Please Let Me Know if They Will Deny Again
-- Philip Weller, November xiii, 1941 - February ane, 2021
Dr. Weller, an Eastern Washington Academy professor of English and Shakespearean scholar for more than than l years.
Othello: Act iii, Scene iii
Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO,
and EMILIA.
Desdemona�by Frederic Leighton
DESDEMONA
oneBe thou bodacious, good Cassio, I will practice
2All my abilities in thy behalf.
EMILIA
3Adept madam, do: I warrant it grieves my married man,
ivAs if the instance were his.
DESDEMONA
5O, that'southward an honest boyfriend. Do non dubiousness, Cassio,
6But I volition take my lord and you again
7As friendly as you were.
CASSIO
Bounteous madam,
8Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
9He'southward never any thing only your truthful servant.
DESDEMONA
10I know't; I thank you lot. You do dear my lord:
11You have known him long; and exist you well assured
12He shall in strangeness stand up no farther off
12.strangeness: apathy.
13Than in a politic distance.
13.politic: dictated past wise policy.
CASSIO
Ay, but, lady,
xivThat policy may either concluding so long,
fifteenOr feed upon such overnice and waterish nutrition,
15.feed . . . diet: i.e., require so piddling to keep it alive.
16Or breed itself so out of circumstances,
xvi.breed . . . circumstances: exist revived by something or some other.
17That, I beingness absent and my identify supplied,
17.supplied: filled.
18My general volition forget my honey and service.
DESDEMONA
xixDo not doubt that; before Emilia here
nineteen.dubiety: fear.
twentyI requite thee warrant of thy place. Assure thee,
21If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
21.friendship: friendly act.
22To the last article. My lord shall never balance;
23I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;
23.sentry him tame: keep him awake till he capitulates. talk . . . patience: talk until he tin't endure it whatsoever longer.
24His bed shall seem a schoolhouse, his board a shrift;
25I'll intermingle every matter he does
26With Cassio's suit. Therefore exist merry, Cassio;
27For thy solicitor shall rather die
27.solicitor: advocate, lawyer.
28Than give thy cause abroad.
28.give thy cause away: give up on your crusade.
EMILIA
29Madam, hither comes my lord.
Enter OTHELLO and IAGO.
CASSIO
thirtyMadam, I'll have my leave.
DESDEMONA
31Why, stay, and hear me speak.
CASSIO
32Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
33Unfit for mine own purposes.
DESDEMONA
34Well, do your discretion.
Exit Cassio.
IAGO
35Ha! I like not that.
"he would steal abroad then guilty-similar"
OTHELLO
What dost thou say?
IAGO
36Nothing, my lord: or if—I know not what.
OTHELLO
37Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
IAGO
38Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think information technology,
39That he would steal abroad so guilty-like,
twoscoreSeeing y'all coming.
OTHELLO
I do believe 'twas he.
DESDEMONA
"Why, your lieutenant, Cassio"
41How now, my lord!
42I have been talking with a suitor here,
43A man that languishes in your displeasure.
OTHELLO
44Who is't you mean?
DESDEMONA
45Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
46If I have any grace or ability to move yous,
47His nowadays reconciliation accept;
47.present: immediate.
48For if he exist non one that truly loves you,
49That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
49.in cunning: wittingly.
50I have no judgment in an honest face:
51I prithee, phone call him dorsum.
OTHELLO
Went he hence now?
DESDEMONA
52Ay, sooth; so humbled
53That he hath left function of his grief with me,
54To endure with him. Adept dear, telephone call him dorsum.
OTHELLO
55Not at present, sweetness Desdemon; some other fourth dimension.
55.Desdemon: This isn't a typo; Othello is calling his married woman by a nickname to assure her of his dearest even equally he avoids promising to exercise what she wants him to do.
DESDEMONA
56Only shall't be shortly?
OTHELLO
The sooner, sweet, for you.
DESDEMONA
57Shall't exist tonight at supper?
OTHELLO
No, not tonight.
DESDEMONA
58Tomorrow dinner, then?
OTHELLO
I shall non dine at dwelling house;
59I meet the captains at the citadel.
DESDEMONA
sixtyWhy, so, tomorrow night; or Tuesday morning time;
61On Tuesday noon, or nighttime; on Wed morn:
62I prithee, proper noun the time, just let it not
63Exceed three days. In organized religion, he'south penitent;
64.common reason: everyday judgments.
64And yet his trespass, in our common reason—
65Salve that, they say, the wars must make examples
66Out of her best—is not nearly a fault
65-66.the wars . . . best: military subject area requires making an example of the very all-time men. not virtually: scarcely.
67To incur a private check. When shall he come?
67.a private check: a private reprimand.
68Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
69What you would ask me, that I should deny,
70Or stand up so mamm'band on. What! Michael Cassio,
70.mamm'ring: hesitating; wavering most.
71That came a-wooing with y'all, and so many a fourth dimension,
72When I have spoke of yous dispraisingly,
73Hath ta'en your role — to take so much to exercise
73.to do: ado, fuss.
74To bring him in! Trust me, I could practise much,—
74.bring him in: i.east., restore him to your favor.
OTHELLO
75Prithee, no more; permit him come up when he volition;
76I will deny thee nothing.
DESDEMONA
Why, this is not a benefaction;
76.this is not a benefaction: i.e., you are not really doing me a favor.
77'Tis every bit I should entreat you wear your gloves,
78Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep yous warm,
79Or sue to you to practise a peculiar turn a profit
79.peculiar profit: personal benefit.
80To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
81Wherein I hateful to touch your dearest indeed,
82It shall exist total of poise and hard weight
82.poise: weight, heaviness; or equipoise, frail balance.
83And fearful to exist granted.
OTHELLO
I will deny thee nil:
84Whereon, I exercise beseech thee, grant me this,
84.Whereon: in return for which.
85To leave me but a little to myself.
DESDEMONA
86Shall I deny you? no: bye, my lord.
OTHELLO
87Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.
DESDEMONA
88Emilia, come. —Exist as your fancies teach you;
89Whate'er you be, I am obedient.
Go out [with Emilia].
OTHELLO
90Fantabulous wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
ninety.wretch: i.e., poor little thing.
91Simply I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
92Chaos is come up again.
91.Just I exercise: if I do not.
IAGO
93My noble lord—
OTHELLO
What dost chiliad say, Iago?
IAGO
94Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,
95Know of your love?
OTHELLO
96He did, from first to last: why dost k enquire?
IAGO
97But for a satisfaction of my thought;
98No further harm.
OTHELLO
Why of thy thought, Iago?
IAGO
99I did not call back he had been acquainted with her.
OTHELLO
100O, yes; and went between u.s. very oft.
"Is he non honest?"
Willard White as Othello; Ian McKellen as Iago
1990 Boob tube film
IAGO
101Indeed!
OTHELLO
102Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou cipher in that?
103Is he not honest?
IAGO
Honest, my lord?
OTHELLO
104Honest! ay, honest.
IAGO
My lord, for aught I know.
OTHELLO
105What dost chiliad call back?
IAGO
Call back, my lord!
OTHELLO
106Retrieve, my lord! By sky, he echoes me,
107As if at that place were some monster in his thought
108Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:
109I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,
110When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
111And when I told thee he was of my counsel
111.of my counsel: in my confidence.
112In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst "Indeed!"
113And didst contract and bag thy brow together,
114Equally if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
115Some horrible conceit. If thou dost dear me,
115.conceit: idea, fancy.
116Testify me thy idea.
IAGO
117My lord, you know I love you.
OTHELLO
I recall m dost;
118And, for I know chiliad'rt full of love and honesty,
119And counterbalance'st thy words before thou givest them breath,
120Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more;
120.stops: pregnant pauses in a speech.
121For such things in a false disloyal knave
122Are tricks of custom, just in a homo that'due south merely
123They are shut dilations, working from the centre
124That passion cannot rule.
123-124.close dilations, working from the heart / That passion cannot rule: i.e., expressions of thoughts growing so strongly from the heart that they cannot exist contained.
IAGO
For Michael Cassio,
125I dare exist sworn I think that he is honest.
"Why, and so, I think Cassio'south an honest man"
Illustrator: Sir John Gilbert
OTHELLO
126I think and so also.
IAGO
Men should be what they seem;
127Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
OTHELLO
128Certain, men should be what they seem.
IAGO
129Why, and then, I remember Cassio's an honest man.
OTHELLO
130Nay, yet there's more in this:
131I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
131.as to: with respect to.
132Every bit thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
133The worst of words.
IAGO
Good my lord, pardon me:
134Though I am bound to every act of duty,
135I am not leap to that all slaves are free to.
135.that all slaves are complimentary to: that which even a slave is not bound to.
136Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;
137As where's that palace whereinto foul things
138Sometimes intrude non? Who has a breast then pure,
139But some uncleanly apprehensions
139.uncleanly apprehensions: dirty interpretations of others' actions.
140Keep leets and constabulary-days and in session sit
141With meditations lawful?
141.With meditations lawful: along with innocent thoughts.
OTHELLO
142G dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
142.thy friend: any friend.
143If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
144A stranger to thy thoughts.
IAGO
I do beseech you—
145Though I perhaps am vicious in my gauge,
145.vicious: spitefully wrong.
146As, I confess, information technology is my nature's plague
147To spy into abuses, and ofttimes my jealousy
147.jealousy: suspicion of evil.
148Shapes faults that are not—that your wisdom then,
148.so: on that business relationship.
149From i that and so imperfectly conceits,
149.one: i.east., myself, Iago. conceits: judges, conjectures.
150Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
151Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
152It were non for your tranquillity nor your good,
153Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
154To let you know my thoughts.
OTHELLO
'Zounds, what dost 1000 mean?
IAGO
155Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
156Is the immediate jewel of their souls.
157Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
158'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
159But he that filches from me my good proper name
160Robs me of that which not enriches him
161And makes me poor indeed.
OTHELLO
162By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.
IAGO
163Y'all cannot, if my middle were in your hand;
163.if: even if.
164Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
OTHELLO
165Ha!
IAGO
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
166It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
167The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
167.meat information technology feeds on: i.eastward., the heart of the man who suffers it.
168Who, sure of his fate, loves not his wronger;
168.his wronger: i.east., his faithless wife.
169Simply, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
170Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, nevertheless strongly loves!
OTHELLO
171O misery!
IAGO
172Poor and content is rich and rich plenty,
173But riches fineless is equally poor as winter
173.fineless: boundless.
174To him that always fears he shall exist poor.
175Proficient heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
176From jealousy!
OTHELLO
Why, why is this?
177Recollect'st grand I'ld make a life of jealousy,
178To follow still the changes of the moon
179With fresh suspicions? No! to be once in doubt
180Is one time to be resolved. Exchange me for a goat,
180.once: once and for all.
181When I shall turn the business of my soul
182To such exsufflicate and diddled surmises,
182.exsufflicate and diddled: blown-up and inflated.
183Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
183.jealous: suspicious.
184To say my married woman is fair, feeds well, loves company,
185Is free of oral communication, sings, plays and dances well;
186Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.
187Nor from mine ain weak merits will I describe
188The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
188.doubt: suspicion. revolt: unfaithfulness.
189For she had optics, and chose me. No, Iago;
190I'll see earlier I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
190.prove: test.
191And on the proof, at that place is no more but this,—
192Away at once with love or jealousy!
"Wait to your wife; observe her well with Cassio"
IAGO
193I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason
194To show the dear and duty that I bear you
195With franker spirit: therefore, every bit I am bound,
196Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
197Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
198Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure.
198.non: neither. secure: overconfident.
199I would non have your free and noble nature,
200Out of cocky-compensation, be abused; await to't.
200.cocky-compensation: inherent or natural goodness.
201I know our country disposition well;
202In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
203They cartel not prove their husbands; their all-time censor
204Is not to leave't undone, only keep't unknown.
OTHELLO
205Dost thou say and then?
IAGO
206She did deceive her father, marrying you;
207And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
208She loved them well-nigh.
OTHELLO
And then she did.
IAGO
Why, go to then;
208.become to: An expression of impatience.
209She that, and then young, could give out such a seeming,
209.seeming: false advent.
210To seel her father's eyes up close every bit oak,
210.seal: blind.oak: A close-grained wood.
211He thought 'twas witchcraft—but I am much to blame;
212I humbly practise beseech y'all of your pardon
213For as well much loving you.
OTHELLO
I am bound to thee for ever.
213.bound: indebted.
IAGO
214I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.
OTHELLO
215Not a jot, not a jot.
IAGO
I' faith, I fear it has.
216I promise you lot will consider what is spoke
217Comes from my love. But I exercise encounter you're moved:
218I am to pray y'all non to strain my speech
219To grosser issues nor to larger reach
219.issues: significances, conclusions. reach: meaning, scope.
220Than to suspicion.
OTHELLO
221I will non.
IAGO
Should you do so, my lord,
222My spoken language should fall into such vile success
222.success: effect.
223As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend—
224My lord, I see you're moved.
OTHELLO
No, not much moved:
225I do non recollect but Desdemona's honest.
225.honest: celibate.
IAGO
226Long live she so! and long live y'all to think so!
OTHELLO
227And yet, how nature erring from itself,—
IAGO
228Ay, there'southward the point: as—to be assuming with you—
229Not to impact many proposed matches
229.bear on: prefer, look with favor on.
230Of her ain clime, complexion, and degree,
230.clime: region, country.
231Whereto we see in all things nature tends—
232Foh! i may olfactory property in such, a volition most rank,
232.rank: thick, coarse.
233Foul disproportions, thoughts unnatural.
233.disproportions: abnormalities.
234But pardon me; I do not in position
234.in position: i.east., in arguing thus.
235Distinctly speak of her; though I may fright
235.Distinctly speak of: refer specifically to.
236Her will, recoiling to her ameliorate judgment,
236.recoiling to: reverting to.
237May autumn to match you with her country forms
237.autumn . . . forms: happen to compare your appearance with that of her countrymen.
238And happily repent.
238.happily apologize: haply [by take chances] repent her spousal relationship.
OTHELLO
Farewell, adieu!
239If more thou dost perceive, allow me know more than;
240Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:
IAGO [Going.]
241My lord, I take my exit.
OTHELLO
242Why did I ally? This honest brute doubtless
243Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
IAGO [Returning.]
244My lord, I would I might entreat your honor
245To scan this matter no further; leave information technology to time:
246Though information technology be fit that Cassio have his place,
247For sure, he fills it up with great power,
248Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,
249You lot shall by that perceive him and his ways:
250Annotation, if your lady strain his entertainment
250.strain his entertainment: repeatedly urge his reappointment.
251With any strong or vehement importunity;
252Much will be seen in that. In the mean fourth dimension,
253Permit me be thought too decorated in my fears—
254As worthy cause I have to fright I am—
255And concur her free, I do beseech your honor.
255.costless: guiltless.
OTHELLO
256Fear not my government.
256.Fear not my government: don't worry near my self-command.
IAGO
257I once more take my leave.
Exit.
OTHELLO
258This fellow'due south of exceeding honesty,
259And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
259.qualities: types.
260Of human dealings. If I do bear witness her haggard,
260.haggard: wild (a term from falconry).
261Though that her jesses were my love heartstrings,
261.jesses: leather control straps on the hawk'south legs
262I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
262.I'ld . . . wind: i.e. I would betoken to her that she was costless.
263To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am blackness
263.To prey at fortune: to chase at random.
264And take not those soft parts of conversation
264.soft . . . conversation: pleasing qualities of social beliefs.
265That chamberers have, or for I am declined
265.chamberers: courtiers, indoor types.
266Into the vale of years,—yet that's not much—
265-266.I . . . years: I have just begun my declining years. . . . more than
267She's gone. I am driveling; and my relief
268Must be to loathe her. O expletive of marriage,
269That we can telephone call these delicate creatures ours,
270And non their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
271And alive upon the vapour of a dungeon,
272Than keep a corner in the thing I love
273For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of keen ones;
274Prerogativ'd are they less than the base;
274.Prerogativ'd . . . base: they are given fewer rights than the lower classes.
275'Tis destiny unshunnable, like expiry:
276Even and so this forked plague is blighted to the states
276.forked plague: the curse of a cuckold'southward horns.
277When we do quicken. Expect where she comes:
277.quicken: begin to live.
Enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA.
278If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
279I'll not believe't.
DESDEMONA
How now, my dear Othello!
280Your dinner, and the generous islanders
280.generous: noble.
