Chapter XXI: Act I: SCENE I. Venice. A street

_Enter_ RODERIGO _and_ IAGO.[4877]

_Rod._ Tush, never tell me; I take it much unkindly[4878]
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse[4879]
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.[4880]

_Iago._ 'Sblood, but you will not hear me:[4881][4882][4883]
If ever I did dream of such a matter,[4882][4884] 5
Abhor me.[4882][4884][4885]

_Rod._ Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.[4886]

_Iago._ Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the
city,[4887][4888][4889]
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,[4888]
Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,[4888][4890] 10
I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:[4888][4891]
But he, as loving his own pride and purposes,[4888][4892]
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance[4888][4893]
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;[4888][4894]
And, in conclusion,[4888][4895][4896] 15
Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,[4896][4897]
'I have already chose my officer.'[4896][4898][4899]
And what was he?[4896][4898]
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,[4896]
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,[4900] 20
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;[4900][4901]
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows
More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,[4902]
Wherein the toged consuls can propose[4903] 25
As masterly as he: mere prattle without practice[4904]
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:[4905]
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds[4906]
Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd[4907] 30
By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,[4908]
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.[4909]

_Rod._ By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.

_Iago._ Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,[4910] 35
Preferment goes by letter and affection,[4911]
And not by old gradation, where each second[4912]
Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself[4913]
Whether I in any just term am affined[4914]
To love the Moor.

_Rod._ I would not follow him then. 40

_Iago._ O, sir, content you;
I follow him to serve my turn upon him:
We cannot all be masters, nor all masters
Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark[4915]
Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave, 45
That doting on his own obsequious bondage
Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,
For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:[4916]
Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are[4917]
Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,[4917][4918] 50
Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,[4917]
And throwing but shows of service on their lords[4917]
Do well thrive by them, and when they have lined their
coats[4919][4920]
Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul,[4919][4921]
And such a one do I profess myself.[4922] 55
For, sir,[4923]
It is as sure as you are Roderigo,
Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:
In following him, I follow but myself;
Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,[4924] 60
But seeming so, for my peculiar end:[4924]
For when my outward action doth demonstrate[4925]
The native act and figure of my heart
In compliment extern, 'tis not long after[4926]
But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve 65
For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.[4927]

_Rod._ What a full fortune does the thick-lips owe,[4928]
If he can carry't thus![4929]

_Iago._ Call up her father,[4930]
Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,[4930]
Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,[4931] 70
And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,[4932]
Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,
Yet throw such changes of vexation on't[4933]
As it may lose some colour.

_Rod._ Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud. 75

_Iago._ Do; with like timorous accent and dire yell[4934]
As when, by night and negligence, the fire[4935]
Is spied in populous cities.[4936]

_Rod._ What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!

_Iago._ Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves!
thieves![4937] 80
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags![4938]
Thieves! thieves![4939]

BRABANTIO _appears above, at a window_.[4940]

_Bra._ What is the reason of this terrible summons?[4941]
What is the matter there?[4941]

_Rod._ Signior, is all your family within? 85

_Iago._ Are your doors lock'd?[4942]

_Bra._ Why, wherefore ask you this?

_Iago._ 'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on your gown;[4943]
Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;[4944]
Even now, now, very now, an old black ram[4945]
Is tupping your white ewe. Arise, arise; 90
Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,
Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:[4946]
Arise, I say.[4946][4947]

_Bra._ What, have you lost your wits?

_Rod._ Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?

_Bra._ Not I: what are you? 95

_Rod._ My name is Roderigo.

_Bra._ The worser welcome:[4948]
I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:[4949]
In honest plainness thou hast heard me say
My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,[4950]
Being full of supper and distempering draughts, 100
Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come[4951]
To start my quiet.[4952]

_Rod._ Sir, sir, sir,--[4953]

_Bra._ But thou must needs be sure
My spirit and my place have in them power[4954]
To make this bitter to thee.

_Rod._ Patience, good sir.[4955] 105

_Bra._ What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;[4956][4957]
My house is not a grange.[4956]

_Rod._ Most grave Brabantio,
In simple and pure soul I come to you.

Iago. 'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not[4958]
serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to do 110
you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll have your[4959]
daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you'll have your
nephews neigh to you; you'll have coursers for cousins,
and gennets for germans.[4960]

_Bra._ What profane wretch art thou? 115

_Iago._ I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter[4961]
and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.[4962]

_Bra._ Thou art a villain.

_Iago._ You are--a senator.[4963]

_Bra._ This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.[4964]

_Rod._ Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,[4965] 120
If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,[4966]
As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,[4966]
At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,[4966][4967]
Transported with no worse nor better guard[4966][4968]
But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,[4966][4969] 125
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,--[4966]
If this be known to you, and your allowance,[4966][4970]
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;[4966][4971]
But if you know not this, my manners tell me[4966]
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe[4966] 130
That, from the sense of all civility,[4966]
I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:[4966]
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,[4966]
I say again, hath made a gross revolt,[4966]
Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes,[4966][4972] 135
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger[4966][4972][4973]
Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:[4966][4974]
If she be in her chamber or your house,[4975]
Let loose on me the justice of the state
For thus deluding you.[4976]

_Bra._ Strike on the tinder, ho! 140
Give me a taper! call up all my people!
This accident is not unlike my dream:
Belief of it oppresses me already.
Light, I say! light! [_Exit above._[4977]

_Iago._ Farewell; for I must leave you:
It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,[4978] 145
To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--[4979]
Against the Moor: for I do know, the state,
However this may gall him with some check,[4980]
Cannot with safety cast him; for he's embark'd[4981]
With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,[4982] 150
Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,[4983]
Another of his fathom they have none[4984]
To lead their business: in which regard,[4985]
Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains,[4986]
Yet for necessity of present life, 155
I must show out a flag and sign of love,[4987]
Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,[4987][4988]
Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;[4989]
And there will I be with him. So farewell. [_Exit._

_Enter, below,_ BRABANTIO, _in his night-gown, and_ Servants
_with torches_.

_Bra._ It is too true an evil: gone she is;[4990] 160
And what's to come of my despised time[4991]
Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,[4992]
Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!
With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father![4993]
How didst thou know 'twas she? O, she deceives me[4994] 165
Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers.[4995]
Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?[4996]

_Rod._ Truly, I think they are.[4997]

_Bra._ O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood![4998]
Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds 170
By what you see them act. Is there not charms[4999]
By which the property of youth and maidhood[5000]
May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
Of some such thing?

_Rod._ Yes, sir, I have indeed.[5001]

_Bra._ Call up my brother. O, would you had had her![5002] 175
Some one way, some another. Do you know
Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?

_Rod._ I think I can discover him, if you please
To get good guard and go along with me.

_Bra._ Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;[5003] 180
I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
And raise some special officers of night.[5004]
On, good Roderigo; I'll deserve your pains. [_Exeunt._[5005]

SCENE II. _Another street._

_Enter_ OTHELLO, IAGO, _and_ Attendants _with torches_.[5006]

_Iago._ Though in the trade of war I have slain men,
Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience[5007]
To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity[5008]
Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times[5009]
I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.[5010] 5

_Oth._ 'Tis better as it is.[5011]

_Iago._ Nay, but he prated
And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms[5012]
Against your honour,[8, 9]
That, with the little godliness I have,[5013]
I did full hard forbear him. But I pray you, sir,[5014] 10
Are you fast married? Be assured of this,[5015]
That the magnifico is much beloved,
And hath in his effect a voice potential
As double as the duke's: he will divorce you,[5016]
Or put upon you what restraint and grievance[5017] 15
The law, with all his might to enforce it on,[5018]
Will give him cable.[5019]

_Oth._ Let him do his spite:
My services, which I have done the signiory,[5020]
Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know--
Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,[5021] 20
I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being[5022]
From men of royal siege, and my demerits[5023]
May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune[5024]
As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona, 25
I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?[5025]

_Iago._ Those are the raised father and his friends:[5026]
You were best go in.

_Oth._ Not I; I must be found: 30
My parts, my title and my perfect soul,[5027]
Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?[5028]

_Iago._ By Janus, I think no.

_Enter_ CASSIO, _and certain_ Officers _with torches_.[5029]

_Oth._ The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.[5030]
The goodness of the night upon you, friends![5031] 35
What is the news?[5032]

_Cas._ The duke does greet you, general,
And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,[5033]
Even on the instant.

_Oth._ What is the matter, think you?[5034]

_Cas._ Something from Cyprus, as I may divine;
It is a business of some heat: the galleys 40
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers[5035]
This very night at one anothers heels;[5036]
And many of the consuls, raised and met,[5037]
Are at the dukes already: you have been hotly call'd for;[5038]
When, being not at your lodging to be found, 45
The senate hath sent about three several quests[5039]
To search you out.

_Oth._ 'Tis well I am found by you.
I will but spend a word here in the house,[5040]
And go with you. [_Exit._[5040][5041]

_Cas._ Ancient, what makes he here?

_Iago._ Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:[5042] 50
If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.

_Cas._ I do not understand.

_Iago._ He's married.

_Cas._ To who?

_Re-enter_ OTHELLO.[5043]

_Iago._ Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?

_Oth._ Have with you.[5044]

_Cas._ Here comes another troop to seek for you.

_Iago._ It is Brabantio: general, be advised;[5045] 55
He comes to bad intent.

_Enter_ BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, _and_ Officers _with torches and
weapons_.

_Oth._ Holla! stand there![5046]

_Rod._ Signior, it is the Moor.

