Уильям Шекспир: Othello

Or else the devil 95will make a grandsire of you.

Arise, I say!BRABANTIO What, have you lost your wits?RODORIGO Most reverend 98signior, do you know my voice?BRABANTIO Not I: what are you?RODORIGO My name is Rodorigo.BRABANTIO The worser welcome.

I have charged 102thee not to haunt about my doors:

In honest plainness thou hast heard me say

My daughter is not for thee: and now in madness —

Being full of supper and distemp’ring draughts 105—

Upon malicious knavery dost thou come

To start 107my quiet.RODORIGO Sir, sir, sir—BRABANTIO But thou must needs be sure

My spirits and my place 110have in their power

To make this bitter to thee.RODORIGO Patience, good sir.BRABANTIO What tell’st thou me of robbing?

This is Venice: my house is not a grange 114.RODORIGO Most grave 115Brabantio,

In simple 116and pure soul I come to you.IAGO Sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if

the devil bid you. Because we come to do you service and you

think we are ruffians, you’ll have your daughter covered 119

with a Barbary horse 120: you’ll have your nephews neigh to

you: you’ll have coursers 121for

cousins and jennets for germans 122.BRABANTIO What profane 123wretch art thou?IAGO I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter

and the Moor are making the beast with two backs 125.BRABANTIO Thou art a villain.IAGO You are a senator.BRABANTIO This thou shalt answer 128. I know thee, Rodorigo.RODORIGO Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you

If’t be your pleasure 130and most wise consent —

As partly I find it is — that your fair daughter,

At this odd-even 132and dull watch o’th’night,

Transported with 133no worse nor better guard

But with 134a knave of common hire, a gondolier,

To the gross 135clasps of a lascivious Moor:

If this be known to you and your allowance 136

We then have done you bold and saucy 137wrongs:

But if you know not this, my manners tell me

We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe

That, from 140the sense of all civility,

I thus would play and trifle with your reverence 141.

Your daughter — if you have not given her leave 142—

I say again, hath made a gross 143revolt,

Tying her duty, beauty, wit 144and fortunes

In 145an extravagant and wheeling stranger

Of here and everywhere. Straight 146satisfy yourself:

If she be in her chamber or your house,

Let loose on me the justice of the state

For thus deluding you.BRABANTIO Strike on the tinder 150, ho!

Give me a taper 151! Call up all my people!

This accident 152is not unlike my dream:

Belief of it oppresses me already.

Light, I say, light! Exit [above]

IAGO Farewell, for I must leave you:

It seems not meet 156nor wholesome to my place

To be producted 157— as, if I stay, I shall —

Against the Moor, for I do know the state,

However this may gall 159him with some check,

Cannot with safety cast 160him, for he’s embarked

With such loud reason 161to the Cyprus wars,

Which even now stands in act 162, that, for their souls,

Another of his fathom 163they have none,

To lead their business: in which regard,

Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.

Yet for necessity of present life 166

I must show out a flag and sign 167of love,

Which is indeed but sign. That 168you shall surely find him,

Lead to the Sagittary 169the raisèd search,

And there will I be with him. So farewell. Exit

Enter Brabantio with Servants and torches BRABANTIO It is too true an evil: gone she is,

And what’s to come of my despisèd time 172

Is nought but bitterness. Now, Rodorigo,

Where didst thou see her?— O, unhappy 174girl!—

With the Moor, say’st thou?— Who would be a father?—

How didst thou know ’twas she?— O, she deceives me

Past thought 177!— What said she to you?— Get more tapers:

Raise all my kindred.— Are they married, think you?RODORIGO Truly, I think they are.BRABANTIO O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood 180!

Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds

By what you see them act. Is there not charms 182

By which the property 183of youth and maidhood

May be abused? Have you not read, Rodorigo,

Of some such thing?RODORIGO Yes, sir, I have indeed.BRABANTIO Call up my brother.—

O, would you had had her!— To Rodorigo

Some one way, some another.— Do you know

Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?RODORIGO I think I can discover 190him, if you please

To get good guard and go along with me.BRABANTIO Pray you lead on. At every house I’ll call:

I may command 193at most.— Get weapons, ho!

And raise some special officers of might.—

On, good Rodorigo: I will deserve your pains 195. Exeunt

Act 1 Scene 2running scene 2

Location: Venice (outside the Sagittary)

Enter Othello, Iago, Attendants with torches IAGO Though in the trade 1of war I have slain men,

Yet do I hold it very stuff 2o’th’conscience

To do no contrived 3murder: I lack iniquity

Sometime to do me service. Nine or ten times

I had thought t’have yerked 5him here under the ribs.OTHELLO ’Tis better as it is.IAGO Nay, but he prated 7

And spoke such scurvy 8and provoking terms

Against your honour

That with the little godliness I have

I did full hard forbear him 11. But I pray you, sir,

Are you fast 12married? Be assured of this,

That the magnifico 13is much beloved,

And hath in his effect 14a voice potential

As double as the duke’s: he will divorce you,

Or put upon you what 16restraint or grievance

The law — with all his might to enforce it on —

Will give him cable 18.OTHELLO Let him do his spite;

My services which I have done the signiory 20

Shall out-tongue his complaints. ’Tis yet to know 21—

Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,

I shall promulgate 23— I fetch my life and being

From men of royal siege 24, and my demerits

May speak, unbonneted 25, to as proud a fortune

As this that I have reached. For know, Iago,

But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my unhousèd 28free condition

Put into circumscription and confine 29

For the sea’s worth 30. But look, what lights come yond?

Enter Cassio [and Officers] with torches IAGO Those are the raisèd 31father and his friends:

You were best go in.OTHELLO Not I: I must be found.

My parts 34, my title and my perfect soul

Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?IAGO By Janus 36, I think no.OTHELLO The servants of the duke’s? And my lieutenant?—

The goodness of the night upon you, friends!

What is the news?CASSIO The duke does greet you, general,

And he requires your haste-post-haste 41appearance

Even on the instant.OTHELLO What is the matter 43, think you?CASSIO Something from Cyprus, as I may divine 44.

It is a business of some heat 45: the galleys

Have sent a dozen sequent 46messengers

This very night at one another’s heels,

And many of the consuls, raised and met,

Are at the duke’s already. You have been hotly called for:

When, being not at your lodging to be found,

The senate hath sent about three several quests 51

To search you out.OTHELLO ’Tis well I am found by you.

I will but spend a word here in the house

And go with you. [Exit]

CASSIO Ancient, what makes he 56here?IAGO Faith 57, he tonight hath boarded a land caract: