[5697] _and_] om. Qq.
[5698] _not_] _not so_ Q₁ Q₂.
[5699] _them_] Ff. _em_ Qq.
[5700] _fool_] _foule_ Q₃.
_O strange!_] om. Qq.
[5701] _inordinate_] _unordinate_ Q₁.
_ingredient_] Ff. _ingredience_ Qq.
[5702] _familiar_] _famillar_ F₁.
[5703] _some time_] Qq. _a time_ Ff. _one time_ Grant White conj.
[5704] _man_] om. Q₁.
_I'll_] _I'le_ Q₁. _Ile_ Q₂ Q₃. _I_ Ff.
[5705] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.
[5706] _mark_] Q₃. _marke._ Q₁ Q₂. _marke:_ Ff (_mark:_ F₄).
_denotement_] Theobald. _deuotement_ Q₁ F₁ Q₂. _devotement_ F₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄.
[5707] _her help_] _her, shee'll helpe to_ Qq.
[5708] _of so free_] _so free_ Qq.
[5709] _she_] Ff. _that she_ Qq.
[5710] _broken joint_] _braule_ Q₁.
[5711] _stronger_] _stonger_ F₁ F₂.
_it was_] Ff. _twas_ Q₁. _t'was_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5712] _honest_] om. Q₃.
[5713] _I will_] Ff. _will I_ Qq.
[5714] _here_] om. Ff.
[5715] _You ... watch._] Prose in Ff. Two lines, the first ending
_right,_ in Qq.
[5716] [Exit.] Qq. Exit Cassio. Ff.
[5717] SCENE XIV. Pope. SCENE XV. Hanmer.
_And ... villain?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5718] _Probal_] _Probable_ Rowe. _Likely_ Pope.
[5719] _To win ... easy_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5720] _subdue ... suit. She's_] Pointed as in Ff. _subdue, In ...
suite, she's_ Q₁. _subdue, In ... suite she's_ Q₂ Q₃. _subdue; In ...
suit she's_ Q (1695).
[5721] _were't_] Q₃. _wer't_ Q₁ Q₂. _were_ Ff.
[5722] _How am_] _Am_ Pope.
[5723] _course, Directly_] _course Directly_ S. Walker conj.
[5724] _Divinity of hell!_] _'Tis hell's divinity:_ Pope.
_hell!_] _hell,_ Qq Ff.
[5725] _the_] F₁ F₂ F₃. _their_ Qq F₄.
[5726] _whiles_] Ff. _while_ Q₁. _whilst_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5727] _fortunes_] Qq. _fortune_ Ff.
[5728] _for_] _from_ Johnson.
[5729] _That ... Roderigo!_] One line in Pope. Two in Qq. Ff.
_enmesh_] Q₁ Q₂. _en-mash_ F₁ F₂. _enmash_ F₃ F₄. _enemesh_ Q₃.
_them_] _em_ Q₁.
Enter....] Qq. Enter Rodorigo. Ff (after _Roderigo!_).
[5730] SCENE XV. Pope. SCENE XVI. Hanmer.
_do_] om. Pope.
[5731] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.
[5732] _and_] om. Qq.
[5733] _pains ... Venice._] _paines, as that comes to, and no money at
all, and with that wit returne to Venice._ Q₁. _paines, and no mony at
all, and a little more wit returne to Venice._ Q₂ Q₃ (_and with a_ Q₃).
[5734] _know'st_] Ff. _knowest_ Qq.
[5735] _Does't_] _Do'st_ Q₁. _Dos't_ F₁ Q₂ F₂ Q₃. _Dost_ F₃ F₄.
_hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.
[5736] _hast_] _hath_ F₁ Q (1695).
[5737] _grow_] _grew_ Q₃.
[5738] _Yet_] _But_ Q₁.
_will ... ripe_] _will fire be ripe_ Q₃. _are not first ripe_ Hanmer.
[5739] _By the mass_] _Introth_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _In troth_ F₄.
[5740] _hours_] _time_ Jennens.
[5741] _Nay ... done:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[Exit Rod.] Exit Rodorigo. Ff. om. Qq.
_Two_] Ff. _Some_ Qq.
[5742] _I'll ... on;_] om. Seymour conj.
[5743] _I'll ... apart,_] Divided as in Qq. One line in Ff.
[5744] _on;_] _on:--_ Theobald. _on._ Qq. _on_ Ff.
[5745] _on ... draw_] _on to draw_ Pope. _on; so draw_ Theobald.
[5746] _the while_] Theobald. _awhile_ Q₁. _a while_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.
_to draw_] _will draw_ Johnson.
[5747] _when_] _where_ Collier MS.
[5748] _device_] Ff. _devise_ Qq.
[Exit.] Ff. Exeunt. Qq.
ACT III.
SCENE I. _Before the castle._
_Enter_ CASSIO _and some_ Musicians.[5749]
_Cas._ Masters, play here; I will content your pains;[5750]
Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.' [_Music._
_Enter_ Clown.[5751]
_Clo._ Why, masters, have your instruments been in[5752]
Naples, that they speak i' the nose thus?[5753]
_First Mus._ How, sir, how![5754] 5
_Clo._ Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?[5755]
_First Mus._ Ay, marry, are they, sir.[5754]
_Clo._ O, thereby hangs a tail.[5756]
_First Mus._ Whereby hangs a tale, sir?[5757]
_Clo._ Marry, sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know. 10
But, masters, here's money for you: and the general so[5758]
likes your music, that he desires you, for love's sake, to[5759]
make no more noise with it.[5760]
_First Mus._ Well, sir, we will not.
_Clo._ If you have any music that may not be heard, 15
to 't again: but, as they say, to hear music the general
does not greatly care.
_First Mus._ We have none such, sir.[5761]
_Clo._ Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:[5762]
go; vanish into air; away! [_Exeunt Musicians._[5763] 20
_Cas._ Dost thou hear, my honest friend?[5764]
_Clo._ No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.[5765]
_Cas._ Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor
piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends the
general's wife be stirring, tell her there's one Cassio entreats[5766] 25
her a little favour of speech: wilt thou do this?[5767]
_Clo._ She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I shall
seem to notify unto her.[5768]
_Cas._ Do, good my friend. [_Exit Clown._[5769]
_Enter_ Iago.[5770]
In happy time, Iago.
_Iago._ You have not been a-bed, then?[5771][5772] 30
_Cas._ Why, no; the day had broke[5773]
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,[5772][5773][5774]
To send in to your wife: my suit to her[5773][5775]
Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona[5773][5776]
Procure me some access.
_Iago._ I'll send her to you presently;[5777] 35
And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor
Out of the way, that your converse and business
May be more free.
_Cas._ I humbly thank you for't. [_Exit Iago._] I never
knew[5778][5779]
A Florentine more kind and honest.[5779][5780] 40
_Enter_ EMILIA.
_Emil._ Good morrow, good lieutenant: I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.[5781]
The general and his wife are talking of it,
And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,
That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus 45
And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom[5782]
He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you,[5783]
And needs no other suitor but his likings[5784]
To take the safest occasion by the front[5785]
To bring you in again.
_Cas._ Yet, I beseech you, 50
If you think fit, or that it may be done,
Give me advantage of some brief discourse
With Desdemona alone.
_Emil._ Pray you, come in:[5786]
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
_Cas._ I am much bound to you. [_Exeunt._[5787] 55
SCENE II. _A room in the castle._[5788]
_Enter_ OTHELLO, IAGO, _and_ Gentlemen.
_Oth._ These letters give, Iago, to the pilot;
And by him do my duties to the senate:[5789]
That done, I will be walking on the works;[5790]
Repair there to me.
_Iago._ Well, my good lord, I'll do't.[5791]
_Oth._ This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see't? 5
_Gent._ We'll wait upon your lordship. [_Exeunt._[5792]
SCENE III. _The garden of the castle._[5793]
_Enter_ DESDEMONA, CASSIO, _and_ EMILIA.
_Des._ Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
All my abilities in thy behalf.
_Emil._ Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband[5794]
As if the case were his.[5795]
_Des._ O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,[5796] 5
But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were.
_Cas._ Bounteous madam,[5797]
Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
He's never any thing but your true servant.
_Des._ I know't: I thank you. You do love my lord:[5798] 10
You have known him long; and be you well assured[5799]
He shall in strangeness stand no farther off[5800]
Than in a politic distance.
_Cas._ Ay, but, lady,
That policy may either last so long,[5801]
Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet, 15
Or breed itself so out of circumstance,[5802]
That, I being absent and my place supplied,
My general will forget my love and service.[5803]
_Des._ Do not doubt that; before Emilia here
I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,[5804] 20
If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
To the last article: my lord shall never rest;[5805]
I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
I'll intermingle every thing he does 25
With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;
For thy solicitor shall rather die
Than give thy cause away.[5806]
_Enter_ OTHELLO _and_ IAGO, _at a distance_.[5807]
_Emil._ Madam, here comes my lord.
_Cas._ Madam, I'll take my leave. 30
_Des._ Nay, stay and hear me speak.[5808]
_Cas._ Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,[5809]
Unfit for mine own purposes.[5810]
_Des._ Well, do your discretion. [_Exit Cassio._[5811]
_Iago._ Ha! I like not that. 35
_Oth._ What dost thou say?
_Iago._ Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.[5812]
_Oth._ Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
_Iago._ Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,[5813]
That he would steal away so guilty-like,[5814] 40
Seeing you coming.
_Oth._ I do believe 'twas he.[5815][5816]
_Des._ How now, my lord![5816][5817]
I have been talking with a suitor here,
A man that languishes in your displeasure.
_Oth._ Who is't you mean? 45
_Des._ Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,[5818]
If I have any grace or power to move you,
His present reconciliation take;[5819]
For if he be not one that truly loves you,
That errs in ignorance and not in cunning, 50
I have no judgement in an honest face:
I prithee, call him back.
_Oth._ Went he hence now?[5820]
_Des._ Ay, sooth; so humbled,[5820][5821]
That he hath left part of his grief with me,[5822]
To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.[5823] 55
_Oth._ Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.[5824]
_Des._ But shall't be shortly?
_Oth._ The sooner, sweet, for you.[5825]
_Des._ Shall't be to-night at supper?
_Oth._ No, not to-night.[5826]
_Des._ To-morrow dinner then?
_Oth._ I shall not dine at home;
I meet the captains at the citadel. 60
_Des._ Why then to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;[5827]
On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:[5828]
I prithee, name the time; but let it not[5829]
Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;[5830]
And yet his trespass, in our common reason-- 65
Save that, they say, the wars must make examples[5831]
Out of their best--is not almost a fault[5832]
To incur a private check. When shall he come?
Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
What you would ask me, that I should deny,[5833] 70
Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,[5834]
That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time[5835]
When I have spoke of you dispraisingly
Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do
To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much--[5836] 75
_Oth._ Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;
I will deny thee nothing.
_Des._ Why, this is not a boon;
'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,[5837]
Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,[5838]
Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit[5839] 80
To your own person: nay, when I have a suit[5840]
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
It shall be full of poise and difficult weight,[5841]
And fearful to be granted.
_Oth._ I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this, 85
To leave me but a little to myself.
_Des._ Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.
_Oth._ Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.[5842]
_Des._ Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;[5843]
Whate'er you be, I am obedient. 90
[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._[5844]
_Oth._ Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,[5845]
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
_Iago._ My noble lord,--[5846]
_Oth._ What dost thou say, Iago?
_Iago._ Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,[5847][5848] 95
Know of your love?[5847]
_Oth._ He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?[5849]
_Iago._ But for a satisfaction of my thought;[5850]
No further harm.
_Oth._ Why of thy thought, Iago?
_Iago._ I did not think he had been acquainted with her.[5851] 100
_Oth._ O, yes, and went between us very oft.[5852]
_Iago._ Indeed!
_Oth._ Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?[5853]
Is he not honest?
_Iago._ Honest, my lord! 105
_Oth._ Honest! ay, honest.[5854]
_Iago._ My lord, for aught I know.
_Oth._ What dost thou think?
_Iago._ Think, my lord!
_Oth._ Think, my lord! By heaven, he echoes me,[5855] 110
As if there were some monster in his thought[5856]
Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:[5857]
I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,[5858]
When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
And when I told thee he was of my counsel 115
In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'[5859]
And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,[5860]
Show me thy thought. 120
_Iago._ My lord, you know I love you.
_Oth._ I think thou dost;
And for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty[5861]
And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,[5862]
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:[5863]
For such things in a false disloyal knave 125
Are tricks of custom; but in a man that's just
They're close delations, working from the heart,[5864]
That passion cannot rule.
_Iago._ For Michael Cassio,
I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.[5865]
_Oth._ I think so too.
_Iago._ Men should be what they seem;[5866] 130
Or those that be not, would they might seem none![5867]
_Oth._ Certain, men should be what they seem.[5868]
_Iago._ Why then I think Cassio's an honest man.[5869]
_Oth._ Nay, yet there's more in this:
I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,[5870] 135
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts[5871]
The worst of words.[5872]
_Iago._ Good my lord, pardon me:
Though I am bound to every act of duty,[5873]
I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.[5874]
Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;[5875] 140
As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,[5876]
But some uncleanly apprehensions[5877]
Keep leets and law-days, and in session sit[5878]
With meditations lawful? 145
_Oth._ Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear[5879]
A stranger to thy thoughts.
