Speeches (Lines) for (stage directions)
in "Othello"
Total: 129

1

I,1,1

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter RODERIGO and IAGO]

2

I,1,85

Iago. Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!
Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!
Thieves! thieves!

(stage directions). [BRABANTIO appears above, at a window]

3

I,1,157

Brabantio. Strike on the tinder, ho!
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!

(stage directions). [Exit above]

4

I,1,174

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

(stage directions). [Exit]

5

I,1,175

(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches]

6

I,1,201

Brabantio. Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;
I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!
And raise some special officers of night.
On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

7

I,2,202

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches]

8

I,2,239

Iago. By Janus, I think no.

(stage directions). [Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches]

9

I,2,260

Othello. 'Tis well I am found by you.
I will but spend a word here in the house,
And go with you.

(stage directions). [Exit]

10

I,2,267

Cassio. To who?

(stage directions). [Re-enter OTHELLO]

11

I,2,273

Iago. It is Brabantio. General, be advised;
He comes to bad intent.

(stage directions). [Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and Officers with torches and weapons]

12

I,2,277

Brabantio. Down with him, thief!

(stage directions). [They draw on both sides]

13

I,2,325

Brabantio. How! the duke in council!
In this time of the night! Bring him away:
Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
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.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

14

I,3,326

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [The DUKE and Senators sitting at a table; Officers attending]

15

I,3,343

First Officer. A messenger from the galleys.

(stage directions). [Enter a Sailor]

16

I,3,365

First Officer. Here is more news.

(stage directions). [Enter a Messenger]

17

I,3,381

First Senator. Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor.

(stage directions). [Enter BRABANTIO, OTHELLO, IAGO, RODERIGO, and Officers]

18

I,3,516

Othello. Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it;
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field
Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history:
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
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,
But not intentively: I did consent,
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'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,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story.
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
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.

(stage directions). [Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants]

19

I,3,651

Brabantio. Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:
She has deceived her father, and may thee.

(stage directions). [Exeunt DUKE OF VENICE, Senators, Officers, &c]

20

I,3,659

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

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]

21

I,3,739

Roderigo. I am changed: I'll go sell all my land.

(stage directions). [Exit]

22

I,3,762

Iago. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse:
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
If I would time expend with such a snipe.
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;
But I, for mere suspicion in that kind,
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
In double knavery—How, how? Let's see:—
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear
That he is too familiar with his wife.
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,
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will as tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are.
I have't. It is engender'd. Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.

(stage directions). [Exit]

23

II,1,763

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen]

24

II,1,784

Montano. If that the Turkish fleet
Be not enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:
It is impossible they bear it out.

(stage directions). [Enter a third Gentleman]

25

II,1,811

Third Gentleman. Come, let's do so:
For every minute is expectancy
Of more arrivance.

(stage directions). [Enter CASSIO]

26

II,1,821

Cassio. His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot
Of very expert and approved allowance;
Therefore my hopes, not surfeited to death,
Stand in bold cure.

(stage directions). [A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!']

27

II,1,822

(stage directions). [A cry within 'A sail, a sail, a sail!']

(stage directions). [Enter a fourth Gentleman]

28

II,1,827

Cassio. My hopes do shape him for the governor.

(stage directions). [Guns heard]

29

II,1,833

Second Gentleman. I shall.

(stage directions). [Exit]

30

II,1,874

Cassio. The great contention of the sea and skies
Parted our fellowship—But, hark! a sail.

(stage directions). [Within 'A sail, a sail!' Guns heard]

31

II,1,885

Cassio. See for the news.
[Exit Gentleman]
Good ancient, you are welcome.
[To EMILIA]
Welcome, mistress.
Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
That I extend my manners; 'tis my breeding
That gives me this bold show of courtesy.

(stage directions). [Kissing her]

32

II,1,971

Cassio. Lo, where he comes!

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO and Attendants]

33

II,1,1010

Othello. Come, let us to the castle.
News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks
are drown'd.
How does my old acquaintance of this isle?
Honey, you shall be well desired in Cyprus;
I have found great love amongst them. O my sweet,
I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
In mine own comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
Go to the bay and disembark my coffers:
Bring thou the master to the citadel;
He is a good one, and his worthiness
Does challenge much respect. Come, Desdemona,
Once more, well met at Cyprus.

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]

34

II,1,1086

Roderigo. Adieu.

