<p>［A room in the castle．Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA］</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>You have SeeN nothing then？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Nor ever heard， nor ever did suspect．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Yes，you have seen Cassio and she together．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>But then I saw no harm，and then I heard</p>
<p>Each syllable that breath made up between them．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>What，did they never whisper？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Never，my lord．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Nor send you out o’ the way？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Never．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>To fetch her fan， her gloves， her mask， nor nothing？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Never， my lord．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>That’s strange．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>I durst， my lord， to wager she is honest，</p>
<p>Lay down my soul at stake： if you think other，</p>
<p>Remove your thought；it doth abuse your bosom．</p>
<p>If any wretch have put this in your head，</p>
<p>Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse！</p>
<p>For， if she be not honest， chaste， and true，</p>
<p>There’s no man happy；the purses of their wives</p>
<p>Is foul as slander．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Bid her come hither：go．</p>
<p>［Exit ENILIA］</p>
<p>She says enough；yet she’s a simple bawd</p>
<p>That cannot say as much．This is a subtlewhore，</p>
<p>A closet lock and key of villanoussecrets</p>
<p>And yet she’ll kneel and pray； I have seen her do’t．</p>
<p>［Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA］</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>My lord， what is your will？</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Pray， chuck， come hither．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>What is your pleasure？</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Let me see yoru eyes；</p>
<p>Look in my face．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>What horrible fancy’s this？</p>
<p>OTHELLO [To ENILIA]</p>
<p>Some of your function， mistress；</p>
<p>Leave procreants alone and shut the door；</p>
<p>Cough，or cry’hem， ‘if any body come：</p>
<p>Your mystery，your mystery：nay，dispatch．</p>
<p>［ Exit EMILIA．］</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>upon my knees， what doth your speech import？</p>
<p>I understand a fury in your words．</p>
<p>But not the words．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Why， what art thou ？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Your wife， my lord； your true</p>
<p>And loyal wife．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Come，swear it，damn thyself</p>
<p>Lest，being like one of heaven，the devils themselves</p>
<p>Should fear to seize thee： therefore be double damn’d：</p>
<p>Swear thou art honest．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Heaven doth truly know it．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>To whom，my lord？with whom？how am I false？</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>O Desdemona！away！away！away！</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Alas the heavy day！ Why do you weep？</p>
<p>Am I the motive of these tears， my lord？</p>
<p>If haply you my father do suspect</p>
<p>An instrument of this your calling back，</p>
<p>Lay mot your blame on me：If you have lost him，</p>
<p>Why，I have lost him too．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Had it pleased heaven</p>
<p>To try me with affliction； had they rain’d</p>
<p>All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head．</p>
<p>Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips，</p>
<p>Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes，</p>
<p>I should have found in some place of my soul</p>
<p>A drop of patience： but， alas， to make me</p>
<p>A fixed figure for the time of scorn</p>
<p>To point his slow unmoving finger at！</p>
<p>Yet could I bear that too； well， very well：</p>
<p>But there， where I have garner’d up my heart，</p>
<p>Where either I must live， or bear no life；</p>
<p>The fountainfrom the which my currentruns，</p>
<p>Or else drier up； to be discarded thence！</p>
<p>Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads</p>
<p>To knotand genderin！ Turn thy complexionthere，</p>
<p>Patience， thou young and rose-lipp’d cherubin ，——</p>
<p>Ay， there， look grim as hell！</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>I hope my noble lord esteems me honest．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>O， ay； as summer flies are the shambles，</p>
<p>That quicken even with blowing．O thou weed，</p>
<p>Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet</p>
<p>That the sense at thee，would thou hadst</p>
<p>ne’er been born！</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Alas， what ignorantsin have I committed？</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Was this fair paper，this most goodly book，</p>
<p>Made to write’whore’upon？ What committed！</p>
<p>Committed！ O thou public commoner！</p>
<p>I should make very forges of my cheeks，</p>
<p>That would to cinders burn up modesty，</p>
<p>Did I but speak thy deeds．What committed！</p>
<p>Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks，</p>
<p>The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets</p>
<p>Is hush’d within the hollow mine of earth，</p>
<p>And will not hear it． What committed！</p>