_Bra._ Down with him, thief!

[_They draw on both sides._[5047]

_Iago._ You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.

_Oth._ Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust
them.[5048][5049]
Good signior, you shall more command with years[5048] 60
Than with your weapons.[5048]

_Bra._ O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?[5050]
Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;[5051]
For I'll refer me to all things of sense,[5052]
If she in chains of magic were not bound,[5053] 65
Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,
So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,[5054]
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,[5055]
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom[5056] 70
Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.[5057]
Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense[5058][5059]
That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,[5058]
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals[5058][5060]
That weaken motion: I'll have 't disputed on;[5058][5061] 75
'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.[5058][5062]
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee[5058]
For an abuser of the world, a practiser[5063]
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.[5064]
Lay hold upon him: if he do resist, 80
Subdue him at his peril.

_Oth._ Hold your hands,[5065]
Both you of my inclining and the rest:
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it[5066]
Without a prompter. Where will you that I go[5067]
To answer this your charge?[5068]

_Bra._ To prison, till fit time[5069] 85
Of law and course of direct session[5069]
Call thee to answer.[5070]

_Oth._ What if I do obey?
How may the duke be therewith satisfied,
Whose messengers are here about my side,
Upon some present business of the state 90
To bring me to him?[5071]

_First Off._ 'Tis true, most worthy signior;
The duke's in council, and your noble self,
I am sure, is sent for.[5072]

_Bra._ How! the duke in council!
In this time of the night! Bring him away:[5073]
Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself, 95
Or any of my brothers of the state,
Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;
For if such actions may have passage free,
Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be. [_Exeunt._[5074]

SCENE III. _A council-chamber._

_The_ Duke _and_ Senators _sitting at a table_; Officers _attending_.[5075]

_Duke._ There is no composition in these news[5076]
That gives them credit.

_First Sen._ Indeed they are disproportion'd;[5077]
My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.[5078]

_Duke._ And mine, a hundred and forty.

_Sec. Sen._ And mine, two hundred:[5079]
But though they jump not on a just account,-- 5
As in these cases, where the aim reports,[5080]
'Tis oft with difference,--yet do they all confirm[5081]
A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.

_Duke._ Nay, it is possible enough to judgement:
I do not so secure me in the error,[5082] 10
But the main article I do approve[5083]
In fearful sense.

_Sailor._ [_Within_] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho![5084]

_First Off._ A messenger from the galleys.

_Enter_ Sailor.[5085]

_Duke._ Now, what's the business?

_Sail._ The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes;
So was I bid report here to the state[5086] 15
By Signior Angelo.[5086][5087]

_Duke._ How say you by this change?

_First Sen._ This cannot be,[5088]
By no assay of reason: 'tis a pageant[5088]
To keep us in false gaze. When we consider
The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk, 20
And let ourselves again but understand
That as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes,
So may he with more facile question bear it,[5089]
For that it stands not in such warlike brace,[5090]
But altogether lacks the abilities[5090][5091] 25
That Rhodes is dress'd in: if we make thought of this,[5090][5092]
We must not think the Turk is so unskilful[5090]
To leave that latest which concerns him first,[5090]
Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain,[5090][5093]
To wake and wage a danger profitless.[5090][5093] 30

_Duke._ Nay, in all confidence, he's not for Rhodes.[5094]

_First Off._ Here is more news.

_Enter a_ Messenger.[5095]

_Mess._ The Ottomites, reverend and gracious,
Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes,
Have there injointed them with an after fleet.[5096] 35

_First Sen._ Ay, so I thought. How many, as you guess?[5097]

_Mess._ Of thirty sail: and now they do re-stem[5098]
Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance
Their purposes toward Cyprus. Signior Montano,[5099]
Your trusty and most valiant servitor, 40
With his free duty recommends you thus,[5100]
And prays you to believe him.[5101]

_Duke._ 'Tis certain then for Cyprus.
Marcus Luccicos, is not he in town?[5102]

_First Sen._ He's now in Florence. 45

_Duke._ Write from us to him; post-post-haste dispatch.[5103]

_First Sen._ Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.

_Enter_ BRABANTIO, _Othello_, IAGO, RODERIGO, _and_ Officers.[5104]

_Duke._ Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you[5105]
Against the general enemy Ottoman.
[_To Brabantio_] I did not see you; welcome, gentle signior;[5106] 50
We lack'd your counsel and your help to-night.[5107]

_Bra._ So did I yours. Good your grace, pardon me;
Neither my place nor aught I heard of business[5108]
Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general care[5109]
Take hold on me; for my particular grief[5110] 55
Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,[5111]
And it is still itself.[5112]

_Duke._ Why, what's the matter?

_Bra._ My daughter! O, my daughter!

_All._ Dead?

_Bra._ Ay, to me;[5113]
She is abused, stol'n from me and corrupted 60
By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks;
For nature so preposterously to err,[5114]
Being not deficient, blind, or lame of sense,[5115]
Sans witchcraft could not.[5116]

_Duke._ Whoe'er he be that in this foul proceeding 65
Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herself
And you of her, the bloody book of law
You shall yourself read in the bitter letter
After your own sense, yea, though our proper son[5117]
Stood in your action.

_Bra._ Humbly I thank your grace. 70
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.[5118]

_Duke._ [_To Othello_] What in your own part can you say to this?[5119]

_Bra._ Nothing, but this is so. 75

_Oth._ Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,
My very noble and approved good 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 of my offending 80
Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,[5120]
And little blest with the soft phrase of peace;[5121]
For since these arms of mine had seven years' pith,
Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used[5122]
Their dearest action in the tented field; 85
And little of this great world can I speak,
More than pertains to feats of broil and battle;[5123]
And therefore little shall I grace my cause
In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,[5124]
I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver[5125] 90
Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,[5126]
What conjuration and what mighty magic--
For such proceeding I am charged withal--[5127]
I won his daughter.[5128]

_Bra._ A maiden never bold;[5129]
Of spirit so still and quiet that her motion[5129] 95
Blush'd at herself; and she--in spite of nature,[5130]
Of years, of country, credit, every thing--
To fall in love with what she fear'd to look on![5131]
It is a judgement maim'd and most imperfect[5132]
That will confess perfection so could err[5133] 100
Against all rules of nature; and must be driven
To find out practices of cunning hell,
Why this should be. I therefore vouch again,
That with some mixtures powerful o'er the blood,
Or with some dram conjured to this effect, 105
He wrought upon her.

_Duke._ To vouch this, is no proof,[5134]
Without more certain and more overt test[5135]
Than these thin habits and poor likelihoods[5136]
Of modern seeming do prefer against him.[5137]

_First Sen._ But, Othello, speak:[5138] 110
Did you by indirect and forced courses
Subdue and poison this young maid's affections?
Or came it by request, and such fair question
As soul to soul affordeth?

_Oth._ I do beseech you,[5139]
Send for the lady to the Sagittary,[5140] 115
And let her speak of me before her father:
If you do find me foul in her report,
The trust, the office I do hold of you,[5141]
Not only take away, but let your sentence
Even fall upon my life.[5142]

_Duke._ Fetch Desdemona hither. 120

_Oth._ Ancient, conduct them; you best know the place.

[_Exeunt Iago and Attendants._[5143]

And till she come, as truly as to heaven[5144]
I do confess the vices of my blood,[5145]
So justly to your grave ears I'll present
How I did thrive in this fair lady's love 125
And she in mine.

_Duke._ Say it, Othello.

_Oth._ Her father loved me, oft invited me,
Still question'd me the story of my life[5146]
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,[5147] 130
That I have pass'd.[5148]
I ran it through, even from my boyish days[5149]
To the very moment that he bade me tell it:
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,[5150]
Of moving accidents by flood and field,[5151] 135
Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,[5152]
Of being taken by the insolent foe,
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence,[5153]
And portance in my travels' history:[5154]
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,[5155] 140
Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven,[5156]
It was my hint to speak,--such was the process;[5157][5158][5159]
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,[5158][5160]
The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads[5158][5161]
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear[5158][5162] 145
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house-affairs would draw her thence;[5163]
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,[5164]
She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I observing, 150
Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard,[5165]
But not intentively: I did consent,[5166] 155
And often did beguile her of her tears
When I did speak of some distressful stroke[5167]
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,[5168]
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:[5169]
She swore, in faith, 'twas strange, 'twas passing strange;[5170] 160
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,[5171]
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story, 165
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:[5172]
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,[5173]
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used.
Here comes the lady; let her witness it. 170

_Enter_ DESDEMONA, IAGO, _and_ Attendants.[5174]

_Duke._ I think this tale would win my daughter too.[5175]
Good Brabantio,[5176]
Take up this mangled matter at the best:[5176]
Men do their broken weapons rather use
Than their bare hands.

_Bra._ I pray you, hear her speak: 175
If she confess that she was half the wooer,
Destruction on my head, if my bad blame[5177]
Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:
Do you perceive in all this noble company[5178]
Where most you owe obedience?

_Des._ My noble father,[5179] 180
I do perceive here a divided duty:
To you I am bound for life and education;[5180]
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you; you are the lord of duty,[5181]
I am hitherto your daughter: but here's my husband,[5180] 185
And so much duty as my mother show'd[5182]
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much I challenge that I may profess[5183]
Due to the Moor my lord.

_Bra._ God be with you! I have done.[5184]
Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs: 190
I had rather to adopt a child than get it.[5185]
Come hither, Moor:
I here do give thee that with all my heart,
Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart[5186]
I would keep from thee. For your sake, jewel,[5187] 195
I am glad at soul I have no other child;[5180][5188]
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on them. I have done, my lord.[5189]

_Duke_. Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence[5190]
Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers[5191] 200
Into your favour.[5192]
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended[5193]
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.[5194]
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone
Is the next way to draw new mischief on.[5195] 205
What cannot be preserved when fortune takes,
Patience her injury a mockery makes.[5196]
The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief;[5197]
He robs himself that spends a bootless grief.

_Bra_. So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile;[5198] 210
We lose it not so long as we can smile.[5199]
He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears[5200]
But the free comfort which from thence he hears;[5200]
But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow,[5201]
That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow. 215
These sentences, to sugar or to gall,
Being strong on both sides, are equivocal:
But words are words; I never yet did hear
That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear.[5202]
I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state.[5203] 220

_Duke._ The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes[5204]
for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best
known to you; and though we have there a substitute of[5205]
most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress[5206]
of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must[5207] 225
therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes[5208]
with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition.[5209]

_Oth._ The tyrant custom, most grave senators,[5210]
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war[5211]
My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnize 230
A natural and prompt alacrity[5212]
I find in hardness; and do undertake[5213]
These present wars against the Ottomites.[5214]
Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
I crave fit disposition for my wife, 235
Due reference of place and exhibition,[5215]
With such accommodation and besort[5216]
As levels with her breeding.

_Duke._ If you please,[5217]
Be 't at her father's.[5217]

_Bra._ I'll not have it so.[5218]

_Oth._ Nor I.

_Des._ Nor I, I would not there reside,[5219] 240
To put my father in impatient thoughts
By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,[5220]
And let me find a charter in your voice[5221]
To assist my simpleness.[5222] 245

_Duke._ What would you, Desdemona?[5223]

_Des._ That I did love the Moor to live with him,[5224]
My downright violence and storm of fortunes[5225]
May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued[5226]
Even to the very quality of my lord:[5227] 250
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honours and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,[5228]
A moth of peace, and he go to the war, 255
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,[5229]
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.

_Oth._ Let her have your voices.[5230]
Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,[5231] 260
To please the palate of my appetite;
Nor to comply with heat--the young affects[5232][5233]
In me defunct--and proper satisfaction;[5232][5234]
But to be free and bounteous to her mind:[5234][5235]
And heaven defend your good souls, that you think[5236] 265
I will your serious and great business scant[5237]
For she is with me. No, when light-wing'd toys[5238]
Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dullness[5239]
My speculative and officed instruments,[5240]
That my disports corrupt and taint my business, 270
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,[5241]
And all indign and base adversities
Make head against my estimation![5242]

_Duke._ Be it as you shall privately determine,
Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,[5243] 275
And speed must answer 't; you must hence to-night.[5244]

_Des._ To-night, my lord?[5245]

_Duke._ This night.

_Oth._ With all my heart.

_Duke._ At nine i' the morning here we'll meet again.[5246]
Othello, leave some officer behind,
And he shall our commission bring to you; 280
With such things else of quality and respect[5247]
As doth import you.

_Oth._ So please your grace, my ancient;[5248]
A man he is of honesty and trust:
To his conveyance I assign my wife,
With what else needful your good grace shall think[5249] 285
To be sent after me.

_Duke._ Let it be so.
Good night to every one. [_To Brab._] And, noble signior,[5250]
If virtue no delighted beauty lack,[5251]
Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.

_First Sen._ Adieu, brave Moor; use Desdemona well.[5252] 290

_Bra._ Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:[5253]
She has deceived her father, and may thee.

[_Exeunt Duke, Senators, Officers, &c._[5254]

_Oth._ My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
My Desdemona must I leave to thee:
I prithee, let thy wife attend on her; 295
And bring them after in the best advantage.[5255]
Come, Desdemona; I have but an hour
Of love, of worldly matters and direction,[5256]
To spend with thee: we must obey the time.

[_Exeunt Othello and Desdemona._[5257]

_Rod._ Iago![5258] 300

_Iago._ What say'st thou, noble heart?

_Rod._ What will I do, thinkest thou?[5259]

_Iago._ Why, go to bed and sleep.

_Rod._ I will incontinently drown myself.

_Iago._ If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,[5260] 305
thou silly gentleman![5261]

_Rod._ It is silliness to live when to live is torment; and[5262]
then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician.[5263]

_Iago._ O villanous! I have looked upon the world for[5264] 310
four times seven years; and since I could distinguish betwixt[5265]
a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew[5266]
how to love himself. Ere I would say I would drown myself
for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change my humanity[5267]
with a baboon. 315

_Rod._ What should I do? I confess it is my shame to
be so fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.

_Iago._ Virtue! a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus
or thus. Our bodies are gardens; to the which our wills[5268]
are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles or sow lettuce, 320
set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one[5269]
gender of herbs or distract it with many, either to have[5270]
it sterile with idleness or manured with industry, why, the
power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If[5271]
the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise[5272] 325
another of sensuality, the blood and baseness of our natures
would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions: but we
have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings,[5273]
our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this, that you call love,[5274]
to be a sect or scion.[5275] 330

_Rod._ It cannot be.

_Iago._ It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission[5276]
of the will. Come, be a man: drown thyself! drown cats
and blind puppies. I have professed me thy friend, and I[5277]
confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of perdurable 335
toughness: I could never better stead thee than now. Put[5278]
money in thy purse; follow thou the wars; defeat thy favour[5279]
with an usurped beard; I say, put money in thy purse.
It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her love[5280]
to the Moor--put money in thy purse--nor he his to her: it[5281] 340
was a violent commencement, and thou shalt see an[5282][5283]
answerable sequestration; put but money in thy purse. These[5283][5284]
Moors are changeable in their wills:--fill thy purse with
money. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts,[5285]
shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. She[5286][5287] 345
must change for youth: when she is sated with his body,[5287]
she will find the error of her choice: she must have change,[5288][5289]
she must: therefore put money in thy purse. If thou wilt[5289]
needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning.
Make all the money thou canst: if sanctimony and a 350
frail vow betwixt an erring barbarian and a supersubtle[5290]
Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of
hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox
of drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way: seek thou[5291]
rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy than to be 355
drowned and go without her.

_Rod._ Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on[5292]
the issue?[5292]

_Iago._ Thou art sure of me: go, make money: I have
told thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate[5293] 360
the Moor: my cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason.[5294]
Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him: if thou[5295]
canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport.[5296]
There are many events in the womb of time, which will be
delivered. Traverse; go; provide thy money. We will 365
have more of this to-morrow. Adieu.

_Rod._ Where shall we meet i' the morning?

_Iago._ At my lodging.

_Rod._ I'll be with thee betimes.

_Iago._ Go to; farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo?[5297][5298] 370

_Rod._ What say you?[5297]

_Iago._ No more of drowning, do you hear?[5297]

_Rod._ I am changed: I'll go sell all my land. [_Exit._[5297][5299]

_Iago._ Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;[5297][5300]
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, 375
If I would time expend with such a snipe[5301]
But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor;
And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets
He has done my office: I know not if't be true;[5302]
But I for mere suspicion in that kind[5303] 380
Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
The better shall my purpose work on him.
Cassio's a proper man: let me see now;
To get his place, and to plume up my will[5304]
In double knavery--How, how?--Let's see:--[5305] 385
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear[5306]
That he is too familiar with his wife.[5307]
He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected; framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,[5308] 390
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so;[5309]
And will as tenderly be led by the nose[5310][5311]
As asses are.[5310]
I have 't. It is engender'd. Hell and night[5312]
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. [_Exit._[5313] 395

FOOTNOTES:

[4877] ACT I. SCENE I.] Acts and Scenes are marked throughout in Ff, not in Qq, except at the beginning of Acts II, III, IV and V.

Venice. A street.] Capell. Venice. Rowe. A street in Venice. Theobald.

Enter....] Enter Iago and Roderigo. Qq. Enter Rodorigo and Iago. Ff.

[4878] _Tush,_] Qq. om. Ff.

_much_] Qq F₁. _very_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4879] _thou_] Ff. _you_ Qq.

_Iago,_] om. Q₂ Q₃.

_hast_] _has_ Q₁.

_had_] _held_ Capell conj.

[4880] _As ... this._] One line in Qq F₁ F₂ F₃. Two lines in F₄.

_this._] _this--_ Hanmer.

[4881] _'Sblood,_] _S'blood_ Q₁. Omitted in the rest.

[4882] _but ... me._] Arranged as by Steevens (1793). Two lines, the first ending _heare me,_ in Qq. Two, the first ending _dream,_ in F₁ F₂ F₃. Three lines in F₄. Two lines, the first ending _ever,_ in Malone.

[4883] _you will_] Q₁. _you'l_ F₁ F₂. _you'le_ Q₂ Q₃. _you'll_ F₃ F₄.

[4884] _matter, Abhor me._] _matter--_ Capell.

[4885] _Abhor me._] _Abhor me then._ Hanmer, ending lines 4 and 5 as in text.

[4886] _Thou ... hate._] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _me,_ in Ff. Two, the first ending _hold,_ in Hanmer.

[4887] _Despise me_] As in Qq. A separate line in Ff.