(stage directions). [Exit]

35

II,1,1114

Iago. That Cassio loves her, I do well believe it;
That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit:
The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
Is of a constant, loving, noble nature,
And I dare think he'll prove to Desdemona
A most dear husband. Now, I do love her too;
Not out of absolute lust, though peradventure
I stand accountant for as great a sin,
But partly led to diet my revenge,
For that I do suspect the lusty Moor
Hath leap'd into my seat; the thought whereof
Doth, like a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inwards;
And nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am even'd with him, wife for wife,
Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,
If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash
For his quick hunting, stand the putting on,
I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip,
Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb—
For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too—
Make the Moor thank me, love me and reward me.
For making him egregiously an ass
And practising upon his peace and quiet
Even to madness. 'Tis here, but yet confused:
Knavery's plain face is never seen tin used.

(stage directions). [Exit]

36

II,2,1115

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter a Herald with a proclamation; People following]

37

II,2,1128

Herald. It is Othello's pleasure, our noble and valiant
general, that, upon certain tidings now arrived,
importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet,
every man put himself into triumph; some to dance,
some to make bonfires, each man to what sport and
revels his addiction leads him: for, besides these
beneficial news, it is the celebration of his
nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be
proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full
liberty of feasting from this present hour of five
till the bell have told eleven. Heaven bless the
isle of Cyprus and our noble general Othello!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

38

II,3,1129

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and Attendants]

39

II,3,1144

Othello. Iago is most honest.
Michael, good night: to-morrow with your earliest
Let me have speech with you.
[To DESDEMONA]
Come, my dear love,
The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue;
That profit's yet to come 'tween me and you.
Good night.

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]

40

II,3,1145

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]

(stage directions). [Enter IAGO]

41

II,3,1179

Cassio. I'll do't; but it dislikes me.

(stage directions). [Exit]

42

II,3,1196

Iago. If I can fasten but one cup upon him,
With that which he hath drunk to-night already,
He'll be as full of quarrel and offence
As my young mistress' dog. Now, my sick fool Roderigo,
Whom love hath turn'd almost the wrong side out,
To Desdemona hath to-night caroused
Potations pottle-deep; and he's to watch:
Three lads of Cyprus, noble swelling spirits,
That hold their honours in a wary distance,
The very elements of this warlike isle,
Have I to-night fluster'd with flowing cups,
And they watch too. Now, 'mongst this flock of drunkards,
Am I to put our Cassio in some action
That may offend the isle.—But here they come:
If consequence do but approve my dream,
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.

(stage directions). [Re-enter CASSIO; with him MONTANO and Gentlemen; servants following with wine]

43

II,3,1249

Cassio. Why, very well then; you must not think then that I am drunk.

(stage directions). [Exit]

44

II,3,1268

Montano. It were well
The general were put in mind of it.
Perhaps he sees it not; or his good nature
Prizes the virtue that appears in Cassio,
And looks not on his evils: is not this true?

(stage directions). [Enter RODERIGO]

45

II,3,1271

Iago. [Aside to him] How now, Roderigo!
I pray you, after the lieutenant; go.

(stage directions). [Exit RODERIGO]

46

II,3,1280

Iago. Not I, for this fair island:
I do love Cassio well; and would do much
To cure him of this evil—But, hark! what noise?

(stage directions). [Cry within: 'Help! help!']

47

II,3,1281

(stage directions). [Cry within: 'Help! help!']

(stage directions). [Re-enter CASSIO, driving in RODERIGO]

48

II,3,1288

Cassio. Dost thou prate, rogue?

(stage directions). [Striking RODERIGO]

49

II,3,1297

Cassio. Drunk!

(stage directions). [They fight]

50

II,3,1307

Iago. [Aside to RODERIGO] Away, I say; go out, and cry a mutiny.
[Exit RODERIGO]
Nay, good lieutenant,—alas, gentlemen;—
Help, ho!—Lieutenant,—sir,—Montano,—sir;
Help, masters!—Here's a goodly watch indeed!
[Bell rings]
Who's that which rings the bell?—Diablo, ho!
The town will rise: God's will, lieutenant, hold!
You will be shamed for ever.

(stage directions). [Re-enter OTHELLO and Attendants]

51

II,3,1310

Montano. 'Zounds, I bleed still; I am hurt to the death.

(stage directions). [Faints]

52

II,3,1412

Othello. All's well now, sweeting; come away to bed.
Sir, for your hurts, myself will be your surgeon:
Lead him off.
[To MONTANO, who is led off]
Iago, look with care about the town,
And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted.
Come, Desdemona: 'tis the soldiers' life
To have their balmy slumbers waked with strife.

(stage directions). [Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO]

53

II,3,1487

Iago. You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I
must to the watch.

