My fpeculative and active 'instruments, t Make head against my estimation. Duke. Be it as you fhall privately determine, "Either for her stay or going; * th' affair cries hafte; And speed muft answer. You must hence to-night. a z Def. To-night, my Lord? b Duke. This night. Oth. With all my heart. Duke. At nine i'th' morning here we'll meet again. Othello, leave fome officer bebind, And he fhall our commiffion bring to you, And fuch things elfe of quality and respect e As doth import you. Oth. Please your Grace, my ancient; A man he is of honesty and trust, To his conveyance I affign my wife, With what else needful your good Grace fhall think So the qu's and 7; the reft, offic'd a fenator. for active. The fo's, R. and C. inftrument. to Or; followed by all after except C. The aft q. the affairs cry baßte. y After anfever, the fo's, R. and 7. read it. z The fo's and R. read, You muß away to-night, and give thefe words to a This fpeech is omitted in the fo's and R; P. and H. read, Te-night, ey lord, to-night. b The fo's, R. P. and H. omit this Speech of the duke, Firft q. ten for mine. The rit q. or for and, e The ift q. concerne for import. Grace, &c. g The 2d q. omits good. Duke. Duke. Let it be fo. And, noble Signior, Good night to every one. h If virtue no delighted beauty lack, Your fon-in-law is far more fair than black. Sen. Adieu, brave Moor. Bra. Look to her, Moor, She has deceiv'd her father, k Ufe Desdemona well. have a quick eye to fee. [Exit Duke, with Senators. Oth. My life upon her faith. Honest lago, My Desdemona muft I leave to thee; I pr'ythee let thy wife attend on her; 1 And bring her after in m the best advantage. n Of love, of worldly matter, and direction, To spend with thee. We muft obey the time. [Exeunt. Rod. Iago. SCENE X. Manent Roderigo and Iago. Iago. What fayeft thou, noble heart? Jago. Well, if thou doft, I fhall never love thee after 9 it. Why, thou filly gentleman! S Rod. It is fillinefs to live, when to live iş a torment; and then have we a prefcription to die, when death is our phyfician. t Iago. O villainous! I ha' look'd upon the world for four times feven years, and fince I could diftinguish between a benefit and an injury, I never found man that knew how to love himself. Ere I would fay, I would drown myself for the love of a Guinea-hen, I would change my humanity with a baboon. Rod. What should I do? I confefs it is my fhame to be fo fond, but it is not in my virtue to amend it.. Iago. Virtue? a fig! 'tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners. So that if we will plant nettles, or fow lettuce; fet hyffop, and weed up thyme; fupply it with one gender of herbs, or diftract it with many; either have it fteril with idleness, or manured with induftry; why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills. If the balance of our lives had not one fcale of reafon to poife another of fenfuality, the blood and bafenefs of our natures would conduct us to moft prepofterous conclufions. But we have reason, to cool our raging motions, our car nal ftings, our unbitted lufts; whereof I take this, that you call love, to be a fect or fcyen. Rod. It cannot be. с 1 h i lago. It is merely a luft of the blood, and a permiffion of the will. Come, be a man. Drown thyfelf? drown cats and blind puppies. f I have profeft me thy friend, and I confefs me knit to thy deferving with cables of perdurable toughness. I could never better ftead thee than now. Put money in thy purse; follow thou these wars; defeat thy favour with an ufurped beard. I fay, put money in thy purfe. It cannot be, that Desdemona fhould long continue her love to the Moor-Put money in thy purse-nor he his to her. It was a violent commencement, and thou fhalt fee an answerable P fequeftration. Put but money in thy purse. These Moors are changeable in their wills,-Fill thy purfe with money. The food, that to him now is as luscious as locufts, fhall be to him fhortly as bitter as "coloquintida. w She must change for youth; m r when he is fated with his body, fhe will find the error of her choice. She must have change, fhe muft. There fore put money in thy purfe.-If thou wilt needs dama thyfelf, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thoy canft. If fanctimony and a frail vow, betwixt an erring Barbarian and a fuper-fubtle Venetian, be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou fhalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of drowning! 'tis clean out of the way, Seek thou rather to be hang'd in compaffing thy joy, than to be drown'd and go without her. 2 Rod. Wilt thou be faft to my hopes, if I depend on the iffue? e Iago. Thou art fure of me,-Go, make money.-I have told thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor. My caufe is hearted; thine hath no lefs reason, Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him. If thou canft cuckold him, thou doft thy felf a pleasure, and me a fport. There are many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered. Traverfe, go. Provide thy money. We will have more of this to-morrow. Adieu. Rod. Where fhall we meet i' th' morning? Jago. At my lodging, Rod. I'll be with thee betimes, So the qu's and C; the reft, er iJue. f The 1ft q, omits, if I depend on the d The qu's, tell for re-tell. The 1ft q. reads communicative for conjun&tive. f So the qu's, T, W, and F; the reft b So the qu's; the reft, after drown- omit and. ing add thyself, lage. |
