harm, O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, I scarce did know you, uncle: There ies your But that I did proceed upon just grounds niece, To this extremity; Thy husband knew it all. Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly Emil. My husband ? stopp'd : Oth. Thy husband. | I know this act shows horrible and grim. Emil. That she was false to wedlock ? Gra. Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's Oth. Ay, with Cassio. dead; Nay, had she been true, Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief If heaven would made me such another world Shore his old thread in twain : did he live now, Of one entire and perfect chrysolite, This sight would make him do a desperate turn, I'd not have sold her for it. Yea, curse his better angel from his side, Emil. My husband ? And fall to reprobation. Oth. Ay, 'twas he that told me first;l Oth. "Tis pitiful; but yet Iago knows, An honest man he is, and hates the slime That she with Cassio hath the act of shame That sticks on filthy deeds. A thousand times committed ; Cassio confess'd it: Emil. My husband ? And she did gratify his amorous works Oth. What needs this iterance, woman? I say, With that recognizance and pledge of love thy husband. (love :- Which I first gave her ; I saw it in his hand; Emil. O mistress, villainy hath made mocks with It was a handkerchief, an antique token My husband say, that she was false? My father gave my mother. Oth. He, woman; | Emil, o heaven! O heavenly powers! I say, thy husband : Dost understand the word ? lago. Come, hold your peace. My friend, thy husband, honest, honest Iago. Emil. 'Twill out, 't will out;- I hold my peace, Iago. Be wise, and get you home. Emil. I will not. This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven, (lago offers to stab his wife. Than thou wast worthy her. Gra. Fye: Oth Peace, you were best. Your sword upon a woman? Emil. Thou hast not half the power to do me Emil. O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thon speak'st of, As I have to be hurt. O gull ! O dolt ! I found by fortune, and did give my husband; As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed, For often with a solemn earnestness, I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known, (More than, indeed, belong'd to such a trifle,) Though I lost twenty lives :-Help! Help, ho ! help! He begg'd of me to steal it. The Moor has kill'd my mistress ; Murder ! mur- lago. Villainous whore! der ! Emil. She give it Cassio! no, alas; I found it, And I did give't my husband. Filth, thou liest. Mon. What is the matter - How now, general? Emil. By heaven, I do not; I do not, gentlemen : Emil. O, are you come, lago ? you have done O murderous concomb! what should such a fool well, Do with so good a wife? That men must lay their murders on your neck. [Iago stabs Emilia, then runs ondt. Gra. What is the matter? Oth. Are there no stones in heaven, Emil. Disprove this villain, if thou be'st a man : But what serve for the thunder ?-Precious villain ! He says, thou told'st him that his wife was false : Gra. The woman falls; sure he has kill'd his I know, thou didst not, thou'rt not such a villain : wise. Speak, for my heart is full. Emil. Ay, ay : 0, lay me by my mistress' side! Tago. I told him what I thought ; and told nol Gra. He's gone, but his wife's kill'd. more Mon. "Tis a notorious villain. Take you this Than what he found himself was apt and true. weapon, Emil. But did you ever tell him she was false? Which I have here recovered from the Moor: lago. I did. Come, guard the door without; let him not pass, Emil. You told a lie; an odious damned lie; But kill him rather; I'll after that same villain, Upon my soul, a lie; a wicked lie : For 'tis a damned slave. She false with Cassio !- Did you say with Cassio ? [E.reunt Montano and Gratiano. lago. With Cassio, mistress; Go to, charm your oth. I am not valiant neither, tongue. Sto speak : But ever puny whipster gets my sword :Emil. I will not charm my tongue; I am bound But why should honour outlive honesty ? My mistress here lies murder'd in her bed. Let it go all. All. O heavens forefend ! Emil. What did thy song bode, lady? Emil. And your reports have set the murder on. Hark, can'st thou hear me? I will play the swan, Oth. Nay, stare not, masters; it is true, indeed. And die in musick ;-Willow, willon, millow. Gra. 'Tis a strange truth. Moor, she was chaste; she lov'd thee, cruel Moor: Mon. O monstrous act! So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true; Emil. Villainy, villainy, villainy! So speaking as I think, I die, I die. [Dies. I think upon't,- I think, I smell't ;- villainy ! Loth. I have another weapon in this chamber, I thought so then ;-I'll kill myself for grief. It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper; O villainy, villainy! 10, here it is :- Uncle, I must come forth. Iago. What, are you mad? I charge you, get Gra. (Within.) If thou attempt it, it will cost you home. (speak; thee dear; Emil. Good gentlemen, let me hare leave to Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer. 