281By yous invited, practise nourish your presence.
OTHELLO
282I am to blame.
280.generous: noble. DESDEMONA
Why do y'all speak then faintly?
283Are y'all not well?
OTHELLO
284I have a pain upon my brow here.
DESDEMONA
285.with watching: from lack of sleep or working belatedly.
285'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill abroad again:
286Allow me simply bind it difficult, inside this hr
287It will be well.
OTHELLO
Your napkin is also little:
287.napkin: handkerchief.
[He pushes the handkerchief away,
and information technology drops.]
288Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.
288.Permit information technology lonely: don't problem yourself about it.
DESDEMONA
289I am very sorry that you are not well.
Exit [with Othello].
EMILIA
290I am glad I have found this napkin:
291This was her beginning remembrance from the Moor.
292My wayward husband hath a hundred times
292.wayward: arbitrary.
293Woo'd me to steal information technology; but she then loves the token,
294For he conjured her she should e'er keep it,
295That she reserves it evermore about her
296To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
296.piece of work ta'en out: design of the embroidery copied.
297And requite't Iago: what he will exercise with it
298Heaven knows, non I;
299I null merely to please his fantasy.
299.I nothing but: my only thought is. fantasy: fancy, whim.
Enter Iago.
IAGO
300How now! what do you here solitary?
EMILIA
301Exercise not you lot admonish; I have a affair for you.
IAGO
302A matter for me? it is a common thing—
302.it is a common thing: Iago is not referring to the handkerchief. He is making a sexual joke out of the fact that a slang word for "prostitute" was "commoner." Emilia understands what he is up to and stops him short with her "Ha!"
EMILIA
303Ha!
IAGO
304To have a foolish married woman.
"What will you give me now
For the same handkerchief?"
Illustrator: H.C. Selous
EMILIA
305O, is that all? What will you give me now
306For the aforementioned handkerchief?
IAGO
What handkerchief?
EMILIA
307What handkerchief?
308Why, that the Moor start gave to Desdemona;
309That which so oftentimes you did bid me steal.
IAGO
310Hast stol'due north it from her?
EMILIA
311No, 'religion; she let it drop by negligence.
312And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
312.to the reward: upon the opportunity.
313Look, here it is.
Lise Bruneau as Emilia
--Shakespeare Theatre Company, Autumn 2005--
IAGO
A good wench, give it me.
EMILIA
314What will you do with 't, that you accept been so earnest
315To accept me filch it?
IAGO [Snatching it.]
Why, what'southward that to y'all?
EMILIA
316If it be non for some purpose of import,
317Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad
318When she shall lack it.
IAGO
319Be not acknown on 't; I have utilize for it.
319.Be not acknown on't: pretend non to know of it.
320Go, leave me.
Exit Emilia.
321I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
322And permit him discover information technology. Trifles light as air
323Are to the jealous confirmations potent
324Every bit proofs of holy writ: this may do something.
325The Moor already changes with my poisonous substance:
326Unsafe conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
326.conceits: speculations, ideas.
327Which at the first are scarce constitute to distaste,
328Simply with a little deed upon the blood
328.with a little human action: subsequently they accept acted for a little while.
329Burn down like the mines of sulphur.
329.Burn like the mines of sulphur: Burn down in a sulphur mine burns bluish, produces unsafe sulfur dioxide, and is difficult to extinguish.
Enter OTHELLO.
I did say then.
330Expect where he comes! Not poppy, nor mandragora,
330.mandragora: an opiate, made of the mandrake root.
331Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
332Shall ever medicine thee to that sugariness slumber
333Which 1000 owedst yesterday.
333.owedst: had.
OTHELLO
Ha! ha! imitation to me?
IAGO
334Why, how at present, general! no more than of that.
OTHELLO
335Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:
336I swear 'tis better to be much abused
337Than but to know't a picayune.
IAGO
How now, my lord!
OTHELLO
338What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
339I saw't not, thought it non, it harm'd not me:
340I slept the next night well, was complimentary and merry;
340.free: carefree.
341I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:
342He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
342.wanting: missing.
343Permit him not know't, and he's non robb'd at all.
IAGO
344I am lamentable to hear this.
