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A council-chamber. The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers
attending
DUKE
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There's no | compo|sition | in these^news,
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That gives || them credit.
FIRST SENATOR
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Indeed,| they are | dispro|portioned;
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My let|ters say,| a hund|red and seven
| galleys.
DUKE
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And mine | a hund|red for|ty.
SECOND SENATOR
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And mine | two hundred:
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But though | they jump | not on | a just |
account,
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(As in | these cas|es where | the aim | reports,
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'Tis oft | with dif|ference) yet do | they all |
confirm
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A Turk|ish fleet,| and bear|ing up | to Cyp||rus.
DUKE
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Nay,| it is | possible e|nough to | judgment:
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I do | not so | secure | me in | the error,
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But the / main art|icle | I do | approve
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In fear|ful sense.
SAILOR
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What ho,| what ho,| what ho.
FIRST OFFICER
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A mes|senger from | the gal|leys.
DUKE
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Now?| What's the bus||iness?
SAILOR
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The Turk|ish prep|ara|tion makes | for Rhodes,
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So was | I bid | report | here to | the state,
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By sign|ior Ang|elo. \\
DUKE
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How say | you by | this change?
FIRST SENATOR
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This can|not be
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By no | assay | of reason.| 'Tis a | pageant
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To keep | us in / false gaze,| when we con|sider
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The import|ancy | of Cyp|rus to | the Turk,
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And let | ourselves | again | but und|erstand,
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That as | it more | concerns | the Turk | than
Rhodes,
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So may | he with more | facile | question | bear
it,
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For that | it stands | not in such^|warlike
brace,
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But al|togeth|er lacks | the abil|ities
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That Rhodes | is dressed | in, if | we make |
thought of this,
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We must^not | think the | Turk is | so un|skillful,
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To leave | that lat|est which | concerns | him
first,
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Neglect|ing an | attempt | of ease | and gain
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To wake,| and wage | a dang|er prof|itless.
DUKE
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Nay, in all con|fidence | he's not | for
Rhodes.
FIRST OFFICER
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Here is more | news.
[Enter a MESSENGER]
MESSENGER
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The | Ottomites,| reverend, and | gracious,
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Steering | with due | course towards the isle |
of Rhodes,
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Have there | injoint|ed them | with an aft|er fleet.
FIRST SENATOR
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Aye, so | I thought:| How ma|ny, as | you guess?
MESSENGER
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Of thir|ty sail:| and now | they do | restem
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Their back|ward course,| bearing with | frank
ap|pearance
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Their pur|poses toward | Cyprus.| signior
Mon|tano,
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Your trust|y and / most val|iant serv|itor,
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With his / free du|ty, rec|ommends | you thus,
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And prays | you to believe | him.
DUKE
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'Tis cert|ain then | for Cyp||rus:
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Mar|cus Lucci|cos is | not^he | in town?
FIRST SENATOR
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He's now | in Flo|rence.
DUKE
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Write | from us,|
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To him,| Post, post-haste,| dispatch. \\
FIRST SENATOR
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Here comes | Braban|tio,| and the val|iant Moor.
[Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers]
DUKE
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Valiant | Othel|lo, we | must straight | employ
|| you
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Against | the gene|ral en|emy | Ottoman.
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I did | not see | you: wel|come gentle | signior,
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We lacked | your couns|el, and | your help |
tonight.
BRABANTIO
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So did | I yours:| good your | grace pard/on me.
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Neither my | place, nor | aught I | heard of |
business
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Hath raised | me from my bed;| nor doth | the gene|ral
care ??
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Take^hold | on me.| For my | partic|ular grief
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Is of so | flood-gate / and ore|bearing | nature,
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That it en|gluts, and | swallows | other
| sorrows,
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And it | is still | itself.
DUKE
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Why?| What's the matter?
BRABANTIO
My daughter: oh my daughter!
DUKE
Dead?
BRABANTIO
Aye, to me.
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She is | abused,| stolen from / me, and
cor|rupted
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By spells,| and med|icines, bought | of
mount|ebanks;
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For na|ture so | prepost|erously | to err,
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(Being not | defi|cient, blind,| or lame | of
sense)
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Sans witchcraft | could not. \\
DUKE
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Whoere | he be,| that in | this foul |
proceed||ing
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Hath thus | beguiled | your daught|er of |
herself,
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And you | of her;| the bloo|dy book | of law,
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You shall | yourself | read, in the | bitter |
letter,
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After your | own sense: yea,| though^our prop|er
son
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Stood in | your ac|tion.
