1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?> 2<SCENE> 3 <TITLE>SCENE II. Another street.</TITLE> 4 <STAGEDIR>Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches</STAGEDIR> 5 <SPEECH> 6 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 7 <LINE>Though in the trade of war I have slain men,</LINE> 8 <LINE>Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience</LINE> 9 <LINE>To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity</LINE> 10 <LINE>Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times</LINE> 11 <LINE>I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.</LINE> 12 </SPEECH> 13 <SPEECH> 14 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 15 <LINE>'Tis better as it is.</LINE> 16 </SPEECH> 17 <SPEECH> 18 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 19 <LINE>Nay, but he prated,</LINE> 20 <LINE>And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms</LINE> 21 <LINE>Against your honour</LINE> 22 <LINE>That, with the little godliness I have,</LINE> 23 <LINE>I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,</LINE> 24 <LINE>Are you fast married? Be assured of this,</LINE> 25 <LINE>That the magnifico is much beloved,</LINE> 26 <LINE>And hath in his effect a voice potential</LINE> 27 <LINE>As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;</LINE> 28 <LINE>Or put upon you what restraint and grievance</LINE> 29 <LINE>The law, with all his might to enforce it on,</LINE> 30 <LINE>Will give him cable.</LINE> 31 </SPEECH> 32 <SPEECH> 33 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 34 <LINE>Let him do his spite:</LINE> 35 <LINE>My services which I have done the signiory</LINE> 36 <LINE>Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--</LINE> 37 <LINE>Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,</LINE> 38 <LINE>I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being</LINE> 39 <LINE>From men of royal siege, and my demerits</LINE> 40 <LINE>May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune</LINE> 41 <LINE>As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,</LINE> 42 <LINE>But that I love the gentle Desdemona,</LINE> 43 <LINE>I would not my unhoused free condition</LINE> 44 <LINE>Put into circumscription and confine</LINE> 45 <LINE>For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?</LINE> 46 </SPEECH> 47 <SPEECH> 48 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 49 <LINE>Those are the raised father and his friends:</LINE> 50 <LINE>You were best go in.</LINE> 51 </SPEECH> 52 <SPEECH> 53 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 54 <LINE>Not I I must be found:</LINE> 55 <LINE>My parts, my title and my perfect soul</LINE> 56 <LINE>Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?</LINE> 57 </SPEECH> 58 <SPEECH> 59 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 60 <LINE>By Janus, I think no.</LINE> 61 </SPEECH> 62 <STAGEDIR>Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches</STAGEDIR> 63 <SPEECH> 64 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 65 <LINE>The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.</LINE> 66 <LINE>The goodness of the night upon you, friends!</LINE> 67 <LINE>What is the news?</LINE> 68 </SPEECH> 69 <SPEECH> 70 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 71 <LINE>The duke does greet you, general,</LINE> 72 <LINE>And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,</LINE> 73 <LINE>Even on the instant.</LINE> 74 </SPEECH> 75 <SPEECH> 76 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 77 <LINE>What is the matter, think you?</LINE> 78 </SPEECH> 79 <SPEECH> 80 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 81 <LINE>Something from Cyprus as I may divine:</LINE> 82 <LINE>It is a business of some heat: the galleys</LINE> 83 <LINE>Have sent a dozen sequent messengers</LINE> 84 <LINE>This very night at one another's heels,</LINE> 85 <LINE>And many of the consuls, raised and met,</LINE> 86 <LINE>Are at the duke's already: you have been</LINE> 87 <LINE>hotly call'd for;</LINE> 88 <LINE>When, being not at your lodging to be found,</LINE> 89 <LINE>The senate hath sent about three several guests</LINE> 90 <LINE>To search you out.</LINE> 91 </SPEECH> 92 <SPEECH> 93 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 94 <LINE>'Tis well I am found by you.</LINE> 95 <LINE>I will but spend a word here in the house,</LINE> 96 <LINE>And go with you.</LINE> 97 </SPEECH> 98 <STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> 99 <SPEECH> 100 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 101 <LINE>Ancient, what makes he here?</LINE> 102 </SPEECH> 103 <SPEECH> 104 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 105 <LINE>'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:</LINE> 106 <LINE>If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.