Caf. You advife me well. Iago. I proteft, in the fincerity of love, and honest kindness. Caf. I think it freely; and, betimes in the morning, I will befeech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me: I am defperate of my fortunes, if they check me here. Lago. You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I must to the watch. Caf. Good night, honest Iago. [Exit Caffio. laga. And what's he then, that fays-I play the villain ? When this advice is free I give, and honest, In any honeft fuit; the 's fram'd as fruitful That she may make, unmake, do what the lift, -Even as her appetite fhall play the god With his weak function. How am I then a villain, She fhall undo her credit with the Moot. Rod. I do follow here in the chace, not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry.— My money is almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well cudgel'd; and, I think, the iffe will be-I shall have so much experience for my pains: and fo, with no money at all, and a little more wit, return to Venice. Iago. How poor are they, that have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? Thou know'ft, we work by wit, and not by witchcraft; And wit depends on dilatory time. Does 't not go well? Caffio hath beaten thee, Pleasure, and action, make the hours feem short.→→ Two things are to be done, My wife must move for Caffio to her mistress; Myfelf, the while, will draw the Moor apart, [Exi ACT III. SCENE I Before the Cafle. Enter Caffio, with Musicians. ASTERS, play here, I will content your pains, [general. that I know. But, masters, here's money for you and the general fo likes your mufic, that he defires you, of all loves, to make no more noise with it. Muf. Well, fir, we will not. Clown. If you have any mufic that may not be Something that's brief; and bid-good-morrow, heard, to't again: but, as they say, to hear music, [Mafick plays, and enter Clown. Clean. Why, matters, have your instruments been at Naples, that they speak i' the nofe thus 7? Muf. How, fir, how! Clean. Are thefe, I pray you, call'd wind inftruments? Muf. Ay, marry, are they, fir. Clown. O, thereby hangs a tail. Muf. Whereby hangs a tale, fir? [the general does not greatly care. Muf. We have none fuch, fir. [Exeunt Muf Caf. Doft thou hear, my honeft friend? Clown. No, I hear not your honeft friend; I hear you. Caf. Pr'ythee, keep up thy quillets. There's a Clown. Marry, fir, by many a wind inftrument poor piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman Li. c. has an appearance of honeft openness, of elements, out of which all things are produced. 4 Peftilence, for poison. 5 That is, recals him. 7 The venereal difeafe firft appeared at the fiege of frank good-will. 2 Liberal, bountiful, as the 3 i. e. a courfe level, and even with his defign. A metaphor from taking birds in meshes. ther Naples. Caf. Do, good my friend. In happy time, Iago. Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago, Iago. I'll fend her to you presently: Enter Emilia. Emil. Good morrow, good lieutenant: I am For your difpleafure; but all will foon be well. And needs no other fuitor, but his likings, Caf. Yet, I beseech you,— If you think fit, or that it may be done,-- Emil. Pray you, come in; I will bestow you where you shall have time To speak your bofom freely. Caf. I am much bound to you. SCENE [Exeunt. II. A Room in the Cafile. Enter Othello, Jago, and Gentlemen. -Oth. Thefe letters give, Iago, to the pilot; And, by him, do my duties to the flate: That done, I will be walking on the works, Repair there to me. lago. Well, my good lord, I'll do't. [fee't? Orb. This fortification, gentlemen,-fhall we Gent. We'll wait upon your lordship. [Exeunt. SCEN E III. Another Room in the Cafile. Enter Desdemona, Caffin, and Æmilia. Def. Be thou affur'd, good Caflio, I will do All my abilities in thy behalf. [husband, Emil. Good madam, do ; I know it grieves my As if the cafe were his. Caf. Ay, but, lady, That policy may either laft fo long, Or feed upon fuch nice and waterish diet, Def. Do not doubt that; before Æmilia here, His bed shall feem a school, his board a shrift; Enter Othello, and lago, at a diftante. Def. Why, ftay, and hear me speak. Caf. Madam, not now; I am very ill at ease, Unfit for mine own purposes. [Exit Caffio [what. Def. Well, do your difcretion. That he would steal away fo guilty-like, Oth. I do believe, 'twas he. Def. How now, my lord? I have been talking with a fuitor here, Def. Why, your lieutenant Caffio. Good my lord, If I have any grace, or power to move you, For, if he be not one that truly loves you; - I pr'ythee, call him back. Otb. Went he hence now? Def. Ay, foeth; fo humbled, That he hath left part of his grief with me, It is faid, that the ferocity of beafts, infuperable and irretlaimable by any other means, is sub-` Zued by keeping them from licep. 