_Iago._ I do beseech you--[5880]
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,[5880][5881]
As, I confess, it is my nature's plague 150
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy[5882][5883]
Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,[5883][5884]
From one that so imperfectly conceits,[5885]
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble[5886]
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.[5887] 155
It were not for your quiet nor your good,
Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,[5888]
To let you know my thoughts.
_Oth._ What dost thou mean?[5889]
_Iago._ Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,[5890]
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:[5891] 160
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;[5892]
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands;
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him[5893]
And makes me poor indeed. 165
_Oth._ By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.[5894]
_Iago._ You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;
Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
_Oth._ Ha!
_Iago._ O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;[5895]
It is the green-eyed monster, which doth mock[5896][5897] 170
The meat it feeds on: that cuckold lives in bliss[5897][5898]
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;[5899]
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves![5900]
_Oth._ O misery! 175
_Iago._ Poor and content is rich, and rich enough;
But riches fineless is as poor as winter[5901]
To him that ever fears he shall be poor:
Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend[5902]
From jealousy!
_Oth._ Why, why is this?[5903] 180
Think'st thou I'ld make a life of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,[5904]
When I shall turn the business of my soul 185
To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,[5905]
Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous[5906]
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;[5907]
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:[5908] 190
Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;[5909]
I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
And on the proof, there is no more but this, 195
Away at once with love or jealousy![5910]
_Iago._ I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason[5911][5912]
To show the love and duty that I bear you
With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,[5911]
Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.[5913] 200
Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:[5914]
I would not have your free and noble nature
Out of self-bounty be abused; look to't:
I know our country disposition well; 205
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks[5915]
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience[5916]
Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.[5917]
_Oth._ Dost thou say so?[5918]
_Iago._ She did deceive her father, marrying you; 210
And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
She loved them most.
_Oth._ And so she did.
_Iago._ Why, go to then;[5919]
She that so young could give out such a seeming,
To seel her father's eyes up close as oak--[5920]
He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;[5911][5921] 215
I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
For too much loving you.
_Oth._ I am bound to thee for ever.[5911][5922]
_Iago._ I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.
_Oth._ Not a jot, not a jot.
_Iago._ I'faith, I fear it has.[5923]
I hope you will consider what is spoke 220
Comes from my love; but I do see you're moved:[5924]
I am to pray you not to strain my speech
To grosser issues nor to larger reach
Than to suspicion.
_Oth._ I will not.
_Iago._ Should you do so, my lord, 225
My speech should fall into such vile success[5925]
As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--[5926]
My lord, I see you're moved.[5927]
_Oth._ No, not much moved:
I do not think but Desdemona's honest.[5928]
_Iago._ Long live she so! and long live you to think so![5929] 230
_Oth._ And yet, how nature erring from itself--[5930]
_Iago._ Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--[5931]
Not to affect many proposed matches
Of her own clime, complexion and degree,
Whereto we see in all things nature tends--[5932] 235
Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,[5933]
Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural.[5934]
But pardon me: I do not in position[5935]
Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear[5936]
Her will, recoiling to her better judgement, 240
May fall to match you with her country forms,[5937]
And happily repent.
_Oth._ Farewell, farewell:[5938]
If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;
Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago.[5939]
_Iago._ [_Going_] My lord, I take my leave.[5940] 245
_Oth._ Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless[5941]
Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
_Iago._ [_Returning_] My lord, I would I might entreat
your honour[5942][5943]
To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:[5943][5944]
Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,[5945] 250
For sure he fills it up with great ability,
Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,[5946]
You shall by that perceive him and his means:
Note if your lady strain his entertainment[5947]
With any strong or vehement importunity; 255
Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
Let me be thought too busy in my fears--
As worthy cause I have to fear I am--
And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.
_Oth._ Fear not my government. 260
_Iago._ I once more take my leave. [_Exit._[5948]
_Oth._ This fellow's of exceeding honesty,[5949]
And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,[5950][5951]
Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,[5951][5952]
Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, 265
I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind[5953]
To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black[5911][5954]
And have not those soft parts of conversation
That chamberers have, or for I am declined
Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--[5955] 270
She's gone; I am abused, and my relief[5956]
Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,[5957]
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,[5958] 275
Than keep a corner in the thing I love[5959]
For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;[5960]
Prerogatived are they less than the base;[5961]
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:[5962]
Even then this forked plague is fated to us 280
When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:
_Re-enter_ DESDEMONA _and_ EMILIA.[5963]
If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself![5964]
I'll not believe 't.[5965]
_Des._ How now, my dear Othello!
Your dinner, and the generous islanders[5966]
By you invited, do attend your presence. 285
_Oth._ I am to blame.
_Des._ Why do you speak so faintly?[5967][5968]
Are you not well?[5968]
_Oth._ I have a pain upon my forehead here.[5969]
_Des._ Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:[5970]
Let me but bind it hard, within this hour[5971] 290
It will be well.
_Oth._ Your napkin is too little;
[_He puts the handkerchief from him; and she drops it._[5972]
Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.
_Des._ I am very sorry that you are not well.
[_Exeunt Othello and Desdemona._[5973]
_Emil._ I am glad I have found this napkin:[5974]
This was her first remembrance from the Moor: 295
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,[5975]
For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,[5976][5977][5978] 300
And give 't Iago: what he will do with it[5976][5978][5979]
Heaven knows, not I;[5976]
I nothing but to please his fantasy.
_Re-enter_ IAGO.[5980]
_Iago._ How now! what do you here alone?
_Emil._ Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.[5981] 305
_Iago._ A thing for me? it is a common thing--[5981][5982]
_Emil._ Ha!
_Iago._ To have a foolish wife.[5983]
_Emil._ O, is that all? What will you give me now
For that same handkerchief?
_Iago._ What handkerchief?[5984] 310
_Emil._ What handkerchief![5984]
Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;
That which so often you did bid me steal.
_Iago._ Hast stol'n it from her?[5985]
_Emil._ No, faith; she let it drop by negligence,[5986] 315
And, to the advantage, I being here took 't up.[5987]
Look, here it is.[5988]
_Iago._ A good wench; give it me.
_Emil._ What will you do with 't, that you have been so
earnest[5989][5990]
To have me filch it?[5989]
_Iago._ [_Snatching it_] Why, what's that to you?[5991]
_Emil._ If 't be not for some purpose of import,[5992] 320
Give 't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad[5993]
When she shall lack it.
_Iago._ Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.[5994][5995]
Go, leave me. [_Exit Emilia._[5994]
I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,[5996] 325
And let him find it. Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.[5997]
The Moor already changes with my poison:[5998]
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,[5999] 330
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood[6000]
Burn like the mines of sulphur. I did say so:[6001]
Look, where he comes!
_Re-enter_ OTHELLO.[6002]
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,[6003] 335
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
_Oth._ Ha! ha! false to me?[6004]
_Iago._ Why, how now, general! no more of that.
_Oth._ Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:[6005]
I swear 'tis better to be much abused 340
Than but to know 't a little.
_Iago._ How now, my lord![6006]
_Oth._ What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?[6007]
I saw 't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:[6008]
I slept the next night well, was free and merry;[6009]
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips: 345
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.
_Iago._ I am sorry to hear this.
_Oth._ I had been happy, if the general camp,
Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,[6010] 350
So I had nothing known. O, now for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars[6011]
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell,[6012]
Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, 355
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,[6013]
The royal banner and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats[6014]
The immortal Jove's dread clamours counterfeit,[6015] 360
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!
_Iago._ Is't possible, my lord?[6016]
_Oth._ Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore;[6017]
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof;[6018]
Or, by the worth of man's eternal soul,[6019] 365
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog[6020]
Than answer my waked wrath![6021]
_Iago._ Is't come to this?
_Oth._ Make me to see 't; or at the least so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life! 370
_Iago._ My noble lord,--[6022]
_Oth._ If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate;[6023]
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; 375
For nothing canst thou to damnation add[6024]
Greater than that.[6024]
_Iago._ O grace! O heaven defend me![6025]
Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?
God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool,[6026]
That livest to make thine honesty a vice![6027] 380
O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,[6028]
To be direct and honest is not safe.
I thank you for this profit, and from hence
I'll love no friend sith love breeds such offence.[6029]
_Oth._ Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.[6030] 385
_Iago._ I should be wise; for honesty's a fool,
And loses that it works for.[6031]
_Oth._ By the world,[6032]
I think my wife be honest, and think she is not;[6032][6033]
I think that thou art just, and think thou art not:[6032]
I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh[6032][6034] 390
As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black[6032]
As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,[6032]
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,[6032][6035]
I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied![6032]
_Iago._ I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:[6032][6036] 395
I do repent me that I put it to you.
You would be satisfied?
_Oth._ Would! nay, I will.[6037]
_Iago._ And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on?[6038]
Behold her topp'd?[6039]
_Oth._ Death and damnation! O! 400
_Iago._ It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,[6040]
If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster[6041]
More than their own! What then? how then?[6042]
What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?[6043] 405
It is impossible you should see this,
Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,[6044]
As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
If imputation and strong circumstances, 410
Which lead directly to the door of truth,
Will give you satisfaction, you may have 't.[6045]
_Oth._ Give me a living reason she's disloyal.[6046]
_Iago._ I do not like the office:
But sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,[5911][6047] 415
Prick'd to 't by foolish honesty and love,
I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately,[6048]
And being troubled with a raging tooth,[6049]
I could not sleep.[6049]
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,[6049] 420
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:[6049][6050]
One of this kind is Cassio:[6049]
In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'[6051]
And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand, 425
Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,[6052]
As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots,
That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg[6053][6054]
Over my thigh, and sigh'd and kiss'd, and then[6053][6055]
Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'[6053][6055] 430
_Oth._ O monstrous! monstrous!
_Iago._ Nay, this was but his dream.[6056]
_Oth._ But this denoted a foregone conclusion:[6057]
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.[6058]
_Iago._ And this may help to thicken other proofs[6058]
That do demonstrate thinly.
_Oth._ I'll tear her all to pieces. 435
_Iago._ Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;[6059]
She may be honest yet. Tell me but this;
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief[6060]
Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?[6061][6062]
_Oth._ I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift. 440
_Iago._ I know not that: but such a handkerchief--[6060]
I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day[5911][6061]
See Cassio wipe his beard with.
_Oth._ If it be that,--[6063]
_Iago._ If it be that, or any that was hers,[6064]
It speaks against her with the other proofs. 445
_Oth._ O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;[6065]
All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven:
'Tis gone.[6066] 450
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell![6067]
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne[6068]
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!
_Iago._ Yet be content.[6069]
_Oth._ O, blood, blood, blood![6070] 455
_Iago._ Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.[6071]
_Oth._ Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea,[6072][6073]
Whose icy current and compulsive course[6072][6074]
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on[6072][6075]
To the Propontic and the Hellespont;[6072] 460
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,[6072]
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,[6072][6076]
Till that a capable and wide revenge[6072]
Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,[6072][6077]
In the due reverence of a sacred vow [_Kneels._[6078] 465
I here engage my words.
_Iago._ Do not rise yet. [_Kneels._[6079]
Witness, you ever-burning lights above,[6080]
You elements that clip us round about,[6081]
Witness that here Iago doth give up
The execution of his wit, hands, heart,[6082] 470
To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
And to obey shall be in me remorse,[6083][6084]
What bloody business ever. [_They rise._[6084][6085]
_Oth._ I greet thy love,
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
And will upon the instant put thee to 't: 475
Within these three days let me hear thee say
That Cassio's not alive.
_Iago._ My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:[6086][6087]
But let her live.[6086]
_Oth._ Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her![6088]
Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw, 480
To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.[6089]
Iago. I am your own for ever. [_Exeunt._
SCENE IV. _Before the castle._
_Enter_ DESDEMONA, EMILIA, _and_ Clown.[6090]
_Des._ Do you know, sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?[6091]
_Clo._ I dare not say he lies any where.
_Des._ Why, man?
_Clo._ He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is[6092]
stabbing. 5
_Des._ Go to: where lodges he?[6093]
_Clo._ To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where[6094]
I lie.[6094]
_Des._ Can any thing be made of this?[6094]
_Clo._ I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise 10
a lodging, and say he lies here or he lies there, were to lie[6095]
in mine own throat.[6096]
_Des._ Can you inquire him out and be edified by report?[6097]
_Clo._ I will catechize the world for him; that is, make
questions and by them answer.[6098] 15
_Des._ Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have
moved my lord on his behalf and hope all will be well.[6099]
_Clo._ To do this is within the compass of man's wit, and[6100]
therefore I will attempt the doing it. [_Exit._[6101]
_Des._ Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?[6102] 20
_Emil._ I know not, madam.
_Des._ Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse[6103]
Full of crusadoes: and, but my noble Moor
Is true of mind and made of no such baseness
As jealous creatures are, it were enough[6104] 25
To put him to ill thinking.[6104]
_Emil._ Is he not jealous?
_Des._ Who, he? I think the sun where he was born
Drew all such humours from him.
_Emil._ Look, where he comes.
_Des._ I will not leave him now till Cassio[6105]
Be call'd to him.[6105]
_Enter_ OTHELLO.[6106]
How is't with you, my lord?[6107] 30
_Oth._ Well, my good lady. [_Aside_] O, hardness to dissemble![6108]
How do you, Desdemona?
