Enter LODOVICO, MONTANO, CASSIO, carried in a chair, and Officers, with IAGO, prifoner.

Lod. Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?
Oth. That's he, that was Othello; here I am.

Lod. Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.
Oth. I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable:
If that thou be'ft a devil, I cannot kill thee.

[OTHELLO wounds IAGO.

Lod. Wrench his fword from him.

Iago.

I bleed, fir; but not kill'd.

Oth. I am not forry neither; I'd have thee live; For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.

Lod. O thou Othello, that waft once fo good, Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave,

What shall be faid to thee?

Oth.

Why, any thing:

An honourable murderer, if you will;

For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.
Lod. This wretch hath part confess'd his villainy :
Did you and he consent in Caffio's death?

Oth. Ay.

Caf. Dear general, I never gave you cause.
Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.

Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil,
Why he hath thus enfnar'd my soul and body?

Iago. Demand me nothing: What you know, you know:

From this time forth I never will speak word.

Lod. What? not to pray?

Gra.

Oth. Well, thou dost beft.

Torments will ope your lips.

Lod. Sir, you fhall understand what hath befall'n, Which, as I think, you know not: Here is a letter,

Found in the pocket of the flain Roderigo;

And here, another: the one of them imports
The death of Caffio to be undertook

By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain!

Caf.

Most heathenish, and most grofs!

Lod. Now here's another discontented paper, Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems, Roderigo meant to have fent this damned villain; But that, belike, Tago in the interim

Came in and fatisfied him.

And he himself confefs'd, but even now,

That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his defire.

Oth.

O fool! fool! fool!

Caf. There is, befides, in Roderigo's letter,-
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was caft: And even but now he spake,
After long seeming dead,-Iago hurt him,
Iago fet him on.

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Lod. You must forfake this room, and go
Your power and your command is taken off,
And Caffio rules in Cyprus. For this flave,-
If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,
It shall be his: You fhall close prisoner reft,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian ftate :-Come, bring away.
Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.

us ;

I have done the state some service, and they know it;
No more of that:-I pray you, in your letters,
When you fhall these unlucky deeds relate,

Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,

Nor fet down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one, that lov'd not wifely, but too well;
Of one, not eafily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,
Like the base Júdean, threw a pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe; of one, whofe fubdu'd eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as faft as the Arabian trees

Their medicínal gum: Set you down this :
And fay, befides,—that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcifed dog,
And fmote him-thus.

Lod. O bloody period!

Gra.

[Stabs himself.

Oth. I kifs'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;-No way but this,

All, that's spoke, is marr'd.

[Falling upon DESDEMONA.

Killing myself, to die upon a kifs.

[Dies

Caf. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was great of heart.

O Spartan dog,

[To IAGO.

Lod.
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea!
Look on the tragick loading of this bed ;
This is thy work: the object poisons fight ;-
Let it be hid.-Gratiano, keep the house,
And feize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they fucceed to you.-To you, lord governor,
Remains the cenfure of this hellish villain;

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The time, the place, the torture,-Ọ enforce it!
Myfelf will ftraight aboard; and, to the state,

This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

A GLOSSARY

EXPLAINING

THE OBSOLETE AND DIFFICULT WORDS

IN THE

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE.

When a Word is borrowed from a foreign Language, and not familiarized by Ufe into our own; the original Word in fuch foreign Language is fet down.

A.

To Aby, to fuffer for, to pay dear for.

To Accite, to call, to fummon or fend for. Lat. Accire..

To Affeer, to confirm, to ascertain: A law-term used in Court-Leets, and fignifying to confirm or fix, by perfons properly chofen, the Mulets there impofed upon fuch as have committed faults arbitrarily punishable, and which have no express penalty annexed to them by any ftatute. Fr. Affeurer.

To Affie, to affiance, to betroth; alfo, to confide.

To Affront, to front, or confront, or face.

An Aglet, the tag of a lace, or of the points formerly used as ornaments in drefs, and which (for the greater finery) were often cut in fhape of little images. Fr. Aiguillette.

To Agnize, to acknowledge, to avow. Lat. Agnofcere.

Agood, much, a great deal.

An Aiery, the neft of an hawk, and fometimes the brood of hawks beloning to a particular neft.

Alder

all. Alder-Liefeft, dearest of all.

An A nt, an enfign, or standard-bearer.

Anthro phaginian, a man-eater. Gr. Ανθρωποφάγος.

An Antre, a cave or cavern.

Fr. Antre. Lat. Antrum.

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