Emil. O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak'st of I found by fortune and did give my husband;

For often with a solemn earnestness,

More than indeed belong'd to such a trifle,

He begg'd of me to steal it.

Iago.

Villanous whore !

Emil. She gives it Cassio! no, alas, I found it,
And I did give 't my husband.

Iago.
Filth, thou liest !
Emil. By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.
O murderous coxcomb! what should such a fool
Do with so good a wife?

Oth.

Are there no stones in heaven But what serve for the thunder? Precious villain !

[He runs at Iago: Iago, from behind, stabs Emilia, and exit.
Gra. The woman falls; sure, he hath kill'd his wife.
Emil. Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress' side.
Gra. He's gone, but his wife's kill'd.

Mon. 'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,
Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:
Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,
But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,
For 'tis a damned slave.

[Exeunt all but Othello and Emilia.
Oth.
I am not valiant neither,
But every puny whipster gets my sword.
But why should honour outlive honesty?
Let it go all.

Emil.

What did thy song bode, lady?
Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan,
And die in music. [Singing] Willow, willow, willow.
Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;
So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;
So speaking as I think, I die, I die.

Oth. I have another weapon in this chamber;

It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper.--
O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.

Gra. [Within] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear:
Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.
Oth. Look in upon me then, and speak with me,

[Dies.

Or naked as I am, I will assault thee.

Re-enter Gratiano.

Gra. What is the matter?

Oth.

Behold, I have a weapon;

A better never did itself sustain

Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day
That with this little arm and this good sword
I have made my way through more impediments
Than twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!
Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.
Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear:
Man but a rush against Othello's breast,
And he retires. Where should Othello go?
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench!
Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!
Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave !
Whip me, ye devils,

From the possession of this heavenly sight!
Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur !
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!

O Desdemona! Desdemona ! dead!

Oh! Oh! Oh!

Enter Lodovico, Montano, Cassio carried in a chair, and Officers with Iago, prisoner.

Lod. Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?

Oth. That's he that was Othello: here I am.

Lod. Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.

Oth. I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable.

If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee. [Wounds Iago. Lod. Wrench his sword from him.

Iago.
Oth. I am not sorry neither: I'ld have thee live ;
For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.

I bleed, sir, but not kill'd.

Lod. O thou Othello, that wert once so good,
Fall'n in the practice of a damned slave,

What shall be said to thee?

Oth.

Why, any thing:

An honourable murderer, if you will;

For nought did I in hate, but all in honour. Lod. This wretch hath part confess'd his villany:

Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?
Oth. Ay.
Cas. Dear general, I never gave you cause.
Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil

Why he hath thus ensnared my soul and body? Iago. Demand me nothing; what you know, you know: From this time forth I never will speak word.

Lod. What, not to pray?

Gra.

Torments will ope your lips.

Oth. Well, thou dost best.

Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,
Which, as I think, you know not.

Here is a letter

Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo,

And here another: the one of them imports
The death of Cassio to be undertook
By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain !

Cas.

Most heathenish and most gross!

Lod. Now here's another discontented paper,
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;
But that, belike, Iago in the interim

Came in and satisfied him.

Oth.

O the pernicious caitiff!

I found it in my chamber:

How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
That was my wife's?

Cas.

And he himself confess'd but even now
That there he dropp'd it for a special purpose
Which wrought to his desire.

O fool! fool! fool!

Oth.
Cas. There is besides in Roderigo's letter,
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: and even but now he spake
After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,
Iago set him on.

Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us:
Your power and your command is taken off,
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,
If there be any cunning cruelty

That can torment him much and hold him long
It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known

To the Venetian state. Come, bring away.
Oth. Soft you; a word or two before you go.

I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
No more of that. I pray you,

in your letters,

When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away

Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog
And smote him, thus.
Lod. O bloody period!
Gra.

[Stabs himself.

All that's spoke is marr'd. Oth. I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

[Falls on the bed, and dies. Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;

For he was great of heart.

Lod. [To Iago]

O Spartan dog,

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;
Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain,
The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard, and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

ANTONY,

DRAMATIS PERSONA

QUCANIDIUS, lieutenant-general to Antony.
SILIUS, an officer in Ventidius's army.
EUPHRONIUS, an ambassador from

SPO Antony to Cæsar.E13791
ALEXAS,

bus nein Aarald fofT CLEOPATRA, queen of Egypt.

OCTAVIA, sister to Cæsar, and wife to De Antony. Doignot-linda nad W CHARMIAN, attendants on Cleopatra.

Officers, Soldiers, Messengers, and other Attendants. Et sd1 70
SCENE: In several parts of the Roman Empire. Smalini

Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace.
Enter Demetrius and Philo.

Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and devotion of their view

Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,
And is become the bellows and the fan

To cool a gipsy's lust.

Flourish. Enter Antony, Cleopatra, her Ladies, the train, with

Eunuchs fanning her.

Look, where they come :

Take but good note, and you shall see in him

The triple pillar of the world transform'd

Into a strumpet's fool: behold and see.

Cleo. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

Ant. There's beggary in the love that can be reckon❜d.

Cleo. I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.

Ant. Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

Enter an Attendant.

Att. News, my good lord, from Rome.

Ant.

VOL. III.

737

Grates me: the sum.

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