OTHELLO
345I had been happy, if the full general camp,
346Pioners and all, had tasted her sweetness body,
346.Pioners: Pioners were lowly soldiers assigned dirty work, such as digging tunnels to undermine a castle wall.
347Then I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
348Bye the tranquil heed! bye content!
349Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
349.big: stately.
350That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
351Goodbye the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
352The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
353The purple imprint, and all quality,
353.quality: character, attributes.
354Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
354.Pride: proud display. pomp: nobility. circumstance: pageantry, ceremonial splendor.
355And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
355.mortal: deadly. engines: instruments of war; here, cannon.
356The immortal Jove'southward dread clamours counterfeit,
357Bye! Othello's occupation's gone!
IAGO
Illustrator: Kenny Meadows
358Is't possible, my lord?
OTHELLO
359Villain, be sure chiliad prove my love a whore;
360Be certain of it; give me the ocular proof:
361Or by the worth of human being'south eternal soul,
362Thou hadst been amend have been built-in a dog
363Than answer my waked wrath!
IAGO
Is't come to this?
OTHELLO
364Brand me to come across't; or, at the least, so prove it,
365That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
365.probation: proof. swivel: [questionable] prop. loop: loophole.
366To hang a uncertainty on; or woe upon thy life!
IAGO
367My noble lord,—
OTHELLO
368If thou dost slander her and torture me,
369Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
369.remorse: compassion.
370On horror's caput horrors accumulate;
370.horrors accumulate: add however more than horrors.
371Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
371.amazed: utterly confounded.
372For null canst thou to damnation add
373Greater than that.
IAGO
O grace! O heaven forgive me!
374Are you lot a man? accept you a soul or sense?
375God purchase you lot; take mine office. O wretched fool,
375.God buy you: God be with you lot, i.east., farewell.
376That livest to make thine honesty a vice!
375-376.O . . . vice!: O wretched fool, who have lived only to see your honesty made into a vice. Iago is maxim this loudly to himself, in order to shame Othello.
377O monstrous world! Accept note, take note, O world,
378To exist directly and honest is non prophylactic.
379I thank y'all for this profit; and from hence
379.turn a profit: valuable lesson. hence: henceforth.
380I'll love no friend, sith dearest breeds such offence.
380.sith: since. offense: injury.
OTHELLO
381Nay, stay. Yard shouldst exist honest.
381.Nay, stay: Apparently Othello believes that Iago is about to leave him by himself. 1000 shouldst be honest: i.e., everything seems to show that you are honest.
IAGO
382I should exist wise, for honesty'south a fool
383And loses that it works for.
OTHELLO
By the world,
384I think my wife be honest and think she is not;
385I recall that thousand art just and think m art not.
386I'll accept some proof. Her name, that was as fresh
387Equally Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
387.Dian: Diana, goddess of the moon and guiltlessness.
388As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
388.cords: ropes to use as a garrote.
389Poison, or burn, or suffocating streams,
390I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!
IAGO
391I see, sir, yous are eaten upward with passion:
392I do repent me that I put it to you.
393You would be satisfied?
OTHELLO
Would! nay, I will.
IAGO
394And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
395Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on—
395.supervisor: onlooker, spectator.
396Behold her topp'd?
396.topp'd: This discussion is used of animals. When a ram mounts an ewe, the ram has topped the ewe.
OTHELLO
Death and damnation! O!
IAGO
397It were a tedious difficulty, I call back,
398To bring them to that prospect: damn them so,
398.To . . . prospect: to maneuver them into a situation in which they could exist seen as they were having sexual activity.
399If always mortal eyes do see them bolster
399.bolster: get to bed together.
400More than their own! What then? how then?
398-400.damn . . . own: i.e., then damn them for fixing it then that they are the only ones who can meet what they are doing.
401What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
402It is impossible you should meet this,
402.encounter: i.eastward., contrive to exist an actual witness of.
403Were they as prime number as goats, equally hot as monkeys,
403.prime: lustful.
404As salt as wolves in pride, and fools every bit gross
404.salt: carnal. in pride: in rut.
405As ignorance made drunk. But all the same, I say,
406If imputation and strong circumstances,
407Which lead direct to the door of truth,
408Will give you satisfaction, you lot may have't.
OTHELLO
409Give me a living reason she'south disloyal.
