Hath thus beguil'd your daughter of herself, BRA. seems, Your special mandate, for the state-affairs, DUKE and SEN. We are very sorry for 't. DUKE. What, in your own part, can you say to this? [TO OTHELLO. BRA. Nothing, but this is so. Отн. Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approv'd good masters,That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true; true, I have married her; a Their dearest action-] See note (b), p. 398. The very head and front of my offending speech, And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace; In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience, I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, What conjuration, and what mighty magic,- BRA. A maiden never bold; Why this should be. I therefore vouch again, (*) First folio, main'd. ОTH. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me ; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles,* sieges, fortunes,† I ran it through, even from my boyish days, Of being taken by the insolent foe And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, It was my hint to speak,-such was process; the ** Took once a pliant hour, and found good means 'T was pitiful, 't was wondrous pitiful :- And bade me, if I had a friend that lov'd her, Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants. DUKE. I think this tale would win my daughter too.Good Brabantio, I here do give thee that with all my heart, a Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart-] A line wanting in the earlier quarto. Which, as a grise, or step, may help these lovers When remedies are past, the griefs are ended () First folio omits the words, Into your favour. b Let me speak like yourself;] He perhaps means, sententiously. UU The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. BRA. So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile, He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears ear.—a I humbly beseech you, proceed to the affairs of state. DUKE. The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus:-Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a* sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. Отн. The tyrant custom, most grave senators, I find in hardness; and do undertake Due reference of place and exhibition ; DUKE. Be't at her father's." BRA. If you please, I'll not have it so. And let me find a charter in your voice, To assist my simpleness. DUKE. What would you, Desdemona? DES. That I did love the Moor to live with hi My downright violence and storm * of fortunes May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdu'd Even to the very quality of my lord:* I saw Othello's visage in his mind; And to his honours and his valiant parts Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate. So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, A moth of peace, and he go to the war, The rites for which I love him are bereft me, And I a heavy interim shall support By his dear absence. Let me go with him. Отн. Let her have your voice. Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not, To please the palate of my appetite; Nor to comply with heat (the young affects In me defunct) and proper satisfaction; But to be free and bounteous to her mind: And heaven defend your good souls, that you thin I will your serious and great business scant For§ she is with me: no, when light-wing'd tot Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dulness My speculative and offic'd instruments," That my disports corrupt and taint my business, Let housewives make a skillet of my helm, And all indign and base adversities Make head against my estimation! DUKE. Be it as you shall privately determine Either for her stay or going: the affair cries hast. And speed must answer it. 1 SEN. You must away to-night.' Othello, leave some officer behind, So please your grace, my ancien A man he is of honesty and trust, Othello, that I am even willing to endure all the inconvenien incident to a military life, and to attend him to the wars. MALONE. f dear absence.] See note (6), p. 398. 8 Let her have your voice.] The folio lection; that of the qua 1662 is, "Your voices lords: beseech you let her will h My speculative and offic'd instruments,-] By "speculatin and offic'd instruments" he probably means, the organs of th and action. You must away to-night.] In the quartos, “You must he to-night," which words are given to the Duke, and the diag proceeds as follows, "Des. To-night my lord? Du. This night. Oth. With all my heart." |