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And shut myself up in 128some other course,

To fortune’s alms 129.DESDEMONA Alas, thrice-gentle Cassio,

My advocation 131is not now in tune;

My lord is not my lord; nor should I know him,

Were he in favour 133as in humour altered.

So help me every spirit sanctified

As I have spoken for you all my best

And stood within the blank 136of his displeasure

For my free speech! You must awhile be patient:

What I can do I will, and more I will

Than for myself I dare: let that suffice 139you.IAGO Is my lord angry?EMILIA He went hence but now,

And certainly in strange unquietness.IAGO Can he be angry? I have seen the cannon

When it hath blown his ranks 144into the air,

And like the devil from his very arm

Puffed his own brother 146: and is he angry?

Something of moment 147then. I will go meet him:

There’s matter in’t indeed, if he be angry. Exit

DESDEMONA I prithee do so. Something, sure, of state 149,

Either from Venice, or some unhatched practice 150

Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,

Hath puddled 152his clear spirit: and in such cases

Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things,

Though great ones are their object. ’Tis even so,

For let our finger ache, and it indues 155

Our other healthful members 156even to a sense

Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods,

Nor of them look for such observancy 158

As fits the bridal. Beshrew 159me much, Emilia,

I was — unhandsome 160warrior as I am —

Arraigning 161his unkindness with my soul,

But now I find I had suborned the witness 162,

And he’s indicted falsely.EMILIA Pray heaven it be state matters, as you think,

And no conception nor no jealous toy 165

Concerning you.DESDEMONA Alas the day! I never gave him cause.EMILIA But jealous souls will not be answered so;

They are not ever jealous for the cause,

But jealous for they’re jealous: it is a monster

Begot upon 171itself, born on itself.DESDEMONA Heaven keep the monster from Othello’s mind!EMILIA Lady, amen.DESDEMONA I will go seek him.— Cassio, walk hereabout:

If I do find him fit, I’ll move your suit

And seek to effect it to my uttermost. Exeunt [ Desdemona and Emilia ]

CASSIO I humbly thank your ladyship.

Enter Bianca BIANCA Save 178you, friend Cassio!CASSIO What make you 179from home?

How is’t with you, my most fair Bianca?

Indeed, sweet love, I was coming to your house.BIANCA And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.

What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights?

Eight score eight 184hours? And lovers’ absent hours

More tedious than the dial 185eight score times?

O weary reck’ning 186!CASSIO Pardon me, Bianca: I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed:

But I shall, in a more continuate 189time,

Strike off this score 190of absence. Sweet Bianca, Gives her

Desdemona’s handkerchief

Take me this work out 191.BIANCA O Cassio, whence came this?

This is some token from a newer friend 193:

To the felt absence now I feel a cause 194.

Is’t come to this? Well, well.CASSIO Go to, woman!

Throw your vile guesses in the devil’s teeth,

From whence you have them. You are jealous now

That this is from some mistress, some remembrance;

No, in good troth, Bianca.BIANCA Why, whose is it?CASSIO I know not, neither: I found it in my chamber.

I like the work well. Ere it be demanded 203—

As like enough it will — I would have it copied:

Take it, and do’t, and leave me for this time.BIANCA Leave you? Wherefore?CASSIO I do attend here on the general,

And think it no addition, nor my wish,

To have him see me womaned 209.BIANCA Why, I pray you?CASSIO Not that I love you not.BIANCA But that you do not love me.

I pray you bring 213me on the way a little,

And say if I shall see you soon at night 214.CASSIO ’Tis but a little way that I can bring you,

For I attend here: but I’ll see you soon.BIANCA ’Tis very good: I must be circumstanced 217. Exeunt

Act 4 Scene 1 running scene 8 continues

Enter Othello and Iago IAGO Will you think so?OTHELLO Think so, Iago?IAGO What, to kiss in private?OTHELLO An unauthorized kiss!IAGO Or to be naked with her friend in bed

An hour or more, not meaning any harm?OTHELLO Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm?

It is hypocrisy against the devil 8:

They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,

The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.IAGO If they do nothing, ’tis a venial 11slip:

But if I give my wife a handkerchief—OTHELLO What then?IAGO Why, then, ’tis hers, my lord, and being hers,

She may, I think, bestow’t on any man.OTHELLO She is protectress of her honour too:

May she give that?IAGO Her honour is an essence that’s not seen:

They have it very oft that have it not 19.

But, for the handkerchief—OTHELLO By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.

Thou said’st — O, it comes o’er my memory

As doth the raven 23o’er the infectious house,

Boding 24to all — he had my handkerchief.IAGO Ay, what of that?OTHELLO That’s not so good now.IAGO What if I had said I had seen him do you wrong?

Or heard him say — as knaves be such abroad 28,

Who having by their own importunate 29suit,

Or voluntary dotage 30of some mistress,

Convincèd 31or supplied them, cannot choose

But they must blab—OTHELLO Hath he said anything?IAGO He hath, my lord, but be you well assured,

No more than he’ll unswear.OTHELLO What hath he said?IAGO Why, that he did 37: I know not what he did.OTHELLO What? What?IAGO Lie—OTHELLO With her?IAGO With her? On her: what you will.OTHELLO Lie with her? Lie on her 42? We say ‘Lie on her’ when

they belie 43her. Lie with her! That’s fulsome: handkerchief —

confessions — handkerchief! To confess and be hanged for

his labour: first to be hanged and then to confess: I tremble at

it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing

passion without some instruction 46. It is not words that shakes

me thus. Pish! Noses 48, ears and lips. Is’t possible? Confess?

Handkerchief? O devil! Falls in a trance

IAGO Work on,

My medicine 51works! Thus credulous fools are caught,

And many worthy and chaste dames even thus,

All guiltless, meet reproach 53.— What, ho? My lord?

My lord, I say! Othello!—

Enter Cassio How now, Cassio?CASSIO What’s the matter?IAGO My lord is fall’n into an epilepsy.

This is his second fit: he had one yesterday.CASSIO Rub him about the temples.IAGO The lethargy 59must have his quiet course:

If not, he foams at mouth and by and by

Breaks out to savage madness. Look he stirs:

Do you withdraw yourself a little while,

He will recover straight. When he is gone,

I would on great occasion 64speak with you.[ Exit Cassio ]

How is it, general? Have you not hurt your head?OTHELLO Dost thou mock me 66?IAGO I mock you not, by heaven.

Would you would bear your fortune like a man!OTHELLO A hornèd 69man’s a monster and a beast.IAGO There’s many a beast then in a populous city,

And many a civil 71monster.OTHELLO Did he confess it?IAGO Good sir, be a man.

Think every bearded 74fellow that’s but yoked

May draw 75with you: there’s millions now alive

That nightly lie in those unproper 76beds

Which they dare swear peculiar 77: your case is better.

O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend’s arch-mock,

To lip 79a wanton in a secure couch

And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know,