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Cyprus. Before the castle. Enter OTHELLO and IAGO
IAGO
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Will you | think so?
OTHELLO
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Think so,| Iago?
IAGO
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What, to || kiss in | private?
OTHELLO
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An unauth|orized | kiss?
IAGO
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Or to | be nak|ed with | her friend | in bed,
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An hour,| or more,| not mean|ing an|y harm?
OTHELLO
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Naked in | bed (Ia/go) and | not mean harm?
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It is | hypoc|risy | against | the devil:
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They that | mean vir/tuously,| and yet | do so,
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The devil | their vir|tue tempts,| and they tempt heaven.
IAGO
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So they | do noth|ing, 'tis | a ven|ial slip:
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But if | I give | my wife | a hand|kerchief.
OTHELLO
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What then?
IAGO
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Why then |'tis hers |(my lord)| and be|ing hers,
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She may |(I think)| bestow it | on an|y man.
OTHELLO
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She is | protect|ress of | her hon|or too:
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May she | give^that? \\
IAGO
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Her hon|or is | an es|sence that's / not seen,
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They have | it ve|ry oft,| that have | it not.
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But for | the hand|kerchief. \\
OTHELLO
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By heaven,| I would | most^glad|ly have |
forgot it:
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Thou saidst |(it comes | ore my | memo|ry,
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As doth | the rav|en ore | the infec|tious house:
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Boding | to all)| he had | my hand|kerchief.
IAGO
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Aye: what | of that?
OTHELLO
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That's not | so good | now.
IAGO
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What || if I | had said | I had seen | him do |
you wrong?
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Or heard | him say |(as knaves | be such | abroad,
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Who hav|ing by | their own | impor|tunate suit,
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Or vol|untar|y dot|age of some | mistress,
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Convinc|ed or | supplied | them can|not choose
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But they | must blab).
OTHELLO
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Hath he | said^an|ything?
IAGO
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He hath |(my lord)| but be | you well | assured,
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No more | than he'll | unswear.
OTHELLO
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What hath | he said?
IAGO
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Why, that | he did:| I know | not what | he did.
OTHELLO
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What?| What?
IAGO
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Lie.
OTHELLO
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With | her?
IAGO
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With her?| on her:| what you | will.|
OTHELLO
Lie with her? Lie on her? We say lie on her, when they belie her. Lie with
her: that's fulsome: Handkerchief: confessions: handkerchief. To confess,
and be hanged for his labor. First, to be hanged, and then to confess: I
tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion,
without some instruction. It is not words that shake me thus, (Pish) Noses,
ears, and lips: is it possible. Confess? Handkerchief? O devil.
[Falls in a trance]
IAGO
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Work on, \\
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My med|icine works.| Thus cred|ulous fools | are
caught,
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And ma|ny worth|y, and / chaste dames | even
thus,
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(All* guilt|less) meet | reproach:| What ho?| My
lord?
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My lord,| I say:| Othel|lo. \\
[Enter CASSIO]
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How now | Cassio?
CASSIO
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What's the | matter? (di with
prev)
IAGO
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My lord | is fallen | into an | epi|lepsy,
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This is | his sec|ond fit:| he had | one
yest|erday. ????
CASSIO
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Rub him | about | the temp|les. \\
IAGO
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The leth|argy | must^have | his qui|et course:
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If not,| he foams | at mouth:| and by | and by
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Breaks out to sav|age mad|ness. Look,| he
stirs:
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Do you | withdraw | yourself | a lit|tle while,
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He will | recov|er straight:| when he | is gone,
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I would | on great | occa|sion, speak | with you.
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How is | it gene|ral? Have | you not hurt | your
head?
[Exit CASSIO]
OTHELLO
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Dost thou | mock me?
IAGO
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I mock | you not,| by heaven.
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Would you | would bear | your for|tune like | a
man.
OTHELLO
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A horn|ed man's | a monst|er, and | a beast.
IAGO
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There's ma|ny a beast | then in | a pop|ulous
ci||ty,
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And ma|ny a civ|il monst|er.
OTHELLO
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Did he | confess | it?
IAGO
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Good | sir, be | a man:
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Think^eve|ry beard|ed fel|low that's | but yoked
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May* draw | with you.| There's mil|lions now |
alive,
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That night|ly lie | in those | unprop|er beds,
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Which they dare swear peculiar. Your case is
better. ????
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Oh, 'tis the | spite of | hell, the | fiend's
arch mock,
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To lip | a want|on in | a se/cure couch;
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And to sup|pose her | chaste. No, let | me
know,
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And know|ing what / I am,| I know | what she ||
shall be.
OTHELLO
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Oh,| thou art | wise: 'tis | certain.
IAGO
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Stand you | awhile | apart, \\
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Confine | yourself | but^in | a pa|tient list.
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Whilst you | were here,| orewhelm|ed with | your
grief
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(A pas|sion most | unsuit|ing such | a man)
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Cassio | came hith/er. I | shifted | him away,
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And laid | good* 'scuse | upon | your ec|stasy,
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Bade him | anon | return:| and here | speak with
me,
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The which | he prom|ised. Do | but encave |
yourself,
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And mark | the fleers,| the gibes,| and not|able
scorns
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That dwell | in eve|ry reg|ion of | his face.
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For I | will make | him tell | the tale | anew;
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Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
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He hath,| and is | again | to cope | your wife.
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I say | but mark | his ges|ture: mar|ry
pa||tience,
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Or | I shall say | you are all | in all | in spleen,
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And noth|ing of a / man.
OTHELLO
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Dost | thou hear,| Iago,
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I will | be found | most cun/ning in my |
patience:
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But (dost | thou hear)| most^bloo|dy.
IAGO
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That's not | amiss,
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But yet | keep time in all:| Will you |
withdraw?
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Now will I | question | Cassio | of Bi|anca,
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A housewife that | by sel|ling her | desires
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Buys her|self bread,| and clothes.| it is a |
creature
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That dotes | on Cas|sio, (as | 'tis the strump|et's plague
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To beguile | many,| and be | beguiled | by one)
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He, when | he hears | of her,| cannot | refrain
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From the / excess | of laugh|ter. Here | he
comes.
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As he | shall smile,| Othel|lo shall | go mad:
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And his | unbook|ish jeal|ousy must | construe
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Poor* Cas|sio's smiles,| gestures, and |
light be|haviors ??
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Quite in | the wrong.| How do | you
lieu|tenant?
[Enter CASSIO]
CASSIO
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The wor|ser, that | you give | me the | addi||tion,
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Whose want ev|en kills | me.
IAGO
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Ply || Desde|mona | well, and | you are | sure on it:
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Now, if | this suit | lay in | Bian|ca's power,
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How quick|ly should | you speed?
CASSIO
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Alas | poor* cai||tiff.
OTHELLO
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Look how | he laughs | alrea|dy.
IAGO
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I nev|er knew | woman | love man so.
CASSIO
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Alas | poor^rogue,| I think | indeed | she loves
|| me.
OTHELLO
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Now | he denies | it faint|ly: and laughs | it
out.
IAGO
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Do you hear | Cassio?
OTHELLO
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Now he | impor|tunes him
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To tell | it ore:| go to,| well said,| well said.
IAGO
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She gives | it out,| that you | shall mar|ry her.
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Do you | intend | it?
CASSIO
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Ha, ha, ha.
OTHELLO
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Do ye | triumph,| Roman?| Do you | triumph?
CASSIO
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Aye mar|ry. What?| A cust|omer prith|ee bear
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Some char|ity to | my wit,| do not | think it
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So unwhole|some.| Ha, ha, ha.
OTHELLO
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So, so, so,| so: they | laugh, that | win.
IAGO
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Why the cry | goes, that | you mar|ry her.
CASSIO
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Prithee || say* true.
IAGO
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I am | a ve|ry vil|lain else.
OTHELLO
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Have you | scored me?| Well. \\
CASSIO
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This is | the monk|ey's own | giving | out:
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She is | persuad|ed I | will mar|ry her
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Out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.
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OTHELLO
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Iago | beckons me:| now he be|gins the | story.
CASSIO
She was here even now: she haunts me in every place. I was the other day
talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians, and thither comes the
bauble, and falls me thus about my neck.
OTHELLO
Crying oh dear Cassio, as it were: his gesture imports it.
CASSIO
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So hangs,| and lolls,| and weeps | upon | me:
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So hales,| and pulls | me. ha,| ha,| ha.
OTHELLO
Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber: oh, I see that nose of yours,
but not that dog, I shall throw it to.
CASSIO
Well, I must leave her company.
IAGO
Before me: look where she comes.
[Enter BIANCA]
CASSIO
'Tis such another fitchew: marry a perfumed one? What do you mean by this
haunting of me?
BIANCA
Let the devil, and his dam haunt you: What did you mean by that same
handkerchief, you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take it: I must take
out the work? A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your
chamber, and not know who left it there. This is some minx's token, and I
must take out the work? There, give it your hobby-horse, wheresoever you had
it, I'll take out no work on it.
CASSIO
How now, my sweet Bianca?
How now? How now?
OTHELLO
By heaven, that should be my handkerchief.
BIANCA
If you'll come to supper tonight you may, if you will not, come when you
are next prepared for.
[Exit]
IAGO
After her: after her.
CASSIO
I must, she'll rail in the street else.
IAGO
Will you sup there?
CASSIO
Yes, I intend so.
IAGO
Well, I may chance to see you: for I would very fain speak with you.
CASSIO
Prithee come: will you?
IAGO
Go to: say no more.
[Exit CASSIO]
OTHELLO
How shall I murder him Iago?
IAGO
Did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
OTHELLO
Oh, Iago.
IAGO
And did you see the handkerchief?
OTHELLO
Was that mine?
IAGO
Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the foolish woman your wife:
she gave it him, and he hath given it his whore.
OTHELLO
I would have him nine years a-killing: A fine woman, a fair woman, a sweet
woman?
IAGO
Nay, you must forget that.
OTHELLO
Aye, let her rot and perish, and be damned tonight, for she shall not live.
No, my heart is turned to stone: I strike it, and it hurts my hand. Oh, the
world hath not a sweeter creature: she might lie by an emperor's side, and
command him tasks.
IAGO
Nay, that's not your way.
OTHELLO
Hang her, I do but say what she is: so delicate with her needle: an
admirable musician. Oh she will sing the savageness out of a bear: of so
high and plenteous wit, and invention?
IAGO
She's the worse for all this.
OTHELLO
Oh, a thousand, a thousand times:
And then of so gentle a condition?
IAGO
Aye too gentle.
OTHELLO
Nay that's certain:
But yet the pity of it, Iago: O Iago, the pity of it Iago.
IAGO
If you are so fond over her iniquity: give her patent to offend, for if it
touch not you, it comes near nobody.
OTHELLO
I will chop her into messes: cuckold me?
IAGO
Oh, 'tis foul in her.
OTHELLO
With mine officer?
IAGO
That's fouler.
OTHELLO
Get me some poison, Iago, this night. I'll not expostulate with her: lest
her body and beauty unprovide my mind again: this night Iago.
IAGO
Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed,
Even the bed she hath
contaminated.
OTHELLO
Good, good:
The justice of it pleases: very good.
IAGO
And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker:
You shall hear more by midnight.
OTHELLO
Excellent good: What trumpet is that same?
IAGO
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I war|rant some|thing from | Venice,|
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'Tis Lod|ovic|o this,| comes from | the duke.
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See, your | wife's with him.
[Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]
LODOVICO
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Save you | worthy | general.
OTHELLO
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With all | my heart | sir. \\
LODOVICO
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The duke,| and the | senators of | Venice | greet you.
OTHELLO
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I kiss | the inst|rument | of their | pleasures.
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DESDEMONA
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And what's | the news,| good* cous|in
Lod|ovic||o?
IAGO
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I am | very | glad to | see you | signior:
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Welcome to | Cyprus. \\
LODOVICO
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I thank | you: How | does Lieu|tenant | Cassio?
IAGO
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Lives sir. \\
DESDEMONA
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Cousin,| there's fallen | between | him, and
| my lord,
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An unkind breach:| but you | shall make^/all well.
OTHELLO
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Are you sure | of that? \\
DESDEMONA
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My lord?
OTHELLO [Reads]
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This fail | you not | to
do,| as you will--
LODOVICO
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He did not | call: he's | busy | in the | paper,
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Is there di|vision | twixt my | lord, and |
Cassio?
DESDEMONA
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A most | unhap|py one:| I would | do much
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To atone | them, for | the love | I bear | to
Cas||sio.
OTHELLO
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Fire,| and brim|stone.
DESDEMONA
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My | lord?
OTHELLO
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Are | you wise?
DESDEMONA
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What is he | angry?
LODOVICO
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Maybe the | letter | moved him.
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For as | I think,| they do | command | him home,
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Deput|ing Cas|sio in | his gov|ernment.
DESDEMONA
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Trust me,| I am / glad on it.
OTHELLO
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Indeed?
DESDEMONA
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My lord?
OTHELLO
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I am glad | to see | you mad.
DESDEMONA
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Why,| sweet O||thello?
OTHELLO
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Devil.
DESDEMONA
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I have | not de|served this.
LODOVICO
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My lord,| this would | not be | believed | in
Ven||ice,
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Though | I should swear | I saw it.| 'tis ve|ry
much,
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Make her a|mends: she | weeps.
OTHELLO
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O | devil,| devil:
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If that | the earth | could teem | with wom|an's tears,
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Each drop | she falls,| would prove | a
cro|codile:
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Out of my | sight.
DESDEMONA
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I | will not | stay to of|fend you.
LODOVICO
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Truly | obed|ient la|dy: \\
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I do | beseech | your lord|ship call | her back.
OTHELLO
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Mistress.
DESDEMONA
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My lord. (mono with prev)
OTHELLO
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What would | you with | her, sir?
LODOVICO
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Who I,| my lord?
OTHELLO
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Aye, you | did wish,| that I | would make | her
turn:
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Sir, she | can turn,| and turn:| and yet | go on
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And turn | again.| And she | can weep,| sir, weep.
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And she's o|bedient:| as you | say o|bedient:
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Very o|bedient:| Proceed | you in | your tears.
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Concern|ing this | sir, (oh well-|painted |
passion)
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I am | command|ed home:| get you | away:
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I'll send for you anon. Sir I obey the mandate,
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And will | return | to Ve|nice. Hence,| avaunt:
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Cassio | shall have | my place.| And sir,|
tonight
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I do | entreat,| that we | may sup | togeth||er.
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You | are wel|come sir | to Cy|prus.
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Goats,| and mon|keys. \\
[Exit]
LODOVICO
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Is this | the nob|le Moor,| whom our full |
senate
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Call^all | in all | suffi|cient? Is this | the
na||ture
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Whom pas|sion could | not shake?| Whose sol|id
vir||tue
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The shot | of ac|cident,| nor dart | of chance
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Could neith|er graze,| nor pierce?
IAGO
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He is / much changed.
LODOVICO
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Are his / wits safe?| Is he / not light | of
brain?
IAGO
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He's that | he is:| I may | not breathe | my
cens||ure
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What he / might be:| if what | he might,| he is
not,
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I would | to heaven | he were.
LODOVICO
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What? Strike his wife?
IAGO
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Faith that | was not | so well:| yet would | I
knew
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That stroke | would prove | the worst.
LODOVICO
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Is it | his use?
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Or did | the let|ters, work | upon | his blood,
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And new-|create | this fault?
IAGO
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Alas, alas:
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It is / not hon|esty | in me | to speak
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What I | have seen,| and known.| You shall
ob|serve him,
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And his / own cours|es will | denote | him so,
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That I | may save | my speech:| do but | go
aft||er
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And mark | how he | contin|ues.
LODOVICO
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I | am sor||ry that | I am | deceived | in
him.|
[Exeunt]