<p>［A council－chamber. The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table；Officers attending］</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>There is no composition in these news</p>
<p>That gives them credit．</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>Indeed， they are disproportion’d；</p>
<p>My letterssay a hundred andsevengalleys．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>And mine，a hundred and forty</p>
<p>Second Senator</p>
<p>And mine，two hundred：</p>
<p>Butthoughtheyjump noton a just account，——</p>
<p>Asinthese，wheretheaimreports，</p>
<p>‘Tis oft withdifference——yet do they all confirm</p>
<p>A Turkish fleet， and bearing up to Cyprus．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Nay， itispossibleenough to judgment:</p>
<p>I do not so secureme in theerror，</p>
<p>But themain article Ido approve</p>
<p>In fearful sense．</p>
<p>Sailor［Within］</p>
<p>What， ho！ what， ho！ what， ho!</p>
<p>First Officer</p>
<p>Amessenger from the galleys．</p>
<p>［Enter a Sailor］</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Now， what’s the business？</p>
<p>Sailor</p>
<p>The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes；</p>
<p>So wasI bid report here to the state</p>
<p>By Signior Angelo．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>How say you by this change？</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>This cannot be，</p>
<p>By no assay of reason：’tis a pageant，</p>
<p>To keepus in false gaze．When we consider</p>
<p>The importaney of Cyprus to the Turk，</p>
<p>And let ourselves again but understand，</p>
<p>That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes，</p>
<p>So may he with more facile question bear it，</p>
<p>For that it stands not insuch warlike brace，</p>
<p>But altogether lacks the abilities</p>
<p>That Rhodes is dress’d in：if we make thought of this，</p>
<p>We mustnot think the Turk is so unskilful</p>
<p>To leave that latest which concerns him first，</p>
<p>Neglecting an attempt ofeaseand gain，</p>
<p>To wake and wage a danger profitless．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Nay，in all confidence，he’s not for Rhodes．</p>
<p>First Officer</p>
<p>Here is more news．</p>
<p>［Enter a Messenger］</p>
<p>Messenger</p>
<p>The Ottomites， reverend and gracious，</p>
<p>Steering with due course towards the isleof Rhodes，</p>
<p>Have there injointedthem with an after fleel．</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>Ay，so Ithought． How many， as you guess?</p>
<p>Messenger</p>
<p>Of thirty sail： and now they do restem</p>
<p>Their backward course， bearing with frankappearance</p>
<p>Their purposes toward Cyprus． Signior Montano，</p>
<p>Your trustyandmostvaliantservitor，</p>
<p>With his free dutyrecommendsyou thus，</p>
<p>And prays youto believehim．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>‘Tis certain， then， for Cyprus．</p>
<p>Marcus Luccicos， is not he in town？</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>He’s now inFlorence．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Write from us to him； post-post-haste dispatch.</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor．</p>
<p>［Enter BRABANTIO， OTHELLO， IAGO， RODERIGO， andOfficers］</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Valiant Othello，we must straight employ you</p>
<p>Against the general enemy Ottoman．</p>
<p>［To BRABANTIO］</p>
<p>I did not see you； welcome， gentle signior；</p>
<p>We lack’d your counsel and yourhelp tonight</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>So didI yours． Good your grace，pardon me；</p>
<p>Neither my place nor aughtI heard of business</p>
<p>Hath raised mefrommybed， nordoth the general care</p>
<p>Take hold on me， for my particular grief</p>
<p>Is of so flood－gate and o’erbearing nature</p>
<p>That it engluts and swallows other sorrows</p>
<p>And it is still itself</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Why， what’s the matter？</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>My daughter！O， mydaughter！</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Senator Dead？</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Ay，tome；</p>
<p>She is abused， stol’n from me， and corrupted</p>
<p>By spellsand medicines bought of mountebanks；</p>
<p>For nature so preposterouslyto err，</p>
<p>Being not deficient， blind， or lame of sense，</p>
<p>Sanswitchcraftcouldnot．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Whoe’er he be that inthis foul proceeding</p>
<p>Haththus beguiledyour daughter of herself</p>
<p>And you of her， the bloodybook of law</p>
<p>You shall yourself read in the bitter letter</p>
<p>After your own sense， yea， though our proper son</p>
<p>Stood in your action</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>HumblyI thank your grace</p>
<p>Here is the man， this Moor， whom now， it seems，</p>
<p>Your special mandatefor the state－affairs</p>
<p>Hath hitherbrought</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Senator We are very sorry for’t.</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>［To OTHELLO］ What， in yourownpart， can yousay tothis？</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Nothing， butthis is so.</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Most potent，grave， and reverend signiors，</p>
<p>My verynobleand approved good masters，</p>
<p>That I haveta’enawaythisoldman’sdaughter，</p>
<p>It is most true； true， Ihave married her：</p>
<p>The very head and front of my offending</p>
<p>Hath this extent，no more Rude amI in my speech，</p>
<p>And little bless’d with thesoft phrase of peace：</p>
<p>For since these armsofmine had sevenyears’pith，</p>
<p>Till now some nine moons wasted，they have used</p>
<p>Their dearest action in the tented field，</p>
<p>And little of this great world canI speak，</p>
<p>More than pertains to feats of broil and battle，</p>
<p>And therefore little shallIgrace my cause</p>
<p>In speaking for myself.Yet，byyour gracious patience，</p>
<p>I willaroundunvarnish’dtaledeliver</p>
<p>Of my whole course of love； what drugs， what charms，</p>
<p>What conjuration and what mightymagic，</p>
<p>For such proceedingIam charged withal， Iwonhis daughter.</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Amaiden never bold；</p>
<p>Of spirit so still and quiet， that her motion</p>
<p>Blush’d at herself；and she， in spite of nature，</p>
<p>Of years， of country， credit， every thing，</p>
<p>To fallinlove with what she fear’d to look on！</p>
<p>It is a judgment maim’d andmostimperfect</p>
<p>That will confess perfection so could err</p>
<p>Against all rules of nature，and must be driven</p>
<p>To find outpractisesofcunninghell，</p>
<p>Why this should be． Itherefore vouch again</p>
<p>That withsomemixturespowerful o’erthe blood，</p>
<p>Or with some dram conjured to this effect，</p>
<p>He wrought upon her．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Tov ouchthis，isnoproof，</p>
<p>Without more wider and more overttest</p>
<p>Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods，</p>
<p>Of modern seemingdo prefer against him．</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>But，Othello，speak：</p>
<p>Did you by indirect and forced courses</p>
<p>Subdue and poison this young maid’s affections？</p>
<p>Or came it by requestand suchfairquestion</p>
<p>As soul tosoulaffordeth？</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>I do beseeh you，</p>
<p>Send for the lady to the Sagittary，</p>
<p>And let her speak of me before her father：</p>
<p>If you do find me foul in her report，</p>
<p>The trust，theofficeIdohold of you，</p>
<p>Not only take away， but let your sentence</p>
<p>Even fall uponmy life．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Fetch Desdemona hither．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Ancient，conduct them：you best know the place．</p>
<p>［Exeunt IAGO and Attendants］</p>
<p>And， till she come， as truly as to heaven</p>
<p>I do confessthe vices of my blood，</p>
<p>So justly to your grave earsI’ll present</p>
<p>How I did thrivein this fair lady’s love，</p>
<p>And she in mine.</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Say it， Othello．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Her father loved me；oftinvited me；</p>
<p>Still question’d me the story of my life，</p>
<p>From yearto year， the battles， sieges， fortunes，</p>
<p>ThatI have passed．</p>
<p>I ran itthrough，evenfrommyboyishdays，</p>
<p>To thevery moment that he bademd tell it；</p>
<p>WhereinI spake of most disastrous chances，</p>
<p>Of moving accidents by flood and field</p>
<p>Of hair-breadth scapesi’ the imminent deadly breach，</p>
<p>Of being taken by the insolent foe</p>
<p>And sold to slavery， of my redemption thence</p>
<p>And portancein my travels’ history：</p>
<p>Wherein of antresvastand desertsidle，</p>
<p>Rough quarries，rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven</p>
<p>It was my hint to speak，——such was the process；</p>
<p>And of the Cannibalsthat each other eat，</p>
<p>The Anthropophagiand men whose heads</p>
<p>Do grow beneath their shoulders．This to hear</p>
<p>Would Desdemona seriously incline：</p>
<p>But still the house-affairs would draw her thence：</p>
<p>Which ever as she could with hastedispatch，</p>
<p>She’ld come again，and with a greedy ear</p>
<p>Devourup my discourse：which I observing，</p>
<p>Took once a plianthour，and found good means</p>
<p>To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart</p>
<p>That I would all my pilgrimagedilate，</p>
<p>Whereof by parcelsshe had something heard，</p>
<p>But not intentively：I did consent，</p>
<p>And often did beguile her of her tears，</p>
<p>When I did speak of some distressfulstroke．</p>
<p>That my youth suffer’d My story being done，</p>
<p>She gave me for my pains a world of sighs：</p>
<p>She swore，in faith，twas strange，’twas passing strange，</p>
<p>‘Twas pitiful，’twas wondrouspitiful：</p>
<p>She wish’d she had not heard it，yet she wish’d</p>
<p>That heaven had made her such a man：she thank’d me，</p>
<p>And bade me，if I had a friend that loved her，</p>
<p>I should but teach him how to tell my story．</p>
<p>And that would wooher．Upon this hintI spake：</p>
<p>She loved me for the dangers I had pass’d，</p>
<p>And I loved her that she did pity them．</p>
<p>This only is the witchcraft I have used：</p>
<p>Here comes the lady；let her witness it．</p>
<p>［Enter DESDEMONA，IAGO，and Attendants］</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>I think this tale would win my daughter too．</p>
<p>Good Brabantio，</p>
<p>Take up this mangledmatter at the best：</p>
<p>Men do their broken weapons rather use．</p>
<p>Than their bare hands．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>I pray you，hear her speak：</p>
<p>If she confessthat she was half the wooer，</p>
<p>Destruction on my head，if my bad blame</p>
<p>Light on the man！Come hither，gentle mistress：</p>
<p>Do you perceivein all this noble company</p>
<p>Where most you owe obedience？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>My noble father，</p>
<p>I do perceive here a divided duty：</p>
<p>To you I am bound for life and education；</p>
<p>My life and education both do learn me</p>
<p>How to respect you；you are the lord of duty；</p>
<p>I am hithertoyour daughter：but here’s my husband，</p>
<p>And so much duty as my mother show’d</p>
<p>To you，preferring you before her father，</p>
<p>So much I challenge that I may profess</p>
<p>Due to the Moor my lord．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>God be wi’you！I have done．</p>
<p>Please it your grace，on to the state-affairs：</p>
<p>I had rather to adopta child than get it．</p>
<p>Come hither，Moor：</p>
<p>I here do give thee that with all my heart</p>
<p>Which，but thou hast already，with all my heart</p>
<p>I would keep from thee．For your sake，jewel，</p>
<p>I am glad at soul I have no other child：</p>
<p>For thy escape would teach me tyranny，</p>
<p>To hang clogson them．I have done，my lord．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Let me speak like yourself，and lay a sentence，</p>
<p>Which，as a grise or step，may help there lovers</p>
<p>Into your favour．</p>
<p>When remediesare past，the griefsare ended</p>
<p>By seeing the worst，which late on hopes depended．</p>
<p>To mourna mischiefthat is past and gone</p>
<p>Is the next way to draw new mischief on．</p>
<p>What cannot be preservedwhen fortune takesPatience her</p>
<p>injury a mockerymakes．</p>
<p>The robb’d that smiles steals something from the thief；</p>
<p>He robs himself that spends a bootlessgrief．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile；</p>
<p>We lose it not，so long as we can smile．</p>
<p>He bears the sentence well that nothing bears</p>
<p>But the free comfort which from thence he hears，</p>
<p>But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow</p>
<p>That，to pay grief，must of poor patience borrow．</p>
<p>These sentences，to sugar，or to gall，</p>
<p>Being strong on both sides，are equivocal：</p>
<p>But words are words；I never yet did hear</p>
<p>That the bruisedheart was piercedthrough the ear．</p>
<p>I humbly beseech you，proceed to the affairs of state．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for</p>
<p>Cyprus．Othello，the fortitudeof the place is best</p>
<p>known to you；and though we have there a subtitute</p>
<p>of most allowed sufficiency，yet opinion，a</p>
<p>sovereignmistress of effects，throws a more safer</p>
<p>voice on you：you must therefor be content to-</p>
<p>slubberthe glossof your new fortunes with this</p>
<p>more stubbornand boisterousexpedition．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>The tyrantcustom，most grave senators，</p>
<p>Hath made the flinty and steel couchof war</p>
<p>My thrice-driven bed of down：I do agnise</p>
<p>A natural and promptalacrity</p>
<p>I find in hardness，and do undertake</p>
<p>These present wars against the Ottomites．</p>
<p>Most humbly therefore bending to your state，</p>
<p>I cravefit dispositionfor my wife．</p>
<p>Due reference of place and exhibition，</p>
<p>With such accommodationand besort</p>
<p>As levels with her breeding．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>If you please ，Be’t at her father’s．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>I’ll not have it so．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Nor I．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Nor I；I would not there reside，</p>
<p>To put my father in impatient thoughts</p>
<p>By being in his eye．Most gracious duke，</p>
<p>To my unfoldinglend your prosperousear；</p>
<p>And let me find a charterin your voice，</p>
<p>To assist my simpleness．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>What would You，Desdemona？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>That I did love the Moor to live with him，</p>
<p>My downrightviolence and storm of fortunes</p>
<p>May trumpetto the world：my heart’s subdued</p>
<p>Even to the very quality of my lord：</p>
<p>I saw Othello’s visagein his mind，</p>
<p>And to his honour and his valiant parts</p>
<p>Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate．</p>
<p>So that，dear lords，if I be left behind，</p>
<p>A mothof peace，and he go to the war，</p>
<p>The ritesfor which I love him are bereftme，</p>
<p>And I a heavy interimshall support</p>
<p>By his dear absence．Let me go with him．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Let her have your voices．</p>
<p>Vouch with me，heaven，I therefore beg it not，</p>
<p>To please the palateof my appetite，</p>
<p>Nor to complywith heat——the young affects</p>
<p>In me defunct ——and proper satisfaction．</p>
<p>But to be free and bounteousto her mind：</p>
<p>And heaven defend your good souls，that you think</p>
<p>I will your serious and great business scant</p>
<p>For she is with me：no，when light-wing’d toys</p>
<p>Of feather’d Cupid seal with wanton dullness</p>
<p>My speculative and officed instruments，</p>
<p>That my disportscorrupt and taintmy business，</p>
<p>Let housewives make a skilletof my helm，</p>
<p>And all indignand base adversities</p>
<p>Make head against my estimation！</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Be it as you shall privatelydetermine，</p>
<p>Either for her stay or going：the affair cries haste，</p>
<p>And speed must answer it ．</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>You must away to-night．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>With all my heart．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>At nine i’the morning here we’ll meet again．</p>
<p>Othello，leave some officer behind，</p>
<p>And he shall our commissionbring to you；</p>
<p>With such things else of quality and respect</p>
<p>As doth import you．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>So please your grace，my ancient；</p>
<p>A man he is of honest and trust：</p>
<p>To his conveyance I assign my wife，</p>
<p>With what else needful your good grace shall think</p>
<p>To be sent after me．</p>
<p>DUKE OF VENICE</p>
<p>Let it be so．</p>
<p>Good night to every one．</p>
<p>［To BRABANTIO］</p>
<p>And，noble signior，</p>
<p>If virtue no delighted beauty lack，</p>
<p>Your son-in-law is far more fair than black．</p>
<p>First Senator</p>
<p>Adieu，brave Moor，use Desdemona well．</p>
<p>BRABANTIO</p>
<p>Look to her，Moor，if thou hast eyes to see：</p>
<p>She has deceived her father，and may thee．</p>
<p>［Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE，Senators，Officers，＆c］</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>My life upon her faith！Honest Iago，</p>
<p>My Desdemona must I leave to thee：</p>
<p>I prithee，let thy wife attendon her：</p>
<p>And bring them after in the best advantage．</p>
<p>Come，Desdemona：I have but an hour</p>
<p>Of love，of worldly mattersand direction，</p>
<p>To spend with thee：we must obey the time．</p>
<p>［Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA］</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Iago，——</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>What say’st thou，noble heart？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>What will I do，thinkest thou？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Why，go to bed，and sleep．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I will incontinentlydrownmyself．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>If thou dost，I shall never love thee after．Why，</p>
<p>thou silly gentleman！</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>It is silliness to live when to live is torment；and</p>
<p>then have we a prescriptionto die when death is our</p>
<p>physician．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>O villainous！I have looked upon the world for four</p>
<p>times seven years；and since I could distinguish</p>
<p>betwixt a benefit and an injury，I never found man</p>
<p>that knew how to love himself．Ere I would say，I</p>
<p>would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen，I</p>
<p>would change my humanity with a baboon．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>What should I do？I confess it is my shame to be so</p>
<p>fond；but it is not in my virtueto amendit．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Virtue！a fig！’tis in ourselves that we are thus or</p>
<p>thus．Our bodies are our gardens，to the which</p>
<p>our wills are gardeners：so that if we will plant</p>
<p>nettles，or sow lettuce，set hyssopand weed up</p>
<p>thyme，supply it with one genderof herbs，or</p>
<p>distract it with many，either to have it sterile</p>
<p>with idleness，or manured with industry，why，the</p>
<p>power and corrigibleauthority of this lies in our</p>
<p>wills．If the balance of our lives had not one</p>
<p>scale of reason to poise another of sensuality，the blood</p>
<p>and baseness of our natures would conduct us</p>
<p>to most presposterous conclusions：but we have</p>
<p>reason to cool our raging motions，our carnal</p>
<p>stings，our unbitted lusts，whereof I take this that</p>
<p>you call love to be a sect or scion．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>It cannot be．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>It is merely a lustof the blood and a permission of</p>
<p>the will．Come，be a man Drown thyself！drown</p>
<p>cats and blind puppies．I have professed me thy</p>
<p>friend and I confess me knitto thy deserving with</p>
<p>cablesof perdurable toughness；I could never</p>
<p>better steadthee than now．Put money in thy</p>
<p>purse；follow thou the wars；defeat thy favour with</p>
<p>an usurpedbeard；I say，put money in thy purse．It</p>
<p>cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her</p>
<p>love to the Moor，—put money in thy purse，—nor he</p>
<p>his to her：it was a violent commencement，and thou</p>
<p>shalt see an answerable sequestration：—put but</p>
<p>money in thy purse．These Moors are changeable in</p>
<p>their wills：fill thy purse with money：——the food</p>
<p>that to him now is as lusciousas locusts，shall be</p>
<p>to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida．She must</p>
<p>change for youth：when she is satedwith his body，</p>
<p>she will find the error of her choice：she must</p>
<p>have change，she must：therefore put money in thy</p>
<p>purse．If thou wilt needs damnthyself，do it a</p>
<p>more delicatéway than drowning．Make all the money</p>
<p>thou canst：if sanctimony and a frail vow betwixt</p>
<p>an erring barbarian and a supersubtle Venetian not</p>
<p>too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell，thou</p>
<p>shalt enjoy her；therefore make money．A poxof</p>
<p>drowning thyself！it is clean out of the way ：seek</p>
<p>thou rather to be hanged in compassingthy joy thanto</p>
<p>be drowned and go without her．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Wilt thou be fast to my hopes，if I depend on</p>
<p>the issue？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Thou art sure of me：——go，make money：——I have told</p>
<p>thee often，and I re-tell thee again and again，I</p>
<p>hate the Moor：my cause is hearted；thine hath no</p>
<p>less reason．Let us be conjunctivein our revenge</p>
<p>against him：if thou canst cuckoldhim，thou dost</p>
<p>thyself a pleasure，me a sport．</p>
<p>There are many events in the wombof time which will be</p>
<p>delivered．</p>
<p>Traverse！go，provide thy money．We will have moreof</p>
<p>this to-morrow．Adieu．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Where shall we meet i’the morning？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>At my lodging．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I’ll be with thee betimes．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Go to；farewell．Do you hear，Roderigo？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>What say you？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>No more of drowning，do you hear？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I am changed：I’ll go sell all my land</p>
<p>〔Exit．〕</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Thus do I ever make my fool my purse：</p>
<p>For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane，</p>
<p>If I would time expend with such a snipe．</p>
<p>But for my sport and profit．I hate the Moor：</p>
<p>And it is thought abroad，that’twixt my sheets</p>
<p>He has done my office：I know not if’t be true；</p>
<p>But I，for mere suspicion in that kind，</p>
<p>Will do as if for surety．He holds me well；</p>
<p>The better shall my purpose work on him．</p>
<p>Cassio’s a proper man：let me see now：</p>
<p>To get his place and to plumeup my will</p>
<p>In double knavery——How，how？Let’s see：——</p>
<p>After some time，to abuse Othello’s ear</p>
<p>That he is too familiarwith his wife．</p>
<p>He hath a person and a smooth dispose</p>
<p>To be suspected，framedto make women false．</p>
<p>The Moor is of a free and open nature，</p>
<p>That thinks men honest that but seem to be so，</p>
<p>And will as tenderly be led by the nose</p>
<p>As asses are．</p>
<p>I have’t．It is engender’d．Hell and night</p>
<p>Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light．</p>
<p>［Exit］</p>