_Des._ Well, my good lord.[6109]
_Oth._ Give me your hand: this hand is moist, my lady.[6110]
_Des._ It yet has felt no age nor known no sorrow.[6111]
_Oth._ This argues fruitfulness and liberal heart: 35
Hot, hot, and moist: this hand of yours requires[6112]
A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,[6113]
Much castigation, exercise devout;[6114]
For here's a young and sweating devil here,[6115]
That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand, 40
A frank one.[6116]
_Des._ You may, indeed, say so;
For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.
_Oth._ A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands;[6117]
But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.
_Des._ I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.[6118] 45
_Oth._ What promise, chuck?
_Des._ I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.
_Oth._ I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;[6119]
Lend me thy handkerchief.[6120]
_Des._ Here, my lord. 50
_Oth._ That which I gave you.
_Des._ I have it not about me.
_Oth._ Not?[6121]
_Des._ No, indeed, my lord.[6122]
_Oth._ That's a fault. That handkerchief[6120][6123] 55
Did an Egyptian to my mother give;
She was a charmer, and could almost read
The thoughts of people: she told her, while she kept it
'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father[6124]
Entirely to her love, but if she lost it[6125] 60
Or made a gift of it, my father's eye
Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt[6126]
After new fancies: she dying gave it me,
And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,[6127]
To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't; 65
Make it a darling like your precious eye;
To lose't or give't away were such perdition[6128]
As nothing else could match.
_Des._ Is't possible?
_Oth._ 'Tis true: there's magic in the web of it:
A sibyl, that had number'd in the world[6129] 70
The sun to course two hundred compasses,[6130]
In her prophetic fury sew'd the work;[6131]
The worms were hallow'd that did breed the silk;[6132]
And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful[6133]
Conserved of maidens' hearts.
_Des._ Indeed! is't true?[6134] 75
_Oth._ Most veritable; therefore look to't well.
_Des._ Then would to God that I had never seen't![6135]
_Oth._ Ha! wherefore?
_Des._ Why do you speak so startingly and rash?[6136]
_Oth._ Is't lost? is't gone? speak, is it out o' the way?[6137] 80
_Des._ Heaven bless us![6138]
_Oth._ Say you?
_Des._ It is not lost; but what an if it were?[6139]
_Oth._ How![6140]
_Des._ I say, it is not lost. 85
_Oth._ Fetch't, let me see it.[6141]
_Des._ Why, so I can, sir, but I will not now.[6142]
This is a trick to put me from my suit:
Pray you, let Cassio be received again.[6143]
_Oth._ Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.[6144][6145][6146] 90
_Des._ Come, come;[6147]
You'll never meet a more sufficient man.[6147][6148]
_Oth._ The handkerchief![6145]
_Des._ I pray, talk me of Cassio.[6149]
_Oth._ The handkerchief![6149]
_Des._ A man that all his time
Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,[6150] 95
Shared dangers with you,--[6151][6152]
_Oth._ The handkerchief![6151]
_Des._ In sooth, you are to blame.[6151][6153]
_Oth._ Away! [_Exit._[6151][6154]
_Emil._ Is not this man jealous?[6151][6155] 100
_Des._ I ne'er saw this before.
Sure there's some wonder in this handkerchief:[6156]
I am most unhappy in the loss of it.[6157]
_Emil._ 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs and we all but food;[6158] 105
They eat us hungerly, and when they are full[6159]
They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband.
_Enter_ CASSIO _and_ IAGO.[6160]
_Iago._ There is no other way; 'tis she must do't:[6161]
And, lo, the happiness! go and importune her.
_Des._ How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you? 110
_Cas._ Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you
That by your virtuous means I may again[6162]
Exist, and be a member of his love
Whom I with all the office of my heart[6163]
Entirely honour: I would not be delay'd.[6164] 115
If my offence be of such mortal kind
That nor my service past nor present sorrows[6165]
Nor purposed merit in futurity
Can ransom me into his love again,
But to know so must be my benefit; 120
So shall I clothe me in a forced content
And shut myself up in some other course[6166]
To fortune's alms.[6167]
_Des._ Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio!
My advocation is not now in tune;
My lord is not my lord, nor should I know him 125
Were he in favour as in humour alter'd.
So help me every spirit sanctified,
As I have spoken for you all my best
And stood within the blank of his displeasure[6168]
For my free speech! You must awhile be patient: 130
What I can do I will; and more I will
Than for myself I dare: let that suffice you.
_Iago._ Is my lord angry?
_Emil._ He went hence but now,
And certainly in strange unquietness.
_Iago._ Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon, 135
When it hath blown his ranks into the air,
And, like the devil, from his very arm
Puff'd his own brother; and can he be angry?[6169]
Something of moment then: I will go meet him:
There's matter in't indeed if he be angry. 140
_Des._ I prithee, do so. [_Exit Iago._[6170]
Something sure of state,
Either from Venice or some unhatch'd practice[6171]
Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,[6172]
Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases[6173]
Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, 145
Though great ones are their object. 'Tis even so;[6174][6175]
For let our finger ache, and it indues[6174][6176]
Our other healthful members even to that sense[6174][6177]
Of pain: nay, we must think men are not gods,[6174]
Nor of them look for such observancy[6178] 150
As fits the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,[6179]
Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,
And he's indicted falsely.[6180] 155
_Emil._ Pray heaven it be state-matters, as you think,[6181][6182]
And no conception nor no jealous toy[6181][6183][6184]
Concerning you.[6181]
_Des._ Alas the day, I never gave him cause!
_Emil._ But jealous souls will not be answer'd so;[6184] 160
They are not ever jealous for the cause,[6185]
But jealous for they are jealous: 'tis a monster[6186][6187]
Begot upon itself, born on itself.[6188]
_Des._ Heaven keep that monster from Othello's mind![6189]
_Emil._ Lady, amen. 165
_Des._ I will go seek him. Cassio, walk hereabout:[6190]
If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit,
And seek to effect it to my uttermost.[6191]
_Cas._ I humbly thank your ladyship.
[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._
_Enter_ BIANCA.[6192]
_Bian._ Save you, friend Cassio!
_Cas._ What make you from home?[6193] 170
How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?[6194]
I'faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.[6195]
_Bian._ And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?
Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,[6196] 175
More tedious than the dial eight score times?
O weary reckoning![6197]
_Cas._ Pardon me, Bianca:
I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd;[6198]
But I shall in a more continuate time[6199]
Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,[6200] 180
[_Giving her Desdemona's handkerchief._
Take me this work out.
_Bian._ O Cassio, whence came this?[6201]
This is some token from a newer friend:[6202]
To the felt absence now I feel a cause:[6202]
Is't come to this? Well, well.
_Cas._ Go to, woman![6203]
Throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth,[6204] 185
From whence you have them. You are jealous now[6186]
That this is from some mistress, some remembrance:
No, by my faith, Bianca.
_Bian._ Why, whose is it?[6205]
_Cas._ I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.[6206]
I like the work well: ere it be demanded-- 190
As like enough it will--I'ld have it copied:[6207]
Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time.
_Bian._ Leave you! wherefore?
_Cas._ I do attend here on the general;
And think it no addition, nor my wish, 195
To have him see me woman'd.
_Bian._ Why, I pray you?[6208]
_Cas._ Not that I love you not.[6208]
_Bian._ But that you do not love me.[6209]
I pray you, bring me on the way a little;
And say if I shall see you soon at night.[6210]
_Cas._ 'Tis but a little way that I can bring you; 200
For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.
_Bian._ 'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced. [_Exeunt._[6211]
FOOTNOTES:
[5749] ACT III. SCENE I.] Actus Tertius. Scena Prima. Ff. Actus 3.
Scæna 1. Q₂ Q₃. om. Q₁.
Before the castle.] Capell. Othello's Palace. Rowe. Before Othello's
Palace. Theobald.
Enter....] Enter Cassio, with Musitians and the Clowne. Q₁. Enter
Cassio, Musitians, and Clowne. Ff. Enter Cassio, with Musitians. Q₂ Q₃.
[5750] _Masters_] _Master_ Q₃.
[5751] _morrow, general_] _morrow to the general_ Collier MS.
[Music. Enter Clown.] They play, and enter the Clowne. Q₂ Q₃. Omitted
in the rest. Musick plays; and enter Clown from the House. Theobald.
[5752] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.
_been in_] F₄. _bin in_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _bin at_ Qq.
[5753] _speak_] _play_ Capell (corrected in Errata). _squeak_ Collier
(Collier MS.)
[5754] First Mus.] 1. M. Capell. Mus. Ff. Boy Qq.
[5755] _pray you,_] Ff. _pray, cald_ Q₁ Q₂. _pray you, cald_ Q₃.
[5756] _tail_] _tayle_ Qq. _tale_ Ff.
[5757] _tale_] Ff. _tayle_ Qq.
[5758] _here's_] _hee's_ F₁. _her's_ Q₃.
[5759] _for love's sake_] _of all loves_ Q₁.
[5760] _more_] om. F₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄.
[5761] _have_ Ff. _ha_ Qq.
[5762] _up_] Ff. om. Qq.
_for I'll away_] _and hye away_ Hanmer. _fly away_ Ritson conj.
[5763] _into air_] om. Q₁.
[Exeunt....] Theobald. Exit Mu. F₁. Exit Mus. F₂ F₃. Exit Musi. F₄. om.
Qq.
[5764] _hear, my_] _heare my_ Qq. _heare me, mine_ Ff (_hear_ F₃ F₄).
_hear, mine_ Theobald (Warburton and Bentley conj.)
[5765] _I hear you_] In a separate line in Ff.
[5766] _general's wife_] _Generals wife_ Q₂ Q₃. _Cenerals wife_ Q₁.
_Generall_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _General_ F₄.
[5767] _her_] _of her_ Rowe.
[5768] _seem to_] _soon so_ Singer (Singer MS.) _seem so to_ Collier
(Collier MS.)
[5769] Cas. _Do ... friend._] Omitted in Ff.
_good my_] _my good_ Rowe.
[Exit Clown.] Exit Clo. Ff Q₂. Exit Col. Q₃. om Q₁.
[5770] Enter Iago.] As in Rowe. After _her_, line 28, in Qq Ff.
[5771] _have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.
[5772] _a-bed_] Ff. _a bed_ Qq.
[5773] _Why ... Desdemona_] Arranged as in Capell. Three lines, ending
_parted ... her, ... Desdemona_, in Qq. Three, ending _parted ...
wife; ... Desdemona_, in Ff. Johnson reads as four lines, ending
_parted ... wife; ... her ... Desdemona._
[5774] _Iago_] om. Pope.
[5775] _to her_] om. Pope.
[5776] _virtuous_] om. Pope, ending the lines as Ff.
[5777] _to you_] om. Pope
[5778] _humbly_] om. Lettsom conj.
_for't_] _for it_ Q₁.
[Exit Iago.] Capell. Exit. Qq Ff, after line 38.
[5779] _I never knew A_] _I ne'er knew_ S. Walker conj., reading I
_humbly ... Florentine_ or _I ne'er ... honest_ as one line.
[5780] _A Florentine_] _A man_ Capell, reading 38-40 as two lines, the
first ending _for't._
[5781] _sure_] Ff. _soone_ Qq.
[5782] _that_] om. Seymour conj.
_wholesome_] om. Pope.
[5783] _refuse you_] _refuse_ Q₂ Q₃.
_he protests_] om. Hanmer.
[5784] _likings_] _liking_ S. Walker conj.
[5785] _To ... front_] Omitted in Ff.
_safest_] _first_ Johnson. _saf'st_ Capell.
[5786] _Desdemona_] Qq. _Desdemon_ Ff.
_you_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5787] Cas. _I ... you._] Omitted in Q₁.
_I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[Exeunt.] om. F₁ F₂.
[5788] SCENE II.] Scæna Secunda. Ff. Scene continued in Rowe.
A room ...] Capell. Gentlemen.] Ff. other Gentlemen. Qq.
[5789] _by him_] _bid him_ Capell. conj.
_senate_] Ff. _state_ Qq.
[5790] _on_] _to_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5791] _Well,_] om. Pope.
[5792] _We'll_] F₃ F₄. _Well_ F₁. _Weel_ F₂. _We_ Qq.
[5793] SCENE III.] Scæna Tertia. Ff. SCENE II. Rowe.
The garden ...] Dyce. An Apartment. Rowe. An Apartment in the Palace.
Theobald. The same. Before the Castle. Capell.
[5794] _Good ... husband_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _do:_
in Ff.
_warrant_] Ff. _know_ Qq.
[5795] _case_] Qq. _cause_ Ff.
[5796] _Do not doubt_] _doubt not_ Pope.
[5797] _Bounteous_] _Most bounteous_ Pope.
[5798] _I know't_:] Ff. _O sir_, Qq.
[5799] _You have_] _You've_ Pope.
_you well_] om. Q₃.
[5800] _in strangeness_] _in strangest_ Qq. _in's strangest_ Anon. conj.
_farther_] _further_ Steevens (1793).
[5801] _That_] _The_ Q₁.
[5802] _circumstance_] Qq. _circumstances_ Ff.
[5803] _will_] _would_ Jennens.
[5804] _place:_] _place?_ Q₂.
[5805] _shall never_] _shan't_ Hanmer.
[5806] _thy cause_] _thee cause:_ Q₁.
[5807] SCENE IV. Pope.
Enter ... at a distance.] Enter ... at distance. Theobald. Enter
Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen. Qq. Enter Othello and Iago. Ff.
Transferred to follow line 34 by Dyce.
[5808] _Nay_] Q₂ Q₃. _Why_ Q₁ Ff.
[5809] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[5810] _purposes_] Ff. _purpose_ Qq.
[5811] _Well,_] _Well, well,_ Capell, ending lines 33, 34 _well, ...
that._
[5812] _if--_] Ff. _if,_ Q₁. _if,--_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5813] _it_] om. Seymour conj.
[5814] _steal_] _sneake_ Q₁.
[5815] _you_] Qq F₃ F₄. _your_ F₁ F₂.
_do_] om. Pope.
[5816] _I do ... lord!_] As one line, S. Walker conj.
[5817] [going towards him. Capell.
[5818] _Cassio_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Cassio:_ F₁. _Cassio,_ Qq.
[5819] _take_] _make_ Warburton.
[5820] _Went ... humbled,_] As one line, S. Walker conj.
[5821] _Ay, sooth_] Capell. _I, sooth_ F₃ F₄. _I sooth_ F₁ F₂. _Yes
faith_ Qq. _In sooth_ Rowe. _I' sooth_ Johnson.
[5822] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.
_grief_] _griefes_ Qq.
[5823] _To suffer_] _I suffer_ Q₁.
[5824] _Desdemona_] Q₁ Q₃ F₄. _Desdemon_ The rest.
[5825] _The sooner_] _Sooner_ Pope.
[5826] _No, not_] _Not_ Pope.
[5827] _or_] Qq. _on_ Ff.
[5828] _On_] _Or_ Pope.
_noon_] _morne_ Qq.
_night; on_] Ff. _night, or_ Qq.
_Wednesday_] Q₂ F₃ F₄. _Wensday_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _wedensday_ Q₃.
[5829] _prithee_] _praythee_ F₂.
[5830] _in faith_] _Ifaith_ Q₁ Q₂. _I saith_ Q₃.
[5831] _wars_] _war_ Capell.
_examples_] Qq. _example_ Ff.
[5832] _their_] Rowe. _her_ Qq Ff. _our_ Collier (Collier MS.) _the_
Singer (ed. 2).
_almost_] _at most_ Anon. conj.
[5833] _you would_] Ff. _you could_ Qq.
_I should_] Qq F₁. _I would_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5834] _mammering_] _mam'ring_ Ff Q₂ Q₃. _muttering_ Q₁. _mummering_
Johnson.
[5835] _so_] om. Pope.
[5836] _Trust me_] _Birlady_ Q₁.
_much--_] _much,--_ Q₂ Q₃. _much._ The rest.
[5837] _gloves_] _cloths_ Warburton.
[5838] _dishes_] _meats_ Pope.
[5839] _a_] om. Pope.
[5840] _a suit_] _suit_ F₃ F₄.
[5841] _difficult weight_] _difficulty_ Q₁.
[5842] _Desdemona_] _Desdemon_ Dyce (ed. 2).
_I'll_] _I will_ Capell.
_to thee_] om. Pope.
[5843] _Be_] _be_ Ff. _be it_ Qq.
[To Othello. Jennens.
[5844] [Exeunt....] Exeunt Des. and Em. Q₂ Q₃. Exit Desd. and Em. Q₁.
Exit. Ff. Exeunt. Manent Othello and Jago. Pope.
[5845] SCENE V. Pope.
_wretch_] _wench_ Theobald.
[5846] _lord,--_] Theobald. _lord._ Qq Ff.
[5847] _Did ... love?_] Arranged as in Qq. Two lines, the first ending
_Cassio,_ in Ff.
[5848] _you_] _he_ F₁.
_woo'd_] Ff. _wooed_ Qq.
[5849] _He ... ask?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5850] _a_] om. Q₃.
_my thought_] _my thoughts_ Q₁.
[5851] _he had_] _he'd_ Pope.
_her_] Qq. _hir_ F₁. _it_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5852] _oft_] _often_ Q₁.
[5853] _Indeed! ay, indeed:_] _Indeed:_ Steevens conj.
_ay,_] Rowe. _I_ Ff Q₂ Q₃. om. Q₁.
_in that_] _of that_ Rowe.
[5854] _Honest! ay, honest._] _Ay, honest._ Steevens (1793), reading
_Is he ... honest_ as one line.
[5855] _Think ... me,_] One line in Qq Ff. Steevens (1793) reads
_What ... lord!_ as one line; _By heaven ... me,_ as another.
_By ... echoes_] _By heaven he ecchoes_ Q₁. _Alas, thou ecchos't_ Ff.
(_eccos't_ F₂). _why dost thou ecchoe_ Q₂ Q₃. _why, by heav'n, thou
eccho'st_ Pope.
[5856] _his_] Q₁. _thy_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.
[5857] _dost_] _didst_ Q₁.
[5858] _even_] Ff. _but_ Qq.
_likedst_] _lik'dst_ Pope. _lik'st_ Qq Ff.
[5859] _In_] Qq. _Of_ Ff. See note (IV).
[with admiring action. Anon. MS. See note (IV).
[5860] _conceit_] _counsell_ Q₁. _conceits_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[5861] _And_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
_thou'rt_] Ff. _thou art_ Qq.
_love and_] om. Hanmer.
[5862] _weigh'st_] Ff. _weighest_ Qq.
_givest_] _give_ Q₁.
_them_] Ff. _em_ Q₁. _'em_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5863] _fright_] _affright_ Q₁.
[5864] _They're_] Ff. _They are_ Qq.
_close delations_] Johnson. _close denotements_ Q₁. _close dilations_
F₁ Q₂ Q₃. _cold delations_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _distillations_ Hanmer.
[5865] _be sworn_] _presume_ Q₁.
_sworn I_] _sworn--I_ Lettsom conj.
_that_] om Q₃.
[5866] _what_] _that_ Q₁.
[5867] _seem none!_] _seeme,_ Q₃. _seem knaves!_ Warburton. _be known!_
Heath conj.
[5868] _Certain, men_] _Certain men,_ Q₃.
[5869] _Cassio's_] _that Cassio's_ Steevens (1793), ending line 132 at
_then_.
[5870] _prithee_] _preethee_ Q₁. _pray thee_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_as_] om. Q₁.
[5871] _As ... worst_] One line in Hanmer.
_thy ... thoughts_] Ff Q₂. _the worst of thought_ Q₁. _thy thoughts_ Q₃.
[5872] _words_] _word_ Q₁.
[5873] _Though I am_] _I am not_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[5874] _that all_] Qq. _that: all_ Ff.
_free to._] _free to;_ Rowe. _free to,_ Qq. _free:_ Ff.
[5875] _thoughts?_] Q₁ Ff. _thoughts:_ Q₂ Q₃.
_they are_] _they're_ Pope.
_vile_] Qq. _vild_ Ff.
[5876] _a breast_] Qq. _that breast_ Ff.
[5877] _But some_] Qq. _Wherein_ Ff.
[5878] _session_] Qq. _sessions_ Ff.
_sit_] _fit_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5879] _think'st_] Ff. _thinkest_ Qq.
[5880] _I do ... perchance_] _I thought--beseech you--I do--perchance_
Becket conj.
_you-- Though I perchance_] Malone (Henley conj.) _you, Though I
perchance_ Qq Ff. _you, Though, I-- perchance_ Johnson.
[5881] _Though_] _'Cause_ Hanmer. _Think_ Warburton (Theobald conj.)
[5882] _abuses_] _abuse_ Pope.
[5883] _oft ... Shapes_] Qq. _of ... Shapes_ Ff. _of ... Shape_ Grant
White.
[5884] _that ... yet_] _I intreate you then_ Q₁ and Pope.
_yet_] Q₂ Q₃. om. Ff.
[5885] _imperfectly_] _improbably_ Johnson. See note (V).
_conceits_] _coniects_ Q₁. _conjects_ Warburton.
[5886] _Would_] _You'd_ Q₁. _Will_ Q₃.
_Would ... build_] _Your wisdom would not build_ Pope.
_notice_] _note_ Anon. conj.
[5887] _his_] Ff. _my_ Qq.
[5888] _or_] Qq. _and_ Ff.
[5889] _What ... mean?_] _Zouns._ Q₁.
[5890] _woman_] _woman's_ Q₁.
[5891] _their_] Ff. _our_ Qq.
[5892] _Who ... nothing;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_something, nothing_] _something-nothing_ Staunton.
[5893] _not_] _naught_ Grant White conj.
[5894] _By heaven_] Q₁. om. Ff Q₂ Q₃.
_thoughts_] _thought_ Q₁.
[5895] Oth. _Ha!_] om. Q₁.
_beware, my lord, of_] _beware_ Q₁.
[5896] _the_] _a_ Q₂ Q₃.
_mock_] F₃ F₄. _mocke_ Qq F₁ F₂. _make_ Hanmer (Theobald conj.)
_mamock_ Smith conj. _'mock_ (for _mamock_) Grey conj. _muck_ Becket
conj.
[5897] _mock ... on:_] _mock-- The meat it feeds on!_ Anon. conj.
(1814).
[5898] _The_] _That_ Q₁.
_that_] _What_ Q₃.
[5899] _Who ... wronger_] _Who certaine of his wronger_ Q₃.
_Who, certain_] _Who's certain_ Capell conj.
_loves not_] _hates not_ Steevens's reprint of Q₁. See note (VI).
[5900] _strongly_] Qq. _soundly_ Ff. _fondly_ Knight.
[5901] _riches_] _rich_ Q₃.
_fineless_] _endless_ Pope.
_as poor_] _poor_ Q₃.
_winter_] _want_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).
[5902] _heaven_] _God_ Q₁.
[5903] _Why, why_] Qq. _Why? why_ Ff.
_this?_] _this, Iago?_ Capell.
[5904] _Is once_] Qq. _Is_ Ff. _is At once_ Hanmer, ending the previous
line at _is_.
[5905] _exsufflicate_] _exufflicate_ Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. _exufflicated_ F₄.
_exsuffolate_ Hanmer. _exsufflate_ Richardson conj.
_blown_] _blowne_ Qq. _blow'd_ F₁. _blowed_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5906] _thy_] _the_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5907] _well_] Qq. om. Ff.
[5908] _these_] _there_ Jackson conj.
_are more_] Qq F₁. _are most_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _make more_ Warburton.
[5909] _chose_] _chosen_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5910] _or_] _and_ Q (1695) and Hanmer.
[5911] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
[5912] _it_] Qq. _this_ Ff.
[5913] _of_] _for_ Q₃.
[5914] _Wear_] _Were_ Q₃.
_eye_] _eyes_ Ff.
_jealous_] _Iealious_ F₁ F₂.
[5915] _heaven_] _God_ Q₁.
[5916] _They ... conscience_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_not_] om. Q₁.
[5917] _leave't_] Q₁ Ff. _leave_ Q₂ Q₃.
_keep't_] Q₃. _keepe't_ Q₃. _keepe_ Q₁. _kept_ Ff.
[5918] _so?_] _so._ Q₁.
[5919] _Why,_] om. Pope.
[5920] _seel_] _seele_ F₁ F₂. _seale_ Qq F₃. _seal_ F₄.
_oak_] _owls_ Johnson conj. _hawk's_ Staunton conj.
[5921] _He ... blame;_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_to blame_] F₄. _too blame_ The rest.
[5922] _to_] _to to_ F₂.
_thee_] _you_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[5923] _Not a jot_] _No_ Seymour conj.
_I'faith_] _Ifaith_ Q₁. _Trust me_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.
[5924] _Comes ... moved:_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_my_] _your_ F₁.
_you're_] Rowe. _you are_ Qq. _y'are_ Ff.
[5925] _should_] _would_ Pope.
_such_] om. Q₃.
_vile_] Qq. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _vild_ F₄.
_success_] _excess_ Pope (ed. 2).
[5926] _As ... friend--_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_As_] Qq. _Which_ Ff.
_aim not at_] _aime not at_ Qq. _aym'd not_ F₁ F₂. _aim'd not_ F₃ F₄.
_aim'd not at_ Rowe.
_worthy_] _trusty_ Q₁.
[5927] _you're_] Rowe. _you are_ Qq. _y'are_ Ff.
[5928] _I_] om. Q₃.
[5929] _Long ... so!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5930] _itself--_] _it self--_ F₃ F₄. _it selfe--_ F₁ F₂. _it selfe._
Qq.
[5931] _Ay ... you--_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5932] _Whereto_] _Wherein_ Q₃.
[5933] _Foh!_] _Foh,_ Ff. _Fie_ Qq.
_one_] Ff. _we_ Qq.
_most_] _must_ Q₃.
[5934] _disproportion_] Qq. _disproportions_ Ff.
[5935] _position_] _suspicion_ Collier MS.
[5936] _her; though I may fear_] _her, though I may fear:_ Nicholson
conj.
[5937] _fall_] _fail_ Nicholson conj.
[5938] _happily_] _haply so_ Pope.
_Farewell, farewell_] _Farewell_ Qq, ending the lines _if more ...
on ... Iago._
[5939] _Set ... Iago._] As in Rowe. Two lines in Ff.
[5940] [Going] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[5941] _Why ... doubtless_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[5942] [Returning] Returns. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[5943] Iago. _My lord ... honour To scan_] _My lord ... honour,_ Iag.
_To scan_ Q₁.
[5944] _further_] Qq. _farther_ Ff.
[5945] _Though it be fit_] _Tho it be fit_ Q₁. _Although 'tis fit_ Ff.
_And though tis fit_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5946] _hold_] Qq. om. F₁. _put_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_off_] _of_ Q₃.
[5947] _his_] Ff. _her_ Qq.
[5948] [Exit.] Qq F₁. om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[5949] SCENE VI. Pope.
[5950] _qualities_] Q₁. _quantities_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.
_learned_] Qq. _learn'd_ Ff.
[5951] _spirit, Of_] _spirit Of_ S. Walker conj.
[5952] _human_] Rowe. _humaine_ Q₁. _humane_ The rest.
_dealings_] _dealing_ Q₁.
_do_] om. Pope.
[5953] _down_] _dewne_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5954] _prey_] _pray_ Q₃.
_Haply_] Ff. _Happily_ Qq.
[5955] _vale_] _valt_ Q₁.
[5956] _abused_] _aduis'd_ Q₃.
[5957] _curse_] _the curse_ Pope.
[5958] _of_] Ff. _in_ Qq.
[5959] _corner_] _cornet_ Q₃.
_the thing_] Ff. _a thing_ Qq.
[5960] _uses_] _use_ Pope.
_plague of_] Qq. _plague to_ Ff.
_great ones_] Hyphened in Ff.
[5961] _less_] _more_ Malone conj.
[5962] _'Tis_] _This_ Q₃.
[5963] _Desdemona_] Qq. _Looke where she_ Ff.
Re-enter ...] Dyce, after _believe't,_ line 283. Enter ... Ff.
Enter ... Qq, after _beleeve it_, line 283.
[5964] _O, then heaven mocks_] _Heaven mock'd_ Ff.
[5965] _believe't_] _beleeve it_ Qq.
[5966] _islanders_] Ff. _Ilander_ Qq.
[5967] _to blame_] Qq F₄. _too blame_ F₁ F₂ F₃.
_Why ... faintly?_] Ff. _Why is your speech so faint?_ Qq.
[5968] _Why ... well?_] As in Ff. One line in Qq.
[5969] _here_] _heare_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5970] _Faith_] Q₁. _Why_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.
[5971] _it hard_] _your head_ Q₁.
[offering to bind his head. Collier (Collier MS.)
[5972] _well_] _well againe_ Q₁.
[goes to do it with a Handkerchief. Capell.
[He puts ...] Capell, substantially. She drops her Handkerchief. Rowe.
lets fall her napkine. Anon. MS. See note (IV).
[5973] Des. _I am ... well._] Omitted by Capell, but corrected in Notes.
[Exeunt ...] Ex. Oth. and Desd. Q₁ (after line 294). Exit Oth. and Des.
Q₂ Q₃ (after line 294). Exit. F₁ (after line 292). Exeunt F₂ F₃ F₄
(after line 292).
[5974] SCENE VII. Pope.
_napkin_] _napkin here_ Hanmer.
[picking it up. Capell.
[5975] _Woo'd_] Ff. _Wooed_ Qq.
[5976] _To ... not I_] Arranged as in Qq Ff. The lines end _out, ...
Iago; ... I:_ in Johnson.
[5977] _talk to_] _talke too_ F₂. _talk too_ Q (1695).
_have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.
[5978] _I'll ... will_] _I will have the work Ta'en out, and give it to
Iago, but What he'll_ Hanmer, ending the lines _work ... but ... I._
[5979] _he will_] Ff. _hee'll_ Q₁. _he'l_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5980] _nothing but to please_] _nothing know, but for_ Q₁.
Re-enter Iago.] Dyce. Enter Iago. Ff. Enter Iago. Qq (after line 302).
[5981] _I have ... me_?] One line, S. Walker conj.
[5982] _A_] Qq. _You have a_ Ff.
_A ... thing_--] One line in Qq. Two in Ff. Steevens (1778), reading
with Ff, puts _You ... thing_--in one line.
_thing_--] Ff Q₂ Q₃. _thing_. Q₁.
[5983] _wife_] _thing_ Q₁.
[5984] _handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.
[5985] _stol'n_] _stolne_ F₁ F₂. _stoln_ F₃. _stollen_ F₄. _stole_ Qq.
[5986] _No, faith_] Qq. _No: but_ Ff.
[5987] _took 't_] Q₁ Ff. _tooke it_ Q₂ Q₃.
[5988] _it is_] Qq. _'tis_ Ff.
[5989] _What ... it?_] Divided as in Theobald. The first line ends
_bin_ in Q₁. The first ends _with it_ in Q₂ Q₃. Prose in Ff.
[5990] _with 't_] Ff. _with it_ Qq.
_that_] om. F₃ F₄. Restored by Capell.
[5991] _filch_] _fetch_ Q₃. _filtch_ F₄.
[Snatching it] Rowe. Capell, after line 317. om. Qq Ff.
_what's_] Qq. _what is_ Ff.
[5992] _If 't_] Q₂ Q₃. _If it_ Q₁ Ff.
_for_] om. Collier MS.
[5993] _Give 't me_] _Giv 't me_ Ff. _Give mee 't_ Q₁ Q₂. _Give me 't_
Q₃. _Give it me_ Steevens.
[5994] _Be ... me._] Divided as in Capell. One line in Qq. Two, the
first ending _on 't:_ in Ff.
[5995] _not acknown on 't_] F₃ F₄. _not acknowne on 't_ F₁ F₂. _not you
knowne on 't_ Q₁ Q₃. _not you acknowne on 't_ Q₂. _not you known in 't_
Johnson conj. _not you known of't_ Malone.
[5996] _lose_] Qq. _loose_ Ff.
[5997] _writ_] _Wright_ Q₃.
[5998] _The ... poison:_] Omitted in Q₁.
_poison_] _poysons_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _potion_ S. Walker conj. _practice_ S.
Walker conj. (withdrawn).
[5999] _Dangerous ... poisons,_] Omitted in Rowe (ed. 2).
_natures_] _nature_ Pope.
[6000] _act_] _art,_ Q₁.
[6001] _mines_] _mindes_ Q₁.
_I did say so:_] _Hide it!--so--so--_ Blackstone conj. (withdrawn).
[Observing Othello seemingly disturb'd. Hanmer.
[6002] SCENE VIII. Pope.
Re-enter Othello.] Dyce, after _yesterday_, line 337. Transferred by
Edd. (Globe ed.) Ent. Othello. Q₁, opposite line 332. Enter Othello.
Q₂, opposite line 332. om. Q₃. Enter Othello. Ff, after line 333. Enter
Othello, at a Distance. Capell, after line 333. Enter Othello. Knight,
after _yesterday,_ line 337.
[6003] _Nor_] om. F₄.
[6004] _owedst_] _hadst_ Pope.
Oth] Oth. [coming forward. Collier (ed. 2.)
_Ha! ha!_] _Ha!_ Pope.
_to me?_] Ff. _to me, to me?_ Qq.
[6005] _thou hast_] _thou'st_ Pope.
[6006] _know 't_] _know_ Q₁.
_now_] om. Pope.
[6007] _sense_] Q₁ F₁. _sence_ Q₂ Q₃. _sent_ F₂ F₃. _scent_ F₄.
_of her_] Qq. _in her_ Ff.
_of lust_] _or lust_ Warburton.
[6008] _saw 't_] _saw it_ F₄.
[6009] _was_] Qq. _fed well, was_ Ff.
[6010] _Pioners_] _Pyoners_ Qq F₁ F₂. _Pioneers_ F₃ F₄. _Pyoneers_ Q
(1695).
[6011] _troop_] _troope_ Qq. _troopes_ F₁ F₂. _troops_ F₃ F₄.
_wars_] _war_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[6012] _make_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _makes_ Qq F₁.
_farewell,_] _farewell;_ F₁.
[6013] _ear-piercing_] _fear-'spersing_ Warburton conj.
[6014] _you_] Ff. _ye_ Qq.
_rude_] Ff. _wide_ Qq.
[6015] _dread_] Ff. _great_ Qq.
_clamours_] _clamor_ Q₁.
[6016] _possible, my lord?_] _possible?--My lord,--_ Capell.
[6017] [Taking him by the Throat. Capell.
[6018] [Catching hold on him. Rowe.
[6019] _man's_] _mans_ Q₁. _mine_ Ff. _my_ Q₂ Q₃. _thine_ Anon. conj.
[6020] _hadst been_] _hadst_ Q (1695).
_have_] _to have_ Anon. conj.
[6021] _Than_] _That_ Q₃.
[6022] _lord,--_] _lord--_ Pope. _lord._ Qq Ff.
[6023] _horror's_] Hanmer. _horrors_ Qq Ff. _horrors'_ Anon. conj.
_horrors_] _horror_ S. Walker conj.
[6024] _For ... that._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.
[6025] _defend_] Qq. _forgive_ Ff.
[6026] _be wi'_] Rowe. _b' w'_ F₄. _buy_ The rest.
_mine_] _my_ Q₂ Q₃.
_O_] om. Pope.
[6027] _livest_] Qq. _lov'st_ Ff.
_thine_] _thy_ Q (1695).
[6028] _world! Take_] Ff. _world, take_ Qq.
[6029] _sith_] Ff. _since_ Qq.
[6030] _honest._] _honest--_ Rowe.
[6031] _loses_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _looses_ Qq F₁.
_that_] _what_ Pope.
[6032] Oth. _By ... satisfied!_ Iago.] Omitted in Q₁.
[6033] _be_] _is_ F₃ F₄.
_and_] om. Capell.
[6034] _Her_] _her_ Q₂ Q₃. _My_ Ff.
[6035] _streams_] _steams_ Pope.
[6036] _sir,_] Qq. om. Ff.
[6037] _satisfied?_] Ff. _satisfied._ Qq.
_nay, I_] Qq. _Nay, and I_ Ff. _Nay, and_ Pope.
[6038] _you, the supervisor,_] Capell. _you, the superuisor_ Q₁. _you
the supervision_ Ff. _you, the supervision_ Q₂ Q₃. _you be supervisor,_
Pope. _you them supervise?_ Seymour conj.
_the supervisor, grossly_] _the supervisor gross,_ Seymour conj.
_on?_] Ff. _on,_ Qq. _on--_ Dyce.
[6039] _topp'd_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _topt_ Qq. _top'd_ F₁. _tupp'd_ Pope (ed. 2).
[6040] _them_] F₁. _em_ Qq. om. F₂ F₃ F₄. _it_ Collier MS.
_damn them_] _dam em_ Qq.
[6041] _do_] _did_ Qq.
[6042] _how then?_] _how then, say you?_ Capell.
[6043] _What ... satisfaction?_] _Where's satisfaction? What shall I
say?_ Capell. See note (VII).
[6044] _prime_] _brime_ or _brim_ Singer conj.
[6045] _may_] Qq. _might_ Ff.
_have't_] Ff. _ha't_ Qq.
[6046] _she's_] Ff. _that she's_ Qq.
[6047] _sith_] _since_ Theobald (ed. 2).
_in_] Ff. _into_ Qq.
[6048] _on_] _one_ Q₃.
[6049] _And ... Cassio:_] Arranged as by Pope. Four lines ending
_sleep, ... soule, ... affaires, ... Cassio:_ in Qq. Four lines, ending
_tooth, ... men, ... mutter ... Cassio:_ in Ff.
[6050] _sleeps_] _sleep_ Q (1695).
_their_] _All their_ Hanmer, arranging as Ff. Of their Capell. _Their
dear'st_ Seymour conj. _Their near'st_ Anon. conj.
[6051] _wary_] _merry_ Q₁.
[6052] _Cry 'O_] _Cry, oh_ Ff. _Cry out_, Qq.
_and_] Qq. om. Ff.
[6053] _That ... Moor_!] Divided as in Qq. The lines end _thigh, ...
Fate, ... Moore_ in Ff.
[6054] _then laid_] _then layed_ Q₁ Q₂. _then laied_ Q₃. _laid_ Ff.
_lay_ Rowe. _then lay_ Pope, dividing as Qq.
[6055] _Over ... sigh'd ... kiss'd ... Cried_] Capell. _Over ...
sigh'd ... kissed ... Cried_ Qq. _ore ... sigh ... kisse ... cry_ Ff.
_Over ... sigh ... kiss ... Cry_ Pope.
[6056] _Nay,_] om. Pope.
[6057] _denoted_] _deuoted_ Q₁.
[6058] _'Tis ... dream._ Iago. _And_] Iag. _Tis ... dreame, And_ Q₁.
[6059] _but_] Qq. _yet_ Ff.
[6060] _handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.
[6061] _wife's_] Rowe. _wives_ Qq Ff.
[6062] _hand_?] Ff Q₂. _hand._ Q₁. _hand,_ Q₃.
[6063] _If it_] Ff. _If't_ Qq.
_that,--_] _that--_ Rowe. _that._ Qq Ff.
[6064] _any that was hers,_] Malone. _any, it was hers,_ Qq. _any, it
was hers._ F₁. _any, if't was hers,_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _any 'it' was hers,_
Anon. conj.
[6065] _do I_] _I doe_ Q₂ Q₃.
_true_] _time_ Q₁.
[6066] _'Tis gone_] As a separate line in Pope. Ending line 449 in Qq
Ff. om. Seymour conj.
[6067] _thy hollow cell_] Qq. _the hollow hell_ Ff. _th' unhallow'd
cell_ Warburton.
[6068] _hearted_] _harted_ Q₁. _parted_ Warburton.
[6069] [he kneeles. Q₁, opposite _content._ Opposite _tongues,_ in Q₂
Q₃. Omitted in Ff.
_Yet_] Ff. _Pray_ Qq.
[6070] _blood, blood, blood_] Ff. _blood, Iago, blood_ Qq.
[6071] _perhaps_] Qq. om. Ff.
[6072] _Iago ... heaven,_] Omitted in Q₁.
[6073] _Never ... sea,_] One line in Ff. Two in Q₂ Q₃.
_to_] om. Pope.
[6074] _icy_] _yesty_ Singer (ed. 2).
[6075] _Ne'er feels_] _Ne'r feels_ Q₂ Q₃. _Nev'r keepes_ F₁ F₂. _Ne're
keeps_ F₃ F₄. _Ne'er makes_ Keightley. _Nev'r knows_ Southern MS. and
Collier MS. _Ne'er knows_ Grant White. _Ne'er brooks_ S. Walker conj.
[6076] _ne'er ... ne'er_] _nev'r ... nev'r_ F₁ F₂. _ne're ... ne're_
The rest.
[6077] _by_] _be_ Q₃.
[6078] _of_] _to_ Q₃.
[Kneels.] Rowe. om. Qq Ff. Othello kneeles. Anon. MS. See note (IV).
[6079] _words._] Qq. _words_--Ff.
[Kneels.] Iago kneels. Q₂. Iago kneeles. Q₁, opposite line 468. Omitted
in Ff Q₃.
[6080] _you_] _the_ Q₂ Q₃. _your_ F₄. _ye_ Johnson.
[6081] _You_] _Ye_ Johnson.
[6082] _execution_] _excellency_ Q₁.
_hands_] Ff. _hand_ Qq.
[6083] _And to obey_] _Not to obey_ Pope. _Nor, to obey_ Theobald. _And
not to obey_ Jennens. _An' to obey_ Farmer conj.
_be in me remorse_] _be remorce_ Q₁. _be in me no remorse_ Capell
(Upton conj.) _bury my remorse_ or _breed me no remorse_ Anon. conj.
_without remorce_ Anon. MS. See note (IV).
[6084] _in me remorse, What_] _in me. Remord What_ Warburton.
[6085] _business ever_] _worke so ever_ Qq. _work soe'er_ Collier.
[They rise.] Rising. Capell. om. Qq Ff.
[6086] _My ... live._] Divided as in Capell. Two lines, the first
ending _dead:_ in Qq. Three, ending _dead: ... request ... live,_ in Ff.
[6087] _at your request_] Ff. _as you request_ Qq.
[6088] _Damn ... her_!] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_her_!] _her_, Qq. _her, damne her._ Ff.
[6089] _For ... lieutenant._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[6090] SCENE IV.] SCENE IX. Pope. Rowe continues the Scene.
Before the castle.] The same. Capell. Another Apartment in the Palace.
Theobald.
Desdemona, Emilia,] Desdemonia, Emilla Qq.
Clown.] the Clowne. Qq.
[6091] _Lieutenant_] _the Leiutenant_ Qq.
[6092] Clo.] om. Q₁.
_He's_] Ff. _He is._ Qq.
_one_] Qq. _mee_ F₁ F₂. _me_ F₃ F₄.
_is_] Qq. _'tis_ Ff.
[6093] _to_] _too_ F₁.
[6094] Clo. _To ... this_?] Omitted in Q₁.
[6095] _lies ... there_] _lies there_ Qq.
[6096] _mine own_] _my_ Q₁. _my own_ Capell.
[6097] _be_] om. Q₃.
_by_] _to_ Collier MS.
[6098] _by them_] _make them_ Q₃. _bid them_ Theobald (Warburton).
[6099] _on his_] Ff. _in his_ Qq.
[6100] _man's wit_] _a man_ Q₁.
[6101] _I will_] _I'le_ Q₁. _Ile_ Q₂ Q₃.
_it_] Ff. _of it_ Qq.
[Exit.] Qq. Exit Clo. F₁ F₂ F₃. Exit Clown. F₄.
[6102] _lose_] Q (1695) and Rowe. _loose_ Qq Ff.
_that_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
_handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.
[6103] _have lost_] Ff. _loose_ Qq. _lose_ Q (1695).
[6104] _jealous_] _iealious_ F₁. _jealious_ F₂.
[6105] _I will ... him._] Divided as by Steevens (1793). The first line
ends at _now_ in Qq, at _be_ in Ff. Prose in Malone.
[6106] _till_] _Let_ Q₁.
Enter Othello.] As in Dyce. After _him,_ line 28, in Qq. After _comes,_
line 28, in F₁ F₂. After _sorrow,_ line 34, in F₃. After _lord?_ line
30, in F₄.
[6107] _is't_] Ff. _is it_ Qq.
SCENE X. Pope.
[6108] [Aside] Hanmer.
[6109] Des.] Les. F₂.
_good_] om. Pope.
[6110] _Give ... lady._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
[6111] _yet has_] Qq. _hath_ Ff. _yet hath_ Rowe.
[6112] _Hot, hot_] _Not hot_ Q₁ _Both hot_ Anon. MS. See note (IV).
[6113] _prayer_] Ff. _praying_ Qq.
[6114] _devout_] _devoted_ Q₃.
[6115] _young_] _strong_ Warburton.
_sweating_] _sweatie_ Q₃.
[6116] _frank one_] _frank one too_ Capell. _very frank one_ Hanmer.
[6117] _hearts ... hands_] _hands ... hearts_ Hanmer (Warburton).
[6118] _I cannot ... promise._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_Come now,_] _Come now_ Q₂ Q₃. _Come, now_ Ff. _Come, come_ Q₁.
[6119] _sorry_] Ff. _sullen_ Qq. _sudden_ Collier MS.
[6120] _handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.
[6121] _Not?_] Ff. _Not._ Qq.
[6122] _indeed_] _faith_ Q₁.
[6123] _That's_] Qq Ff. _That is_ Capell.
_That's ... handkerchief_ One line in Qq Ff. Two, the first ending
_fault,_ in Steevens (1793), reading _That is._
[6124] _and_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.
[6125] _Entirely ... it,_] Repeated in Q₁.
[6126] _loathed_] _lothely_ Q₁.
_his_] _her_ Jennens (a misprint).
_spirits_] _spirit_ Q (1695).
_should_] om. Pope.
[6127] _wive_] Qq. _wiv'd_ Ff.
[6128] _lose't_] Theobald. _loose't_ F₁ F₂. _loos't_ F₃ F₄. _loose_ Q₁
Q₂. _lose_ Q₃.
_perdition_] _prediction_ Q₃.
[6129] _had_] _hath_ Hanmer (ed. 2).
[6130] _The sun to course_] Ff Q₂ Q₃. _The sun to make_ Q₁. _Of the
sun's course_ Hanmer.
[6131] _sew'd_] _sow'd_ Ff. _sowed_ Qq.
[6132] _hallow'd_] Capell. _hallowed_ Q₁ Ff Q₂. _hollowed_ Q₃.
[6133] _which_] _with_ Q₁ Q₃.
[6134] _Conserved_] _Conserues_ Q₁. _Concerue_ Q₂. _Conserve_ Q₃.
_Indeed_] _Ifaith_ Q₁.
[6135] _to God_] Qq. _to heaven_ F₁. _the heaven_ F₂ F₃ F₄.
_seen't_] F₃ F₄. _seene't_ F₁ F₂. _seene it_ Qq.
[6136] _startingly_] _staringly_ F₃ F₄.
_rash_] _rashly_ Q₁.
[6137] _is it_] Qq. _is't_ Ff.
[6138] _Heaven_] Q₁. om. Ff Q₂ Q₃.
[6139] _an if_] Theobald (ed. 2). _and if_ Qq Ff.
[6140] _How!_] _How?_ Ff. _Ha._ Qq.
[6141] _Fetch't_] Qq F₄. _Fecht_ F₁ F₂ _Fetcht'_ F₃.
_see it_] Qq. _see't_ Ff.
[6142] _sir,_] Qq. om. Ff.
[6143] _Pray you_] Ff. _I pray_ Qq.
[6144] _Fetch ... misgives._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_the_] Ff. _that_ Qq.
[6145] _handkerchief_] _handkercher_ Q₁.
[6146] _misgives._] _misgives--_ Rowe. _misgives me--_ Keightley.
[6147] _Come ... man._] Divided as in Capell. One line in Qq. Prose in
Ff.
_Come ... never_] _Come, you'll ne'er_ Pope.
[6148] _man_] _m_ Q₁ (Cap.)
[6149] Des. _I pray ... handkerchief!_] Des. _I pray ... handkercher._
Q₁. Omitted in the rest.
[6150] _his_] om. Q₃.
[6151] _Shared ... jealous?_] Two lines, the first ending _sooth_, in
Steevens (1793).
[6152] _you,--_] _you--_ Steevens. _you:_ Capell. _you._ Qq Ff.
[6153] _In sooth_] _Ifaith_ Q₁.
_to blame_] Q₃ F₄. _too blame_ The rest.
[6154] _Away_] _Zouns_ Q₁.
[Exit.] Qq. Exit Othello. Ff.
[6155] SCENE XI. Manent Desdemona and Æmilia. Pope.
_jealous_] _iealious_ F₁. _jealious_ F₂.
[6156] _Sure_] _Sir_ Q₃.
[6157] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.
_the loss of it_] _this losse_ Q₁ (Cap.) _the losse_ Q₁ (Dev. and Chip.)
[6158] _are all_] _are_ Rowe (ed. 2).
[6159] _they are_] _they're_ Pope.
[6160] _They ... husband._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
Enter ...] Dyce. Enter Iago and Cassio. Pope. Enter Iago, and Cassio.
Ff (after _us_). Enter Iago and Cassio. Qq (after line 103).
[6161] _do't_] F₃ F₄. _doo't_ F₁ F₂. _doe it_ Qq.
[6162] _may again_] _doe beseech you:_ Q₃.
[6163] _office_] _duty_ Q₁.
[6164] _delay'd_] _delayed_ Q₁ Q₂.
[6165] _nor my_] F₁. _not my_ Q₂ F₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _neither_ Q₁.
_sorrows_] _sorrow_ S. Walker conj.
[6166] _shut ... in_] _shoote my selfe up in_ Q₁. _shoot myself upon_
Capell. _shape myself upon_ Anon. apud Rann conj. _set myself upon_
Collier conj. _shift myself upon_ Collier MS. _suit myself up in_ Anon.
conj. _shoote my selfe forth in_ Anon. MS. See note (IV).
_shut ... other course_] _suit ... order coarse_ Jackson conj.
[6167] _alms_] _arms_ Pope.
_thrice-gentle_] _thrice gentile_ Q₃.
[6168] _stood_] _stoop_ Q₃.
[6169] _can he be_] Qq. _is he_ Ff.
[6170] SCENE XII. Pope.
[Exit Iago.] As in Capell. Exit. Ff (after line 140). Omitted in Qq.
[6171] _or some_] _of some_ Johnson.
[6172] _demonstrable here_] _here demonstrable_ Pope.
[6173] _puddled_] _pulld_ Q₃.
[6174] _Though ... gods,_] Arranged As in Ff. Five lines, ending
_object, ... ake, ... members, ... thinke, ... gods,_ in Qq.
[6175] _Though_] Ff. _Tho_ Q₁ Q₂. _The_ Q₃.
_their_] Ff. _the_ Qq.
[6176] _indues_] _endures_ Q₃. _subdues_ Johnson conj. _inducts_
Jackson conj.
[6177] _even to that sense_] Qq. _even to a sense_ Ff. _with a sense_
Pope. _even with that sense_ Seymour conj.
[6178] _Nor_] _Not_ Q₃.
_observancy_] _observancie_ F₁. _observances_ Qq. _observance_ F₂ F₃
F₄. _observance always_ Rowe.
[6179] _warrior_] _wrangler_ Hanmer. _lawyer_ Becket conj.
[6180] _indicted_] Collier. _indited_ Qq Ff.
[6181] _Pray ... you._] Divided as in Qq. The lines end _be ...
conception, ... you_ in Ff.
[6182] _state-matters_] _State-matter_ Pope, divided with Ff.
[6183] _nor no_] _Nor_ Rowe.
[6184] _jealous_] _Iealious_ F₁ F₂.
[6185] _jealous_] _iealious_ F₁.
_the cause_] _a cause_ Pope.
[6186] _jealous_] _iealious_ F₁. jealious F₂.
[6187] _they are_] Qq. _they're_ Ff.
_'tis_] _tis_ Qq. _It is_ Ff. _It's_ Pope.
[6188] _upon_] _unto_ Q₃.
_on_] _of_ Seymour conj.
[6189] _that_] Qq. _the_ Ff.
_Othello's_] _Othell's_ F₂.
[6190] _hereabout_] F₃ F₄. _here about_ Qq. _heere about_ F₁ F₂.