2 Cunning, for defign, or purpose, fimply. Xyy 2 Def. But fhall 't be shortly? Oth. The fooner, fweet, for you. Def. Shall 't be to-night at fupper? Oib. No, not to night. Def. To-morrow dinner then? Oth. I fhall not dine at home. I meet the captains at the citadel. [morn; Def. Why then, to-morrow night; or Tuefday Or Tuesday noon, or night; or Wednesday morn; I pray thee, name the time; but let it not Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent; And yet his trefpafs, in our common reafon, (Save that, they fay, the wars must make examples Out of their beft) is not almoft a fault To incur a private check: When thall he come? Or ftand fo mammering on. What! Michael Indeed? I heard thee fay but now, -Thou lik’dft not that, When Caffio left my wife; What didft not like? And, when I told thee-he was of my counfel That came a-wooing with you; and fo many a In my whole courfe of wooing, thou cry'dft, When I have spoke of you difpraifingly, Hath ta'en your part; to have fo much to do To bring him in! Trust me, 1 could do much,Oth. Tr'ythee, no more: let him come when he will; I will deny thee nothing. Def. Why, this is not a boon; 'Tis as I fhould entreat you wear your gloves, To your own perfon: Nay, when I have a fuit, Otb. I will deny thee nothing: ; And didft contract and purfe thy brow together, Iago. My lord, you know I love you. | And, for I know thou art full of love and heneity, [breathAnd weigh'st thy words before thou giv’st them Therefore thefe ftops of thine fright me the more: For fuch things, in a falfe difloyal knave, Are tricks of cuftom; but, in a man that's juft, They are clofe delations 5, working from the heart, That paffion cannot rule. Iage. For Michael Caffio,— I dare be fworn, I think that he is honeft. lago. Men fhould be what they feem; none ! Oth, Certain, men should be what they feer. man. Oth. Nay, yet there's more in this: I pray thee, fpeak to me as to thy thinkings, Iago. Good my lord, pardon me; 2 i. e. of weight. To hesitate, to stand in fufpence. 3 The word wretch, in fome parts of England, is a term of the lofteft and fondeft tenderness. It expreffes the utmoft degree of amiablenets, joined with an idea, which perhaps all tenderness includes, of feeblenefs, fottnels, and want of protection. 4 i. e. When I ceafe to love thee, the world is at an end; i. e there remans nothing valuable or important. si. e. occult and fecret accufàtions, working involuntarily from the heart, which, though refolved to come the fault, cannot rule its paffion of resentment. would they might no longer feem, or bear the shape of men. Utter OTHELLO. Utter my thoughts? Why, fay, they are vile and, Think'ft thou, I'd make a life of jealousy, falfe,- As where's that palace, whereinto foul things Keep leets, and law-days, and in feffion fit Oth. Thou doft confpire against thy friend, Lago, Iago. I do befeech you, Oth. What dost thou mean ? To follow ftill the changes of the moon With fresh fufpicions? No; to be once in doubt, To fay-my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, [reafon lago. I am glad of this; for now I fhall have Jago. Good name, in man and woman, dear Wear your eye-thus, not jealous, nor fecure: my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their fouls: Who fteals my purse, steals trash; 'tis fomething, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been flave to thoufands; Oth. By heaven, I'll know thy thought. hand; Nor fhall not, whilft 'tis in my cuftody. Oth. Ha! Lago. O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; Iago. Poor, and content, is rich,and rich enough; Oth. Why? why is this? I would not have your free and noble nature, In Venice they do let heaven fee the pranks Is-not to leave undone, but keep unknown. Otb. Doft thou fay fo? Iago. She did deceive her father, marrying you ; And, when the feem'd to shake, and fear your looks, She lov'd them moft 7, Oth. And fo the did. lago. Why, go to, then ; She that, fo young, could give out fuch a feeming, I humbly do befeech you of your pardon, Oth. am bound to thee for ever. I hope, you will confider, what is spoke The poet's meaning is, "Who has a breaft fo little apt to form ill opinions of others, but that foul fufpicions will fometimes mix with his fairest and most candid thoughts, and erect a court in his 2 i. e. am apt to put the worft conftruction on mind, to enquire of the offences apprehended? 