BRABANTIO
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Hum|bly I thank | your grace,
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Here is | the man;| this Moor,| whom now | it seems
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Your spe|cial man|date,| for the state-|affairs
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Hath hith|er brought.
SENATOR
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We are ve|ry sor|ry for it.
DUKE
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What in | your own | part, can | you say | to
this?
BRABANTIO
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Nothing,| but this | is so. \\
OTHELLO
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Most pot|ent, grave,| and rev|erend | signiors,
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My ve|ry noble,| and ap/proved good | masters,
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That I have | tane a|way this | old
man's^|daughter,
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It is / most true:| true I | have mar|ried her;
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The ve|ry head | and front | of my of|fending,
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Hath this | extent;| no more.| Rude am I,| in my
speech,
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And lit|tle blessed | with the / soft phrase | of
peace;
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For since | these arms | of mine,| had seven years' pith,
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Till now | some nine | moons wast/ed, they | have
used
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Their dear|est ac|tion, in | the tent|ed field:
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And lit|tle of | this great | world can | I
speak,
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More than per|tains to | feats of | broil, and |
battle,
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And there|fore lit|tle shall | I grace | my cause,
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In speak|ing for myself.| Yet, (by your | gracious
| patience)
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I will | a round | unvarn|ished tale | deliv||er,
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Of my / whole course | of love.
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What drugs,|
what charms,
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What con|jura|tion, and what | mighty | magic,
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(For such | proceed|ing I | am charged | withal)
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I won | his daught|er.
BRABANTIO
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A maid|en nev|er bold:
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Of spirit | so* still,| and quiet,| that her |
motion
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Blushed at her|self, and | she, in | spite of |
nature,
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Of years,| of count|ry, cred|it, eve|ry thing
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To fall | in love,| with what | she feared | to
look || on;
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It | is a judg|ment maimed,| and most | imper||fect,
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That will | confess | perfec|tion so | could err
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Against all rules | of na|ture, and must | be
driven ??
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To find out prac|tices | of cun|ning hell
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Why this | should be.| I there|fore vouch | again,
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That with | some^mix|tures, power|ful ore | the blood,
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Or with | some^dram,| (conjured | to this |
effect)
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He wrought | upon | her.
DUKE
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To vouch | this, is / no proof,
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Without | more wid/er, and | more^ov/ert test
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Than these / thin hab|its, and / poor like|lihoods
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Of mod|ern seem|ing, do | prefer | against || him.
FIRST SENATOR
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But | Othel|lo, speak, \\
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Did you | by in|direct | and forced | courses
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Subdue,| and pois|on this young | maid's
af|fections?
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Or came | it by | request,| and such fair ques||tion
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As soul,| to soul | afford|eth?
OTHELLO
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I do | beseech || you,
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Send | for the la|dy to | the Sag|ittary,
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And let her | speak of | me be|fore her | father;
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If you | do find | me foul,| in her | report,
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The trust,| the of|fice, I | do hold | of you,
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Not on|ly take | away,| but let | your sent||ence
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oo
ev|en fall | upon | my life.|
DUKE
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Fetch Desdemon|a hith|er. \\
OTHELLO
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Ancient,| conduct | them;
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You | best know the place.
[Exeunt IAGO and Attendants]
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And till | she come,| as tru|ly as | to heaven,
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I do | confess | the vi|ces of | my blood.
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So just|ly to your // grave ears, I'll | present
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How I | did thrive | in this / fair la|dy's love,
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And she | in mine.
DUKE
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Say it | Othel|lo.
OTHELLO
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Her fath|er loved | me, oft | invit|ed me:
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Still* ques|tioned me | the sto|ry of | my life,
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From year | to year:| the battles,| sieges,|
fortune,
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That I | have passed. \\
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I ran | it through,| even from | my boy|ish days,
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To the ve|ry mom|ent that | he bade | me tell
it.
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Wherein | I spake | of most | disas|trous
chan||ces
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Of mov|ing ac|cidents | by flood | and field,
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Of hair-breadth scapes | in the im|minent
dead|ly breach;
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Of be|ing tak|en by | the ins|olent foe,
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And sold | to slave|ry. Of | my redemp|tion
thence,
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And port|ance in | my trav|els' hist|ory.
