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T’assist my simpleness 263.DUKE What would you, Desdemona?DESDEMONA That I love the Moor to live with him,

My downright violence 266and storm of fortunes

May trumpet to the world. My heart’s subdued 267

Even to the very quality 268of my lord.

I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,

And to his honours and his valiant parts 270

Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate 271:

So that, dear lords, if I be left behind

A moth 273of peace, and he go to the war,

The rites 274for why I love him are bereft me,

And I a heavy interim shall support

By his dear 276absence. Let me go with him.OTHELLO Let her have your voice 277.

Vouch 278with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not

To please the palate of my appetite,

Nor to comply with heat 280— the young affects

In my defunct and proper satisfaction 281—

But to be free 282and bounteous to her mind:

And heaven 283defend your good souls that you think

I will your serious and great business scant 284

When she is with me. No, when light-winged toys 285

Of feathered 286Cupid seel with wanton dullness

My speculative and officed instrument 287,

That 288my disports corrupt and taint my business,

Let housewives make a skillet 289of my helm,

And all indign 290and base adversities

Make head 291against my estimation!DUKE Be it as you shall privately determine,

Either for her stay or going: th’affair cries 293haste,

And speed must answer it.A SENATOR You must away tonight.OTHELLO With all my heart.DUKE At nine i’th’morning here we’ll meet again.

Othello, leave some officer behind,

And he shall our commission bring to you,

And such things else of quality and respect 300

As doth import 301you.OTHELLO So please your grace, my ancient:

A man he is of honesty and trust:

To his conveyance 304I assign my wife,

With what else needful your good grace shall think

To be sent after me.DUKE Let it be so.

Goodnight to everyone.— And, noble signior, To Brabantio If virtue no delighted 309beauty lack,

Your son-in-law is far more fair 310than black.A SENATOR Adieu, brave Moor: use Desdemona well.BRABANTIO Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:

She has deceived her father, and may thee. Exeunt [Duke, Senators and Officers] OTHELLO My life upon her faith! Honest 314Iago,

My Desdemona must I leave to thee:

I prithee let thy wife attend on her,

And bring them after in the best advantage 317.

Come, Desdemona, I have but an hour

Of love, of worldly matter and direction 319

To spend with thee: we must obey the time 320.

Exeunt [Othello and Desdemona] RODORIGO Iago—IAGO What say’st thou, noble heart 322?RODORIGO What will I do, think’st thou?IAGO Why, go to bed and sleep.RODORIGO I will incontinently 325drown myself.IAGO If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why, thou

silly gentleman?RODORIGO It is silliness to live when to live is torment: and then

have we a prescription 329to die when death is our physician.IAGO O 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 333I would say I would drown myself for the

love of a guinea-hen 334, I would change my humanity with a

baboon 335.RODORIGO What should I do? I confess it is my shame to be so

fond 337, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.IAGO Virtue? A fig! 338’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 340

hyssop 341and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of

herbs or distract 342it with many, either to have it sterile with

idleness or manured with industry, why, the power and

corrigible authority 344of this lies in our wills. If the beam of

our lives had not one scale of reason to poise 345another of

sensuality, the blood 346and baseness of our natures would

conduct us to most preposterous 347conclusions: but we have

reason to cool our raging motions 348, our carnal stings, our

unbitted 349lusts, whereof I take this that you call love to be a

sect or scion 350.RODORIGO It cannot be.IAGO It is merely a lust of

the blood and a permission of the will 353. Come, be a man. Drown thyself? Drown cats and

blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend and I confess

me knit 355to thy deserving with cables of perdurable

toughness: I could never better stead 356thee than now. Put

money in thy purse: follow thou the wars: defeat thy favour 357

with an usurped beard: I say, put money in thy purse. It

cannot be long that Desdemona should 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 362. 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 364

shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida 365. She must

change for youth 366: 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 368

way than drowning. Make 369all the money thou canst. If

sanctimony 370and a frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and

supersubtle 371Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all

the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her. Therefore make money. A

pox of 373drowning thyself! It is clean out of the way: seek thou

rather to be hanged in 374compassing thy joy than to be

drowned and go without her.RODORIGO Wilt thou be fast 376to my hopes if I depend on the

issue 377?IAGO Thou art 378sure 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 380; thine hath no less reason. Let us

be conjunctive 381in our revenge against him: if thou canst

cuckold him 382, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There

are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered.

Traverse 384, go, provide thy money. We will have more of this

tomorrow. Adieu.RODORIGO Where shall we meet i’th’morning?IAGO At my lodging.RODORIGO I’ll be with thee betimes 388.IAGO Go to 389, farewell. Do you hear, As Rodorigo leaves Rodorigo?RODORIGO I’ll sell all my land. Exit

IAGO Thus do I ever make my fool my purse,

For I mine own gained knowledge should profane 392,

If I would time expend with such a snipe 393

But 394for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor:

And it is thought abroad 395that ’twixt my sheets

He has done my office 396: I know not if’t be true,

But I, for mere suspicion in that kind 397,

Will do as if for surety 398. He holds me well,

The better shall my purpose work on him.

Cassio’s a proper 400man. Let me see now:

To get his place and to plume up 401my will

In double knavery. How, how? Let’s see:

After some time, to abuse Othello’s ears

That he 404is too familiar with his wife.

He hath a person 405and a smooth dispose

To be suspected, framed 406to make women false.

The Moor is of a free 407and open nature,

That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,

And will as tenderly 409be led by th’nose

As asses are.

I have’t: it is engend’red 411: hell and night

Must bring this monstrous 412birth to the world’s light. [Exit]

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