[6191] _uttermost_] _utmost_ Q₃.
[6192] [Exeunt ...] As in Pope. Opposite lines 167, 168 in Qq. Exit Ff
(after line 168). Ex. Desdem. and Æmil. at one door; Cassio, at the
other. Theobald.
SCENE XIII. Pope. Scene changes to the Street before the Palace.
Theobald.
Enter Bianca.] As in Ff Q₂ Q₃. After _Cassio!_ line 170, in Q₁.
Re-enter Cassio, meeting Bianca. Theobald.
[6193] _make_] _makes_ F₄.
[6194] _is it_] Qq. _is't_ Ff.
[6195] _I'faith_] _Ifaith_ Q₁. _Indeed_ The rest.
_coming_] _going_ Q₃.
_house_] _lodging_ Capell.
[6196] _lovers'_] _lovers_ Qq F₁. _loves_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _lover's_ Pope.
[6197] _O_] _No_ Q₁.
[6198] _leaden_] _laden_ Q₁.
[6199] _continuate time_] Ff Q₂. _convenient time_ Q₁. _continuate: of
time_ Q₃.
[6200] [Giving....] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.
[6201] _O_] om. Hanmer.
[6202] _friend: ... now_] _friend; To the felt-absence, now_ Rowe.
_friend, To the felt absence, now_ Q₁. _friend To the felt absence,
now_ Q₂ Q₃. _friend, To the felt-absence: now_ Ff. _friend: Of thy felt
absence, now_ Pope.
[6203] _Well, well._] Omitted in Q₁. _Well, well, well--_ Keightley.
_Go to, woman!_] _Well, go to, woman;_ Hanmer. _Woman, go to!_ Capell.
[6204] _vile_] Qq. _vilde_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _vild_ F₄.
[6205] _by my faith_] Q₁. _in good troth_ The rest. _in good truth_
Johnson.
_whose_] _who's_ Q₁ F₁ F₂.
[6206] _I know ... chamber._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.
_sweet_] Qq. _neither_ Ff.
[6207] _I'ld_] _I'de_ Qq. _I would_ Ff.
[6208] Bian. _Why ... not._] Omitted in Q₁.
[6209] _But ... me._] _Not that you love me._ Hanmer.
[6210] _night._] Qq. _night?_ Ff.
[6211] [Exeunt.] Qq. Exeunt omnes. Ff.
ACT IV.
SCENE I. _Cyprus. Before the castle._
_Enter_ OTHELLO _and_ IAGO.[6212]
_Iago._ Will you think so?
_Oth._ Think so, Iago![6213]
_Iago._ What,[6214]
To kiss in private?[6214]
_Oth._ An unauthorized kiss.[6215]
_Iago._ Or to be naked with her friend in bed[6216][6217]
An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
_Oth._ Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm![6217] 5
It is hypocrisy against the devil:
They that mean virtuously and yet do so,
The devil their virtue tempts and they tempt heaven.[6218]
_Iago._ So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:[6219]
But if I give my wife a handkerchief--[6220][6221] 10
_Oth._ What then?
_Iago._ Why, then, 'tis hers, my lord; and being hers,[6222]
She may, I think, bestow 't on any man.
_Oth._ She is protectress of her honour too:[6223]
May she give that? 15
_Iago._ Her honour is an essence that's not seen;
They have it very oft that have it not:
But for the handkerchief--[6221]
_Oth._ By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it:
Thou said'st--O, it comes o'er my memory, 20
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,[6224]
Boding to all--he had my handkerchief.[6225]
_Iago._ Ay, what of that?
_Oth._ That's not so good now.
_Iago._ What,[6226]
If I had said I had seen him do you wrong?[6226][6227]
Or heard him say--as knaves be such abroad,[6228] 25
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,[6229]
Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose[6230]
But they must blab--[6231]
_Oth._ Hath he said any thing?
_Iago._ He hath, my lord; but be you well assured, 30
No more than he'll unswear.
_Oth._ What hath he said?
_Iago._ Faith, that he did--I know not what he did.[6232]
_Oth._ What? what?[6233]
_Iago._ Lie--
_Oth._ With her?
_Iago._ With her, on her; what you will.[6234]
_Oth._ Lie with her! lie on her!--We say lie on her, when[6235] 35
they belie her.--Lie with her! 'Zounds, that's fulsome![6235][6236]
Handkerchief--confessions--handkerchief!--To confess, and[6237][6238][6239]
be hanged for his labour; first, to be hanged, and then to[6238][6239]
confess. I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in[6238][6239]
such shadowing passion without some instruction. It is not[6239][6240] 40
words that shakes me thus. Pish! Noses, ears and lips.[6239][6241]
Is't possible?--Confess?--Handkerchief?--O devil!
[_Falls in a trance._[6239][6242]
_Iago._ Work on,[6243]
My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;[6243][6244]
And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,[6243] 45
All guiltless, meet reproach. What, ho! my lord![6243]
My lord, I say! Othello![6243][6245]
_Enter_ CASSIO.
How now, Cassio!
_Cas._ What's the matter?
_Iago._ My lord is fall'n into an epilepsy:[6246]
This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.[6247] 50
_Cas._ Rub him about the temples.
_Iago._ No, forbear;[6248]
The lethargy must have his quiet course:[6249]
If not, he foams at mouth, and by and by
Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs:[6250]
Do you withdraw yourself a little while, 55
He will recover straight: when he is gone,
I would on great occasion speak with you. [_Exit Cassio._[6251]
How is it, general? have you not hurt your head?[6252]
_Oth._ Dost thou mock me?
_Iago._ I mock you! no, by heaven.[6253]
Would you would bear your fortune like a man![6254] 60
_Oth._ A horned man's a monster and a beast.
_Iago._ There's many a beast then in a populous city,
And many a civil monster.
_Oth._ Did he confess it?
_Iago._ Good sir, be a man;[6255]
Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked[6256] 65
May draw with you: there's millions now alive[6257]
That nightly lie in those unproper beds[6258]
Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.[6259]
O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,[6260]
To lip a wanton in a secure couch, 70
And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;[6261][6262]
And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.[6261][6263]
_Oth._ O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.[6261]
_Iago._ Stand you awhile apart;[6261][6264]
Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief--[6265] 75
A passion most unsuiting such a man--[6266]
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy;[6267]
Bade him anon return and here speak with me;[6268]
The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,[6269] 80
And mark the fleers, the gibes and notable scorns,[6270]
That dwell in every region of his face;
For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago and when
He hath and is again to cope your wife:[6271] 85
I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,[6272]
And nothing of a man.
_Oth._ Dost thou hear, Iago?[6273]
I will be found most cunning in my patience;[6274]
But--dost thou hear?--most bloody.
_Iago._ That's not amiss;[6275] 90
But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
[_Othello retires._[6276]
Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature[6277]
That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague 95
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain[6278]
From the excess of laughter. Here he comes.
_Re-enter_ CASSIO.[6279]
As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;[6280]
And his unbookish jealousy must construe[6281] 100
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures and light behaviour,[6282]
Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?[6283]
_Cas._ The worser that you give me the addition[6284]
Whose want even kills me.
_Iago._ Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on 't. 105
Now, if this suit lay in Bianca's power,[6285]
How quickly should you speed!
_Cas._ Alas, poor caitiff![6286]
_Oth._ Look, how he laughs already![6287]
_Iago._ I never knew a woman love man so.[6288]
_Cas._ Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.[6289] 110
_Oth._ Now he denies it faintly and laughs it out.[6287][6290]
_Iago._ Do you hear, Cassio?
_Oth._ Now he importunes him[6287][6291]
To tell it o'er: go to; well said, well said.[6292]
_Iago._ She gives it out that you shall marry her:
Do you intend it? 115
_Cas._ Ha, ha, ha!
_Oth._ Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph?[6287][6293]
_Cas._ I marry her! what, a customer! I prithee, bear[6294][6295]
some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome.[6294]
Ha, ha, ha![6294] 120
_Oth._ So, so, so, so: they laugh that win.[6287][6296]
_Iago._ Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.[6297]
_Cas._ Prithee, say true.
_Iago._ I am a very villain else.[6298]
_Oth._ Have you scored me? Well.[6287][6299] 125
_Cas._ This is the monkey's own giving out: she is persuaded[6300]
I will marry her, out of her own love and flattery,[6300]
not out of my promise.[6300]
_Oth._ Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.[6287][6301]
_Cas._ She was here even now; she haunts me in every 130
place. I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with[6302]
certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble, and, by[6303][6304]
this hand, she falls me thus about my neck--[6304][6305]
_Oth._ Crying 'O dear Cassio!' as it were: his gesture[6287][6306]
imports it. 135
_Cas._ So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me; so hales[6307][6308]
and pulls me: ha, ha, ha![6307]
_Oth._ Now he tells how she plucked him to my[6287][6309]
chamber. O, I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I[6309][6310]
shall throw it to.[6309][6311] 140
_Cas._ Well, I must leave her company.
_Iago._ Before me! look, where she comes.[6312]
_Cas._ Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed one.
_Enter_ BIANCA.[6313]
What do you mean by this haunting of me?
_Bian._ Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did 145
you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even[6314]
now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the work?[6315]
A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your
chamber, and not know who left it there! This is some[6316]
minx's token, and I must take out the work? There; give 150
it your hobby-horse: wheresoever you had it, I'll take out[6317]
no work on't.[6318]
_Cas._ How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now![6319]
_Oth._ By heaven, that should be my handkerchief![6287][6314]
_Bian._ An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an[6320] 155
you will not, come when you are next prepared for. [_Exit._
_Iago._ After her, after her.
_Cas._ Faith, I must; she'll rail i' the street else.[6321]
_Iago._ Will you sup there?[6322]
_Cas._ Faith, I intend so.[6323] 160
_Iago._ Well, I may chance to see you; for I would very
fain speak with you.
_Cas._ Prithee, come; will you?
_Iago._ Go to; say no more. [_Exit Cassio._[6324]
_Oth._ [_Advancing_] How shall I murder him, Iago?[6325] 165
_Iago._ Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
_Oth._ O Iago![6326]
_Iago._ And did you see the handkerchief?[6314]
_Oth._ Was that mine?
_Iago._ Yours, by this hand: and to see how he prizes the[6327] 170
foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he hath given[6327]
it his whore.[6327]
_Oth._ I would have him nine years a-killing. A fine[6327][6328]
woman! a fair woman! a sweet woman![6328]
_Iago._ Nay, you must forget that.[6329] 175
_Oth._ Ay, let her rot, and perish, and be damned to-night;[6330]
for she shall not live: no, my heart is turned to stone; I[6331]
strike it, and it hurts my hand. O, the world hath not a[6332]
sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's side, and
command him tasks. 180
_Iago._ Nay, that's not your way.
_Oth._ Hang her! I do but say what she is: so delicate[6333]
with her needle: an admirable musician: O, she will sing
the savageness out of a bear: of so high and plenteous wit[6334]
and invention:--[6335] 185
_Iago._ She's the worse for all this.
_Oth._ O, a thousand thousand times: and then, of so[6336][6337][6338]
gentle a condition![6337][6339]
_Iago._ Ay, too gentle.
_Oth._ Nay, that's certain: but yet the pity of it, Iago![6340] 190
O Iago, the pity of it, Iago![6341]
_Iago._ If you are so fond over her iniquity, give her patent[6342]
to offend; for, if it touch not you, it comes near nobody.[6343]
_Oth._ I will chop her into messes: cuckold me!
_Iago._ O, 'tis foul in her. 195
_Oth._ With mine officer!
_Iago._ That's fouler.
_Oth._ Get me some poison, Iago; this night. I'll not[6344]
expostulate with her, lest her body and beauty unprovide[6345]
my mind again: this night, Iago. 200
_Iago._ Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed,[6346]
even the bed she hath contaminated.[6347]
_Oth._ Good, good: the justice of it pleases: very good.[6348]
_Iago._ And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you[6349]
shall hear more by midnight.[6349] 205
_Oth._ Excellent good. [_A trumpet within._] What
trumpet is that same?[6350]
_Iago._ Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico[6351][6352]
Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.[6351]
_Enter_ LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, _and_ Attendants.[6353]
_Lod._ God save the worthy general!
_Oth._ With all my heart, sir.[6354]
_Lod._ The duke and senators of Venice greet you. 210
[_Gives him a letter._[6355]
_Oth._ I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.
[_Opens the letter, and reads._[6356]
_Des._ And what's the news, good cousin Lodovico?
_Iago._ I am very glad to see you, signior;[6357][6358]
Welcome to Cyprus.[6357]
_Lod._ I thank you. How does Lieutenant Cassio?[6359] 215
_Iago._ Lives, sir.
_Des._ Cousin, there's fall'n between him and my lord
An unkind breach: but you shall make all well.
_Oth._ Are you sure of that?
_Des._ My lord?[6360] 220
_Oth._ [_Reads_] 'This fail you not to do, as you will--'[6361]
_Lod._ He did not call; he's busy in the paper.
Is there division 'twixt my lord and Cassio?[6362]
_Des._ A most unhappy one: I would do much
To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.[6363] 225
_Oth._ Fire and brimstone!
_Des._ My lord?[6360]
_Oth._ Are you wise?
_Des._ What, is he angry?
_Lod._ May be the letter moved him;
For, as I think, they do command him home, 230
Deputing Cassio in his government.