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Wherein of | antres | vast, and | deserts | idle,
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Rough quarries, rocks, and hills, whose heads touch
heaven, ????
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It was | my hint | to speak.| Such was the |
process,
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And of | the Can|nibals | that each^oth|er eat,
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The Anth|ropo/phagi | and men | whose heads
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Do grow | beneath their | shoulders.| These things to hear, ??
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Would Des|demo|na ser|iously | incline:
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But still | the house-|affairs | would draw | her
thence:
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Which ev|er as | she could | with haste |
dispatch,
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She'd come | again,| and with | a gree|dy ear
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Devour | up^my | discourse.| which I ob|serving,
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Took once a pli|ant hour,| and found good means
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To draw | from her | a prayer | of earn|est heart,
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That I | would all | my pil|grimage / dilate,
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Whereof | by par|cels she | had some|thing heard,
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But not | intent|ively:| I did | consent,
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And of|ten did | beguile | her of | her tears,
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When I | did speak | of some | distress|ful
stroke
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That my youth | suffered:| My sto|ry be|ing done,
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She gave | me for | my pains | a world | of
kisses:
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She swore | in faith | twas strange:| 'twas
pas|sing strange,
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'Twas pit|iful:| 'twas wond|rous pit|iful.
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She wished | she had / not heard | it, yet | she
wished
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That heaven | had made | her such | a man.| she
thanked || me, ??
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And bade | me, if | I had a | friend that | loved
her,
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I should | but teach | him how | to tell | my
sto||ry, ??
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And that | would woo | her. Upon | this hint
| I spake,
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She loved | me for | the dang|ers I | had passed,
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And I loved her,| that she | did pi|ty them.
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This^on|ly is | the witch|craft I | have used.
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Here comes | the la|dy: let | her wit|ness it.
[Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants]
DUKE
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I think | this tale | would win^/my
daught|er too,
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Good Braban|tio, take | up this mang|led mat|ter
at the best: ??
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Men^do | their brok|en weap|ons rath|er use,
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Than their / bare hands.
BRABANTIO
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I pray | you hear | her speak?
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If she | confess | that she | was half | the wooer,
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Destruc|tion on | my head,| if my / bad blame
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Light on the | man. Come^|hither | gentle |
mistress.
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Do you per|ceive in | all this | noble
| company,
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Where most | you owe | obed|ience?
DESDEMONA
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My nob|le fath||er,
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I do | perceive | here a di|vided | duty.
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To you | I am bound | for life,| and edu|cation;
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My life | and ed|uca|tion both | do learn || me,
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->
How | to respect | you. you | are the lord | of
du||ty,
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I am hitherto your daughter. But here's my husband; ????
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And so | much du|ty as | my moth|er showed
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To you,| prefer|ring you | before | her fath||er:
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So | much I | challenge,| that I | may profess
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Due to | the Moor | my lord. \\
BRABANTIO
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God be | with you:| I have | done.|
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Please it | your grace,| on to | the
state-|affairs;
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I had rath|er to | adopt | a child,| than get it.
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Come | hither | Moor; \\
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I here | do give | thee that | with all | my heart,
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Which but^thou | hast al|ready,| with all
| my heart
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I would | keep from / thee. For | your sake
(jewel)
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I am glad | at soul,| I have
| no oth|er child,
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For thy | escape | would teach | me tyr|anny
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To hang clogs on | them. I | have done | my lord.
DUKE
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Let me speak like | yourself:
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And lay a sent|ence, (tri with prev?)
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Which as a | grise, or | step may | help these |
lovers.
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When rem|edies | are past,| the griefs | are
end|ed
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By see|ing the worst,| which late | on hopes |
depend|ed. (hex with prev)
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To mourn | a mis|chief that | is past | and gone,
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Is the / next way | to draw new mis|chief on.
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What can|not be | preserved,| when for|tune takes:
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Patience,| her in|jury | a mock|ery makes.
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The robbed | that smiles,| steals some/thing from
| the thief,
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He robs | himself,| that spends | a boot|less grief.
BRABANTIO
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So let | the Turk | of Cyp|rus us | beguile,
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We lose | it not | so long | as we | can smile:
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He bears | the sent|ence well,| that noth|ing
bears,
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But the / free com|fort which | from thence | he
hears.
