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Deputing Cassio in his government.DESDEMONA Trust me, I am glad on’t 249.OTHELLO Indeed?DESDEMONA My lord?OTHELLO I am glad to see you mad 252.DESDEMONA Why, sweet Othello?OTHELLO Devil! Strikes her

DESDEMONA I have not deserved this.LODOVICO My lord, this would not be believed in Venice,

Though I should swear I saw’t. ’Tis very much 257:

Make her amends, she weeps.OTHELLO O devil, devil!

If that the earth could teem 260with woman’s tears,

Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile 261.—

Out of my sight!DESDEMONA I will not stay to offend you. Starts to leave

LODOVICO Truly, an obedient lady:

I do beseech your lordship, call her back.OTHELLO Mistress!DESDEMONA My lord? Returns

OTHELLO What would you with her, sir?LODOVICO Who, I, my lord?OTHELLO Ay, you did wish that I would make her turn:

Sir, she can turn 271, and turn, and yet go on

And turn again: and she can weep, sir, weep:

And she’s obedient 273, as you say, obedient:

Very obedient.— Proceed you in your tears.—

Concerning this, sir, — O well-painted passion 275! —

I am commanded home.— Get you away:

I’ll send for you anon.— Sir, I obey the mandate,

And will return to Venice.— Hence, avaunt![ Exit Desdemona ]

Cassio shall have my place 279. And, sir, tonight

I do entreat that we may sup together:

You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.— Goats and monkeys 281! Exit

LODOVICO Is this the noble Moor whom our full 282senate

Call all in all sufficient 283? Is this the nature

Whom passion could not shake? Whose solid virtue

The shot of accident nor dart of chance

Could neither graze nor pierce?IAGO He is much changed.LODOVICO Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?IAGO He’s that he is: I may not breathe my censure 289

What he might be: if what he might he is not, 290

I would to heaven he were!LODOVICO What, strike his wife?IAGO Faith, that was not so well 293, yet would I knew

That stroke would prove the worst!LODOVICO Is it his use 295?

Or did the letters work upon his blood

And new-create his fault?IAGO Alas, alas!

It is not honesty in me to speak

What I have seen and known. You shall observe him,

And his own courses will denote 301him so

That I may save my speech: do but go after,

And mark how he continues.LODOVICO I am sorry that I am deceived in him. Exeunt

Act 4 Scene 2 running scene 9

Location: Cyprus (within the citadel)

Enter Othello and Emilia OTHELLO You have seen nothing then?EMILIA Nor ever heard, nor ever did suspect.OTHELLO Yes, you have seen Cassio and she together.EMILIA But then I saw no harm, and then I heard

Each syllable that breath made up between them.OTHELLO What, did they never whisper?EMILIA Never, my lord.OTHELLO Nor send you out o’th’way?EMILIA Never.OTHELLO To fetch her fan, her gloves, her mask, nor nothing?EMILIA Never, my lord.OTHELLO That’s strange.EMILIA I durst 13, my lord, to wager she is honest,

Lay down my soul at stake 14: if you think other,

Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom:

If any wretch have put this in your head,

Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse 17!

For if she be not honest, chaste and true,

There’s no man happy: the purest of their wives

Is foul as slander.OTHELLO Bid her come hither: go. Exit Emilia

She says enough, yet she’s a simple bawd 22

That cannot say as much. This 23is a subtle whore,

A closet lock and key of villainous secrets 24:

And yet she’ll kneel and pray, I have seen her do’t.

Enter Desdemona and Emilia DESDEMONA My lord, what is your will?OTHELLO Pray you, chuck, come hither.DESDEMONA What is your pleasure?OTHELLO Let me see your eyes: look in my face.DESDEMONA What horrible fancy’s this?OTHELLO Some of your function 31, mistress: To Emilia

Leave procreants 32alone and shut the door:

Cough or cry ‘Hem’ if anybody come.

Your mystery 34, your mystery: nay, dispatch. Exit Emilia

DESDEMONA Upon my knee, what doth your speech Kneels

import?

I understand a fury in your words.OTHELLO Why, what art thou?DESDEMONA Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife.OTHELLO Come, swear it, damn thyself

Lest, being like one of heaven 40, the devils themselves

Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double damned:

Swear thou art honest.DESDEMONA Heaven doth truly know it.OTHELLO Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.DESDEMONA To whom, my lord? With whom? How am I false?OTHELLO Ah Desdemon! Away, away, away! Weeps

DESDEMONA Alas the heavy 47day! Why do you weep?

Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?

If haply 49you my father do suspect

An instrument of this your calling back,

Lay not your blame on me: if you have lost him,

I have lost him too.OTHELLO Had it pleased heaven

To try me with affliction, had they rained

All kind of sores 55and shames on my bare head,

Steeped 56me in poverty to the very lips,

Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,

I should have found in some place of my soul

A drop of patience: but, alas, to make me

The fixèd figure 60for the time of scorn

To point his slow and moving finger 61at!

Yet could I bear that too, well, very well,

But there where I have garnered 63up my heart,

Where either I must live, or bear no life,

The fountain 65from the which my current runs

Or else dries up: to be discarded thence!

Or keep it as a cistern 67for foul toads

To knot and gender 68in! Turn thy complexion there,

Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin 69:

Ay, here look grim 70as hell!DESDEMONA I hope my noble lord esteems me honest 71.OTHELLO O, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles 72,

That quicken even with blowing 73. O, thou weed,

Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet

That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst never been born!DESDEMONA Alas, what ignorant 76sin have I committed?OTHELLO Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,

Made to write ‘whore’ upon? What committed 78?

Committed? O, thou public commoner 79,

I should make very forges of my cheeks,

That would to cinders burn up modesty,

Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed?

Heaven stops 83the nose at it and the moon winks,

The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets

Is hushed within the hollow mine 85of earth

And will not hear’t. What committed?DESDEMONA By heaven, you do me wrong.OTHELLO Are not you a strumpet 88?DESDEMONA No, as I am a Christian:

If to preserve this vessel 90for my lord

From any other foul unlawful touch

Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.OTHELLO What, not a whore?DESDEMONA No, as I shall be saved.OTHELLO Is’t possible?DESDEMONA O, heaven forgive us!OTHELLO I cry you mercy 97, then:

I took you for that cunning whore of Venice

That married with Othello.— You, mistress, Calls

Enter Emilia That have the office opposite 100to Saint Peter

And keeps the gate of hell 101! You, you, ay, you!

We have done our course 102: there’s money for your pains.

I pray you turn the key and keep our counsel 103. Exit

Gives money

EMILIA Alas, what does this gentleman conceive 104?

How do you, madam? How do you, my good lady?DESDEMONA Faith, half asleep 106.EMILIA Good madam, what’s the matter with my lord?DESDEMONA With who?EMILIA Why, with my lord, madam.DESDEMONA Who is thy lord?EMILIA He that is yours, sweet lady.DESDEMONA I have none. Do not talk to me, Emilia: