Уильям Шекспир - Othello

It speaks against her with the other proofs.OTHELLO O, that the slave 487had forty thousand lives:

One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.

Now do I see ’tis true. Look here, Iago,

All my fond 490love thus do I blow to heaven.

’Tis gone.

Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow hell!

Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted 493throne

To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught 494,

For ’tis of aspics 495’ tongues!IAGO Yet be content.OTHELLO O, blood, blood, blood!IAGO Patience, I say: your mind may change.OTHELLO Never, Iago. Like to the Pontic sea 499,

Whose icy current and compulsive 500course

Ne’er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on

To the Propontic 502and the Hellespont,

Even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace

Shall ne’er look back, ne’er ebb to humble love,

Till that a capable 505and wide revenge

Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble 506heaven, Kneels

In the due reverence of a sacred vow

I here engage 508my words. Attempts to rise

IAGO Do not rise yet. Kneels

Witness, you ever-burning lights above,

You elements that clip 511us round about,

Witness that here Iago doth give up

The execution 513of his wit, hands, heart,

To wronged Othello’s service! Let him command,

And to obey shall be in me remorse 515,

What bloody business ever 516. They rise

OTHELLO I greet thy love,

Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,

And will upon the instant put thee to’t 519:

Within these three days let me hear thee say

That Cassio’s not alive.IAGO My friend is dead:

’Tis done at your request. But let her live.OTHELLO Damn her, lewd minx 524! O, damn her, damn her!

Come, go with me apart: I will withdraw

To furnish me with some swift means of death

For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.IAGO I am your own for ever. Exeunt

Act 3 Scene 4 running scene 8

Location: Cyprus (presumably outside the citadel)

Enter Desdemona, Emilia and Clown DESDEMONA Do you know, sirrah 1, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?CLOWN I dare not say he lies 2anywhere.DESDEMONA Why, man?CLOWN He’s a soldier, and for me to say a soldier lies, ’tis

stabbing 5.DESDEMONA Go to: where lodges he?CLOWN To tell you where he lodges is to tell you where I lie.DESDEMONA Can anything be made of this?CLOWN I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a

lodging and say he lies here or he lies there, were to lie 10

in mine own throat.DESDEMONA Can you inquire him out, and be edified 12by report?CLOWN I will catechize 13the world for him, that is, make questions,

and by them answer.DESDEMONA Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him I have

moved 16my lord on his behalf and hope all will be well.CLOWN To do this is within the compass of man’s wit, and

therefore I will attempt the doing it. Exit Clown

DESDEMONA Where should I lose the handkerchief, Emilia?EMILIA I know not, madam.DESDEMONA Believe me, I had rather have lost my purse

Full of crusadoes 22: and but my noble Moor

Is true of mind and made of no such baseness

As jealous creatures are, it were enough

To put him to ill thinking.EMILIA Is he not jealous?DESDEMONA Who, he? I think the sun where he was born 27

Drew all such humours 28from him.EMILIA Look where he comes.

Enter Othello DESDEMONA I will not leave him now till Cassio

Be called to him.— How is’t with you, my lord?OTHELLO Well, my good lady.— O, hardness to Aside

dissemble 32!—

How do you, Desdemona?DESDEMONA Well, my good lord.OTHELLO Give me your hand. This hand is moist, my lady.DESDEMONA It hath felt no age nor known no sorrow.OTHELLO This argues fruitfulness 37and liberal Partially aside? heart:

Hot, hot, and moist. This hand of yours requires

A sequester 39from liberty, fasting and prayer,

Much castigation 40, exercise devout,

For here’s a young and sweating devil here

That commonly rebels. ’Tis a good hand,

A frank 43one.DESDEMONA You may, indeed, say so,

For ’twas that hand that gave away my heart.OTHELLO A liberal hand: the hearts of old gave hands 46,

But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.DESDEMONA I cannot speak of this. Come now, your promise.OTHELLO What promise, chuck 49?DESDEMONA I have sent to bid Cassio come speak with you.OTHELLO I have a salt and sorry rheum 51offends me:

Lend me thy handkerchief.DESDEMONA Here, my lord. Offers him a handkerchief

OTHELLO That which I gave you.DESDEMONA I have it not about me.OTHELLO Not?DESDEMONA No, indeed, my lord.OTHELLO That’s a fault. That handkerchief

Did an Egyptian to my mother give:

She was a charmer, and could almost read

The thoughts of people: she told her, while she kept it,

’Twould make her amiable 62and subdue my father

Entirely to her love, but if she lost it

Or made a gift of it, my father’s eye

Should hold her loathèd and his spirits should hunt

After new fancies 66: she, dying, gave it me,

And bid me, when my fate would have me wived,

To give it her 68: I did so; and take heed on’t,

Make it a darling like your precious eye:

To lose’t or give’t away were such perdition

As nothing else could match.DESDEMONA Is’t possible?OTHELLO ’Tis true. There’s magic in the web 73of it:

A sibyl 74, that had numbered in the world

The sun to course two hundred compasses 75,

In her prophetic fury 76sewed the work:

The worms were hallowed 77that did breed the silk,

And it was dyed in mummy 78which the skilful

Conserved of 79maidens’ hearts.DESDEMONA Indeed? Is’t true?OTHELLO Most veritable: therefore look to’t well.DESDEMONA Then would to heaven that I had never seen’t!OTHELLO Ha? Wherefore?DESDEMONA Why do you speak so startingly and rash 84?OTHELLO Is’t lost? Is’t gone? Speak, is’t out o’th’way 85?DESDEMONA Bless us!OTHELLO Say you?DESDEMONA It is not lost, but what an if 88it were?OTHELLO How? 89DESDEMONA I say it is not lost.OTHELLO Fetch’t, let me see’t.DESDEMONA Why, so I can, but I will not now.

This is a trick to put me from my suit:

Pray you let Cassio be received again.OTHELLO Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives 95.DESDEMONA Come, come,

You’ll never meet a more sufficient 97man.OTHELLO The handkerchief.DESDEMONA A man that all his time

Hath founded his good fortunes on your love,

Shared dangers with you—OTHELLO The handkerchief.DESDEMONA In sooth 103, you are to blame.OTHELLO Away! Exit Othello EMILIA Is not this man jealous?DESDEMONA I ne’er saw this before.

Sure, there’s some wonder 107in this handkerchief:

I am most unhappy 108in the loss of it.EMILIA ’Tis not a year or two shows us a man:

They are all but stomachs, and we all but food:

They eat us hungerly 111, and when they are full

They belch 112us.

Enter Iago and Cassio Look you, Cassio and my husband.IAGO There is no other way: ’tis she must do’t.

And, lo, the happiness 115! Go and importune her.DESDEMONA How now, good Cassio, what’s the news with you?CASSIO Madam, my former suit: I do beseech you

That by your virtuous 118means I may again

Exist, and be a member of his love

Whom I with all the office 120of my heart

Entirely honour. I would not be delayed.

If my offence be of such mortal 122kind

That nor 123my service past, nor present sorrows,

Nor purposed merit in futurity 124,

Can ransom me into his love again,

But 126to know so must be my benefit:

So shall I clothe me in a forced content,