5 The allu3 i. e. loaths that which nourishes and fuftains it. This being a miferable itate, every thing. 4 i. c. unbounded, endless, unnumbered treasures, Iago bids him beware of it. Dr. Johulon obferves, that 6 Self-bounty, for inherent generofity. hon is to a bubble, this and the following argument of Iago ought to be deeply impreffed on every reader. Deceit and falihood, whatever conveniencies they may for a time promife or produce, are, in the fum of life, obftacles to happine's. Those who profit by the cheat, diftruit the deceiver, and the act by which kindness was fought, puts an end to confidence. The fame objection may be made with a lower degree of Itrength against the imprudent generofity of difproportionate marriages. When the firft heat of paflion is over, it is eafily fucceeded by fufpicion, that the fame violence of inclination, which caufed one irregularity, may ftimulate to another; and those who have fhewn, that their as the paffions are too powerful for their prudence, will, with very flight appearances against them, be 3 Clofe as oak, means, clofe cenfured, as not very likely to restrain them by their virtue." grain of the pak. To feel is an expreflion taken from falconry. YyY3 I am I am to pray you not to ftrain my speech Oth. I will not Tags. Should you do so, my lord, My fpeech fhould fall into fuch vile fuccefs z My lord, I fee you are mov'd. Otb. No, not much mov'd :→→ I do not think but Desdemona's honest. > Iago. Long live the fo! and long live you think fo! to Otb. And yet, how nature erring from itself, Not to affect many propofed matches, Of her own clime, complexion, and degree; Otb. Farewel, farewel: If more thou doft perceive, let me know more; [Going. And knows all qualities, with a learned 7 fpät, If the be falfe, O, then heaven mocks itself!- Def. How now, my dear Othello! [well } Def. Why is your speech so faint? are you not Oth. I have a pain upon my forehead here.. Def. Why, that's with watching; 'twill away again: Qtb. Why did I marry This honeft creature, Let me but bind it hard, within this hour doubtless, Sees and knows more, much more, than he un Iago. My lord, I would, I might entreat your honour To fcan this thing no further; leave it to time: [Exit, Oth. Your napkin 14 is too little; [She drops ber bandkerchief. What he'll do with it, heaven knows, not 1; Enter lago. Jago. How now ? what do you here alone? 3. A rank best means, fues, for conclufions. 2 Iago means, "Should you do fo, my lord, my words would be attended by fuch an infamous degree of fuccefs, as my thoughts do not even aim at. will, is felf-will overgrown and exuberant. 4 i. e. You shall discover whether he thinks his his molt powerful intereft, is by the folicitation of your lady. si. c. preis hard his re-admiffion to his pay and office. Entertainment was the military terin for admiffion of fuldters. difruft my ability to contain my paffion. 7 Learned, for experienced. 6. e. do not A haggard hawk is a wild hawk, a lawk difficult to be reclaim'd. It appears alio, that haggard was a term of reproach fometimes applied to a wanton. 9 Jeffes are fhort ftraps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk, by which he is held on the fift. 10 Dr. Johufon obferves, that the falconers always let fly the hawk against the wind; if the flies with the wind behind her, the feldom returns. If therefore a hawk was for any reafon to be difmiffed, he was let down the wind, and from that time shifted for herfelf, and prey'd at fortune. 1 i. e. men of intrigue. 12 In allution, according to Dr. Johnfon, to a barbed or forked arrow, which, once infixed, cannot be extracted. Or, according to Dr. Percy, the forked plague may inean the cuckold's horns. 13 The generous iflanders are the islanders gf rash, diftinétion. 14 i. c. your pockẹt handkerchief, |