[4888] _Despise ... conclusion,_] Hanmer ends the lines _not ... suit ... him: ... price, ... loving ... with ... stuft ... conclusion._

[4889] _if I do not_] _else_ Seymour conj.

[4890] _Off-capped_] _Off-capt_ Ff. _Oft capt_ Qq. _Off'd cap_ Jennens conj.

[4891] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

_worse_] _worsse_ F₁. _wose_ F₂.

[4892] _own_] om. Hanmer.

_purposes_] _purpose_ Theobald.

[4893] _bombast_] Theobald, _bumbast_ Qq Ff.

[4894] _epithets_] F₃ F₄. _epithites_ The rest.

[4895] _And, in conclusion,_] Q₁. Omitted in Ff Q₂ Q₃. _Clean from the point; and, in conclusion,_ Seymour conj.

[4896] _And ... arithmetician_] Four lines, ending _mediators; ... already ... he?... arithmetician,_ in Malone. Three, ending _mediators ... officer ... arithmetician,_ in Keightley.

[4897] _for_] om. Pope.

_for, 'Certes,'_] See note (I).

[4898] _I ... he_?] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[4899] _already_] om. Seymour conj., reading _I have ... he?_ as one line.]

_chose_] Ff Q₂ Q₃. _chosen_ Q₁. _Chosen_ Malone.

[4900] _Cassio, ... wife;_] _Cassio;--("the Florentine's A ... wife;")--_ Theobald. _Cassio;--(a Florentine's A ... wife;)_ Warburton. See note (II). _Cassio, a Florentine, (A fellow's almost damnd in a fair-wife!)_ [Aside. Jennens.

[4901] _damn'd in_] Ff. _dambd in_ Qq. _trimm'd_ as Maginn conj.

_a fair wife_] _a false wife_ Tollet conj. _a frail wife_ Jackson conj. _a fair-wife_ Staunton conj. _warfare life_ Bullock conj. _other wise_ Cartwright conj. _wife affairs_ Anon. conj.

_wife_] _phyz_ Hanmer. _face_ Capell. _life_ Keightley (Tyrwhitt conj.) _guise_ Petrie conj. _wise_ Grant White (Becket conj.) _strife_ Anon. conj. (N. and Q.)

[4902] _spinster;_] _spinster,_ Qq. _spinster._ F₁. _spinster:_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_unless_] _but_ Pope.

_bookish_] _blockish_ Q₃. om. Steevens conj.

[4903] _toged_] Q₁. _Tongued_ Ff. _tongued_ Q₂ Q₃.

_consuls_] _couns'lors_ Theobald.

[4904] _as he_] om. Steevens conj.

[4905] _Is all_] _In all_ F₃ F₄.

_But he, sir, had_] _he had_ Pope. _But he had_ Seymour conj.

[4906] _Cyprus_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Cypres_ Qq. _Ciprus_ F₁.

_other_] Qq. _others_ Ff.

[4907] _Christian_] Q₁ F₃ F₄. _Christen'd_ F₁ F₂. _Christn'd_ Q₂ Q₃.

_be be-lee'd_] _be led_ Q₁. _be let_ Warburton. _be lee'd_ Heath conj.

[4908] _debitor_] _debtor_ Hanmer.

_creditor: this counter-castor,_] _creditor. This counter-caster,_ Ff. _creditor, this counter-caster:_ Qq.

[4909] _I--God bless the mark!--_] _I, God blesse the marke,_ Q₁. _I (blesse the marke)_ Ff. _I sir (blesse the marke)_ Q₂ Q₃.

_Moorship's_] _Worships_ Q₁.

[4910] _Why_] Ff. _But_ Qq.

_Why ... service,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_service,_] Qq. _service;_ Ff.

[4911] _letter_] _favour_ Collier MS.

[4912] _And ... old_] Ff. _Not by the olde_ Qq. _Not (as of old) gradation_ Warburton.

[4913] _Stood ... yourself_] One line in Ff. Two in Qq.

[4914] _Whether_] _If_ Pope.

_affined_] _Affin'd_ F₁ F₃ F₄. _affin'd_ Q₂ Q₃. _assign'd_ Q₁. _Affirn'd_ F₂.

[4915] _follow'd_] Ff. _followed_ Qq.

[4916] _nought_] _noughe_ Q₁. _naught_ F₁.

_and when he's old,_] _and when old, 's_ Hanmer. _when old,_ Steevens conj.

_when_] om. Q₃.

_old,_] _old's_ Seymour conj.

_cashier'd_] As a separate line, Anon. conj.

[4917] _Whip ... lords_] As in Ff. Five lines, ending _knaves:_ ... _formes,_ ... _hearts,_ ... _throwing_ ... _lords,_ in Q₁. Five lines, ending _knaves:_ ... _are,_ ... _duty,_ ... _themselves,_ ... _lords,_ in Q₂ Q₃.

[4918] _trimm'd ... visages_] _learn'd ... usages_ Collier MS. _train'd ... usages_ Grant White.

[4919] _Do ... soul,_] Two lines in Rowe. Four lines in Qq Ff.

[4920] _Do well_] _Well_ Pope.]

_them_] Ff. _'em_ Qq.

_they have_] _they've_ Pope.

[4921] _these_] _Those_ Qq.

_these fellows_] _these, now,_ Seymour conj.

_fellows_] _folks_ Pope.

[4922] _a one_] om. Seymour conj., reading _And ... sir,_ as one line.

[4923] _For, sir,_] In a separate line first by Capell. At end of previous line in Qq Ff. Omitted by Pope.

[4924] _Heaven ... end_:] As in Ff. Three lines, ending _I, ... so, ... end,_ in Q₁. Two, the first ending _I_, in Q₂ Q₃.

[4925] _doth_] _does_ Q₁.

[4926] _compliment_] Rowe (ed. 2). _complement_ Qq Ff.

[4927] _For ... am._] As in Ff. Two lines in Qq.

_daws_] _Dawes_ Ff Q₂ Q₃. _Doues_ Q₁.

_I am ... I am._] _I'm ... I seem._ Pope. _I'm ... I am._ Johnson.

[4928] _full_] Qq. _fall._ Ff.

_thick-lips_] _Thicks-lips_ F₁.

[4929] _carry't_] _carry 'et_ Q₁. _carry her_ Pope. _carry 'er_ Jennens conj.

[4930] _father, Rouse him:_] Pointed as by Capell. _father, Rowse him,_ Qq. _father: Rowse him,_ Ff.

[4931] _streets_] _streete_ Q₁. _street_ Q₂ Q₃.

[4932] _And, though_] _An though_ S. Walker conj.

[4933] _changes_] Qq. _chances_ Ff.

_on't_] Ff. _out_ Qq.

[4934] _timorous_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _timerous_ Qq F₁.

[4935] _the fire_] _a fire_ Hanmer.

[4936] _spied_] _spred_ Warburton.

[4937] _Awake!... thieves!_] One line in Ff. Two in Qq.

_thieves!_] Thrice in Qq. Twice in Ff. _ho! thieves, thieves!_ Pope.

[4938] _your daughter_] _you daughter_ Q₁.

_your_] _all_ Pope.

[4939] SCENE II. Pope.

[4940] Brabantio ... Bra.] Theobald. Brabantio at a window. Brab. Qq (Bra. Q₂ Q₃). Bra. Above. Ff.

[4941] _What ... there?_] As in Qq. In Ff the first line ends at _terrible._

[4942] _Are ... lock'd?_] _Are all doore lockts?_ Q₁.

_your_] _all_ Pope.

[4943] _'Zounds_] _Zounds_ Q₁. Omitted in the rest.

_you're_] _you are_ Qq. _y'are_ Ff.

[4944] _soul;_] Q₃. _soule;_ Q₁ Q₂. _soule_ or _soul_ Ff.

[4945] _now, now_] F₁ F₂. _now,_ Qq F₃ F₄. _now, ev'n_ Pope.

[4946] _Or ... say._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[4947] _say_] _sad_ Q₃.

[4948] _worser_] _worse_ Qq.

[4949] _I have_] _I've_ Pope.

[4950] _daughter is_] _daughter's_ Pope.

[4951] _bravery_] Qq. _knaverie_ F₁. _knavery_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4952] _quiet._] Ff. _quiet?_ Qq.

[4953] _sir,--_] _sir--_ Rowe. _sir._ Qq Ff.

[4954] _spirit_] Qq. _spirits_ Ff.

_them_] Qq. _their_ Ff.

[4955] _good_] om. Seymour conj.

[4956] _What ... grange._] As in Qq. Two lines, the first ending _robbing?_ in Ff.

[4957] _What tell'st_] Ff. _What, tell'st_ Qq.

[4958] _'Zounds_] _Zouns_ Q₁. Omitted in the rest.

[4959] _and you_] Ff. _you_ Qq.

[4960] _germans_] _Iermans_ Q₁. _Germaines_ F₁.

[4961] _comes_] Ff. _come_ Qq.

[4962] _now_] Qq. om. Ff.

[4963] _are--a_] Capell. _are a_ Qq Ff.

[4964] _answer;_] _answer,_ Qq. _answere,_ Ff.

[4965] _I beseech_] _beseech_ Seymour conj.

[4966] _If't ... yourself:_] Omitted in Q₁.

[4967] _At_] _Be at_ Hanmer.

_At this odd-even_] _Even at this odd_ Becket conj.

_odd-even_] Hyphened by Malone. _odd steven_ Steevens conj. (withdrawn). _odd season_ Anon. apud Rann conj. _odd hour_ Cartwright conj.

[4968] _Transported_] _Be transported_ Mason conj.

_nor_] _or_ F₃ F₄.

[4969] _common_] om. Pope.

_gondolier_] _Gundelier_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.

[4970] _and your_] _and to your_ Q₃.

[4971] _wrongs;_] _wrongs?_ Q₂ Q₃.

[4972] _Tying ... In ... wheeling_] _Laying ... On ... wheedling_ Collier (Collier MS.)

[4973] _In_] _To_ Pope. _On_ Capell.

_wheeling_] _whirling_ Staunton conj.

[4974] _here and_] om. Seymour conj.

[4975] _her_] Qq F₁. _your_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4976] _thus deluding you_] _this delusion_ Q₁. _this deluding you_ Jennens.

[4977] [Exit above.] Exit Brabantio, from above. Hanmer. Exit. F₁. Omitted in Qq F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4978] _place_] _pate_ Q₁.

[4979] _produced_] _produc'd_ Qq. _producted_ Ff.

[4980] _However_] _Now ever_ Q₁.

[4981] _Cannot with safety ... he's_] _Can't safely ... he is_ Seymour conj.

[4982] _Cyprus_] Ff. _Cipres_ Qq. _Cyprus'_ Theobald.

_wars_] _war_ Capell.

[4983] _stand_] Pope. _stands_ Qq Ff.

[4984] _fathom_] _fathome_ Qq. _fadome_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _fadom_ F₄.

_none_] _not_ Q₁.

[4985] _business_] _business on_ Capell.

[4986] _hell-pains_] Hyphenated by Dyce. _hell pains_ Capell. _hells paines_ Q₁ Q₂. _hells pains_ Q₃. _hell apines_ F₁. _hell_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _hell's pains_ Rowe.

[4987] _love, Which ... sign. That_] _love, Which ... sign: that_ Rowe (ed. 1). _love, Which ... signe, that_ Qq. _love, (Which ... signe) that_ Ff.

[4988] _shall surely find_] _may surely find_ Pope. _may find_ Hanmer.

[4989] _Sagittary_] Q₂ Q₃ F₄. _Sagitar_ Q₁. _Sagitary_ F₁ F₂ F₃.

[4990] SCENE III. Pope.

Enter....] Edd. Enter Barbantio in his night gowne, and servants with Torches. Qq (Brabantio Q₂ Q₃). Enter Brabantio, with Servants and Torches. Ff. Enter, below, Brabantio, and Servants, with Lights. Capell.

[4991] _despised_] _despited_ Wharburton.

[4992] _Is_] _I_ Q₃.

_nought_] Qq. _naught_ Ff.

_bitterness. Now_] _bitternesse now_ Qq.

[4993] _say'st_] _saidst_ Theobald (ed. 2).

[4994] _she deceives_] _thou deceivest_ Q₁.

[4995] _more_] Qq. _moe_ Ff.

[4996] _kindred_] _kinred_ F₂ F₃.

[4997] _are_] _are, my lord_ Seymour conj., ending lines 168, 169 at _heaven!... blood!_

[4998] _O ... blood!_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_got_] _gat_ Rowe (ed. 2).

_the blood_] Qq F₁. _my blood_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[4999] _Is_] Qq F₁. _Are_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5000] _maidhood_] Ff. _manhood_ Qq.

[5001] _thing?_] Ff. _thing._ Q₁ Q₂. _things?_ Q₃.

_Yes ... indeed._] _I have sir._ Q₁.

[5002] _brother_] _brothers_ F₃ F₄.

_would_] _that_ Q₁.

[5003] _you, lead_] _leade me_ Q₁.

[5004] _night_] Q₁. _might_ Ff Q₂ Q₃.

[5005] _I'll_] _Ile_ Q₁ Q₂. _ile_ Q₃. _I will_ Ff.

[5006] SCENE II.] SCENE IV. Pope.

Another street.] The Street. Rowe. Another Street, before the Sagittary. Theobald.

... and Attendants] Qq.... Attendants, Ff.

[5007] _stuff o' the conscience_] _stuft of conscience_ Q₁. _tough o' the conscience_ Jackson conj.

[5008] _lack_] _lake_ F₂ F₃. _take_ F₄. _do lack_ Seymour conj., ending lines 3-6 at _lack ... service: ... here ... is._

[5009] _Sometimes_] Qq. _Sometime_ Ff.

[5010] _I ... ribs._] As in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _here,_ in Qq.

_had_] om. Pope.

_to have_] _to 've_ Pope.

_yerk'd_] _ierk'd_ Q₁. _jerk'd_ Q₂ Q₃.

_ribs_] _rib_ F₄.

[5011] _'Tis_] _It's_ Pope.

[5012] _spoke_] _he spoke_ Seymour conj., reading _Nay ... scurvy_ as one line.

_provoking_] _such provoking_ Seymour conj., reading _and ... honour_ as one line.

[5013] _Against ... have,_] As in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[5014] _you_] om. Qq.

[5015] _Be assured_] _Be assur'd_ Ff. _For be sure_ Qq.

[5016] _double_] _capable_ Cartwright conj.

_duke's_] _duke_ Q₃.

[5017] _and_] Qq. _or_ Ff.

_grievance_] _greevances_ Q₃.

[5018] _The_] _That_ Q₁.

[5019] _Will_] Ff. _Weele_ Qq.

[5020] _services_] _service_ Q₃.

[5021] _Which ... know_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5022] _promulgate_] _provulgate_ Q₁.

_my_] om. Pope.

[5023] _siege_] F₃ F₄. _seige_ F₁ F₂. _height_ Q₁ Q₂. _hight_ Q₃.

[5024] _May ... unbonneted_] _Unbonneted may speak_ Becket conj.

_unbonneted_] _unbonnetting_ Pope (ed. 2). _and bonnetted_ Theobald. _imbonnetted_ Theobald conj. _e'en bonneted_ Hanmer.

_to_] om. Q₂ Q₃.

[5025] _For ... yond?_] As in Ff. Two lines in Qq.

_sea's_] Theobald, _seas_ Qq Ff. _seas'_ Anon. conj.

_lights come_] _light comes_ Johnson.

_yond_] Ff. _yonder_ Qq.

[5026] SCENE V. Pope.

_Those_] Ff. _These_ Qq.

[5027] _parts_] _part_ Hanmer.

[5028] _manifest_] _manifestly_ F₂. _mainefest_ Q₃.

_me rightly_] Q₁ Ff. _my right by_ Q₂ Q₃.

_Is it they?_] _it is they._ Q₁.

[5029] Enter....] Enter Cassio with lights, Officers, and torches. Qq (after _worth,_ line 28). Enter Cassio, with Torches. Ff (after _yond?_ line 28). Enter, at a Distance, ... Capell (after line 28). Transferred by Collier.

[5030] _The ... lieutenant._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_duke,_] Qq. _Dukes?_ Ff.

_lieutenant._] _lieutenant:_ Rowe. _leiutenant,_ Q₁. _lieutenant?_ Ff. _leiutenant?_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5031] _you,_] _your_ Q₁.

[5032] _news?_] _newes._ Q₁.

[5033] _haste-post-haste_] Steevens (1793). _hast, post hast_ Q₁. _haste, post-haste_ Ff. _hast, post-hast_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5034] _What is_] Ff. _What's_ Qq.

[5035] _sequent_] _frequent_ Q₁.

[5036] _at one_] _one at_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5037] _consuls_] _couns'lers_ Theobald. _counsel_ Hanmer. _council_ Johnson.

[5038] _have_] _had_ Lettrom conj.

[5039] _hath_] Ff. om. Qq.

_about_] Ff. _aboue_ Q₁ Q₂. _above_ Q₃. _out_ Johnson.

[5040] _I ... you._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

_I will but spend_] _Ile spend_ Q₁. _I will spend but_ F₃ F₄.

[5041] _And go_] _And then go_ Keightley.

[Exit.] Exit Othello. Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[5042] _carack_] _carrick_ Q₁. _carract_ F₁. _carriact_ Q₂ Q₃. _carrac_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5043] _who?_ Q₁ F₁ F₂. _whom._ Q₂ Q₃. _whom?_ F₃ F₄ Q (1695).

Re-enter Othello.] Capell. Enter Othello. Rowe (after line 53). Omitted in Qq Ff.

[5044] _Have with you._] Ff. _Ha' with you._ Q₂ Q₃. _Ha, with who?_ Q₁. _Ha, with you._ Q (1695).

[5045] SCENE VI. Pope.

[5046] Enter....] Enters Brabantio, Roderigo, and others with lights and weapons. Qq (Enter Q₂ Q₃), after line 52. Enter Brabantio, Roderigo, with Officers, and Torches. Ff.

_Holla_] Q₁ Ff Q₂. _Ho la_ Q₃.

[5047] [They....] Rowe. om. Qq Ff.

[5048] _Keep ... weapons._] Verse in Qq. Prose in Ff.

[5049] _for_] _or_ S. Walker conj.

_them_] Ff. _em_ Qq.

[5050] _O ... daughter?_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_stow'd_] Ff. _stowed_ Qq.

[5051] _Damn'd_] Ff. _Dambd_ Qq.

[5052] _things_] _thing_ Q₁.

[5053] _If ... bound,_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5054] _wealthy curled_] Ff. _wealthy culled_ Theobald, ed. 2 (Warburton). _wealthiest cull'd_ Hanmer.

_darlings_] Qq. _Deareling_ F₁. _Dearling_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5055] _to incur_] _to incurre_ Qq. _t'encurre_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _t'incurr_ F₄.

[5056] _guardage_] Ff. _gardage_ Qq.

[5057] _as thou_] om. Seymour conj.

[5058] _Judge ... thee_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5059] _not_] _no_ Q₃.

[5060] _delicate_] om. Seymour conj.

[5061] _weaken motion_] Rowe. _weakens motion_ Ff Q₂ Q₃. _weaken notion_ Pope, ed. 2 (Theobald). _waken motion_ Hanmer.

[5062] _probable_] Ff. _portable_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5063] _For_] _Such_ Q₁.

[5064] _warrant._] _warrant?_ Q₁.

[5065] _hands_] _hand_ F₄.

[5066] _cue_] _Qu._ Q₁.

[5067] _Where_] Qq. _Whether_ F₁. _Whither_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_that_] om. Pope.

[5068] _To answer_] _And answer_ Q₁.

[5069] _fit ... session_] One line in Hanmer.

[5070] _if I do_] _if do_ F₁. _if I_ Pope.

[5071] _bring_] Ff. _beare_ Qq.

First Off.] 1. O. Capell. Officer Qq Ff.

_'Tis_] om. Pope.

[5072] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[5073] _night_] _nigh_ F₂.

[5074] _pagans_] _pageants_ Theobald. _paysans_ Becket conj.

[5075] SCENE III.] SCENE VII. Pope.

A council-chamber.] Capell. The Senate House. Rowe.

The ... attending.] Enter Duke and Senators, set at a Table with lights and Attendants. Qq. Enter Duke, Senators, and Officers. Ff.

[5076] _There is_] _There's_ F₁.

_these_] Q₁ Q₂. _this_ Ff. _his_ Q₃.

[5077] _Indeed_] om. Seymour conj.

_they are_] _they're_ Pope.

_disproportion'd_] Pope. _disproportioned_ Qq Ff.

[5078] _and seven_] _seven_ Grant White conj.

[5079] _And ... forty._] _A hundred and forty, mine._ Seymour conj.

_a_] Q₁ Ff. _an_ Q₂ Q₃.

_and_] Qq F₄ om. F₁ F₂ F₃ and Grant White conj.

_And mine_] _Mine_ Grant White conj.

[5080] _where the aim_] _with the same_ Collier MS.

_the_] Ff. _they_ Qq.

_aim_] _aym'd_ Q₁.

_aim reports_] _aim besorts_ Anon. conj. _main accords_ Anon. conj.

[5081] _do_] om. Pope.

[5082] _in_] Ff. _to_ Qq.

[5083] _article_] _articles_ Q₁.

[5084] Sailor. [Within] Ff. One within. Qq. Sailors [within. Theobald.

[5085] First Off.] Dyce. Officer. Ff Q₂ Q₃. Sailor. Q₁.

_galleys_] _galley_ Q₁.

Enter Sailor.] As in Dyce. After line 12 in Ff. Enter a Messenger. Qq, after _sense_, line 12. Enter an Officer, bringing in a Sailor. Capell.

_what's_] om. Qq.

[5086] _So ... Angelo._] As in Ff. One line in Q₂ Q₃.

[5087] _By Signior Angelo_] Omitted in Q₁.

[They withdraw. Capell.

[5088] _This ... pageant_] Divided as in Ff. Two lines, the first ending _reason--_ in Qq.

[5089] _facile_] _fertile_ Pope.

[5090] _For ... profitless._] Omitted in Q₁.

[5091] _But_] Ff. _Who_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5092] _thought_] _nought_ Q₂, as quoted in Steevens's reprint of Q₁.

[5093] _ease ... wake and_] Printed as in Q₂ Q₃ F₃ F₄. _ease, and gaine To wake, and_ F₁ F₂.

[5094] _Nay,_] _And_ Q₁

_all_] om. Rowe (ed. 2)

[5095] First Off.] Dyce. Officer. Qq Ff.

a Messenger.] Ff. a 2. Messenger. Qq. a Messenger, usher'd. Capell, after line 31.

[5096] _injointed_] _injoin'd_ Rowe. _injoint_ Seymore conj.

_them_] om. Q₁.

[5097] First Sen. _Ay ... guess?_ Mess.] Omitted in Q₁.

[5098] _thirty_] 30. Q₁.

_re-stem_] Ff. _resterine_ Q₁. _resterne_ Q₂ Q₃. _restrain_ Strutt conj.

[5099] _toward_] Ff. _towards_ Qq.

[5100] _his_] _this_ Capell (corrected in Errata).

_thus_] _this_ Lettsom conj.

[5101] _believe_] _relieve_ Keightley (T. Clark ap. Johnson, and Capell conj.)

[retiring. Capell

[5102] _Luccicos_] Qq Ff. _Lucchese_ Capell.

_not he_] F₁ F₂ Q₂ Q₃. _not here_ Q₁. _he not_ F₃ F₄. _he not here_ Theobald, ending the previous line _Luccicos_.

_town?_] _towne._ Q₁.

[5103] _Write ... dispatch._] One line in Q₂ Q₃. Two, the first ending _us_, in Ff. Capell, reading with Q₁, ends the line _him post_.

_to him; post_] _wish him post_, Q₁.

_post-post-haste_] Hyphened by Steevens (1793), reading with Q₁. _Post-haste_ Pope, ending the line _to him_.

_post-post-haste dispatch_] _post post-haste: dispatch_ Steevens (1773).

[5104] _valiant_] om. F₂ F₃ F₄.

Iago, Roderigo,] Capell. Roderigo, Iago, Cassio, Desdemona, Qq (after line 46). Cassio, Iago, Rodorigo, Ff.

and Officers.] Qq Ff. and Others. Capell.

[5105] SCENE VIII. Pope.

[5106] [To Brabantio] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[5107] _lack'd_] _lack't_ Ff. _lackt_ Q₂ Q₃. _lacke_ Q₁.

[5108] _nor_] Qq. _hor_ F₁. _for_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5109] _Hath ... bed_] _Rais'd me from bed_ Steevens conj.

_nor doth_] _not doth_ Q₂.

_care_] om. Pope.

[5110] _hold on_] Ff. _any hold of_ Q₁. _hold of_ Q₂ Q₃.

_grief_] _griefes,_ Q₁.

[5111] _and_] _snd_ F₁.

[5112] _And it_] _And yet_ Rowe.

[5113] All.] Qq. Sen. Ff. Duke and Sen. Dyce.

_Ay,_] _I,_ Ff. _I_ Qq. om. Pope.

[5114] _to_] om. Mason conj.

[5115] _Being ... sense,_] Omitted in Q₁.

_not deficient_] _deficient_ Q₃.

_or_] _nor_ Johnson.

[5116] _Sans_] Ff Q₂ Q₃. _Saunce_ Q₁.

_not._] _not--_ Rowe. _not be._ Capell.

[5117] _your_] Ff. _its_ Qq.

_yea,_] om. Q₁.

[5118] All.] Sen. Capell. Duke and Sen. Malone.

_for't_] _for it_ Steevens.

[5119] [To Othello] Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[5120] _am I_] _I am_ Q₂ Q₃.

[5121] _soft_] Ff. _set_ Qq.

[5122] _now some_] Qq. _now, some_ Ff.

[5123] _feats of broil_] Capell. _feate of broyle,_ Q₁. _feats of broiles,_ F₁. _feats of broyles,_ F₂. _feates of broyles,_ Q₂ Q₃. _feats of broyls,_ F₃ F₄.

[5124] _for_] _of_ Q₃.

_gracious_] om. Pope.

[5125] _will_] _would_ Q₂ Q₃.

_unvarnish'd_] _unravish'd_ Q₂ Q₃.

_tale_] _u Tale_ F₁.

[5126] _Of ... charms,_] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

_drugs, what charms,_] Pointed as in Qq F₁ F₂. _drugs? what charmes?_ F₃ F₄.

[5127] _proceeding_] Ff. _proceedings_ Qq.

_I am_] Ff. _am I_ Qq.

[5128] _daughter._] _daughter with._ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5129] _bold; Of spirit so_] _bold of spirit, So_ Q₁.

[5130] _herself_] _it self_ Pope.

[5131] _on!_] _on?_ Qq. _on;_ Ff.

[5132] _maim'd_] _main'd_ F₁.

_imperfect_] Qq. _imperfect._ Ff.

[5133] _perfection_] _affection_ Theobald.

_could_] Ff. _would_ Qq.

[5134] _upon_] _on_ Seymore conj.

Duke.] Omitted in F₁.

_vouch_] _youth_ Q₁.

[5135] _certain_] _certaine_ Qq. _wider_ Ff. _witness_ Anon. conj.

_certain and more_] _evidence, and_ Collier MS.

_overt test_] Q₁ Q₂. _over Test_ F₁. _over-Test_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _over test_ Q₃.

[5136] _Than these_] Ff. _These are_ Qq.

[5137] _seeming_] _seemings_ Q₁ Q₂.

_do_] F₃ F₄. _doe_ F₁ F₂. _you_ Qq.

[5138] First Sen.] 1. Sena. Qq. Sen. Ff.

_But,_] om. Hanmer.

