Fall'n in the practice of a damned flave, What shall be faid to thee? Oth. Why any thing; An honourable murderer, if you will, For nought did I in hate, but all in honour. Oth, Ay, Caf, Dear General, I did never give you cause. 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 beft. i Lod. Sir, you fhall understand what hath befall'n, Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter, Found in the pocket of the flain Roderigo, k And here another; the one of them imports The death of Caffie to be undertook Lod. Now here's another difcontented paper, Oth. O the pernicious caitiff! How came you, Caffie, by a handkerchief Caf. I found it in my chamber; And he himself confeftit ? but even now, Oth. O fool, fool, fool! Caf. There is, befides, in Roderigo's letter, Jago fet him on. Lod. You must forfake this room, and go with us; And Caffio rules in Cyprus. For this flave, That can torment him much, and hold him long, It fhall be his. You fhall close prifoner reft, Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go. When you shall thefe unlucky deeds relate, x Speak of them as they are; nothing extenuate, Nor fet down ought in malice. Then muft you speak Richer than all his tribe; of one, whofe fubdued eyes, Dropt tears as faft as the Arabian trees down this. Their medicinal gum. So the qu's; the reft omit bim. y The 2d q. you must for must you. So the qu's and three laft fo's, R. and P; the ft f. H. and J. Judean ; T. and W. Judian; and they suppose Shakespeare to allude to the ftory of He roi and Mariamne. Vide Hearb in loc. Upton propofes to read Egyptian, allu ding to the Ethiopian romance of Helms a P.T. H. and W. omit fubdued. d The fo's, Turbond Turk. с I took by th' throat, the circumcifed dog, And fimote him thus. Lod. O bloody period! f Gra. All that's fpoke is marr'd. [Stabs binfelf Oth. I kift thee ere I kill'd thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kifs. [Die. Caf. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was of great heart. Led. O Spartan dog! 17% Iago More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea! The time, the place, the torture, oh inforce it. This heavy act, with heavy heart, relate. [Exeunt i The qu's, lodging. Almoft, if not intirely, throughost the whole play, the 1ft q. reads banda g Here C. directs [ibrowing himself by kercher for bandkerchief, ba for baut; bis wife. h. The ad q. targicked bas for bath, does for dotb. FINI S |