<p>［Venice,a street. Enter RODERIGO and IAGO］</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Tush！never tell me； Itake it much unkindly</p>
<p>That thou，Iago， who hast had my purse</p>
<p>As if the strings were thine， shouldst know of this.</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>‘Sblood， but you will not hear me；</p>
<p>If everI did dream of such a matter，abhorme．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Thou told’stme thou didsthold him in thy hate．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Despise me， ifI do not．Three great onesof the city，</p>
<p>In personalsuit to make me his lieutenant，</p>
<p>Off－capp’ d to him： and， by the faithof man，</p>
<p>I know my price，Iam worth no worse a place：</p>
<p>But he； as loving his own pride and purposes，</p>
<p>Evades them，witha bombast circumstance</p>
<p>Horribly stuff’dwith epithets of war；</p>
<p>And， in conclusion，</p>
<p>Nonsuits my mediators； for，（Certes）， says he，</p>
<p>‘I have already chosemy office r’．</p>
<p>And what was he？</p>
<p>Forsooth, a great arithmetician，</p>
<p>One MichaelCassio， a Florentine，</p>
<p>A fellow almost damn’din a fair wife；</p>
<p>That never set a squadronin the field，</p>
<p>Nor the divisionof a battle knows</p>
<p>More than a spinster； unlessthe bookish theoric，</p>
<p>Wherein the toged consulscan propose</p>
<p>As masterly as he：mere prattle，without practise，</p>
<p>Is all his soldiership． But he， sir， had the election：</p>
<p>And I，of whom his eyes had seen the proof</p>
<p>At Rhodes，at Cyprus and on other grounds</p>
<p>Christian and heathen，must be be-lee’ d and calm’d</p>
<p>By debitor and creditor： thiscounter－caster．</p>
<p>He，in good time， must his lieutenant be，</p>
<p>And I—God blessthe mark！—his Moorship’s ancient．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>By heaven，Iratherwould have been his hangman．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Why， there’s no remedy；’tis thecurse of service</p>
<p>Preferment goes by letter and affection，</p>
<p>And not by old gradation， where each second</p>
<p>Stood heir to the first． Now， sir， be judge yourself，</p>
<p>Wheth Iinany just termam affined</p>
<p>To love the Moor．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I would not follow him then．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>O， sir， content you；</p>
<p>I follow him to serve my turn upon him：</p>
<p>We cannot all be masters， nor all masters</p>
<p>Cannot be truly follow’d． You shall mark</p>
<p>Many a duteous and knee－crooking knave，</p>
<p>That，doting on his own obsequious bondage,</p>
<p>Wears out his time， much like his master’s ass,</p>
<p>Fornoughtbutprovender， andwhenhe’sold，cashier’d：</p>
<p>Whip me suchhonest knaves．Others there are</p>
<p>Who， trimm’d in forms and visage of duty，</p>
<p>Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves，</p>
<p>And，throwing butshowsof service on their lords，</p>
<p>Do well thriveby them and when they have lined their coats</p>
<p>Dothemselveshomage：these fellows have some soul；</p>
<p>And such a one doI profess myself For， sir，</p>
<p>It is as sure as you are Roderigo，</p>
<p>Were I the Moox，I would not be Iago：</p>
<p>In following him，I follow but myself；</p>
<p>Heaven is my judge， notI for love and duty，</p>
<p>But seeming so，for my peculiar end:</p>
<p>For when my outward action doth demonstrate</p>
<p>The native act and figure ofmy heart</p>
<p>In compliment extern，’tisnot long after</p>
<p>ButI will wear myheart upon my sleeve</p>
<p>For daws to peck at：Iam not whatI am．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>What a full fortune does the thicklips owe</p>
<p>If he can carry’t thus！</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Call up her father，</p>
<p>Rouse him：make after him，poison his delight，</p>
<p>Proclaim him in the streets； incense her kinsmen，</p>
<p>And，though he in a fertile climate dwell，</p>
<p>Plague him with flies： though that his joy be joy，</p>
<p>Yet throw such change so fvexationon’t，</p>
<p>As itmay lose some colour.</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Here is her father’s house； I’llcall aloud．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Do， with like timorous accent and dire yell</p>
<p>As when， by night and negligence， the fire</p>
<p>Is spied in populous cities．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>What，ho，Brabantio!Signior Brabantio，ho！</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Awake！what，ho，Brabantio！thieves！thieves！tjoeves!</p>
<p>Look toyour house， your daughter and your bags！</p>
<p>Thieves！ thieves！</p>
<p>［BRABANTIO appears above,at a window］</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>What is the reason of this terrible summons？</p>
<p>What is the matter there？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Signior，is all your family within？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Are your doors lock’d？</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Why， whereforeask you this？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>‘Zounds，sir， you’re robb’d； forshame，puton</p>
<p>your gown；</p>
<p>Your heart is burst， you have lost half your soul；</p>
<p>Even now， now， very now， an old black ram</p>
<p>Is toppingyour white ewe．Arise，arise；</p>
<p>Awake the snorting citizenswith thebell，</p>
<p>Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you：</p>
<p>Arise， Isay．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>What，have you lost your wits？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Most reverendsignior，do you know my voice？</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>What are you？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>My name isRoderigo.</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>The worser Welcome：</p>