'Tis proper I obey him, but not now : oth. Look in upon me then, and speak with me, Perchance, lago, I will ne'er go home. Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee. Hanging over his wife. Re-enter Gratiano. Gra. What is the matter? Oth. Behold! I have a weapon: (Rising. A better never did itself sustain Upon a soldier's thigh : I have seen the day, I Lod. Now here's another discontented paper, Came in and satisfied him. O the pernicious caitiff! Here is my journey's end, here is my butt, How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief And very sea-mark of my utmost sail. That was my wife's ? Do you go back dismay'd ? 'tis a lost fear ; Cas. I found it in my chamber : Man but a rush against Othello's breast, And he himself confess'd, but even now, And he retires ;-Where should Othello go? That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose, Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd wench ! Which wrought to his desire. Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt, Oth. O fool! fool! fool ! This look of thine will hurt my soul from heaven, Cas. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter, And fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl? How he upbraids Iago, that he made him Even like thy chastity. Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came O cursed, cursed slave !-Whip me, ye devils, That I was cast : And even but now he spake, From the possession of this heavenly sight! After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him, Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us: O Desdemona! Desdemona ! dead? Your power and your command is taken off. Dead ? 0!0!0! And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave, Enter Lodovico, Montano, Cassio carried in If there be any cunning cruelty, a "That can torment him much, and hold him long, chair, and Officers, with Iago, prisoner. \It shall be his : You shall close prisoner rest, Lod. Where is this rash and most unfortunate Till that the nature of your fault be known man? To the Venetian state.-Come, bring him away. Oth. That's he, that was Othello; here I am. Oth. Soft you ; a word or two, before you go. Lod. Where is that viper ? bring the villain forth. I have done the state some service, and they know Oth. I look down towards his feet ;- but that's a it; fable : No more of that :- I pray you, in your letters, If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee. When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, (Othello wounds Iago. Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, speak Lod. Wrench his sword from him. Nor set down aught in malice: then must you Iago. I bleed, sir; but not kill'd. Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well; Oth. I am not sorry neither ; I'd have thee live; Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought, For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die. Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand, Lod. O thou Othello, that was once so good, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away, Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave, Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd What shall be said to thee ? Albeit unused to the melting mood, (eges, Oth. Why, any thing: Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum : Set you down this : Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state, I took by the throat the circumcised dog, Oth, Ay. And smote him-thus. (Stabs himself. Cas. Dear general, I never gave you cause. Lod. O bloody period ! Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon. Gra. All, that's spoke, is marr'd. Will you, I pray you, demand that demi-devil, Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee ;--No way Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body? but this, (Falling upon Desdemona. lago. Demand me nothing: What you know, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. (Dies. you know: Cass. This did I fear, but thought he had no From this time forth I never will speak word. For he was great of heart. For he was great of heart. [weapon ; Lod. What? not to pray? Lod. Spartan dog, Gra. Torments will ope your lips. More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea ! Oth. Well, thou dost best. Look on the tragick loading of this bed; [To Iago. Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n, This is thy work : the object poisons sight ;Which, as I think, you know not : Here is a letter, Let it be hid.- Gratiano, keep the house, Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo ; And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor, And here, another: the one of them imports For they succeed to you.-To you, lord governor, The death of Cassio to be undertook Remains the censure of this hellish villain; By Roderigo. The time, the place, the torture,- enforce it! Oth. O villain ! Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state, Cas. Most heathenish, and most gross! This heavy act with heavy heart relate. (Exeunt. END OF THE PLAYS. GLOSSARY. ABATE, to depress, sink, subdue. Approof, proof, approbation Banning, cursing Approve, to justify, to make good, Banquet, a slight refection, a deAbjects, servile persons. to establish, to recommend to Bans, curses sert Able, to qualify or uphold. approbation. Bar, barrier (manner Abortive, issuing before its time. Approved, felt, experienced, con Barbed, caparisoned in a warlike Absolute, highly accomplished, victed by proof Barful, full of impediments Barn, or bairn, a child Barnacle, a kind of shell-fish Base, dishonoured son-base Achieve, to obtain. Argentine, silver Base, a rustic game, called pri. Acquittance, requital. Argier, Algiers {galleons Bases, a kind of dress used by Action, direction by mute signs, Argosies, ships of great burthen, knights on horseback charge or accusation. Argument, subject for conversa Basilisks, a species of cannon Action-taking, litigious. tion, evidence, proof Basta, Spanish, 'tis enough Aroint, avaunt, begone another Bat, a club or staff Batlet, an instrument used by Advertisement, admonition. Articulate, to enter into articles washers of clothes Advertising, attentive. Articulated, exhibited in articles Batten, to grow fat Advice, consideration, discretion, Artificial, ingenious, artful Battle, army thought. As, as if Bavin, brushwood Advise, to consider, recollect. Aspect, countenance Bancock, a jolly cock Advised, not precipitant, cool, Aspersion, sprinkling Bay, the space between the main Afeard, afraid. (cautious. Assay, test beams of a roof Affect, love. Assinego, a he-ass Bay-windon', bow window, one Affection, affectation, imagina. Assurance, conveyance or deed in a recess (sprit tion, disposition, quality. Assured, affianced Beak, the forecastle, or the boltAffectioned, affected. Astringer, a falconer Beard, to oppose in a hostile Affections, passions, inordinate de-Ates, instigation from Ate, the manner, to set at defiance. Affeered, confirmed. [sires. mischievous goddess that in Bearing, carriage, demeanour Affied, betrothed. cites bloodshed Bearing-cloth, a mantle used at Affined, joined by affinity. Atomies, minute particles dis christenings Affront, to meet or face. cernible in a stream of sun Beat, in falconry, to flutter Affy, to betroth in marriage. shine that breaks into a dark Beating, hammering, dwelling Aglet-baby, a diminutive being. ened room, atoms Beaver, helmet in general (upon Agnize, ackowledge, confess. Atone, to reconcile Beck, a salutation made with the A-good, in good earnest. Attasked, reprehended, corrected Becomed, becoming [head Aiery, the nest of an eagle or hawk Attended, waited for Beelle, to hang over the base Aim, guesa, encouragement, sus- Attent, attentive Being, abode Belongings, endowments Be-moiled, be-draggled, be-mired Allon, to approve Attornied, supplied by substitu Bending, unequal to the weight Allowance, approbation tion of embassies for gives Benefit, beneficiary (passion Amaze, to perplex or confuse Attributive, that which attributes Bent, the utmost degree of any Ames-ace, the lowest chance of Avaunt, contemptuous dismission Benumbed, inflexible, immoveable the dice Averring, confirming Beshreny, ill befall Audrey, a corruption of Ethel. Bestowed, left, stowed, or lodged Anchor, anchoret [tions Bestraught, distraught or distractAncient, an ensign Augurs, auguries or prognostica ed (permit or suffer Anight, in the night Aukward, adverse (the learned Beteem, to give, to pour out, to Answer, retaliation Authentic, an epithet applied to Benray, betray, discover Anthropophaginian, a cannibal Anful, reverend, worshipful Bexonian, a term of reproach Antick, the fool of the old farces Anless, not producing awe Bid, to invite, to pray Antiquity, old age Biding, place, abiding Antres, caves and dens Bigging, a kind of cap Apparent, seeming, not real,heir Bilberry, the whortleberry · apparent, or next claimant Baccare, stand back, give place Bilbo, a Spanish blade of peculiar Appeal, to accuse Bale, misery, calamity excellence Appeared, rendered apparent Baleful, baneful Bilboes, a species of fetters Apply, to attend to, tu consider Balked, bathed or piled up Bill, a weapon carried by watchAppointment, preparation Balm, the oil of consecration men, a label, or advertisement, Apprehension, opinion Band, bond articles of accusation Apprehensive, quick to understand Bandog, village dog, or mastiff Bird-bolt, a species of arrow Approbation, entry on probation Bank, to sail along the banks. Bisson, blind dreda B. Blank, the white mark at which Bush, the sign of a publio.house Ceremonies, honorary ornaments, Blast, burst [an arrow is shot Busky, woody. See Bosky tokens of respect Blear, to deceive But, only, unless, except Ceremonious, superstitious Blench, to start off Butt-shaft, an arrow to shoot at Certes, certainty, in truth Blent, blended, mixed butts with [command Cess, measure Blind-rvorm, the slow-worm Bw.rom, obedient, under good Chace, a term at tennis Blistered, puffed out like blisters By, according to, by means of Chair, throne (don Blood, ancestry, high spirits, true By'rlakin, by our ladykin or little Chamber, ancient name for Lonmetal, passions, natural propen- lady Chamber, a species of great gun sities Chamberers, men of intrigue Blood-boltered, daubed with blood Champain, an open country Blonn, puffed or swollen Chance, fortune Blows, swells Caddis, a narrow worsted gal Changeling, a child changed Blunt, stupid, insensible Cade, a barrel. [loon Channel, a kennel (writing Board, to accost, to address Cadent, falling Character, description, hand. Bobb, to trick, to make a fool of Cage, a prison Character, to write, to infix Caliver, a species of musket Charge, to put to expense Charge, commission, employment Bolting. hutch, the receptacle in Callet, a lewd woman Charge-house, the free-school which the meal is bolted Calling, appellation Chariest, most cautious Chariness, caution Candle-waisters, those who sit up Charles's-wain, the constellation Bond, bounden duty looking all night to drink called the Bear Bony, or bonny, handsome, good. Canker, the dog -rose Charneco, a sort of sweet wine Book, paper of conditions Canstick, candlestick Charter, a privilege Boot, profit, advantage, some-Cantel, or Cantle, a corner or piece Chaudron, entrails thing over and above Cantons, cantos [of any thing Cheater, escheator, an officer in Bore, demeaned Canvas, to sift the exchequer ; a gamester Bore, the caliber of a gun, the ca- Canvas-climber, a sailor who Check, command, control pacity of the barrel climbs to adjust the sails Check, to object to, to rebuke Bores, stabs or wounds Cap, the top, the principal [cap Checks, probably for ethics Bosky, woody Cap, to salute by taking off the Cheer, countenance (stones Bosom, wish, heart's desire Capable, perceptible, intelligent, Cherry-pit, a play with cherry. Bots, worms in the stomach of a quick of apprehension, ample, Cheveril, soft or kid leather Bourn, boundary, rivulet (horse capacious Chew, to ruminate, consider Bom, yoke (of defence capitulate, to make head Chewet, a noisy chattering bird Brace, armour for the arm, state Capon, metaphor for a letter Chide, to resound, to echo, to Brach, a species of hound Capricious, lascivious scold, to be clamorous Braid, crafty or deceitful Captious, capacious or recipient Chiding, sound for the gridiron Childing, unseasonably pregnant Brawl, a kind of dance Card, perhaps a sea-chart Chopin, a high shoe or clog Breach, of the sea, breaking of the Care, to make provision, to take Chough, a bird of the daw kind Breast, voice, surface (sea care, inclination (care Christom, the white cloth put on Breath, breathing, vuice Careires, the motion of a horse a new baptized child Breathe, to utter (practice Carkanet, necklace or chain Chrystals, eyes (ment Breathed, inured by constant Carl, clown or husbandman Chuck, chicken, a term of endear. Breathing, complimentary. Carlot, peasant Chuff, rich, avaricious Breeched, sheathed (punishment Carper, a critic Cicatrice, the scar of a wound liable to school.hovl Carpet-consideration, on a carpe Circumstance, detail of an aren. Bridal, the nuptial feast Carriage, import (a festivity ment, a circumlocution Cite, to incite, to show, to prove Bring, to attend or accompany Cart, a chariot (outside-garb Civil, grave or solemn (human Brize, the gad, or horse-fly Case, contemptuously for skin, Civil, human creature, any thing Broached, spitted, transfixed Case, to strip naked Clack-dish, a beggar's-dish Claw, to flatter Clearest, purest, freest from evi) Brooch, an ornamental buckle Cast, cast up, reckoned Clear-story, a species of windows Brooched, adorned as with a Castilian, an opprobrious term in a church brooch Castiliano vulgo, a cant term of Cleave, to unite with closely Brotherhoods, confraternities or contempt Clerkly, like a scholar Brow, height [corporations Cataian, some kind of sharper cliff, a key in music Brownist, the name of a sect Catling, a small lute-string made cling, to shrink or shrivel up Bruit, noise, report of catgut Clinguant, glittering, shining Bruited, reported with clamour Cavaleroes, Airy, gay fellows Clip, to embrace, to infold Brush, detrition, decay Caviare, a delicacy made of the closely, secretly, privately Buckle, to bend, to yield to pres roe of sturgeon Clout, the white mark at which bugs, bugbears, terrors sure Cautelous, insidious, cautious archers take aim (milies Bulk, the body Cease, decease, die, to stop Clown, a licensed jester in faBumbard. See Bombard (skylark Censure, judgment, opinion Clubs, a popular cry on a street. Bunting, a bird outwardly like a Censure, to judge Clutched, grasped (quarrel Burgonet, a kind of helmet Censured, sentenced, estimated Coach-fellow, one who draws with Burst, broken Centuries, companies of an hun-t a confederate Bury, to conceal, to keep secret dred men each Coasting, conciliatory, inviting |