</LINE> 107 </SPEECH> 108 <SPEECH> 109 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 110 <LINE>I do not understand.</LINE> 111 </SPEECH> 112 <SPEECH> 113 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 114 <LINE>He's married.</LINE> 115 </SPEECH> 116 <SPEECH> 117 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 118 <LINE>To who?</LINE> 119 </SPEECH> 120 <STAGEDIR>Re-enter OTHELLO</STAGEDIR> 121 <SPEECH> 122 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 123 <LINE>Marry, to--Come, captain, will you go?</LINE> 124 </SPEECH> 125 <SPEECH> 126 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 127 <LINE>Have with you.</LINE> 128 </SPEECH> 129 <SPEECH> 130 <SPEAKER>CASSIO</SPEAKER> 131 <LINE>Here comes another troop to seek for you.</LINE> 132 </SPEECH> 133 <SPEECH> 134 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 135 <LINE>It is Brabantio. General, be advised;</LINE> 136 <LINE>He comes to bad intent.</LINE> 137 </SPEECH> 138 <STAGEDIR>Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with 139torches and weapons</STAGEDIR> 140 <SPEECH> 141 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 142 <LINE>Holla! stand there!</LINE> 143 </SPEECH> 144 <SPEECH> 145 <SPEAKER>RODERIGO</SPEAKER> 146 <LINE>Signior, it is the Moor.</LINE> 147 </SPEECH> 148 <SPEECH> 149 <SPEAKER>BRABANTIO</SPEAKER> 150 <LINE>Down with him, thief!</LINE> 151 </SPEECH> 152 <STAGEDIR>They draw on both sides</STAGEDIR> 153 <SPEECH> 154 <SPEAKER>IAGO</SPEAKER> 155 <LINE>You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.</LINE> 156 </SPEECH> 157 <SPEECH> 158 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 159 <LINE>Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.</LINE> 160 <LINE>Good signior, you shall more command with years</LINE> 161 <LINE>Than with your weapons.</LINE> 162 </SPEECH> 163 <SPEECH> 164 <SPEAKER>BRABANTIO</SPEAKER> 165 <LINE>O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?</LINE> 166 <LINE>Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;</LINE> 167 <LINE>For I'll refer me to all things of sense,</LINE> 168 <LINE>If she in chains of magic were not bound,</LINE> 169 <LINE>Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,</LINE> 170 <LINE>So opposite to marriage that she shunned</LINE> 171 <LINE>The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,</LINE> 172 <LINE>Would ever have, to incur a general mock,</LINE> 173 <LINE>Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom</LINE> 174 <LINE>Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.</LINE> 175 <LINE>Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense</LINE> 176 <LINE>That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,</LINE> 177 <LINE>Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals</LINE> 178 <LINE>That weaken motion: I'll have't disputed on;</LINE> 179 <LINE>'Tis probable and palpable to thinking.</LINE> 180 <LINE>I therefore apprehend and do attach thee</LINE> 181 <LINE>For an abuser of the world, a practiser</LINE> 182 <LINE>Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.</LINE> 183 <LINE>Lay hold upon him: if he do resist,</LINE> 184 <LINE>Subdue him at his peril.</LINE> 185 </SPEECH> 186 <SPEECH> 187 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 188 <LINE>Hold your hands,</LINE> 189 <LINE>Both you of my inclining, and the rest:</LINE> 190 <LINE>Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it</LINE> 191 <LINE>Without a prompter. Where will you that I go</LINE> 192 <LINE>To answer this your charge?</LINE> 193 </SPEECH> 194 <SPEECH> 195 <SPEAKER>BRABANTIO</SPEAKER> 196 <LINE>To prison, till fit time</LINE> 197 <LINE>Of law and course of direct session</LINE> 198 <LINE>Call thee to answer.</LINE> 199 </SPEECH> 200 <SPEECH> 201 <SPEAKER>OTHELLO</SPEAKER> 202 <LINE>What if I do obey?</LINE> 203 <LINE>How may the duke be therewith satisfied,</LINE> 204 <LINE>Whose messengers are here about my side,</LINE> 205 <LINE>Upon some present business of the state</LINE> 206 <LINE>To bring me to him?</LINE> 207 </SPEECH> 208 <SPEECH> 209 <SPEAKER>First Officer</SPEAKER> 210 <LINE>'Tis true, most worthy signior;</LINE> 211 <LINE>The duke's in council and your noble self,</LINE> 212 <LINE>I am sure, is sent for.</LINE> 213 </SPEECH> 214 <SPEECH> 215 <SPEAKER>BRABANTIO</SPEAKER> 216 <LINE>How! the duke in council!</LINE> 217 <LINE>In this time of the night! Bring him away:</LINE> 218 <LINE>Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,</LINE> 219 <LINE>Or any of my brothers of the state,</LINE> 220 <LINE>Cannot but feel this wrong as 'twere their own;</LINE> 221 <LINE>For if such actions may have passage free,</LINE> 222 <LINE>Bond-slaves and pagans shall our statesmen be.</LINE> 223 </SPEECH> 224 <STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> 225</SCENE> 226