1<HTML><HEAD><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 2<TITLE>SCENE II. Another street.</TITLE> 3</HEAD> 4<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFCC"> 5 <H1><CENTER>SCENE II. Another street.</CENTER> 6</H1> 7<HR> 8 9 <CENTER><H3>Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches</H3> 10</CENTER> 11 12 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 13</TD> 14<TD VALIGN="TOP">Though in the trade of war I have slain men,<BR> 15Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience<BR> 16To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity<BR> 17Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times<BR> 18I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.<BR> 19</TD> 20</TR> 21</TABLE> 22 23 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 24</TD> 25<TD VALIGN="TOP">'Tis better as it is.<BR> 26</TD> 27</TR> 28</TABLE> 29 30 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 31</TD> 32<TD VALIGN="TOP">Nay, but he prated,<BR> 33And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms<BR> 34Against your honour<BR> 35That, with the little godliness I have,<BR> 36I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,<BR> 37Are you fast married? Be assured of this,<BR> 38That the magnifico is much beloved,<BR> 39And hath in his effect a voice potential<BR> 40As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;<BR> 41Or put upon you what restraint and grievance<BR> 42The law, with all his might to enforce it on,<BR> 43Will give him cable.<BR> 44</TD> 45</TR> 46</TABLE> 47 48 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 49</TD> 50<TD VALIGN="TOP">Let him do his spite:<BR> 51My services which I have done the signiory<BR> 52Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--<BR> 53Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,<BR> 54I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being<BR> 55From men of royal siege, and my demerits<BR> 56May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune<BR> 57As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,<BR> 58But that I love the gentle Desdemona,<BR> 59I would not my unhoused free condition<BR> 60Put into circumscription and confine<BR> 61For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?<BR> 62</TD> 63</TR> 64</TABLE> 65 66 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 67</TD> 68<TD VALIGN="TOP">Those are the raised father and his friends:<BR> 69You were best go in.<BR> 70</TD> 71</TR> 72</TABLE> 73 74 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 75</TD> 76<TD VALIGN="TOP">Not I I must be found:<BR> 77My parts, my title and my perfect soul<BR> 78Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?<BR> 79</TD> 80</TR> 81</TABLE> 82 83 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 84</TD> 85<TD VALIGN="TOP">By Janus, I think no.<BR> 86</TD> 87</TR> 88</TABLE> 89 90 <CENTER><H3>Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches</H3> 91</CENTER> 92 93 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 94</TD> 95<TD VALIGN="TOP">The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.<BR> 96The goodness of the night upon you, friends!<BR> 97What is the news?<BR> 98</TD> 99</TR> 100</TABLE> 101 102 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 103</TD> 104<TD VALIGN="TOP">The duke does greet you, general,<BR> 105And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,<BR> 106Even on the instant.<BR> 107</TD> 108</TR> 109</TABLE> 110 111 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 112</TD> 113<TD VALIGN="TOP">What is the matter, think you?<BR> 114</TD> 115</TR> 116</TABLE> 117 118 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 119</TD> 120<TD VALIGN="TOP">Something from Cyprus as I may divine:<BR> 121It is a business of some heat: the galleys<BR> 122Have sent a dozen sequent messengers<BR> 123This very night at one another's heels,<BR> 124And many of the consuls, raised and met,<BR> 125Are at the duke's already: you have been<BR> 126hotly call'd for;<BR> 127When, being not at your lodging to be found,<BR> 128The senate hath sent about three several guests<BR> 129To search you out.<BR> 130</TD> 131</TR> 132</TABLE> 133 134 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 135</TD> 136<TD VALIGN="TOP">'Tis well I am found by you.<BR> 137I will but spend a word here in the house,<BR> 138And go with you.<BR> 139</TD> 140</TR> 141</TABLE> 142 143 <CENTER><H3>Exit</H3> 144</CENTER> 145 146 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 147</TD> 148<TD VALIGN="TOP">Ancient, what makes he here?<BR> 149</TD> 150</TR> 151</TABLE> 152 153 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 154</TD> 155<TD VALIGN="TOP">'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:<BR> 156If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.<BR> 157</TD> 158</TR> 159</TABLE> 160 161 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 162</TD> 163<TD VALIGN="TOP">I do not understand.<BR> 164</TD> 165</TR> 166</TABLE> 167 168 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 169</TD> 170<TD VALIGN="TOP">He's married.