(stage directions). [Exit]

54

II,3,1544

Iago. How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
Thou know'st we work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
And wit depends on dilatory time.
Does't not go well? Cassio hath beaten thee.
And thou, by that small hurt, hast cashier'd Cassio:
Though other things grow fair against the sun,
Yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe:
Content thyself awhile. By the mass, 'tis morning;
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.
Retire thee; go where thou art billeted:
Away, I say; thou shalt know more hereafter:
Nay, get thee gone.
[Exit RODERIGO]
Two things are to be done:
My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress;
I'll set her on;
Myself the while to draw the Moor apart,
And bring him jump when he may Cassio find
Soliciting his wife: ay, that's the way
Dull not device by coldness and delay.

(stage directions). [Exit]

55

III,1,1545

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter CASSIO and some Musicians]

56

III,1,1548

Cassio. Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'

(stage directions). [Music]

57

III,1,1549

(stage directions). [Music]

(stage directions). [Enter Clown]

58

III,1,1568

Clown. Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:
go; vanish into air; away!

(stage directions). [Exeunt Musicians]

59

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Cassio. I humbly thank you for't.
[Exit IAGO]
I never knew
A Florentine more kind and honest.

(stage directions). [Enter EMILIA]

60

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Cassio. I am much bound to you.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

61

III,2,1616

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen]

62

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Gentleman. We'll wait upon your lordship.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

63

III,3,1625

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA]

64

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Desdemona. Well, do your discretion.

(stage directions). [Exit CASSIO]

65

III,3,1663

(stage directions). [Exit CASSIO]

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO and IAGO]

66

III,3,1727

Desdemona. Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;
Whate'er you be, I am obedient.

(stage directions). [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]

67

III,3,1918

Iago. I once more take my leave.

(stage directions). [Exit]

68

III,3,1956

Desdemona. I am very sorry that you are not well.

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA]

69

III,3,1967

Emilia. I am glad I have found this napkin:
This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,
For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
And give't Iago: what he will do with it
Heaven knows, not I;
I nothing but to please his fantasy.

(stage directions). [Re-enter Iago]

70

III,3,2159

Iago. Do not rise yet.
[Kneels]
Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
You elements that clip us round about,
Witness that here Iago doth give up
The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
And to obey shall be in me remorse,
What bloody business ever.

(stage directions). [They rise]

71

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Iago. I am your own for ever.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

72

III,4,2173

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown]

73

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Clown. To do this is within the compass of man's wit: and
therefore I will attempt the doing it.

(stage directions). [Exit]

74

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Othello. Away!

(stage directions). [Exit]

75

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Emilia. 'Tis not a year or two shows us a man:
They are all but stomachs, and we all but food;
To eat us hungerly, and when they are full,
They belch us. Look you, Cassio and my husband!

(stage directions). [Enter CASSIO and IAGO]

76

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Cassio. I humbly thank your ladyship.

(stage directions). [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]

77

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(stage directions). [Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA]

(stage directions). [Enter BIANCA]

78

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Bianca. 'Tis very good; I must be circumstanced.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

79

IV,1,2408

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO and IAGO]

80

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Othello. Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when
they belie her. Lie with her! that's fulsome.
—Handkerchief—confessions—handkerchief!—To
confess, and be hanged for his labour;—first, to be
hanged, and then to confess.—I tremble at it.
Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing
passion without some instruction. It is not words
that shake me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips.
—Is't possible?—Confess—handkerchief!—O devil!—

(stage directions). [Falls in a trance]

81

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Bianca. An you'll come to supper to-night, you may; an you
will not, come when you are next prepared for.

(stage directions). [Exit]

82

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Iago. Go to; say no more.

(stage directions). [Exit CASSIO]

83

IV,1,2648

Iago. Something from Venice, sure. 'Tis Lodovico
Come from the duke: and, see, your wife is with him.

(stage directions). [Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants]

84

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Lodovico. The duke and senators of Venice greet you.

(stage directions). [Gives him a letter]

85

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Othello. I kiss the instrument of their pleasures.

(stage directions). [Opens the letter, and reads]

86

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Desdemona. I will not stay to offend you.

(stage directions). [Going]

87

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Othello. Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep;
And she's obedient, as you say, obedient,
Very obedient. Proceed you in your tears.
Concerning this, sir,—O well-painted passion!—
I am commanded home. Get you away;
I'll send for you anon. Sir, I obey the mandate,
And will return to Venice. Hence, avaunt!
[Exit DESDEMONA]
Cassio shall have my place. And, sir, tonight,
I do entreat that we may sup together:
You are welcome, sir, to Cyprus.—Goats and monkeys!

(stage directions). [Exit]

88

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Lodovico. I am sorry that I am deceived in him.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

89

IV,2,2736

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO and EMILIA]

90

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Othello. Bid her come hither: go.
[Exit EMILIA]
She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd
That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.

(stage directions). [Enter DESDEMONA with EMILIA]

91

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Othello. [To EMILIA] Some of your function, mistress;
Leave procreants alone and shut the door;
Cough, or cry 'hem,' if any body come:
Your mystery, your mystery: nay, dispatch.

