If this be known to you, and your allowance, We then have done you bold and sancy wrongs; But, if you know not this, my manners tell me, We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe, That, from the sense of all civility,

I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:
Your daughter,-if you have not given her leave,
I say again, hath made a gross revolt;

Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes,
In an extravagant+ and wheeling stranger,
Of here and every where: straight satisfy your
self:

If she be in her chamber, or your house,
Let loose on me the justice of the state
For thus 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 oppresses me already :

Light, I say! Light!

[Exit from above. Iago. Farewell; for I must leave you: It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place, To be produced (as, if I stay, I shall),

Against the Moor: for I do know, the state,However this may gall him with some check,Cannot with safety cast him; for he's embark'd With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,

(Which even now stand in act), that, for their souls,

Another of his fathom they have not,
To lead their business in which regard,
Though I do hate him as I do hell pains,
Yet, for necessity of present life,

I must shew ont a flag and sign of love,
Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely
find him,

Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;

And there will I be with him. So, farewell. [Exit.

Enter below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with Torches.
Bra. It is too true an evil: gone she is;
And what's to come of my despised time ý,
Is nought but bitterness.-Now, Roderigo,
Where didst thou see her?-0, unhappy girl!-

Approbation. + Wandering.
Old age.

+ Dismiss.

With the Moor, say'st thou ?-Who would be a fa

ther 1

How didst thou know 'twas she? O, thou deceivest

me

Past thought!-What said she to you ?-Get more tapers;

Raise all my kindred.-Are they married, think you?

Rod. Truly, I think, they are.

Bra. O heaven!-How got she out!-O treason of the blood!

Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters'
minds

By what you see them act.-Are there not charms,
By which the property of youth and maidhood
May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,
Of some such thing?

Rod. Yes, Sir; I have indeed.

Bra. Call up my brother.-0, that you had had
her-

Some one way, some 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 every house I'll
call;

I may command at most ;-Get weapons, ho!
And raise some special officers of night.-
On, good Roderigo ;-I'll deserve your pains.
[Exeunt.
SCENE II.The same.-Another Street.

Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants.
Iago. Though in the trade of war 1 have slain
men,

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience,
To do no contrived murder; I lack iniquity
Sometimes, to do me service: nine or ten times
I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the

ribs.

Oth. 'Tis better as it is.

Iago. Nay, but he prated,

And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms.
Against your honour,

That, with the little godliness I have,

I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray, Sir,
Are you fast married? for, be sure of this,-

That the magnifico is much beloved;
And hath, in his effect, a voice potential
As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;
Or put upon you what restraint and grievance
The law (with all his might, to enforce it on),
Will give him cable.

Oth. Let him do his spite:

My services, which I have done the signiory,
Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know.
(Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,
I shall promulgate), I fetch my life and being
From men of royal siege+; and my demeritst
May speak, unbonneted 6, to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my unhoused | free condition
Put into circumscription and confine

For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yonder ?

Enter CASSIO, at a distance, and certain Officers with Torches.

Iago. These are the raised father, and his friends: You were best go in.

Oth. Not I: I must be found;

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,
Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?

Iago. By Janus, I think no.

Oth. The servants of the duke, and my lieute.

nant.

The goodness of the night upon you, friends!

What is the news?

Cas. The duke does greet you, general;

unce,

And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance, Even on the instant.

Oth. What is the matter, think you?

Cas. Something from Cyprus, as I may divine; It is a business of some heat: the gallies Have sent a dozen sequent messengers This very night at one another's heels; And many of the consuls, raised, and met,

Brabantio: Magnifico is his title as a senator. + Seat or throne.

Demerits has the same meaning in Shakspeare as merits. Uncovered. Unsettled.

Following.

Are at the duke's already: you have been hotly

call'd for ;

When, being not at your lodging to be found,
The senate hath sent about three several quests,.
To search you out.

Oth. 'Tis well I am found by you.

I will but spend a word here in the house,'

And go with him.

Cas. Ancient, what makes he here?

[Erit.

Lago. 'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack + ;

-If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.
Cas. I do not understand.

Iago. He's married.

Cas. To who?

Re-enter OTHELLO.

Iago, Marry, to-Come, captain, will you go? Oth. Have with you.

Cas. Here comes another troop to seek for you.

५

Enter BRABANTIO, RODERIGO, and OFFICERS of night, with Torches and Weapons.

Iago. It is Brabantio :-General, be advised;
He comes to bad intent.

Oth. Hola! Stand there !
Rod. Signior, it is the Moor.

Bra. Down with him, thief!`

[They draw on both sides.

Iago. You, Roderigo! Come, Sir, I am for you. Oth. Keep up your bright swords, for the dev will rust them.

Good signior, you shall more command with years, Than with your weapons.

Bra. O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?

Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her:
For I'll refer me to all things of sense,

If she in chains of magic were not bound,
Whether a maid-so tender, fair, and happy;
So opposite to marriage, that she shunn'd
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,—
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou: to fear, not to delight.
+ A rich vessel.
To terrify, not delight.

Searches.

udge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense, That thou hast practised on her with foul charms; Abused her delicate youth with drugs, or minerals, hat waken motion:-I'll have it disputed on; Tis probable, and palpable to thinking. therefore apprehend and do attach thee, For an abuser of the world, a practiser Of arts inhibited and out of warrant :ay hold upon him; if he do resist, Subdue him at his peril.

Oth. Hold you hands,

Both you of my inclining, and the rest:
Vere it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.-Where will you that I go
To answer this your charge?

Bra. To prison: till fit time

Of law, and course of direct session,
Call thee to answer.

Oth. What if I do obey?

How may the duke be therewith satisfied;
Whose messengers are here about my side, 1
Upon some present business of the state,
To bring me to him?

Off. 'Tis true, most worthy signior,

The duke's in council; and your noble self,
I am sure, is sent for.

Bra, How the duke in council!

In this time of the night!-Bring him away:
Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
Or any of my brothers of the state,

Cannot but feel this wrong, as 'twere their own:
For if such actions may have passage free,
Bond-slaves, and pagans, shall our statesmen be.
[Exeunt.

SCENE III.-The same.-A Council-Chamber. The DUKE, and SENATORS, sitting at a Table; Officers attending.

Duke. There is no composition in these news, That gives them credit.

1 Sen. Indeed, they are disproportion'd; My letters say, a hundred and seven gallies. Duke. And mine, a hundred and forty.

2 Sen. And mine, two hundred :

But though they jump not on a just account
As in these cases, where the aim reports,

• Consistency.

↑ Conjecture