<BR> 171</TD> 172</TR> 173</TABLE> 174 175 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 176</TD> 177<TD VALIGN="TOP">To who?<BR> 178</TD> 179</TR> 180</TABLE> 181 182 <CENTER><H3>Re-enter OTHELLO</H3> 183</CENTER> 184 185 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 186</TD> 187<TD VALIGN="TOP">Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?<BR> 188</TD> 189</TR> 190</TABLE> 191 192 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 193</TD> 194<TD VALIGN="TOP">Have with you.<BR> 195</TD> 196</TR> 197</TABLE> 198 199 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>CASSIO</B> 200</TD> 201<TD VALIGN="TOP">Here comes another troop to seek for you.<BR> 202</TD> 203</TR> 204</TABLE> 205 206 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 207</TD> 208<TD VALIGN="TOP">It is Brabantio. General, be advised;<BR> 209He comes to bad intent.<BR> 210</TD> 211</TR> 212</TABLE> 213 214 <CENTER><H3>Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with 215torches and weapons</H3> 216</CENTER> 217 218 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 219</TD> 220<TD VALIGN="TOP">Holla! stand there!<BR> 221</TD> 222</TR> 223</TABLE> 224 225 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>RODERIGO</B> 226</TD> 227<TD VALIGN="TOP">Signior, it is the Moor.<BR> 228</TD> 229</TR> 230</TABLE> 231 232 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>BRABANTIO</B> 233</TD> 234<TD VALIGN="TOP">Down with him, thief!<BR> 235</TD> 236</TR> 237</TABLE> 238 239 <CENTER><H3>They draw on both sides</H3> 240</CENTER> 241 242 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>IAGO</B> 243</TD> 244<TD VALIGN="TOP">You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.<BR> 245</TD> 246</TR> 247</TABLE> 248 249 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 250</TD> 251<TD VALIGN="TOP">Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.<BR> 252Good signior, you shall more command with years<BR> 253Than with your weapons.<BR> 254</TD> 255</TR> 256</TABLE> 257 258 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>BRABANTIO</B> 259</TD> 260<TD VALIGN="TOP">O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?<BR> 261Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;<BR> 262For I'll refer me to all things of sense,<BR> 263If she in chains of magic were not bound,<BR> 264Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,<BR> 265So opposite to marriage that she shunned<BR> 266The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,<BR> 267Would ever have, to incur a general mock,<BR> 268Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom<BR> 269Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.<BR> 270Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense<BR> 271That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,<BR> 272Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals<BR> 273That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;<BR> 274'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.<BR> 275I therefore apprehend and do attach thee<BR> 276For an abuser of the world, a practiser<BR> 277Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.<BR> 278Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,<BR> 279Subdue him at his peril.<BR> 280</TD> 281</TR> 282</TABLE> 283 284 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 285</TD> 286<TD VALIGN="TOP">Hold your hands,<BR> 287Both you of my inclining, and the rest:<BR> 288Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it<BR> 289Without a prompter. Where will you that I go<BR> 290To answer this your charge?<BR> 291</TD> 292</TR> 293</TABLE> 294 295 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>BRABANTIO</B> 296</TD> 297<TD VALIGN="TOP">To prison, till fit time<BR> 298Of law and course of direct session<BR> 299Call thee to answer.<BR> 300</TD> 301</TR> 302</TABLE> 303 304 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>OTHELLO</B> 305</TD> 306<TD VALIGN="TOP">What if I do obey?<BR> 307How may the duke be therewith satisfied,<BR> 308Whose messengers are here about my side,<BR> 309Upon some present business of the state<BR> 310To bring me to him?<BR> 311</TD> 312</TR> 313</TABLE> 314 315 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>First Officer</B> 316</TD> 317<TD VALIGN="TOP">'Tis true, most worthy signior;<BR> 318The duke's in council and your noble self,<BR> 319I am sure, is sent for.<BR> 320</TD> 321</TR> 322</TABLE> 323 324 <TABLE><TR><TD VALIGN="TOP" WIDTH="160"><B>BRABANTIO</B> 325</TD> 326<TD VALIGN="TOP">How! the duke in council!<BR> 327In this time of the night! Bring him away:<BR> 328Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,<BR> 329Or any of my brothers of the state,<BR> 330Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;<BR> 331For if such actions may have passage free,<BR> 332Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.<BR> 333</TD> 334</TR> 335</TABLE> 336 337 <CENTER><H3>Exeunt</H3> 338</CENTER> 339 340</BODY> 341</HTML> 342