<p>I have charged theenot tohauntabout my doors：</p>
<p>In honest plainnessthou hast heard mesay</p>
<p>My daughter isnot forthee；and now，inmadness，</p>
<p>Being fullof supper and distemperingdraughts，</p>
<p>Upon malicious bravery， dost thou come</p>
<p>To start my quiet．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Sir, sir, sir，——</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>But thou must needsbesure</p>
<p>My spirit and my place have in them power</p>
<p>To make this bitter to thee．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Patience， good sir．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>What tell’st thou me of robbing？ This is Venice；</p>
<p>My house is not a grange．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Most graveBrabantio，</p>
<p>In simple and pure soul I come to you．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>‘Zounds， sir， you are one of those that will</p>
<p>not serve God， if the devil bid you．Because we come to</p>
<p>do you service and you think we are ruffians， you’ll</p>
<p>have your daughter covered with a Barbaty horse;</p>
<p>you’ll have your nephews neigh to you；you’ll have</p>
<p>coursersfor cousinsand gennetsforgermanstimorous.</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>What profane wretch art thou？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Iam one， sir， that comes to tell you your daughter</p>
<p>and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Thou art a villain．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>You are——a senator．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>This thou shaltanswer；I know thee， Roderigo</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Sir，I will answer any thing． But， Ibeseech you，</p>
<p>If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent，</p>
<p>As partly I find it is， that your fair daughter，</p>
<p>At this odd-even and dull watcho’ the night，</p>
<p>Transported,with now or senor better guard</p>
<p>But with aknave of common hire， a gondolier，</p>
<p>To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor——</p>
<p>If this be known to you and your allowance，</p>
<p>We thenhave doneyou bolk and saucy wrongs；</p>
<p>But if you know not this， my manners tell me</p>
<p>We have your wrong rebuke Do not believe</p>
<p>That， from the sense of all civility，</p>
<p>I thus would play and trifle with your reverence：</p>
<p>Your daughter， if you have not given her leave，</p>
<p>I say again， hathmade a gross revolt；</p>
<p>Tying her duty， beauty， wit and fortunes</p>
<p>In an extravagant and wheeling stranger</p>
<p>Of here and every where．Straight satisfy yourself：</p>
<p>If she be in her chamber or your house，</p>
<p>Let looseon me the justice of the state</p>
<p>For thus deludingyou</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Strike on the tinder， ho！</p>
<p>Give me a taper！ cal up all my people！</p>
<p>This accident is not unlike my dream：</p>
<p>Belief of it oppresses me already</p>
<p>Light， Isay！ light！</p>
<p>［Exit above］</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Farewell； forI must leave you：</p>
<p>It seems not meet，nor wholesome to my place，</p>
<p>To be produced——as， ifI stay，I shall——</p>
<p>Against the Moor：for，Ido know，the state，</p>
<p>Howeverthismaygall him withsomecheque，</p>
<p>Cannot with safety cast him， for he’s embark’d</p>
<p>With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars，</p>
<p>Which even now stand in act，that，for their souls，</p>
<p>Another of his fathom they have none，</p>
<p>Toleadtheirbusiness：inwhichregard，</p>
<p>ThoughI do hate him asI do hell－pains．</p>
<p>Yet， for necessity of prasent life，</p>
<p>I must show out a flag and sign of love，</p>
<p>Which isindeed but sign． That you shall surely find him，</p>
<p>Lead to the Sagittary the raised search；</p>
<p>And there will Ibe with him．So，farewell．</p>
<p>〔Exit〕</p>
<p>［Enter，below， BRABANTIO， and Servants with torches．］</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>It is too true an evil：gone she is；</p>
<p>And what’s to come ofmy despised time</p>
<p>Is nought but bitterness． Now， Roderigo，</p>
<p>Where didst thou see her？ O unhappy girl！</p>
<p>With the Moor， say’st thou？ Who would be a father！</p>
<p>How didstthouknow’twasshe？Oshedeceives me</p>
<p>Pastthought！What saidshetoyou？Get more tapers：</p>
<p>Raise all my kindred Are they married，think you？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Truly， Ithink tney are．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>O heaven！ How gotshe out？ O treasonof the blood！</p>
<p>Fathers， from hence trust not your daughters’ minds</p>
<p>By what you see them act． Is there not charms</p>
<p>By which the property of youth and maidhood</p>
<p>May be abused？ Have you not read， Roderigo，</p>
<p>Of some such thing？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Yes， sir， Ihave indeed</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Call up my brother． O， would you had had her！</p>
<p>Some one way，some another.Do you know</p>
<p>Where we may apprehend her and theMoor？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I think Ican discoverhim，ifyou please，</p>
<p>Togetgood guard and go alongwith me．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Pray you， lead on． At every houseI’ll call；</p>
<p>I may commandatmost．Getweapons，ho!</p>
<p>And raise sime special officers of night.</p>
<p>On， good Roderigo： I’ll deserve your pains．</p>
<p>［Exeunt］</p>