[5139] _do_] om. Pope.

[5140] _Sagittary_] _Sagittar_ Q₁.

[to some Attendants. Capell.

[5141] _The ... you,_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5142] _Even fall upon_] _Fall on_ Seymour conj.

[Exit two or three. Q₁. Exeunt two or three. Q₂ Q₃ and Theobald. om. Ff, Rowe and Pope.

[5143] _Ancient, ... place._] One line in Qq. Two in Ff.

[Exeunt....] Exeunt Attendants and Iago. Capell. Exit Iago. Rowe, Pope and Theobald. om. Qq Ff.

[5144] _till_] _tell_ F₁.

_truly_] _faithfull_ Q₁.

[5145] _I ... blood,_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5146] _question'd_] Ff. _questioned_ Qq.

_story_] _storyes_ Q₃.

[5147] _From year to year_] om. Seymour conj., reading _the battles ... pass'd_ as one line.

_battles_] _battaile_ F₁.

_fortunes_] Qq. _fortune_ Ff.

[5148] _have_] _had_ Collier MS.

_pass'd._] _pass'd. With his demands complying,_ Keightley conj.

[5149] _from_] _to_ Q₃.

[5150] _spake_] Qq. _spoke_ Ff.

[5151] _accidents by_] _accident of_ Q₁.

[5152] _imminent deadly_] Hyphened by Staunton.

[5153] _of_] _and_ Q₁.

[5154] _portance in my_] Ff Q₂. _portence in my_ Q₃. _with it all my_ Q₁. _portents in my_ So quoted by Rymer. _portance in't; my_ Johnson conj.

_travels'_] Edd. (Globe ed.) _travells_ Qq. _travel's_ Pope. _Travellours_ F₁. _Travellers_ F₂ F₃. _Traveller's_ F₄. _travellous_ or _travailous_ Richardson conj.

[5155] _antres_] _antrees_ Q₁. _antars_ The rest. _antrées_ Pope.

_idle_] Qq F₁. _wilde_ F₂ F₃. _wild_ F₄.

[5156] _and_] om. F₁.

_heads_] _head_ F₁.

[5157] _hint_] _hent_ Q₁ and Warburton. _bent_ Jackson conj.

[5158] _such ... shoulders._] Put in the margin by Pope.

[5159] _the_] Q₁. _my_ The rest.

[5160] _other_] Qq F₃ F₄. _others_ F₁ F₂.

[5161] _Anthropophagi_] F₂ F₃ F₄. _Anthropophagie_ Qq. _Anthropophague_ F₁.

[5162] _Do grow_] _Doe grow_ Qq. _Grew_ Ff. _Did grow_ Rowe.

_This_] Q₁. _These things_ Ff. _these_ Q₂ Q₃. _All these_ Pope.

[5163] _thence_] Qq. _hence_ Ff.

[5164] _Which_] _And_ Q₁.

[5165] _parcels_] _parcell_ Q₁.

[5166] _not_] _nought_ Capell conj.

_intentively_] Qq. _instinctiuely_ F₁. _distinctively_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5167] _distressful_] _distressed_ Q₁.

[5168] _suffer'd_] Ff. _suffered_ Qq.

[5169] _sighs_] _sighes_ Qq. _kisses_ Ff. _thanks_ Southern MS.

[5170] _in faith_] Ff. _I faith_ Qq.

[5171] _thank'd_] Ff. _thanked_ Qq.

[5172] _Upon_] _On_ Pope.

_hint_] Ff. _heate_ Qq.

[5173] _had_] Qq F₁. _have_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5174] _Here ... it._] One line in Ff. Two in Qq.

and Attendants.] Rowe. Attendants. Ff. and the rest. Qq.

[5175] SCENE IX. Pope.

[5176] _Good ... best:_] Divided as in Pope. One line in Qq Ff.

[5177] _on my head_] Ff. _light on me_ Qq (_lite_ Q₁).

[5178] _this] his_ F₂.

[5179] _most you_] _you most_ Pope. _you must_ Warburton.

_My noble_] _Noble_ Pope.

[5180] _I am_] _I'm_ Pope.

[5181] _you are_] _you're_ Pope.

_the lord of_] _lord of all my_ Q₁.

[5182] _show'd_] _shew'd_ Ff. _shewed_ Qq.

[5183] _much_] _much must_ Q₃.

[5184] _the Moor_] om. Seymour conj.

_God ... done._] Ff. _God bu'y, I ha done:_ Qq.

[5185] _had rather to_] _rather would_ Seymour conj.

[5186] _Which ... heart_] Omitted in Q₁.

_all_] om. Pope.

[5187] _For your_] _And for your_ Hanmer. _For my own_ Lettsom conj.

[5188] _soul I_] _soule. I_ Q₁.

[5189] _them_] Ff. _em_ Qq.

_my_] om. Steevens's reprint of Q₁.

[5190] _Let ... sentence_] One line in Qq. Two, the first ending _selfe:_ in Ff.

_speake_] _now speak more_ Hanmer, ending lines 199-201 _lay ... step ... favour_.

_yourself_] _our self_ Warburton.

_sentence,_] _sentence in,_ Hanmer.

[5191] _as_] Qq F₁. _like_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

_grise_] Ff. _greese_ Qq.

_lovers_] Qq. _lovers_. Ff. _lovers here_ Hanmer.

[5192] _Into your favour._] Omitted in Ff.

[5193] _ended_] Ff. _ended,_ Qq. _ended;_ Hanmer.

[5194] _the worst_] _worst_ F₃ F₄.

[5195] _new_] Ff. _more_ Qq.

[5196] _mockery_] _mock'ry_ F₁. _mocker_ Q₃.

[5197] _from the_] _from a_ Q₃.

[5198] _So let_] _So, let_ Theobald.

[5199] _lose_] _loose_ F₁.

[5200] _bears ... But the free comfort_] _cares For the false comforts_ Hanmer.

[5201] _bears_] _heares_ F₃. _hears_ F₄. _heaps_ Hanmer.

[5202] _pierced_] Qq F₂ F₃ F₄. _pierc'd_ F₁. _pieced_ Theobald (Warburton). _plaster'd_ Bailey conj.

_ear_] _eares_ F₁.

[5203] _I ... proceed to_] F₁ F₂. _Beseech you now, to_ Qq. _I humbly beseech you to proceed to_ F₃. _Humbly beseech you to proceed to_ F₄. _Beseech you, now to_ Theobald.

_of state_] Ff. _of the state_ Qq. _o' th' state_ Theobald.

[goes to his Seat. Capell.

[5204] _a_] om. Qq. _most_ om. Johnson.

[5205] _there_] _here_ Q₃.

[5206] _a_] Qq. _a more_ Ff. _a most_ Collier MS.

[5207] _safer_] Qq F₁. _safe_ F₂ F₃ F₄ Q (1695).

[5208] _gloss_] _glosse_ Qq F₁. _grosse_ F₂. _gross_ F₃ F₄.

[5209] _more_] _most_ Rowe.

[5210] _grave_] _great_ Q₁.

[5211] _couch_] Pope. _cooch_ Qq. _coach_ Ff.

[5212] _alacrity_] _alacartie_ F₁.

[5213] _in_] _it_ Steevens (1785).

_hardness_] _harness_ Mason conj. _hardiness_ Anon. conj.

_do_] _would_ Q₁.

[5214] _These ... wars_] Malone. _This ... warres_ Q₁ F₁. _This ... warre_ Q₂ F₂. _This ... war_ Q₃ F₃ F₄.

[5215] _reference_] F₁ Q₂ F₂ Q₃. _reuerence_ Q₁. _reverence_ F₃ F₄. _preference_ Johnson conj.

[5216] _With_] _Which_ Q₁.

_accommodation_] _accomodation?_ Q₁.

[5217] _If ... father's._] Divided as by Capell. One line in Qq. _Why at her Fathers?_ F₁. _Why, at her Fathers._ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5218] _I'll_] _Ile_ Qq. _I will_ Ff.

[5219] _Nor ... not_] Qq. _Nor would I_ Ff.

_reside_] _recide_ F₁.

[5220] _your prosperous_] Ff. _a gracious_ Qq. _your gracious_ Pope. _a prosperous_ Seymour conj. _propitious_ Anon. conj.

[5221] _charter_] Qq F₁. _character_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5222] _To ... simpleness._] _And if my simplenesse._--Q₁.

[5223] _you, Desdemona?_] _you--speake._ Q₁.

[5224] _did_] om. Ff.

[5225] _and ... fortunes_] _and scorne of Fortunes_ Q₁. _to forms, my fortunes_ Warburton. _and scorn of Fortune_ Johnson conj.

[5226] _heart's_] Ff. _hearts_ Qq.

[5227] _very quality_] _utmost pleasure_ Q₁.

[5228] _dear_] _my dear_ Q₃.

[5229] _rites_] _rights_ Warburton. _parts_ Keightley.

_which_] Qq. _why_ Ff.

[5230] _Let ... voices._] Dyce. _Let ... voice._ Ff. _Your voyces Lords: beseech you let her will, Have a free way,_ Qq.

[5231] _Vouch ... heaven,_] Omitted in Q₁, ending the lines _will, ... not._ In Q₂ Q₃ the lines end _will ... way; ... not._

[5232] _with ... affects_] _wi' the young effects of heat_ Collier MS.