_Des._ By my troth, I am glad on 't.[6364]
_Oth._ Indeed!
_Des._ My lord?[6360]
_Oth._ I am glad to see you mad.
_Des._ Why, sweet Othello?[6365]
_Oth._ Devil! [_Striking her._[6366]
_Des._ I have not deserved this. 235
_Lod._ My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,
Though I should swear I saw 't: 'tis very much:
Make her amends; she weeps.
_Oth._ O devil, devil!
If that the earth could teem with woman's tears,[6367]
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile. 240
Out of my sight!
_Des._ I will not stay to offend you. [_Going._[6368]
_Lod._ Truly, an obedient lady:[6369]
I do beseech your lordship, call her back.
_Oth._ Mistress!
_Des._ My lord? 245
_Oth._ What would you with her, sir?
_Lod._ Who, I, my lord?
_Oth._ Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
Sir, she can turn and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;
And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,[6370] 250
Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.[6371]
Concerning this, sir,--O well-painted passion!--
I am commanded home. Get you away;[6372]
I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt! 255
[_Exit Desdemona._[6373]
Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, to-night,
I do entreat that we may sup together:
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus. Goats and monkeys![6374]
[_Exit._
_Lod._ Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate[6375]
Call all in all sufficient? This the nature[6376] 260
Whom passion could not shake? whose solid virtue[6377]
The shot of accident nor dart of chance[6378]
Could neither graze nor pierce?[6379]
_Iago._ He is much changed.
_Lod._ Are his wits safe? is he not light of brain?[6380]
_Iago._ He's that he is: I may not breathe my censure[6381][6382] 265
What he might be: if what he might he is not,[6382][6383]
I would to heaven he were!
_Lod._ What, strike his wife!
_Iago._ Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!
_Lod._ Is it his use?[6384]
Or did the letters work upon his blood, 270
And new create this fault?[6385]
_Iago._ Alas, alas!
It is not honesty in me to speak
What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,[6386]
And his own courses will denote him so
That I may save my speech: do but go after,[6387] 275
And mark how he continues.
_Lod._ I am sorry that I am deceived in him. [_Exeunt._[6388]
SCENE II. _A room in the castle._[6389]
_Enter_ OTHELLO _and_ EMILIA.
_Oth._ You have seen nothing, then?[6390][6391]
_Emil._ Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.[6390]
_Oth._ Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.[6390][6392]
_Emil._ But then I saw no harm, and then I heard
Each syllable that breath made up between them.[6393] 5
_Oth._ What, did they never whisper?
_Emil._ Never, my lord.
_Oth._ Nor send you out o' the way?[6394]
_Emil._ Never.[6395]
_Oth._ To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?[6396]
_Emil._ Never, my lord. 10
_Oth._ That's strange.
_Emil._ I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake: if you think other,
Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom.
If any wretch have put this in your head,[6397] 15
Let heaven requite it with the serpent's curse![6398]
For if she be not honest, chaste and true,
There's no man happy; the purest of their wives[6399]
Is foul as slander.
_Oth._ Bid her come hither: go. [_Exit Emilia._[6400]
She says enough: yet she's a simple bawd 20
That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,[6401]
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets:[6402]
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.
_Enter_ DESDEMONA _with_ EMILIA.[6403]
_Des._ My lord, what is your will?
_Oth._ Pray, chuck, come hither.[6404]
_Des._ What is your pleasure?
_Oth._ Let me see your eyes;[6405] 25
Look in my face.[6405]
_Des._ What horrible fancy's this?
_Oth._ [_To Emilia_] Some of your function, mistress;[6406]
Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
Cough, or cry hem, if any body come:
Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch. [_Exit Emilia._[6407] 30
_Des._ Upon my knees, what doth your speech import?[6408]
I understand a fury in your words,
But not the words.[6409][6410]
_Oth._ Why, what art thou?[6410]
_Des._ Your wife, my lord; your true and loyal wife.[6410] 35
_Oth._ Come, swear it, damn thyself;[6410][6411]
Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves[6411][6412]
Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double-damn'd;[6411][6413]
Swear thou art honest.[6411]
_Des._ Heaven doth truly know it.
_Oth._ Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.[6414] 40
_Des._ To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?[6415]
_Oth._ O Desdemona! Away! away! away![6416]
_Des._ Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?[6417]
Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?[6418]
If haply you my father do suspect[6419] 45
An instrument of this your calling back,
Lay not your blame on me: if you have lost him,[6420][6421]
Why, I have lost him too.[6421]
_Oth._ Had it pleased heaven[6422]
To try me with affliction; had they rain'd[6423]
All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head,[6424] 50
Steep'd me in poverty to the very lips,
Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,[6425]
I should have found in some place of my soul[6426]
A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me[6427]
A fixed figure for the time of scorn[6428] 55
To point his slow unmoving finger at![6428]
Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:
But there, where I have garner'd up my heart,
Where either I must live or bear no life,
The fountain from the which my current runs,[6429] 60
Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!
Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads[6430]
To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,[6431][6432]
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin,[6431][6433]
Ay, there, look grim as hell![6431][6434] 65
_Des._ I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.[6435]
_Oth._ O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,[6436]
That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,[6437][6438]
Who art so lovely fair and smell'st so sweet[6437][6439]
That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been
born![6437][6440] 70
_Des._ Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?
_Oth._ Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed![6441]
Committed! O thou public commoner![6442]
I should make very forges of my cheeks,[6442][6443] 75
That would to cinders burn up modesty,[6442]
Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed![6442][6444]
Heaven stops the nose at it, and the moon winks;
The bawdy wind, that kisses all it meets,
Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,[6445] 80
And will not hear it. What committed![6446]
Impudent strumpet![6447]
_Des._ By heaven, you do me wrong.
_Oth._ Are not you a strumpet?
_Des._ No, as I am a Christian:
If to preserve this vessel for my lord
From any other foul unlawful touch[6448] 85
Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
_Oth._ What, not a whore?
_Des._ No, as I shall be saved.
_Oth._ Is't possible?
_Des._ O, heaven forgive us!
_Oth._ I cry you mercy then:[6449]
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice 90
That married with Othello. [_Raising his voice_] You, mistress,[6450]
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!
_Re-enter_ EMILIA.
You, you, ay, you![6451]
We have done our course; there's money for your pains:[6452]
I pray you, turn the key, and keep our counsel. [_Exit._ 95
_Emil._ Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?
How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?
_Des._ Faith, half asleep.
_Emil._ Good madam, what's the matter with my lord?[6453]
_Des._ With who?[6454] 100
_Emil._ Why, with my lord, madam.[6455]
_Des._ Who is thy lord?
_Emil._ He that is yours, sweet lady.[6456]
_Des._ I have none: do not talk to me, Emilia;[6457]
I cannot weep, nor answer have I none[6458]
But what should go by water. Prithee, to-night[6459] 105
Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember;[6460]
And call thy husband hither.
_Emil._ Here's a change indeed! [_Exit._[6461]
_Des._ 'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.[6462]
How have I been behaved, that he might stick
The small'st opinion on my least misuse? 110
_Re-enter_ EMILIA _with_ IAGO.[6463]
_Iago._ What is your pleasure, madam? How is't with you?[6464]
_Des._ I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes[6465]
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,[6466]
I am a child to chiding.
_Iago._ What's the matter, lady?[6467] 115
_Emil._ Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her,
Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her,
As true hearts cannot bear.[6468]
_Des._ Am I that name, Iago?
_Iago._ What name, fair lady?
_Des._ Such as she says my lord did say I was.[6469] 120
_Emil._ He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.[6470]
_Iago._ Why did he so?
_Des._ I do not know; I am sure I am none such.[6471]
_Iago._ Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day! 125
_Emil._ Hath she forsook so many noble matches,[6472]
Her father and her country and her friends,[6473]
To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?
_Des._ It is my wretched fortune.
_Iago._ Beshrew him for't![6474][6475]
How comes this trick upon him?[6474]
_Des._ Nay, heaven doth know. 130
_Emil._ I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander; I'll be hang'd else.[6476]
_Iago._ Fie, there is no such man; it is impossible. 135
_Des._ If any such there be, heaven pardon him![6477]
_Emil._ A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones![6478]
Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?[6478]
What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?[6478]
The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,[6479] 140
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,[6480]
And put in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world[6481]
Even from the east to the west!
_Iago._ Speak within door.[6482] 145
_Emil._ O, fie upon them! Some such squire he was[6483]
That turn'd your wit the seamy side without,
And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
_Iago._ You are a fool; go to.
_Des._ O good Iago,[6484]
What shall I do to win my lord again? 150
Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,[6485]
I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:[6486][6487]
If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love[6487]
Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,[6487][6488]
Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,[6487] 155
Delighted them in any other form,[6487][6489]
Or that I do not yet, and ever did,[6487]
And ever will, though he do shake me off[6487]
To beggarly divorcement, love him dearly,[6487]
Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;[6487][6490] 160
And his unkindness may defeat my life,[6487]
But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore':[6487][6491]
It doth abhor me now I speak the word;[6487][6492]
To do the act that might the addition earn[6487]
Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.[6487] 165
_Iago._ I pray you, be content; 'tis but his humour:
The business of the state does him offence,
And he does chide with you.[6493]
_Des._ If 'twere no other,--
_Iago._ 'Tis but so, I warrant. [_Trumpets within._[6494]
Hark, how these instruments summon to supper![6495] 170
The messengers of Venice stay the meat:[6496]
Go in, and weep not; all things shall be well.
[_Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia._[6497]
_Enter_ RODERIGO.
How now, Roderigo![6498]
_Rod._ I do not find that thou dealest justly with me.[6499]
_Iago._ What in the contrary? 175
_Rod._ Every day thou daffest me with some device,[6500][6501]
Iago; and rather, as it seems to me now, keepest from me[6502][6501]
all conveniency than suppliest me with the least advantage[6501][6503][6504]
of hope. I will indeed no longer endure it; nor am I yet[6501][6504]
persuaded to put up in peace what already I have foolishly[6501] 180
suffered.[6501]
_Iago._ Will you hear me, Roderigo?
_Rod._ Faith, I have heard too much; for your words[6505][6506]
and performances are no kin together.[6506][6507]
_Iago._ You charge me most unjustly. 185
_Rod._ With nought but truth. I have wasted myself[6508]
out of my means. The jewels you have had from me to[6509]
deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a votarist:[6510]
you have told me she hath received them and returned[6511]
me expectations and comforts of sudden respect[6512] 190
and acquaintance; but I find none.[6513]
_Iago._ Well; go to; very well.[6514]
_Rod._ Very well! go to! I cannot go to, man; nor 'tis[6515]
not very well: by this hand, I say 'tis very scurvy, and[6516]
begin to find myself fopped in it.[6517] 195
_Iago._ Very well.
_Rod._ I tell you 'tis not very well. I will make myself[6518]
known to Desdemona: if she will return me my jewels, I
will give over my suit and repent my unlawful solicitation;
if not, assure yourself I will seek satisfaction of you.[6519] 200
_Iago._ You have said now.[6520]
_Rod._ Ay, and said nothing but what I protest intendment[6521][6522]
of doing.[6522]
_Iago._ Why, now I see there's mettle in thee; and even
from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than[6523] 205
ever before. Give me thy hand, Roderigo: thou hast taken
against me a most just exception; but yet, I protest, I[6524]
have dealt most directly in thy affair.[6525]
_Rod._ It hath not appeared.
_Iago._ I grant indeed it hath not appeared, and your 210
suspicion is not without wit and judgement. But, Roderigo,
if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason[6526]
to believe now than ever, I mean purpose, courage
and valour, this night show it: if thou the next night following
enjoy not Desdemona, take me from this world[6527] 215
with treachery and devise engines for my life.
_Rod._ Well, what is it? is it within reason and compass?[6528]
_Iago._ Sir, there is especial commission come from[6529][6530]
Venice to depute Cassio in Othello's place.[6530]
_Rod._ Is that true? why then Othello and Desdemona[6530] 220
return again to Venice.[6530]
_Iago._ O, no; he goes into Mauritania, and takes away[6530][6531]
with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered[6530]
here by some accident: wherein none can be so determinate[6530][6532]
as the removing of Cassio.[6530] 225
_Rod._ How do you mean, removing of him?[6530][6533]
_Iago._ Why, by making him uncapable of Othello's[6530][6534]
place; knocking out his brains.[6530]
_Rod._ And that you would have me to do?[6535]
_Iago._ Ay, if you dare do yourself a profit and a right.[6536] 230
He sups to-night with a harlotry, and thither will I go to him:[6537]
he knows not yet of his honourable fortune. If you will
watch his going thence, which I will fashion to fall out between
twelve and one, you may take him at your pleasure:
I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between 235
us. Come, stand not amazed at it, but go along with
me; I will show you such a necessity in his death that you
shall think yourself bound to put it on him. It is now high[6538]
supper-time, and the night grows to waste: about it.[6539]
_Rod._ I will hear further reason for this. 240
_Iago._ And you shall be satisfied. [_Exeunt._[6540]
SCENE III. _Another room in the castle._
_Enter_ OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA, _and_ Attendants.[6541]
_Lod._ I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.[6542]
_Oth._ O, pardon me; 'twill do me good to walk.[6543]
_Lod._ Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.
_Des._ Your honour is most welcome.