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But he bears | both the | sentence | and the | sorrow,
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That to pay | grief, must | of poor | patience |
borrow.
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These^sent|ences,| to sug|ar, or | to gall,
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Being strong | on both | sides, are | equiv|ocal.
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But words | are words,| I nev|er yet | did hear
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That the bruis|ed heart | was pier|ced through | the ear.
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I hum|bly beseech | you proceed | to the affairs
| of state.
DUKE
The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus: Othello, the
fortitude of the place is best known to you. And though we have there a
substitute of most allowed sufficiency; yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of
effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to
slubber the gloss of your new fortunes, with this more stubborn, and
boisterous expedition.
OTHELLO
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The tyr|ant cust|om, most | grave sen/ators,
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Hath made | the flin|ty and / steel couch | of
war
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My thrice-|driven bed of down.| I do | agnise
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A na|tural | and prompt | alac|rity,
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I find | in hard|ness: and | do und|ertake
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These^pres|ent wars | against | the Ot|tomites.
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Most hum|bly there|fore bend|ing to | your state,
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I crave | fit dis|posi|tion for | my wife,
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Due refe/rence of | place, and | exhi|bition,
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With such | accom|moda|tion and | besort
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As lev|els with | her breed|ing.
DUKE
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Why at her | father's.
BRABANTIO
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I'll not | have it | so.
OTHELLO
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Nor I.|
DESDEMONA
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Nor would | I not^|there re|side,|
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To put | my fath|er in | impa|tient thoughts
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By* be|ing in | his eye.| Most^gra|cious duke,
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To my | unfold|ing, lend | your pros|perous ear,
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And let | me find | a chart|er in | your
voice
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To assist | my simple|ness.
DUKE
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->
What would | you Des|demo||na?
DESDEMONA
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That | I love | the Moor,| to live | with him,
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My down|right vi/olence, and | storm of | fortunes
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May trump|et to | the world.| My heart's | subdued
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Even | to the ve|ry qual|ity | of my lord;
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I saw | Othel|lo's vis|age in | his mind,
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And to | his hon|or and | his val|iant parts,
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Did I | my soul | and for|tunes con|secrate.
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So that |(dear* lords)| if I | be left | behind,
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A moth | of peace,| and he | go to | the war,
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The rites | for which | I love | him, are be|reft me:
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And I | a hea|vy int|erim shall | support
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By his / dear ab|sence. Let | me go | with him.
OTHELLO
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Let her | have your | voice.
\\
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Vouch with | me heaven, I there|fore beg | it not
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To please | the pal|ate of | my ap|petite:
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Nor to | comply | with heat | the young | affects
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In me | defunct,| and prop|er sat|isfac||tion.
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But | to be free,| and bount|eous to | her mind:
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And heaven | defend | your good | souls, that |
you think
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I will | your ser|ious and / great bus|iness
scant
,
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For she | is with | me. No,| when
light-|winged^toys
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Of feath|ered Cup|id, seal | with wanton
| dullness
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My spe|culative,| and of|ficed inst|ruments:
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That my dis|ports cor|rupt, and | taint my
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Let^house|wives make a skil|let of | my helm,
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And all | indign | and base | advers|ities,
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Make^head | against | my es|tima|tion.
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Be it as | you shall | private|ly de|termine,
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Either | for her | stay, or | going:| the
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And speed | must ans|wer it.
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You must | away | tonight.
OTHELLO
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With all | my heart.
DUKE
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At nine | in the morn|ing, here | we'll meet | again.
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Othel|lo, leave | some of|ficer | behind
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And he | shall our | commis|sion bring | to you:
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And such | things^else | of qual|ity and |
respect
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As doth | import | you.
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So please | your grace,| my an||cient,
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A man | he is | of hon|est and trust:
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To his | convey|ance I | assign | my wife,
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With what | else^need|ful, your / good grace |
shall think
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To be / sent aft|er me.
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Let it | be so:
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Good night | to eve|ry one.| And noble | signior,
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If vir|tue no | delight|ed beaut|y lack,
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Your son-|in-law | is far | more fair | than
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Adieu brave Moor,| use^Des|demo|na well.
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Look^to | her (Moor)| if thou | hast eyes | to see:
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She has de|ceived her | father,| and may thee.
[Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers, etc.]
OTHELLO
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My life | upon | her faith.| Honest I|ago,
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My Des|demo|na must | I leave | to thee:
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I prith|ee let | thy wife | attend | on her,
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And bring | them aft|er in | the best | advan||tage.
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Come | Desde|mona:| I have | but an hour
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Of love,| of world|ly mat|ter, and | direc||tion
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To spend | with thee:| we must | obey | the time.
[Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]
RODERIGO
Iago.
IAGO
What sayst thou noble heart?
RODERIGO
What will I do, thinkst thou?
IAGO
Why go to bed and sleep.
RODERIGO
I will incontinently drown myself.
IAGO
If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why thou silly gentleman?
RODERIGO
It is silliness to live, when to live is torment: and then have we a
prescription to die, when death is our physician.
IAGO
Oh villainous: I have looked upon the world for four times seven years, and
since I could distinguish betwixt a benefit, and an injury: I never found man
that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I would drown myself for the
love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon.
RODERIGO
What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so fond, but it is not in
my virtue to amend it.
IAGO
Virtue? A fig, 'tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus. Our bodies are
our gardens, to the which, our wills are gardeners. So that if we will plant
nettles, or sow lettuce: set hyssop, and weed up thyme: supply it with one
gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with
idleness, or manured with industry, why the power, and corrigible authority
of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one scale of
reason, to poise another of sensuality, the blood, and baseness of our natures
would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions. But we have reason to
cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts: whereof I
take this, that you call love, to be a sect, or scion.
RODERIGO
It cannot be.
IAGO
It is merely a lust of the blood, and a permission of the will. Come, be a
man: drown thyself? Drown cats, and blind puppies. I have professed me thy
friend, and I confess me knit to thy deserving, with cables of perdurable
roughness. I could never better stead thee than now. Put money in thy purse:
follow thou the wars, defeat thy favor, with a usurped beard. I say put
money in thy purse. It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her
love to the Moor. Put money in thy purse: nor he his to her. It was a
violent commencement in her, and thou shalt see an answerable sequestration, put
but money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in their wills: fill thy
purse with money. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall
be to him shortly, as bitter as coloquintida. She must change for youth: when
she is sated with his body she will find the errors of her choice. Therefore, put money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs
damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money
thou canst: if sanctimony, and a frail vow, betwixt an erring barbarian, and a
supersubtle Venetian not too hard for my wits, and all the tribe of hell,
thou shalt enjoy her: therefore make money: A pox of drowning thyself, it is
clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy,
than to be drowned, and go without her.
RODERIGO
Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on the issue?
IAGO
Thou art sure of me: go make money: I have told thee often, and I re-tell
thee again, and again, I hate the Moor. My cause is hearted; thine hath no
less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge, against him. If thou canst
cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many events
in the womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverse, go, provide thy
money. We will have more of this tomorrow. Adieu.
RODERIGO
Where shall we meet in the morning?
IAGO
At my lodging.
RODERIGO
I'll be with thee betimes.
IAGO
Go to, farewell. Do you hear Roderigo?
RODERIGO
I'll sell all my land.
[Exit]
IAGO
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Thus do | I ev|er make | my fool,| my purse:
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For I | mine own | gained know/ledge should |
profane
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If I | would time | expend | with such | snipe,
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But for my | sport, and | profit:| I hate | the
Moor,
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And it | is thought | abroad,| that 'twixt | my
sheets
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He has done | my of|fice. I | know* not | if it be
true,
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But I,| for mere | suspi|cion in | that kind,
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Will do,| as if for | surety.| He holds | me
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The bet|ter shall | my pur|pose work | on him:
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Cassio's | a prop|er man:| let me | see now*,
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To get | his place,| and to / plume up | my will
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In doub|le knave|ry. How?| How?| Let's^see.
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After | some time,| to abuse | Othel|lo's ears,
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That he | is too | famil|iar with | his wife:
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To be | suspect|ed: framed | to make^wom|en
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The Moor | is of a | free, and | open | nature,
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That thinks | men hon/est, that but | seem to
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And will | as tend|erly | be led | by the nose
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I have it:| It is | engend|ered: Hell,| and
night,
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Must bring | this monst|rous birth,| to the / world's light.
[Exit]