EMIL. How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did. And hath commanded me to go to bed, And bade me to dismiss you. EMIL. Dismiss me ! DES. It was his bidding; therefore, good Emilia, Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu; We must not now displease him. EMIL. Ay, would you had never seen him! DES. So would not I; my love doth so approve him, That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns,Prithee, unpin me,-have grace and favour in them. EMIL. I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed. DES. All's one:- - Good father! how foolish are our minds! If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me In one of those same sheets. EMIL. Come, come, you talk. And sing it, like poor Barbara. Prithee, despatch. This Lodovico is a proper man. EMIL. A very handsome man. DES. No, unpin me here.— He speaks well. EMIL. I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine, for a touch of his nether lip. I. DES. The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, Sing all a green willow; Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, Sing willow, willow, willow: The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; Sing willow, &c. Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones. Lay by these: Sing willow, willow, willow; Prithee, hie thee: he 'll come anon.— Sing all a green willow must be my garland. II. Let nobody blame him, his scorn I approve, Nay, that's not next.-Hark! who is 't that knocks ? DES. I call'd my love, false love; but what said he then? If I court mo women you 'll couch with mo men. So, get thee gone; good night. Mine eyes do itch; EMIL. "T is neither here nor there. DES. I have heard it said so.-O, these men, these men! Dost thou in conscience think,-tell me, Emilia,— That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind? EMIL. There be some such, no question. DES. Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? EMIL. Why, would not you? DES. No, by this heavenly light! EMIL. Nor I neither by this heavenly light; I might do 't as well i' the dark. DES. Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? EMIL. The world's a huge thing: 'Tis a great price for a small vice. DES. In troth, I think thou wouldst not. EMIL. In troth, I think I should; and undo 't, when I had done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a jointring; nor for measures of lawn; nor for gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exhibition: but, for all the whole world,—Why, who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for 't. DES. Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world. EMIL. Why, the wrong is but a wrong i' the world; and, having the world for your labour, 't is a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it right. DES. I do not think there is any such woman. EMIL. Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage, as would store the world they played for. But, I do think it is their husbands' faults If wives do fall: Say, that they slack their duties, Throwing restraint upon us; or, say, they strike us, Why, we have galls; and, though we have some grace, The ills we do their ills instruct us so. DES. Good night, good night: Heaven me such uses send, Not to pick bad from bad; but, by bad, mend ! [Exeunt. ACT V. SCENE I-A Street. Enter IAGO and RODERIGO. IAGO. Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come : Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home; Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow ; And fix most firm thy resolution. ROD. Be near at hand; I may miscarry in 't. IAGO. Here, at thy hand; be bold, and take thy stand. [Retires to a little distance. ROD. I have no great devotion to the deed; And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:— [Goes to his stand. 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, 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 : Enter CASSIO. ROD. I know his gait, 't is he :—Villain, thou diest. [Rushes from his post, and makes a pass at CASSIO. CAS. That thrust had been mine enemy indeed, But that my coat is better than thou know'st; I will make proof of thine. [Draws, and wounds RODERIGO. ROD. O, I am slain ! [IAGO rushes from his post, cuts CASSIO behind in the leg, and exit. CAS. I am maim'd for ever :-Help, hoa! murther! mur ther! Enter OTHELLO, at a distance. OTH. The voice of Cassio:-Iago keeps his word. Отн. "T is even so. CAS. O, help hoa! light! a surgeon! [Falls. OTH. 'T is 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. Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO, at a distance. [Exit. CAS. What, hoa! no watch? no passage? murther! murther! GRA. 'T is some mischance; the voice is very direful. LOD. ROD. Hark! O wretched villain ! LOD. Two or three groan ;—'t is heavy night. These may be counterfeits; let 's think 't unsafe To come in to the cry without more help. ROD. Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death. Enter IAGO. LOD. Hark! GRA. Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons. IAGO. Who's there? whose noise is this that cries on murther? LOD. We do not know. IAGO. Do you not hear a cry? CAS. Here, here; for heaven's sake, help me. What's the matter? GRA. This is Othello's ancient, as I take it. |