lie.

ISCENE IX.

m Another Apartment in the Palace.

Enter Desdemona, Æmilia, and Clown.

Def. Do you know, firrah, where " the lieutenant Caffis

lies?

Clown. I dare not say, he lies any where.

Def. Why, man ?

• Clown. He is a foldier; and for one to fay, a foldier lies, is ftabbing.

Def. Go to; where lodges he?

Clown. To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where 1

Def. Can any thing be made of this?

Clown. I know not where he lodges; and for me to devise a lodging, and fay, he lies here, or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat.

Def. Can you enquire him out? and" be edified by report?

Clown. I will catechize the world for him; that is, make questions, and make them answer.

Def. Seek him, bid him come hither; tell him, I have mov'd my Lord * on his behalf, and hope all will be well. Clown. To do this is within the compass of man's wit, and therefore I will attempt the doing of it. [Exit Clown. Def. Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia? Emil. I know not, Madam.

Def. Believe me, I had rather have lost
my purse
Full of Cruzadoes. And but my noble Moor
Is true of mind, and made of no fuch bafeness
As jealous creatures are, it were enough
To put him to ill thinking.

Emil. Is he not jealous?

Def. Who, he? I think the fun where he was born Drew all fuch humours from him.

Emil. Look where he comes.

Def. I will not leave him now, till Caffio be

Call'd to him.

SCENE X.

Enter Othello.

How is it with you, my Lord?

Oth. Well, my good Lady. O hardness to diffemble!

Def. Well, my good Lord.

Oth. Give me your hand. This hand is moift, my Lady. Def. It yet hath felt no age, nor known no forrow. Oth. This argues fruitfulness, and liberal heart: Hot, hot, and moift. This hand of yours requires A fequefter from liberty, fafting and praying, Much caftigation, exercife devout;

For here's a young and

fweating devil here, That commonly rebels. 'Tis a good hand,

A frank one '.

Def. You may indeed say so;

For 'twas that hand that gave away my heart.

Oth. A liberal hand. m The hearts of old But our new heraldry is hands, not hearts.

n

gave hands;

Def. I cannot fpeak of this. O Come, now your pro

mife.

Oth. What promife, chuck?

Def. I have fent to bid Caffio come speak with you.

Oth. I have a falt and ° forry rheum offends me :

Lend me thy handkerchief.

Def. Here, my Lord.

Oth. That which I gave you.

Def. I have it not about me.
Oth. Not?

i W. Arong for young.

P

Def. No indeed, my Lord.

Oth. That's a fault. That handkerchief

Did an Egyptian to my mother give;

She was a charmer, and could almoft read

The thoughts of people. She told her, while fhe kept it, 'Twould make her amiable, and fubdue my father Intirely to her love; but if she lost it,

Or made a gift of it, my father's eye

Should hold her loathed, and her fpirits' fhould hunt
After new fancies. She, dying, gave it me;

And bid me, when my fate would have me "wive,
To give it her. I did fo; and take heed on't;
Make it a darling, like your precious eye;
Tolofe or give 't away, were fuch perdition,
As nothing else could match.

Def. Is 't poffible?

Oth. 'Tis true; there's magick in the web of it; A Sibyl that had numbred in the world

* The fun to course two hundred compaffes, In her prophetic fury y few'd the work:

a

The worms were hallow'd that did breed the filk
And it was dy'd in mummy, with the skilful
• Conferves of maidens' hearts.

The 1st q. No, faith, my Lord.

4 So the qu's, ift f. and C; the reft omit and.

for rvive.

w So the qu's; the reft, lofe 't.
x The 1ft q. The fun to make two,

This line is twice repeated in the &c. H. Of the fun's course two, &c.

The 1ft q. lotbely for bathed.

So all before P; he and the reft,

except C. omit should.

5.

y All but 7. fored or fow'd.

z So the qu's; the reft, sobich for uitb.

a So the 1ft q; the 2d, Conferue; the

So the qu's and C; the reft, wiv'd rest, Conferv'd.

Def.

b

Def. Indeed! is 't true?

Oth. Moft veritable, therefore look to 't well.

с

Def. Then would to God, that I had never feend it.
Oth. Ha? wherefore?

Def. Why do you speak fo ftartingly and rash?

Oth. Is 't loft? is 't gone? fpeak, f is it out o' th' way? Def. Heaven blefs us!

Oth. Say you?

Def. It is not loft; but what and if it were?

Oth. Ha!

Def. I fay, it is not loft.

Oth. Fetch 't, let me fee it.

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Def. Why fo I can,

fir; but I will not now.

This is a trick to put me from my fuit ;

I pray, let Caffio be receiv'd again.

Oth. Fetch me that handkerchief. My mind mifgives. Def. " Come, come, you'll never meet a more fufficient

man.

Oth. The handkerchief

P Def. I pray talk me of Caffio.

Oth. The handkerchief —

The 1ft q. Ifaith for Indeed.

1 So the qu's and C; the reft, Pray

e So the qu's; the reft, beaven for you for I pray. God.

So the qu's; the reft, feen 't. e The two laft fo's, ftaringly. f The fo's and R. is't for is it. So the ift q; the rest omit Heaven. h The fo's and R. How for Ha.

iSo the qu's; the reft, fee 't. * The fo's omit Sir,

m So the qu's and C; the reft, the for that.

I 2

So all before P; he and all after, except C. Come, you'll ne'er meet, &c. • P. and all after, except C. ne'er for

never.

P Thefe two fpeeches in italic are omitted in all but the 1ft q. and J..

Def.