Reading Help THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, MOOR OF VENICE
IAGO. Farewell, for I must leave you. `
` It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, `
` To be produced- as, if I stay, I shall- `
` Against the Moor; for I do know, the state, `
` However this may gall him with some check, `
` Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd `
` With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars, `
` Which even now stands in act, that, for their souls, `
` Another of his fathom they have none `
` To lead their business; in which regard, `
` Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, `
` Yet for necessity of present life, `
` I must show out a flag and sign of love, `
` Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him, `
` Lead to the Sagittary the raised search, `
` And there will I be with him. So farewell. `
` Exit. `
` `
` Enter, below, Brabantio, in his nightgown, and `
` Servants with torches. `
` `
` BRABANTIO. It is too true an evil: gone she is, `
` And what's to come of my despised time `
` Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo, `
` Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl! `
` With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father! `
` How didst thou know 'twas she? O, she deceives me `
` Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers. `
` Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you? `
` RODERIGO. Truly, I think they are. `
` BRABANTIO. O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood! `
` Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds `
` By what you see them act. Is there not charms `
` By which the property of youth and maidhood `
` May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo, `
` Of some such thing? `
` RODERIGO. Yes, sir, I have indeed. `
` BRABANTIO. Call up my brother. O, would you had had her! `
` Some one way, some another. Do you know `
` Where we may apprehend her and the Moor? `
` RODERIGO. I think I can discover him, if you please `
` To get good guard and go along with me. `
` BRABANTIO. Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; `
` I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! `
` And raise some special officers of night. `
` On, good Roderigo, I'll deserve your pains. `
` Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE II. `
` Another street. `
` `
` Enter Othello, Iago, and Attendants with torches. `
` `
` IAGO. Though in the trade of war I have slain men, `
` Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience `
` To do no contrived murther. I lack iniquity `
` Sometimes to do me service. Nine or ten times `
` I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs. `
` OTHELLO. 'Tis better as it is. `
` IAGO. Nay, but he prated `
` And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms `
` Against your honor `
` That, with the little godliness I have, `
` I did full hard forbear him. But I pray you, sir, `
` Are you fast married? Be assured of this, `
` That the magnifico is much beloved, `
` And hath in his effect a voice potential `
` As double as the Duke's. He will divorce you, `
` Or put upon you what restraint and grievance `
` The law, with all his might to enforce it on, `
` Will give him cable. `
` OTHELLO. Let him do his spite. `
` My services, which I have done the signiory, `
` Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know- `
` Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, `
` I shall promulgate- I fetch my life and being `
` From men of royal siege, and my demerits `
` May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune `
` As this that I have reach'd. For know, Iago, `
` But that I love the gentle Desdemona, `
` I would not my unhoused free condition `
` Put into circumscription and confine `
` For the sea's worth. But, look! What lights come yond? `
` IAGO. Those are the raised father and his friends. `
` You were best go in. `
` OTHELLO. Not I; I must be found. `
` My parts, my title, and my perfect soul `
` Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they? `
` IAGO. By Janus, I think no. `
` `
` Enter Cassio and certain Officers with torches. `
` `
` OTHELLO. The servants of the Duke? And my lieutenant? `
` The goodness of the night upon you, friends! `
` What is the news? `
` CASSIO. The Duke does greet you, general, `
` And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance, `
` Even on the instant. `
` OTHELLO. What is the matter, think you? `
` CASSIO. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine; `
` It is a business of some heat. The galleys `
` Have sent a dozen sequent messengers `
` This very night at one another's heels; `
` And many of the consuls, raised and met, `
` Are at the Duke's already. You have been hotly call'd for, `
` When, being not at your lodging to be found, `
` The Senate hath sent about three several quests `
` To search you out. `
` OTHELLO. 'Tis well I am found by you. `
` I will but spend a word here in the house `
` And go with you. `
` Exit. `
` CASSIO. Ancient, what makes he here? `
` IAGO. Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carack; `
` If it prove lawful prize, he's made forever. `
` CASSIO. I do not understand. `
` IAGO. He's married. `
` CASSIO. To who? `
` `
` Re-enter Othello. `
` `
` IAGO. Marry, to- Come, captain, will you go? `
` OTHELLO. Have with you. `
` CASSIO. Here comes another troop to seek for you. `
` IAGO. It is Brabantio. General, be advised, `
` He comes to bad intent. `
` `
` Enter Brabantio, Roderigo, and Officers with torches `
` and weapons. `
` `
` OTHELLO. Holla! Stand there! `
` RODERIGO. Signior, it is the Moor. `
` BRABANTIO. Down with him, thief! `
` They draw on both `
` sides. `
` IAGO. You, Roderigo! Come, sir, I am for you. `
` OTHELLO. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust `
` them. `
` Good signior, you shall more command with years `
` Than with your weapons. `
` BRABANTIO. O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my `
` daughter? `
` Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her, `
` For I'll refer me to all things of sense, `
` If she in chains of magic were not bound, `
` Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, `
` So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd `
` The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation, `
` Would ever have, to incur a general mock, `
` Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom `
` Of such a thing as thou- to fear, not to delight. `
` Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense `
` That thou hast practiced on her with foul charms, `
` Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals `
` That weaken motion. I'll have't disputed on; `
` 'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking. `
` I therefore apprehend and do attach thee `
` For an abuser of the world, a practicer `
` Of arts inhibited and out of warrant. `
` Lay hold upon him. If he do resist, `
` Subdue him at his peril. `
` OTHELLO. Hold your hands, `
` Both you of my inclining and the rest. `
` Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it `
` Without a prompter. Where will you that I go `
` To answer this your charge? `
` BRABANTIO. To prison, till fit time `
` Of law and course of direct session `
` Call thee to answer. `
` OTHELLO. What if I do obey? `
` How may the Duke be therewith satisfied, `
` Whose messengers are here about my side, `
` Upon some present business of the state `
` To bring me to him? `
` FIRST OFFICER. 'Tis true, most worthy signior; `
` The Duke's in council, and your noble self, `
` I am sure, is sent for. `
` BRABANTIO. How? The Duke in council? `
` In this time of the night? Bring him away; `
` Mine's not an idle cause. The Duke himself, `
` Or any of my brothers of the state, `
` Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own; `
` For if such actions may have passage free, `
` Bond slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. `
` Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE III. `
` A council chamber. The Duke and Senators sitting at a table; `
` Officers attending. `
` `
` DUKE. There is no composition in these news `
` That gives them credit. `
` FIRST SENATOR. Indeed they are disproportion'd; `
` My letters say a hundred and seven galleys. `
` DUKE. And mine, a hundred and forty. `
`
` It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, `
` To be produced- as, if I stay, I shall- `
` Against the Moor; for I do know, the state, `
` However this may gall him with some check, `
` Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd `
` With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars, `
` Which even now stands in act, that, for their souls, `
` Another of his fathom they have none `
` To lead their business; in which regard, `
` Though I do hate him as I do hell pains, `
` Yet for necessity of present life, `
` I must show out a flag and sign of love, `
` Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him, `
` Lead to the Sagittary the raised search, `
` And there will I be with him. So farewell. `
` Exit. `
` `
` Enter, below, Brabantio, in his nightgown, and `
` Servants with torches. `
` `
` BRABANTIO. It is too true an evil: gone she is, `
` And what's to come of my despised time `
` Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo, `
` Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl! `
` With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father! `
` How didst thou know 'twas she? O, she deceives me `
` Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers. `
` Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you? `
` RODERIGO. Truly, I think they are. `
` BRABANTIO. O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood! `
` Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds `
` By what you see them act. Is there not charms `
` By which the property of youth and maidhood `
` May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo, `
` Of some such thing? `
` RODERIGO. Yes, sir, I have indeed. `
` BRABANTIO. Call up my brother. O, would you had had her! `
` Some one way, some another. Do you know `
` Where we may apprehend her and the Moor? `
` RODERIGO. I think I can discover him, if you please `
` To get good guard and go along with me. `
` BRABANTIO. Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call; `
` I may command at most. Get weapons, ho! `
` And raise some special officers of night. `
` On, good Roderigo, I'll deserve your pains. `
` Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE II. `
` Another street. `
` `
` Enter Othello, Iago, and Attendants with torches. `
` `
` IAGO. Though in the trade of war I have slain men, `
` Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience `
` To do no contrived murther. I lack iniquity `
` Sometimes to do me service. Nine or ten times `
` I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs. `
` OTHELLO. 'Tis better as it is. `
` IAGO. Nay, but he prated `
` And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms `
` Against your honor `
` That, with the little godliness I have, `
` I did full hard forbear him. But I pray you, sir, `
` Are you fast married? Be assured of this, `
` That the magnifico is much beloved, `
` And hath in his effect a voice potential `
` As double as the Duke's. He will divorce you, `
` Or put upon you what restraint and grievance `
` The law, with all his might to enforce it on, `
` Will give him cable. `
` OTHELLO. Let him do his spite. `
` My services, which I have done the signiory, `
` Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know- `
` Which, when I know that boasting is an honor, `
` I shall promulgate- I fetch my life and being `
` From men of royal siege, and my demerits `
` May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune `
` As this that I have reach'd. For know, Iago, `
` But that I love the gentle Desdemona, `
` I would not my unhoused free condition `
` Put into circumscription and confine `
` For the sea's worth. But, look! What lights come yond? `
` IAGO. Those are the raised father and his friends. `
` You were best go in. `
` OTHELLO. Not I; I must be found. `
` My parts, my title, and my perfect soul `
` Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they? `
` IAGO. By Janus, I think no. `
` `
` Enter Cassio and certain Officers with torches. `
` `
` OTHELLO. The servants of the Duke? And my lieutenant? `
` The goodness of the night upon you, friends! `
` What is the news? `
` CASSIO. The Duke does greet you, general, `
` And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance, `
` Even on the instant. `
` OTHELLO. What is the matter, think you? `
` CASSIO. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine; `
` It is a business of some heat. The galleys `
` Have sent a dozen sequent messengers `
` This very night at one another's heels; `
` And many of the consuls, raised and met, `
` Are at the Duke's already. You have been hotly call'd for, `
` When, being not at your lodging to be found, `
` The Senate hath sent about three several quests `
` To search you out. `
` OTHELLO. 'Tis well I am found by you. `
` I will but spend a word here in the house `
` And go with you. `
` Exit. `
` CASSIO. Ancient, what makes he here? `
` IAGO. Faith, he tonight hath boarded a land carack; `
` If it prove lawful prize, he's made forever. `
` CASSIO. I do not understand. `
` IAGO. He's married. `
` CASSIO. To who? `
` `
` Re-enter Othello. `
` `
` IAGO. Marry, to- Come, captain, will you go? `
` OTHELLO. Have with you. `
` CASSIO. Here comes another troop to seek for you. `
` IAGO. It is Brabantio. General, be advised, `
` He comes to bad intent. `
` `
` Enter Brabantio, Roderigo, and Officers with torches `
` and weapons. `
` `
` OTHELLO. Holla! Stand there! `
` RODERIGO. Signior, it is the Moor. `
` BRABANTIO. Down with him, thief! `
` They draw on both `
` sides. `
` IAGO. You, Roderigo! Come, sir, I am for you. `
` OTHELLO. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust `
` them. `
` Good signior, you shall more command with years `
` Than with your weapons. `
` BRABANTIO. O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my `
` daughter? `
` Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her, `
` For I'll refer me to all things of sense, `
` If she in chains of magic were not bound, `
` Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, `
` So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd `
` The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation, `
` Would ever have, to incur a general mock, `
` Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom `
` Of such a thing as thou- to fear, not to delight. `
` Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense `
` That thou hast practiced on her with foul charms, `
` Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals `
` That weaken motion. I'll have't disputed on; `
` 'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking. `
` I therefore apprehend and do attach thee `
` For an abuser of the world, a practicer `
` Of arts inhibited and out of warrant. `
` Lay hold upon him. If he do resist, `
` Subdue him at his peril. `
` OTHELLO. Hold your hands, `
` Both you of my inclining and the rest. `
` Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it `
` Without a prompter. Where will you that I go `
` To answer this your charge? `
` BRABANTIO. To prison, till fit time `
` Of law and course of direct session `
` Call thee to answer. `
` OTHELLO. What if I do obey? `
` How may the Duke be therewith satisfied, `
` Whose messengers are here about my side, `
` Upon some present business of the state `
` To bring me to him? `
` FIRST OFFICER. 'Tis true, most worthy signior; `
` The Duke's in council, and your noble self, `
` I am sure, is sent for. `
` BRABANTIO. How? The Duke in council? `
` In this time of the night? Bring him away; `
` Mine's not an idle cause. The Duke himself, `
` Or any of my brothers of the state, `
` Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own; `
` For if such actions may have passage free, `
` Bond slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. `
` Exeunt. `
` `
` `
` `
` `
` SCENE III. `
` A council chamber. The Duke and Senators sitting at a table; `
` Officers attending. `
` `
` DUKE. There is no composition in these news `
` That gives them credit. `
` FIRST SENATOR. Indeed they are disproportion'd; `
` My letters say a hundred and seven galleys. `
` DUKE. And mine, a hundred and forty. `
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