(stage directions). [Exit EMILIA]

92

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Othello. I cry you mercy, then:
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
That married with Othello.
[Raising his voice]
You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!
[Re-enter EMILIA]
You, you, ay, you!
We have done our course; there's money for your pains:
I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.

(stage directions). [Exit]

93

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Emilia. Here's a change indeed!

(stage directions). [Exit]

94

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Desdemona. 'Tis meet I should be used so, very meet.
How have I been behaved, that he might stick
The small'st opinion on my least misuse?

(stage directions). [Re-enter EMILIA with IAGO]

95

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Iago. And you shall be satisfied.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

96

IV,3,3018

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA and Attendants]

97

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Desdemona. I will, my lord.

(stage directions). [Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants]

98

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Desdemona. Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send,
Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

99

V,1,3135

(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). [Enter IAGO and RODERIGO]

100

V,1,3143

Iago. Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.

(stage directions). [Retires]

101

V,1,3159

Iago. I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,
And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,
He calls me to a restitution large
Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,
As gifts to Desdemona;
It must not be: if Cassio do remain,
He hath a daily beauty in his life
That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor
May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:
No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.

(stage directions). [Enter CASSIO]

102

V,1,3161

Roderigo. I know his gait, 'tis he.—Villain, thou diest!

(stage directions). [Makes a pass at CASSIO]

103

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Cassio. That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
But that my coat is better than thou know'st
I will make proof of thine.

(stage directions). [Draws, and wounds RODERIGO]

104

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Roderigo. O, I am slain!

(stage directions). [IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit]

105

V,1,3169

Cassio. I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!

(stage directions). [Falls]

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(stage directions). [Falls]

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO]

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Othello. 'Tis he:—O brave Iago, honest and just,
That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.

(stage directions). [Exit]

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(stage directions). [Exit]

(stage directions). [Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO]

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Lodovico. Hark!

(stage directions). [Re-enter IAGO, with a light]

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Iago. O treacherous villains!
What are you there? come in, and give some help.

(stage directions). [To LODOVICO and GRATIANO]

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Iago. O murderous slave! O villain!

(stage directions). [Stabs RODERIGO]

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Iago. Marry, heaven forbid!
Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.

(stage directions). [Enter BIANCA]

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Iago. [To BIANCA] What, look you pale? O, bear him out
o' the air.
[CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off]
Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?
Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:
Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,
Though tongues were out of use.

(stage directions). [Enter EMILIA]

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Iago. Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.
Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.
Emilia run you to the citadel,
And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.
Will you go on? I pray.
[Aside]
This is the night
That either makes me or fordoes me quite.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]

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(beginning of scene)

(stage directions). a light burning.

116

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(stage directions). a light burning.

(stage directions). [Enter OTHELLO]

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Othello. It is too late.

(stage directions). [He stifles her]

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Desdemona. Nobody; I myself. Farewell
Commend me to my kind lord: O, farewell!

(stage directions). [Dies]

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Emilia. Thou hast not half that power to do me harm
As I have to be hurt. O gull! O dolt!
As ignorant as dirt! thou hast done a deed—
I care not for thy sword; I'll make thee known,
Though I lost twenty lives.—Help! help, ho! help!
The Moor hath kill'd my mistress! Murder! murder!

(stage directions). [Enter MONTANO, GRATIANO, IAGO, and others]

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Othello. O! O! O!

(stage directions). [He falls on the bed]

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Emilia. I will not.

(stage directions). [IAGO offers to stab EMILIA]

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Othello. Are there no stones in heaven
But what serve for the thunder?—Precious villain!

(stage directions). [He runs at IAGO IAGO, from behind, stabs EMILIA, and exit]

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Montano. 'Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,
Which I have here recover'd from the Moor:
Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,
But kill him rather. I'll after that same villain,
For 'tis a damned slave.

(stage directions). [Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO]

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Emilia. What did thy song bode, lady?
Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.
And die in music.
[Singing]
Willow, willow, willow,—
Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;
So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;
So speaking as I think, I die, I die.

(stage directions). [Dies]

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Othello. Look in upon me then and speak with me,
Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.

(stage directions). [Re-enter GRATIANO]

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Othello. I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable.
If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.

(stage directions). [Wounds IAGO]

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Othello. Soft you; a word or two before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know't.
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away
Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this;
And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian and traduced the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him, thus.

(stage directions). [Stabs himself]

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Othello. I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

(stage directions). [Falls on the bed, and dies]

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Lodovico. [To IAGO] O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragic loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;
Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed on you. To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture: O, enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard: and to the state
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

(stage directions). [Exeunt]