&#8217;s not robb&#8217;d at all.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I am sorry to hear this.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I had been happy,if the general camp,</p> <p>Pionersand all,had tasted her sweet body,</p> <p>So I had nothing known.O,now, for ever</p> <p>Farewell the tranquilmind!farewell content!</p> <p>Farewell the plumedtroop,and the big wars,</p> <p>That make ambition virtue!O,farewell!</p> <p>Farewell the neighingsteed,and the shrilltrump,</p> <p>The spirit-stirring drum,the ear-piercing fife ,</p> <p>The royal banner,and all quality,</p> <p>Pride,pompand circumstance of glorious war!</p> <p>And,O you mortalengines,whose rude throats</p> <p>The immortalJove&#8217;sdead clamourscounterfeit,</p> <p>Farewell!Othello&#8217;s occupation&#8217;s gone !</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Is&#8217;t possible,my lord?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>villain,be sure thou prove my love a whore ,</p> <p>Be sure of it;give me the ocular proof:</p> <p>Or by the worth of man&#8217;s eternal soul,</p> <p>Thou hadst been better have been born a dog</p> <p>Than answer my waked wrath !</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Is&#8217;t come to this ?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Make me to see&#8217;t;or,at the least,so prove it,</p> <p>That the probationbear no hinge nor loop</p> <p>To hang a doubt on;or woeupon thy life!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>My noble lord,——</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>If thou dost slander her and torture me,</p> <p>Never pray more;abandonall remorse;</p> <p>On horror&#8217;s head horrors accumulate ;</p> <p>Do deeds to make heaven weep,all earth amazed;</p> <p>For nothing canst thou to damnation add</p> <p>Greater than that.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>O grace!O heaven forgive me!</p> <p>Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?</p> <p>God be wi&#8217; you;take mine office. O wretched fool.</p> <p>That livestto make thine honesty a vice!</p> <p>O monstrous world!Take note,take note,O world,</p> <p>To be direct and honest is not safe.</p> <p>I thank you for this profit;and from hence</p> <p>I&#8217;ll love no friend,sith love breedssuch offence.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Nay,stay :thou shouldst be honest.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I should be wise ,for honesty&#8217;s a fool</p> <p>And loses that it works for.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>By the world,</p> <p>I think my wife be honest and think she is not;</p> <p>I think that thou art just and think thou art not.</p> <p>I&#8217;ll have some proof.Her name,that was as fresh</p> <p>As Dian&#8217;s visage,is now begrimedand black</p> <p>As mine own face.If there be cords, or knives,</p> <p>Poison,or fire,or suffocatingstreams,</p> <p>I&#8217;ll not endure it.Would I were satisfied!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I see,sir, you are eaten up with passion :</p> <p>I do repent me that I put it to you.</p> <p>You would be satisfied?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Would!nay,I will.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>And may: but, how?how satisfied, my lord?</p> <p>Would you,the supervisor,grosslygapeon——</p> <p>Behold her topp&#8217;d?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Death and damnation! O!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>It were a tedious difficulty,I think,</p> <p>To bring them to that prospect:damn them then,</p> <p>If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster</p> <p>More than their own! What then? how then?</p> <p>What shall I say? Where&#8217;s satisfaction?</p> <p>It is impossible you should see this,</p> <p>Were they as prime as goats as hot as monkeys,</p> <p>As salt as wolves in pride,and fools as gross</p> <p>As ignorance made drunk.But yet,I say,</p> <p>If imputation and strong circumstances,</p> <p>Which lead directly to the door of truth,</p> <p>Will give you satisfaction,you may have&#8217;t.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Give me a living reason she&#8217;s disloyal.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I do not like the office:</p> <p>But,sith I am enter&#8217;d in this cause so far,</p> <p>Prick&#8217;d to&#8217;t by foolish honesty and love,</p> <p>I will go on.I lay with Cassio lately;</p> <p>And,being troubled with a raging tooth,</p> <p>I could not sleep.</p> <p>There are a kind of men so looseof soul</p> <p>That in their sleeps will muttertheir affairs:</p> <p>One of this kind is Cassio:</p> <p>In sleep I heard him say &#8216;Sweet Desdemona,</p> <p>Let us be wary,let us hide our loves;&#8217;</p> <p>And then,sir,would he gripeand wringmy hand,</p> <p>Cry&#8217;O sweet creature!&#8217;and then kiss me hard,</p> <p>As if he pluck&#8217;d up kisses by the roots</p> <p>That grew upon my lips:then laid his leg</p> <p>Over my thigh,and sigh&#8217;d, and kiss&#8217;d;and then</p> <p>Cried&#8217;Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!&#8217;</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>O monstrous!monstrous!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Nay,this was but his dream.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>But this denoted a foregone conclusion:</p> <p>&#8216;Tis a shrewd doubt,though it be but a dream.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>And this may help to thicken other proofs</p> <p>That do demonstrate thinly.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I&#8217;ll tear her all to pieces.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Nay,but be wise: yet we see nothing done;</p> <p>She may be honest yet.Tell me but this,</p> <p>Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief</p> <p>Spotted with strawberries in your wife&#8217;s hand?</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I gave her such a one;&#8217;twas my first gift.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I know not that;but such a handkerchief——</p> <p>I am sure it was your wife&#8217;s——did I to-day</p> <p>See Cassio wipe his beard with.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>If it be that——</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>If it be that,or any that was hers,</p> <p>It speaks against her with the other proofs.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!</p> <p>One is too poor,too weak for my revenge.</p> <p>Now do I see &#8217;tis true.Look here, Iago;</p> <p>All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.</p> <p>&#8216;Tis gone.</p> <p>Arise,black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!</p> <p>Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne</p> <p>To tyrannous hate!Swell, bosom,with thy fraught,</p> <p>For &#8217;tis of aspics &#8216;tongues!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Yet be content .</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>O,blood,blood,blood!</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Never,Iago:Like to the Pontic sea,</p> <p>Whose icy current and compulsive course</p> <p>Ne&#8217;er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on</p> <p>To the Propontic and the Hellespont,</p> <p>Even so my bloody thoughts,with violent pace,</p> <p>Shall ne&#8217;er look back,ne&#8217;er ebb to humble love,</p> <p>Till that a capable and wide revenge</p> <p>Swallow them up. Now,by youd marbleheaven,</p> <p>[Kneels]</p> <p>In the due reverenceof a sacredvow</p> <p>I here engage my words.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>Do not rise yet.</p> <p>[Kneels]</p> <p>Witness, you ever-burning lights above,</p> <p>You elements that clip us round about,</p> <p>Witness that here Iago doth give up</p> <p>The execution of his wit, hands,heart,</p> <p>To wrong&#8217;d Othello&#8217;s service!Let him command ,</p> <p>And to obey shall be in me remorse,</p> <p>What bloody business ever.</p> <p>[They rise]</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>I greetthy love,</p> <p>Not with vain thanks,but with acceptance bounteous,</p> <p>And will upon the instant put thee to&#8217;t:</p> <p>Within these three days let me hear thee say</p> <p>That Cassio&#8217;s not alive.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>My friend is dead;&#8217;tis done at your request:</p> <p>But let her live.</p> <p>OTHELLO</p> <p>Damn,lewd minx!O,damn her!</p> <p>Come,go with me apart;I will withdraw,</p> <p>To furnish me with some swift means of death</p> <p>For the fair devil.Now art thou my lieutenant.</p> <p>IAGO</p> <p>I am your own for ever</p> <p>[Exeunt]</p>

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