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you fervice, you think we are ruffians. You'll have your daughter cover'd with a Barbary horfe; you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have courfers for coufins, and gennets for germans.

Bra. What profane wretch art thou?

Iago. I am one, fir, that comes to tell you, your daughter and the Moor are now making the beaft with two

backs.

Bra. Thou art a villain.

Iago. You are a fenator.

Bra. This thou fhalt anfwer. I know thee, Roderigo.
Rod. Sir, I will answer any thing. But I beseech you,
If 't be your pleasure and most wife confent,

(As partly I find it is) that your fair daughter,
At this odd even and dull watch o'th' night,
Transported with no worse "nor better guard,
But with a knave of common hire, a Gondelier,
To the gross clafps of a lascivious Moor:

If this be known to you, and your allowance,
We then have done you bold and faucy wrongs.
But if you know not this, my manners tell me,
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe,

you.

The fo's and R. infert and before we take transported as a neuter or reci

That from the fenfe of all civility

I thus would play and trifle with your reverence,
Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,
I say again, huth made a grofs revolt;
Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes

* In an extravagant and wheeling stranger,

Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself,
If she be in your chamber, or your house,
Let loose on me the juftice of the state,
7 For this deluding you,

Bra. Strike on the tinder, ho!

Give me a taper. Call up all my people,
This accident is not unlike my dream,
Belief of it oppreffes me already,
Light! I fay, light!

Iago. Farewel; for I must leave you,

[Exit from above,

It seems not meet, nor wholefome to my place,
To be produc'd (as, if I ftay, I fhall)

Against the Moor. For I do know, the state,

d

For he's embark'd

с

However this may gall him with fome check,
Cannot with fafety caft him.
With fuch loud reafon to the
Which even now ' ftand in act,
Another of his fathom they have

Cyprus wars,
that, for their fouls,
not

7 So all before P. who reads To for In; followed by the reft, except C, who reads On.

z The 1ft q. reads, For this delufion. a The 1ft q. pate for place.

The fo's read producted for produc'd,

The 1ft q. Now ever this, &c. d The qu's, Cipres.

e C. war.

f All before P. read ftands; fo C. So the ift q, and C; 'all the reft read none for not,

To lead their bufinefs. In which regard,

Though I do hate him as I do 1 hell's pains,
Yet, for neceffity of prefent life,

I muft fhew out a flag and fign of love,

Which is indeed but fign. That you* fhall furely find

him,

Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;

And there will I be with him. So, farewel.

[Exit.

SCENE III.

Enter Brabantio in his night-gown, and fervants with torches

Bra. It is too true an evil. Gone the is;

Д

And what's to come of my " defpifed time,

Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,
Where didft thou fee her?-Oh unhappy girl!-

. With the Moor, fay'ft thou?-Who would be a father?How didft thou know 'twas fhe? - Oh, thou deceiv'st me

Paft thought. What faid fhe to you? - Get more tapers, Raife all my kindred. Are they married, think you?

Bra. O heaven! how got the out? O treafon of the

• blood !

Fathers, from hence truft not your daughters' minds
By what you fee them act. Are there not, charms,
By which the property of youth and ' maidhood
May be abus'd? Have you not read, Roderigo,

Bra. Call up my brother. -Oh, y would you had had

her!

-Some one way, fome another-Do you know
Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?
Rod. I think I can discover him, if you please
To get good guard, and go along with me.

Bra. Pray you, lead on. At ev'ry house I'll call;
I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!

And raise fome fpecial officers of a might.
On, good Roderigo, I'll deferve your pains.

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[Exeunt.

4 So all before R. who reads gat; followed by the reft, except C.

* So the qu's, rft f. and C; the reft, iny for the.

The qu's and ift f. is for are.
The qu's read manbood.
Cu The 2d q. reads things.

w The rft q. reads, I baue, fir, for, Yes, fir, I bave, indeed.

* The 3d and 4th fo's, R. P. and H. read brothers,

y The 1ft q. that for would.
2 The ift q. reads, Pray lead me on,

&c.

a The ift q. night för might.

SCENE

SCENE IV.

eChanges to another Street before the Sagittary.

Enter Othello, Iago, and attendants with torches. Iago. Though in the trade of war I have flain men, Yet do I hold it very ftuff o' th' confcience

To do no contriv'd murder. I lack iniquity

f Sometimes to do me fervice.-Nine or ten times

I had thought to have 1 jerk'd him here under the ribs. Oth. 'Tis better as it is.

Iago. Nay, but he prated,

And fpake fuch fcurvy and provoking terms

Againft your honour;

That with the little godliness I have,

I did full hard forbear him. But I pray, fir,

m

Are you faft married? for," be fure of this,
That the Magnifico is much belov'd,

And hath in his effect a voice potential

In the fo's and R. this is called cept C. Sc. II.

No defcription of the fcene in either qu's or fo's. R. and P. The fireet only. The defcription above is T.'s.

d The 1ft q. fluft of confcience. e The 2d and 3d fo's read lake for lack; the 4th and R, take.

The fo's and R. Sometime.

h The fo's and R. yerk'd for jerk'd: i The 4th f. and R. read Rib.

k So all before P. who reads It's for "Tis; followed by the reft, except C.

1 After pray the fo's and R. infert you.

m The fo's, R. and C. omit for.
n The fo's and R. read, B: affur'd of

P. omits bad; fo all after him, ex- this, &c.

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