[5233] _heat--the ... defunct--_] _heat, (the ... defunct)_ Capell (Upton conj.) _heate, the affects In my defunct,_ Qq. _heat the yong affects In my defunct,_ Ff (_effects_ F₂ F₃ F₄). _heat, the young affects, In my distinct_ Theobald. _heat affects the young, In my distinct_ Hanmer. _heat, (the young affects,) In my defect_ Upton conj. _heat, the young affects, In my defunct_ Johnson (Upton conj.) _heat, the young affects, In my defenc'd_ Tollet conj. _heat, (the young affect's In me defunct)_ Rann. _heat, and young affects, In my disjunct_, Anon. apud Rann conj. _heat, the young affects, In my disjunct_ Malone. _heat (the young affects, In me adjunct_) Becket conj. _heat i' the young affects In my disjunct_ Singer conj. (withdrawn). _heat of the young affects In my distinct_ Keightley. _th' heat of young affects In my distinct_ Bailey conj.

[5234] _In ... mind_:] Tyrrwhitt would transpose these lines, reading as F₁.

[5235] _to_] _of_ Q₁.

[5236] _good souls_] _counsels_ Collier MS.

[5237] _great_] Ff. _good_ Qq.

[5238] _For_] Qq. _When_ Ff.

[5239] _Of_] Ff. _And_ Qq.

_seel_] F₄. _seele_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _foyles_] Qq. _feel_ Rowe (ed. 2). _foil_ Pope.

_dullness_] _dalliance_ Theobald conj. (withdrawn).

[5240] _officed_] _offic'd_ Ff. _active_ Qq.

_instruments_] Qq. _instrument_ Ff.

[5241] _housewives_] _huswives_ Qq.

_skillet_] _skellet_ Qq.

[5242] _estimation_] Ff. _reputation_ Qq.

[5243] _Either_] _Or_ Pope.

_her_] om. Q₁.

_affair cries_] _affaires cry_ Q₁.

[5244] _answer't;_] Edd. _answer it._ Ff. _answer,_ Qq.

_you ... to-night._] Qq. Sen. _You must away to night._ Ff.

[5245] Des. _To-night, my lord?_] Qq. Omitted in Ff. Des. _To-night, my lord, to-night?_ Pope. Duke. _This night._] Qq. Omitted in Ff. and Pope.

[5246] _nine_] _ten_ Q₁.

[to the Senators, rising. Capell.

[5247] _With_] Qq. _And_ Ff.

_and_] _or_ Q₁.

[5248] _import_] _concerne_ Q₁.

_So_] Ff. om. Qq.

[5249] _good_] om. Q₃.

[5250] [To Brab.] Capell. om. Qq Ff.

[5251] _no delighted_] _no delighting_ Hanmer. _no belighted_ Warburton. _no delight or_ Johnson conj. _so belighted_ Becket conj.

[5252] First Sen.] 1 Sena. Qq. Sen. Ff.

[5253] _if thou hast eyes_] _have a quicke eye_ Q₁.

[5254] _deceived_] _deceiud'd_ Q₂ Q₃.

_and may thee_] _may doe thee_ Q₁.

[Exeunt ...] Exit Duke, with Senators. Theobald. Exeunt. Qq. Exit. Ff.

[5255] _them_] Ff. _her_ Qq.

_in the_] Qq F₁. _in their_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5256] _worldly_] _wordly_ F₁ F₄.

_matters_] Qq. _matter_ Ff.

[5257] _spend_] Qq F₁. _speake_ F₂. _speak_ F₃ F₄.

_the_] _the the_ F₁.

[Exeunt....] Exit Moore and Desdemona. Qq. Exit. Ff. Exeunt. Manent Rodorigo and Jago. Pope.

[5258] SCENE X. Pope.

[5259] _will_] _shall_ Seymour conj.

[5260] _If_] Ff. _Well, if_ Qq.

_after._] Ff. _after it,_ Qq.

[5261] _gentleman!_] Rowe. _gentleman?_ Ff. _gentleman._ Q₁ Q₂. _gentleman,_ Q₃.

[5262] _torment_] Ff. _a torment_ Qq.

[5263] _have we_] Ff. _we have_ Qq.

_prescription to die_] _prescription to dye,_ Ff (_die_ F₃ F₄). _prescription, to dye_ Qq.

[5264] _O villanous!_] Omitted in Q₁.

_have_] Ff. _ha_ Qq.

[5265] _betwixt_] Ff. _betweene_ Qq.

[5266] _man_] Ff. _a man_ Qq.

[5267] _guinea-hen_] _Ginny Hen_ Qq. _Gynney Hen_ F₁ F₂ F₃. _Guinney-Hen_ F₄.

[5268] _gardens_] Qq. _our gardens_ Ff.

[5269] _hyssop_] F₄. _Isop_ Qq. _Hisope_ F₁. _Hysope_ F₂. _Hysop_ F₃.

_thyme_] Pope. _Time_ Qq Ff.

[5270] _to have_] Qq F₁. _have_ F₂ F₃ F₄.

[5271] _wills_] _will_ Rowe (ed. 2).

[5272] _balance_] _ballance_ Q₁ Q₂. _ballence_ Q₃. _braine_ F₁ F₂. _brain_ F₃ F₄. _beam_ Theobald.

[5273] _our carnal_] _our carnall_ Qq F₁. _or carnall_ F₂ F₃. _or carnal_ F₄.

[5274] _our_] Qq. _or_ Ff.

[5275] _sect_] _slip_ Hanmer. _set_ Johnson.

_scion_] Steevens (1793). _scyon_ Hanmer. _syen_ Qq. _seyen_ Ff. _scien_ Johnson.

[5276] _of the_] _of_ Q₃.

_permission_] _primission_ Q₃.

[5277] _have professed_] _have profest_ Ff. _professe_ Qq.

[5278] _stead_] Hanmer. _steede_ Q₁ Q₂. _steed_ Ff Q₃.

[5279] _thou the_] Ff. _these_ Qq. _thou these_ Rowe.

_defeat_] _disseat_ Warburton.

[5280] _be that ... should long_] Q₁ Q₂. _be long that ... should_ Ff. _be, the Disdemona should long_ Q₃.

[5281] _to_] Ff. _unto_ Qq.

_Moor--put ... purse--_] _Moore,--put ... purse,--_ Qq. _Moore. Put ... purse:_ Ff.

_his_] om. Q₁.

[5282] _commencement_] Qq. _commencement in her_ Ff.

[5283] _commencement ... sequestration_] _conjunction ... sequestration_ or _commencement ... sequel_ Johnson conj.

[5284] _put but_] _but put_ F₃ F₄.

[5285] _locusts_] _locust_ Q₃. _loches_ Warburton. _lohock_ Warburton conj. apud Theobald MS. _lohocks_ Johnson.

[5286] _shall be to him shortly_] _shall to him shortly bee_ F₂ F₃ F₄. _shall shortly be_ Pope.

_bitter as_] _acerbe as the_ Q₁.

[5287] _She ... youth:_] Omitted in Qq.

[5288] _error_] Qq. _errors_ Ff.

[5289] _she must ... must:_] Qq. Omitted in Ff.

[5290] _erring_] _arrant_ Hanmer. _errant_ Warburton.

_a_] Qq. om. Ff.

_supersubtle_] _super-supple_ Collier MS.

[5291] _of drowning_] Ff. _a drowning_ Qq.

_thyself_] om. Qq.

_it is_] Ff. _tis_ Qq.

[5292] _if ... issue_] Omitted in Q₁.

[5293] _re-tell_] Ff. _tell_ Qq.

_thee_] _the_ Q₃.

[5294] _hath_] Ff. _has_ Qq.

[5295] _conjunctive_] _communicative_ Q₁.

[5296] _cuckold_] _cuckole_ Q₃.

_me_] _and me_ Q₁.

[5297] Iago. _Go to ... purse;_] Q₂ Q₃. See note (III).

[5298] _hear_] _here_ F₂ F₃.

[5299] [Exit.] Ff. Exit Roderigo. Qq.

[5300] SCENE XI. Pope.

[5301] _would_] _should_ Q₃ and Pope.

_snipe_] Qq. _snpe_ F₁. _swaine_ F₂. _swain_ F₃ F₄.

[5302] _He has_] F₃ F₄. _Ha's_ Qq. _He ha's_ F₂. _She ha's_ F₁.

[5303] _But_] Ff. _Yet_ Qq.

[5304] _his_] F₁. _this_ The rest.

_to plume_] F₁ Q₂ F₂ Q₃. _plume_ F₃ F₄. _to make_ Q₁.

[5305] _In_] Ff. _A_ Qq.

_knavery--_] Qq. _knavery._ Ff.

_Let's_] Ff. _let me_ Qq.

[5306] _ear_] _eare_ Qq. _eares_ Ff.

[5307] _his_] _my_ Q₃.

[5308] _is ... nature_] _a free and open nature too_ Q₁.

[5309] _seem_] _seemes_ Q₁ Q₂. _seems_ Q₃.

[5310] _And ... are._] As in Ff. One line in Qq.

[5311] _led_] _lead_ F₁ F₂.

_nose_] _nose--_ Qq.

[5312] _have't_] Ff. _ha't_ Qq.

_engender'd_] _ingender'd_ Q₁ Q₂. _engendred_ Ff. _ingendr'd_ Q₃.

_night_] _spite_ Warburton.

[5313] [Exit] Qq. om. Ff.