Уильям Шекспир - Othello

If it prove lawful prize, he’s made for ever.CASSIO I do not understand.IAGO He’s married.CASSIO To who?IAGO Marry 62, to—[ Enter Othello Come, captain, will you go?OTHELLO Have with you 63.CASSIO Here comes another troop to seek for you. Enter Brabantio, Rodorigo, with Officers and torches And weapons

IAGO It is Brabantio. General, be advised 65:

He comes to 66bad intent.OTHELLO Holla 67, stand there!RODORIGO Signior, it is the Moor.BRABANTIO Down with him, thief! They draw

IAGO You, Rodorigo? Come, sir, I am for you.OTHELLO Keep up 71your bright swords, for the dew will rust

them.

Good signior, you shall more command with years

Than with your weapons.BRABANTIO O thou foul 74thief,

Where hast thou stowed 75my daughter?

Damned as thou art, thou hast enchanted her,

For I’ll refer me to 77all things of sense —

If she in chains of magic were not bound —

Whether a maid so tender 79, fair and happy,

So opposite 80to marriage that she shunned

The wealthy curlèd 81dearling of our nation,

Would ever have — t’incur a general mock 82—

Run from her guardage 83to the sooty bosom

Of such a thing as thou: to fear, not to delight.

Judge me the world 85if ’tis not gross in sense

That thou hast practised on 86her with foul charms,

Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals 87

That weakens motion 88: I’ll have’t disputed on:

’Tis probable and palpable to thinking.

I therefore apprehend and do attach 90thee

For an abuser of the world, a practiser

Of arts inhibited and out of warrant 92.—

Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,

Subdue him at his peril.OTHELLO Hold 95your hands,

Both you of my inclining 96and the rest:

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it

Without a prompter.— Whither will you that I 98go

To answer this your charge?BRABANTIO To prison, till fit time

Of law and course of direct session 101

Call thee to answer.OTHELLO What if I do obey?

How may the duke be therewith satisfied,

Whose messengers are here about my side

Upon some present 106business of the state

To bring me to him?OFFICER ’Tis true, most worthy signior:

The duke’s in council and your noble self,

I am sure, is sent for.BRABANTIO How? The duke in council?

In this time of the night? Bring him away;

Mine’s not an idle cause: the duke himself,

Or any of my brothers of the state 114,

Cannot but feel this wrong as ’twere their own:

For if such actions may have passage free 116,

Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. Exeunt

Act 1 Scene 3 running scene 3

Location: Venice (duke’s residence/council chamber)

Enter Duke, Senators and Officers With torches

They sit at a table

DUKE There’s no composition 1in this news

That gives them 2credit.FIRST SENATOR Indeed, they are disproportioned 3;

My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.DUKE And mine a hundred forty.SECOND SENATOR And mine two hundred:

But though they jump 7not on a just account —

As in these cases where the aim 8reports,

’Tis oft with difference — yet do they all confirm

A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.DUKE Nay, it is possible enough to judgement:

I do not so secure 12me in the error

But the main article I do approve

In fearful sense.SAILOR What ho, what ho, what ho! Within

Enter Sailor OFFICER A messenger from the galleys.DUKE Now? What’s the business?SAILOR The Turkish preparation 18makes for Rhodes:

So was I bid report here to the state

By Signior Angelo. [Exit Sailor]

DUKE How say you by 21this change?FIRST SENATOR This cannot be

By no assay 23of reason: ’tis a pageant,

To keep us in false gaze 24. When we consider

Th’importancy 25of Cyprus to the Turk,

And let ourselves again but understand

That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,

So may he with more facile question bear it 28,

For that 29it stands not in such warlike brace,

But altogether lacks th’abilities 30

That Rhodes is dressed in 31: if we make thought of this,

We must not think the Turk is so unskilful

To leave that latest 33which concerns him first,

Neglecting an attempt 34of ease and gain

To wake and wage 35a danger profitless.DUKE Nay, in all confidence, he’s not for Rhodes.OFFICER Here is more news.

Enter a Messenger MESSENGER The Ottomites 38, reverend and gracious,

Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes,

Have there injointed them 40with an after fleet.FIRST SENATOR Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?MESSENGER Of thirty sail: and now they do restem 42

Their backward course, bearing with frank 43appearance

Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,

Your trusty and most valiant servitor 45,

With his free 46duty recommends you thus,

And prays you to believe him.[ Exit Messenger ]

DUKE ’Tis certain then for Cyprus.

Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?FIRST SENATOR He’s now in Florence.DUKE Write from us to him: post-post-haste 51, dispatch!FIRST SENATOR Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.

Enter Brabantio, Othello, Cassio, Iago, Rodorigo and Officers DUKE Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you

Against the general enemy Ottoman 54.— To Brabantio

I did not see you: welcome, gentle 55signior,

We lacked your counsel and your help tonight.BRABANTIO So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me:

Neither my place 58nor aught I heard of business

Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care 59

Take hold on me, for my particular 60grief

Is of so floodgate 61and o’erbearing nature

That it engluts 62and swallows other sorrows

And it is still itself 63.DUKE Why? What’s the matter?BRABANTIO My daughter! O, my daughter!SENATORS Dead?BRABANTIO Ay, to me:

She is abused 68, stol’n from me and corrupted

By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks 69;

For nature so prepost’rously 70to err —

Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense 71—

Sans 72witchcraft could not.DUKE Whoe’er he be that in this foul proceeding 73

Hath thus beguiled 74your daughter of herself,

And you of her, the bloody 75book of law

You shall yourself read in the bitter letter

After your own sense 77: yea, though our proper son

Stood in your action 78.BRABANTIO Humbly I thank your grace.

Here is the man: this Moor, whom now it seems

Your special mandate for the state affairs

Hath hither brought.ALL We are very sorry for’t. To Othello DUKE What, in your own part, can you say

to this?BRABANTIO Nothing, but 85this is so.OTHELLO Most potent, grave 86and reverend signiors,

My very noble and approved 87good masters:

That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter,

It is most true: true I have married her;

The very head and front 90of my offending

Hath this extent, no more. Rude 91am I in my speech,

And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace;

For since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith 93,

Till now some nine moons wasted 94, they have used

Their dearest 95action in the tented field,

And little of this great world can I speak

More than pertains to feats of broils 97and battle,

And therefore little shall I grace my cause

In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,

I will a round 100unvarnished tale deliver

Of my whole course of love: what drugs, what charms,