<p>Impudent strumpet！</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>By heaven，you do me wrong．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Are yod not a strumpet？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>No， as I am a Christian：</p>
<p>If to preserve this vessl for my lord</p>
<p>From any other foul unlawful touch</p>
<p>Be not to be a strumpet，I am none．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>What，not a whore？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>No，as I shall be saved．</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>Is’t possible？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>O， heaven forgive us！</p>
<p>OTHELLO</p>
<p>I cry you mercy， then：</p>
<p>I took you for that cunningwhore of Venice</p>
<p>That marrried with Othello．</p>
<p>［Raising his voice]</p>
<p>You， mistress，</p>
<p>That have the office opposite to Saint Peter，</p>
<p>And keep the gate of hell！</p>
<p>［Re-enter EMILIA］</p>
<p>You，you，ay，you！</p>
<p>We have done our course；there’s money for your pains：</p>
<p>I pray you， turn the key and keep our counsel．</p>
<p>［Exit．］</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Alas， what does this gentleman conceive？</p>
<p>How do you，madam？how do you，my good lady？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>‘Faith， half asleep．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Good madam， what’s the matter with my lord？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>With who？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Why， with my lord，madam．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Who is thy lord？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>He that is yours， sweet lady．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>I have none：do not talk to me， Emilia；</p>
<p>I cannot weep； nor answer have I none，</p>
<p>But what should go by water．Prithee，tonight</p>
<p>Lay on my bed my weddingsheets：remember；</p>
<p>And call thy husband hither．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Here’s a change indeed！</p>
<p>［Exit］</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>‘Tis meet I should be used so， very meet．</p>
<p>How have I been behaved，that he might stick</p>
<p>The small’st opinion on my least misuse？</p>
<p>［Re－enter EMILIA with IAGO］</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>What is your pleasure， madam？</p>
<p>How is’t with you？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>I cannot tell．Those that do teach young babes</p>
<p>Do it with gentle means and easy tasks：</p>
<p>He might have chid me so； for， in good faith，</p>
<p>I am a child to chiding．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>What’s the matter， lady？</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Alas， Iago， my lord hath so bewhored her．</p>
<p>Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her，</p>
<p>As true hearts cannot bear．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Am I that name， Iago？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>What name， fair lady？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Such as she says my lord did say I was．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>He call’d her whore： a beggar in his drink</p>
<p>Could not have laid such terms upon his callat．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Why did he so？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>I do not know；I am sure I am none such．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Do not weep， do not weep． Alas the day！</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>Hath she forsook so many noble matches，</p>
<p>Her father and her country and her friends，</p>
<p>To be call’d whore？ would it not make one weep？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>It is my wretchedfortune．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Beshrew him for’t！</p>
<p>How comes this trickupon him？</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>Nay， heaven doth know．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>I will be hang’d， if some eternal villain，</p>
<p>Some busy and insinuating rogue，</p>
<p>Some cogging， cozeningslave， to get some office，</p>
<p>Have not devised this slander； I’ll be hang’d else．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Fie，there is no such man；it is impossible．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>If any such there be， heaven pardon him！</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>A halter pardon him！ and hell gnaw his bones！</p>
<p>Why should he call her whore？ who keeps her company？</p>
<p>What place？ what time？ what form？ what likelihood？</p>
<p>The Moor’s abused by some most villanous knave，</p>
<p>Some base notorious knave， some scurvy fellow．</p>
<p>O heaven， that such companions thou’ldst unfold，</p>
<p>And put in every honest hand a whip</p>
<p>To lash the rascals nakedthrough the world</p>
<p>Even from the east to the west！</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Speak within door．</p>
<p>EMILIA</p>
<p>O， fie upon them！Some such squirehe was</p>
<p>That turn’d your wit the seamy side without，</p>
<p>And made you to suspect me with the Moor．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>You are a fool； go to．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>O good Iago，</p>
<p>What shall I do to win my lord again？</p>
<p>Good friend， go to him； for， by this light of heaven，</p>
<p>I know not how I lost him． Here I kneel：</p>
<p>If e’er my will did trespass’gainst his love，</p>
<p>Either in discourse of thought or actual deed，</p>
<p>Or that mine eyes，mine ears，or any sense，</p>
<p>Delighted them in any other form；</p>
<p>Or that I do not yet， and ever did．</p>
<p>And ever will——though he do shake me off</p>
<p>To beggarly divorcement——love him dearly，</p>
<p>Comfort forswear me！Unkindness may do much；</p>
<p>And his unkindness may defeat my life，</p>
<p>But never taint my love． I cannot say’whore：’</p>
<p>It does abhor me now I speak the word；</p>
<p>To do the act that might the addition earn</p>
<p>Not the world’s mass of vanity could make me．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>I pray you， be content；’tis but his humour：</p>
<p>The business of the state does him offence ，</p>
<p>And he does chide with you．</p>
<p>DESDEMONA</p>
<p>If’t were no other——</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>‘Tis but so， I warrant．</p>
<p>［Trumpets within］</p>
<p>Hark，how these instruments summon to supper！</p>
<p>The messengers of Venice stay the meat；</p>
<p>Go in， and weep not； all things shall be well．</p>
<p>［Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA． Enter RODERIGO］</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>How now， Roderigo！</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I do not find that thou dealest justly with me．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>What in the contrary？</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Every day thou daffest me with some device， Iago；</p>
<p>and rather，as it seems to me now， keepest from me</p>
<p>all conveniency than suppliest me with the least</p>
<p>advantage of hope．I will indeed no longer endure</p>
<p>it，nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what</p>
<p>already I have foolishly suffered．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Will you hear me，Roderigo？</p>
<p>6RODERIGO</p>
<p>‘Faith， I have heard too much， for your words and</p>
<p>performancesare no kin together．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>You charge me most unjustly．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>With nought but truth． I have wasted myself out of</p>
<p>my means ． The jewels you have had from me to</p>
<p>deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a</p>
<p>votarist：you have told me she hath received them</p>
<p>and returned me expectationsand comforts of sudden</p>
<p>respect and acquaintance， but I find none．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Well；go to；very well．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Very well！ go to！ I cannot go to， man； nor’tis</p>
<p>not very well： nay， I think it is scurvy， and begin</p>
<p>to find myself fobbed in it．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Very well．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I tell you’tis not very well． I will make myself</p>
<p>known to Desdemona： if she will return me my</p>
<p>jewels， I will give over my suit and repent my</p>
<p>unlawful solicitation；if not，assure yourself I</p>
<p>will seek satisfaction of you．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>You have salid now．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Ay， and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Why，now I see there’s mettle in thee，and even from</p>
<p>this instant to buildon thee a better opinion than</p>
<p>ever before． Give me thy hand， Roderigo： thou hast</p>
<p>taken against me a most just exception； but yet，I</p>
<p>protest， I have dealt most directly in thy affair．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>It hath not appeared．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>I grant indeed it hath not appeared， and your</p>
<p>suspicion is not without wit and judgment． But，</p>
<p>Roderigo， if thou hast that in thee indeed， which I</p>
<p>have greater reason to believe now than ever， I mean</p>
<p>purpose，courage and valour， this night show it：if</p>
<p>thou the next night following enjoy not Desdemona，</p>
<p>take me from this world with treachery and devise</p>
<p>engines for my life．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Well， what is it？ is it within reason and compass？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Sir， there is especial commission come from Venice</p>
<p>to depute Cassio in Othello’s place．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>Is that true？ why， then Othello and Desdemona</p>
<p>return again to Venice．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>O， no； he goes into Mauritania and takes away with</p>
<p>him the fair Desdemona， unless his abode be</p>
<p>lingered here by some accident：wherein none can be</p>
<p>so determinate as the removing of Cassio．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>How do you mean， remnoving of him？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Why， by making him uncapeble of Othello’s place；</p>
<p>knocking out his brains．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>And that you would have me to do？</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>Ay， if you dare do yourself a profit and a right．</p>
<p>He sups to-night with a hardlotry， and thither will I</p>
<p>go to him： he knows not yet of his horrorable</p>
<p>fortune． If you will watch his going thence，which</p>
<p>I will fashion to fall out between twelve and one，</p>
<p>you may take him at your pleasure： I will be near</p>
<p>to second your attempt， and he shall fall between</p>
<p>us．Come， stand not amazed at it， but go along with</p>
<p>me； I will show you such a necessity in his death</p>
<p>that you shall think yourself bound to put it on</p>
<p>him．It is now high suppertime，and the night grows</p>
<p>to waste： about it ．</p>
<p>RODERIGO</p>
<p>I will hear further reason for this．</p>
<p>IAGO</p>
<p>And you shall be satisfied．</p>
<p>［Exeunt］</p>