The Tragedy Of Othello, The Moor Of Venice

1 Enter Iago and Roderigo.
2 IAGO.
3 Here, stand behind this bulk. Straight will he come.
4 Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home.
5 Quick, quick, fear nothing; I’ll be at thy elbow.
6 It makes us, or it mars us, think on that,
7 And fix most firm thy resolution.
8 RODERIGO.
9 Be near at hand, I may miscarry in ’t.
10 IAGO.
11 Here, at thy hand. Be bold, and take thy stand.
12 [_Retires to a little distance._]
13 RODERIGO.
14 I have no great devotion to the deed;
15 And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons.
16 ’Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword; he dies.
17 [_Goes to his stand._]
18 IAGO.
19 I have rubb’d this young quat almost to the sense,
20 And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
21 Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
22 Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo,
23 He calls me to a restitution large
24 Of gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him,
25 As gifts to Desdemona.
26 It must not be. If Cassio do remain,
27 He hath a daily beauty in his life
28 That makes me ugly. And besides, the Moor
29 May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril.
30 No, he must die. But so, I hear him coming.
31 Enter Cassio.
32 RODERIGO.
33 I know his gait; ’tis he. Villain, thou diest!
34 [_Rushes out, and makes a pass at Cassio._]
35 CASSIO.
36 That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
37 But that my coat is better than thou know’st.
38 I will make proof of thine.
39 [_Draws, and wounds Roderigo._]
40 RODERIGO.
41 O, I am slain!
42 [_Iago rushes from his post, cuts Cassio behind in the leg, and exit._]
43 CASSIO.
44 I am maim’d forever. Help, ho! murder, murder!
45 [_Falls._]
46 Enter Othello.
47 OTHELLO.
48 The voice of Cassio. Iago keeps his word.
49 RODERIGO.
50 O, villain that I am!
51 OTHELLO.
52 It is even so.
53 CASSIO.
54 O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!
55 OTHELLO.
56 ’Tis he. O brave Iago, honest and just,
57 That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong!
58 Thou teachest me,—minion, your dear lies dead,
59 And your unbless’d fate hies. Strumpet, I come!
60 Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
61 Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.
62 [_Exit._]
63 Enter Lodovico and Gratiano.
64 CASSIO.
65 What, ho! No watch? No passage? murder, murder!
66 GRATIANO.
67 ’Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.
68 CASSIO.
69 O, help!
70 LODOVICO.
71 Hark!
72 RODERIGO.
73 O wretched villain!
74 LODOVICO.
75 Two or three groan. It is a heavy night.
76 These may be counterfeits. Let’s think’t unsafe
77 To come in to the cry without more help.
78 RODERIGO.
79 Nobody come? Then shall I bleed to death.
80 Enter Iago with a light.
81 LODOVICO.
82 Hark!
83 GRATIANO.
84 Here’s one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
85 IAGO.
86 Who’s there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder?
87 LODOVICO.
88 We do not know.
89 IAGO.
90 Did not you hear a cry?
91 CASSIO.
92 Here, here! for heaven’s sake, help me!
93 IAGO.
94 What’s the matter?
95 GRATIANO.
96 This is Othello’s ancient, as I take it.
97 LODOVICO.
98 The same indeed, a very valiant fellow.
99 IAGO.
100 What are you here that cry so grievously?
101 CASSIO.
102 Iago? O, I am spoil’d, undone by villains!
103 Give me some help.
104 IAGO.
105 O me, lieutenant! What villains have done this?
106 CASSIO.
107 I think that one of them is hereabout,
108 And cannot make away.
109 IAGO.
110 O treacherous villains!
111 [_To Lodovico and Gratiano._] What are you there?
112 Come in and give some help.
113 RODERIGO.
114 O, help me here!
115 CASSIO.
116 That’s one of them.
117 IAGO.
118 O murderous slave! O villain!
119 [_Stabs Roderigo._]
120 RODERIGO.
121 O damn’d Iago! O inhuman dog!
122 IAGO.
123 Kill men i’ the dark! Where be these bloody thieves?
124 How silent is this town! Ho! murder! murder!
125 What may you be? Are you of good or evil?
126 LODOVICO.
127 As you shall prove us, praise us.
128 IAGO.
129 Signior Lodovico?
130 LODOVICO.
131 He, sir.
132 IAGO.
133 I cry you mercy. Here’s Cassio hurt by villains.
134 GRATIANO.
135 Cassio!
136 IAGO.
137 How is’t, brother?
138 CASSIO.
139 My leg is cut in two.
140 IAGO.
141 Marry, heaven forbid!
142 Light, gentlemen, I’ll bind it with my shirt.
143 Enter Bianca.
144 BIANCA.
145 What is the matter, ho? Who is’t that cried?
146 IAGO.
147 Who is’t that cried?
148 BIANCA.
149 O my dear Cassio, my sweet Cassio! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
150 IAGO.
151 O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
152 Who they should be that have thus mangled you?
153 CASSIO.
154 No.
155 GRATIANO.
156 I am sorry to find you thus; I have been to seek you.
157 IAGO.
158 Lend me a garter. So.—O, for a chair,
159 To bear him easily hence!
160 BIANCA.
161 Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
162 IAGO.
163 Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
164 To be a party in this injury.
165 Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;
166 Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
167 Alas, my friend and my dear countryman
168 Roderigo? No. Yes, sure; O heaven! Roderigo.
169 GRATIANO.
170 What, of Venice?
171 IAGO.
172 Even he, sir. Did you know him?
173 GRATIANO.
174 Know him? Ay.
175 IAGO.
176 Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon.
177 These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
178 That so neglected you.
179 GRATIANO.
180 I am glad to see you.
181 IAGO.
182 How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
183 GRATIANO.
184 Roderigo!
185 IAGO.
186 He, he, ’tis he.
187 [_A chair brought in._]
188 O, that’s well said; the chair.
189 Some good man bear him carefully from hence,
190 I’ll fetch the general’s surgeon. [_To Bianca_] For you, mistress,
191 Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio,
192 Was my dear friend. What malice was between you?
193 CASSIO.
194 None in the world. Nor do I know the man.
195 IAGO.
196 [_To Bianca._] What, look you pale?—O, bear him out o’ the air.
197 [_Cassio and Roderigo are borne off._]
198 Stay you, good gentlemen.—Look you pale, mistress?
199 Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
200 Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
201 Behold her well. I pray you, look upon her.
202 Do you see, gentlemen? Nay, guiltiness will speak
203 Though tongues were out of use.
204 Enter Emilia.
205 EMILIA.
206 ’Las, what’s the matter? What’s the matter, husband?
207 IAGO.
208 Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
209 By Roderigo, and fellows that are ’scap’d.
210 He’s almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
211 EMILIA.
212 Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!
213 IAGO.
214 This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
215 Go know of Cassio where he supp’d tonight.
216 What, do you shake at that?
217 BIANCA.
218 He supp’d at my house, but I therefore shake not.
219 IAGO.
220 O, did he so? I charge you go with me.
221 EMILIA.
222 Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!
223 BIANCA.
224 I am no strumpet, but of life as honest
225 As you that thus abuse me.
226 EMILIA.
227 As I? Foh! fie upon thee!
228 IAGO.
229 Kind gentlemen, let’s go see poor Cassio dress’d.
230 Come, mistress, you must tell’s another tale.
231 Emilia, run you to the citadel,
232 And tell my lord and lady what hath happ’d.
233 Will you go on afore? [_Aside._] This is the night
234 That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
235 [_Exeunt._]