IAGO
410I do not like the function:
411But, sith I am enter'd in this cause and so far,
412Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,
413I will get on. I lay with Cassio lately;
414And, being troubled with a raging molar,
415I could not sleep.
416At that place are a kind of men so loose of soul,
417That in their sleeps volition mutter their affairs:
418One of this kind is Cassio:
419In slumber I heard him say "Sugariness Desdemona,
420Permit us be wary, let us hide our loves";
421And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my manus,
421.gripe: grip, squeeze.
422Cry "O sweet brute!" and and so kiss me hard,
423Every bit if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
424That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg
425Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then
426Cried "Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!"
OTHELLO
427O monstrous! monstrous!
IAGO
Nay, this was but his dream.
OTHELLO
428Simply this denoted a foregone conclusion:
428.foregone determination: human activity already performed.
429'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be merely a dream.
429.shrewd doubt: strong reason for suspicion.
IAGO
430And this may aid to thicken other proofs
430.thicken: substantiate.
431That exercise demonstrate thinly.
431.practice demonstrate thinly: are weak shows of proof.
OTHELLO
I'll tear her all to pieces.
IAGO
432Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;
433She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
434Have you non sometimes seen a handkerchief
435Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?
OTHELLO
436I gave her such a one; 'twas my kickoff gift.
IAGO
437I know non that; only such a handkerchief—
438I am sure it was your wife's—did I today
439Come across Cassio wipe his beard with.
438-439.did I today / Come across Cassio wipe his beard with: If Othello were non so blinded with jealousy he might accept been able to recall that about 12 minutes ago he could have seen the handkerchief in Desdemona's paw equally she tried to wrap it about his brow to cure his headache.
OTHELLO
If it exist that—
IAGO
440If it be that, or any that was hers,
441It speaks against her with the other proofs.
OTHELLO
442O, that the slave had xl chiliad lives!
442.the slave: i.e., Cassio.
443Ane is likewise poor, also weak for my revenge.
444Now do I run into 'tis true. Look here, Iago;
445All my fond love thus do I accident to sky.
446'Tis gone.
447Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
448Yield up, O dearest, thy crown and hearted throne
448.hearted: established in my heart.
449To tyrannous detest! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
449.fraught: freight, brunt.
450For 'tis of aspics' tongues!
450.aspics' tongues: tongues of asps, which are venomous serpents.
IAGO
Even so be content.
OTHELLO
451O, claret, blood, blood!
IAGO
452Patience, I say; your heed possibly may change.
OTHELLO
453Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic bounding main,
453.Pontic Sea: Black Sea.
454Whose icy current and compulsive grade
455Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
455.retiring: backward-flowing.
456To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
456.Propontic: torso of water between the Bosporus and Hellespont.
457Even so my bloody thoughts, with vehement footstep,
458Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
459Till that a capable and broad revenge
459.capable; comprehensive.
460Swallow them up. Now, past yond marble heaven,
460.marble: enduring, invariable.
[Kneels.]
Illustrator: Sir John Gilbert
461In the due reverence of a sacred vow
462I here engage my words.
IAGO
Practise not rise yet.
[Kneels.]
463Witness, you ever-burning lights higher up,
464Yous elements that clip us circular about,
464.prune: encompass.
465Witness that here Iago doth give up
466The execution of his wit, easily, middle,
466.execution: action. wit: mind.
467To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him control,
468And to obey shall be in me remorse,
469What encarmine business ever.
468-469.And to obey shall be in me remorse, / What encarmine business ever: i.e., in Othello's service even the cruellest acts volition be equally allowable every bit if they were gentle and prompted by pity ("remorse").
[They rise.]
OTHELLO
I greet thy honey,
470Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
471And will upon the instant put thee to't:
471.upon the instant put thee to't: i.east., correct now give y'all the risk to prove your loyalty to me in deeds.
472Within these 3 days let me hear thee say
473That Cassio's not live.
IAGO
474My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:
475But let her live.
OTHELLO
476Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!
476.minx: a lewd or wanton woman.
477Come, get with me apart; I volition withdraw,
478To furnish me with some swift ways of death
479For the fair devil. At present art k my lieutenant.
IAGO
480I am your own for ever.
Exeunt.
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