I hope you will consider what is spoke Comes from my love :-But, I do see you are mov'd :- To grosser issues, nor to larger reach, Than to suspicion. ОTн. I will not. IAGO. Should you do so, my lord, My speech should fall into such vile success Which my thoughts aim'd not. Cassio's my worthy friend :— My lord, I see you are mov'd. Отн. No, not much mov'd: I do not think but Desdemona 's honest. IAGO. Long live she so! and long live you to think so! Отн. And yet, how nature erring from itself,— IAGO. Ay, there's the point:-As,-to be bold with you, Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree ;- Отн. Farewell, farewell: If more thou dost perceive let me know more ; IAGO. My lord, I take my leave. [Going. OTH. Why did I marry?—This honest creature, doubtless, Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds. IAGO. My lord, I would I might entreat your honour To scan this thing no farther; leave it to time: Much will be seen in that. In the mean time, And hold her free, I do beseech your honour. ОTH. This fellow's of exceeding honesty, For other's uses. Yet 't is the plague of great ones; 'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death; Even then this forked plague is fated to us, Enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA. If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!- DES. How now, my dear Othello? Your dinner, and the generous islanders OTH. I am to blame. DES. Are you not well? Why do you speak so faintly? ОтH. I have a pain upon my forehead here. {Exit DES. Why, that's with watching; 't will away again: Let me but bind it hard, within this hour [He puts the handkerchief from him, and it drops. Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you. [Exeunt OTHELLO and DESD. EMIL. I am glad I have found this napkin; To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out, What he will do with it heaven knows, not I. I nothing, but to please his fantasy. Enter IAGO. IAGO. How now! what do you here alone? IAGO. To have a foolish wife. EMIL. O, is that all? What will you give me now For that same handkerchief? IAGO. EMIL. What handkerchief? What handkerchief? Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona ; IAGO. Hast stolen it from her? EMIL. No; but she let it drop by negligence: And, to the advantage, I, being here, took 't up. Look, here it is. IAGO. A good wench; give it me. EMIL. What will you do with 't, that you have been so earnest To have me filch it? IAGO. Why, what's that to you? [Snatching it. EMIL. If it be not for some purpose of import, Give 't me again: Poor lady! she 'll run mad When she shall lack it. IAGO. Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it. Go, leave me. I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, [Exit EMILIA And let him find it. Trifles, light as air, Отн. Enter OTHELLO. Ha ha! false to me? IAGO. Why, how now, general? no more of that. ОTH. Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack. I swear, 't is better to be much abus'd, Than but to know 't a little. IAGO. How now, my lord? Отн. What sense had I of her stolen hours of lust? I saw 't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me: I slept the next night well, fed well, was free and merry ; I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips: He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know 't, and he 's not robb'd at all. OTн. I had been happy, if the general camp, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war! And O you mortal engines, whose rude throats IAGO. Is 't possible, my lord? ОTH. Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore ; Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof; [Taking him by the throat. Or, by the worth of mine eternal soul, IAGO. Is 't come to this? Oтн. Make me 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! IAGO. My noble lord, ОTH. If thou dost slander her, and torture me, Never pray more: abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate: Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amaz'd, IAGO. O grace ! O heaven forgive me! O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world, I thank you for this profit; and, from hence, By the world, Отн. I'll not endure it.-Would I were satisfied! |