OTH. What dost thou think?

IAGO. Think, my Lord!

OTH. Think, my Lord! Why, by Heav'n, thou

echo st me,

As if there were some monster in thy thought,

Too hideous to be shown.

thing;

I heard thee say but now,
When Cassio left my wife,

Thou dost mean some

"thou lik'st not that,"

What did'st not like?

And when I told thee, he was of my counsel

In my whole course of wooing; thou cry'dst, "in

-deed!"

And didst contract and purse thy brows together,
As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain

Some horrible conceit. If thou dost love me,
Show me thy thought.

IAGO. My lord, you know I love you.

OTH. I think thou dost :

And, for I know thou art full of love and honesty,
And weigh'st thy words before thou giv'st thembreath
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more :
For such things in a false disloyal knave,"

Are tricks of custom; but in a man that's just,
They're cold dilations working from the heart,
That passion cannot rule

IAGO. For Michael Cassio,

I dare be sworn, I think, that he is honest.
.OTH. I think so too.

LAGO. Men should be what they seem;

Or, those that be not, would they might seem knaves OTH Certain ! men should be what they seem. IAGO Why, then I think Cassio's an honest man. Oтн Nay, yet there's more in this;

I pray thee speak to me as to thy thinkings, As thou dost ruminate; and give thy worst of thoughts

The worst of words.

IAGO. Good my lord, pardon me.

Though I am bound to every act of duty,
I am not bound to that, all slaves are free to:
Utter my thoughts! why, say they're vile and

false

As

As where's that palace, whereinto foul things Sometimes intrude not Who has a breast so pure, But some uncleanly apprehensions

Keep leets and law days, and in session sit

With meditation lawful?

OTH. Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago, If thou but think'st him wrong'd, and mak'st his ear A stranger to thy thoughts.

IAGO. I do beseech you,

Think I perchance, am vicious in my guess,
(As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuse; and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not) I entreat you then,
From one that so imperfectly conceits,

Your wisdom would not build yourself a trouble
Out of my scatter'd and unsure observance :
It were not for your quiet, nor your good,
Nor for my manhood, honesty, and wisdom,
To let you know my thoughts.

OTH. What dost thou mean ?

LAGO. Good name in man or woman, dear my Lord,

Is the immediate jewel of their souls;

Who steals my purse, steals trash; 'tis something,

nothing;

'Twas mine. 'tis his; and has been slave to thousands But he that fiches from me my good name,

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed

CTH I'll know thy thoughts.-
IAGO. You cannot, if my heart were in
Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
OтH Ha!

your

hand

IAGO. O, heware, my Lord, of jealousy; It is a green ey'a monster, which doth make The meat it feeds on That cuckold lives in bliss, Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, oh, what damned minutes tells he o'er, Who coats, yet doubts; suspects, yet strongly loves! Oтн. O misery!

JAGO,

A

TAGO. Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But r ch's endless is as poor as winter,

To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

God Heaven! the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!

OTн Why? why is this?

Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy?
To follow still the changes of the moon

With fresh suspicions?'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;
Where virtue is, these make more virtuous :

Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear, or doubt of her revolt ;
For she had eyes, and chose me. No, lago,
I'll see, before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
And, on the proof, there is no more but this,
Away at once with love or jealousy.

IAGO. I'm glad of this; for now I shall have reason
To show the love and duty that I bear you
With franker spirit. Therefore, as I am bound,
Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
Look to your wife, observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye, thus; not jealous, nor secure ;
I would not have your free and noble nature
Out of self bounty be abus'd; look to't,

I know our country-disposition well;
In Venice they do let Heav'n see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands.

OTH. Dost thou say so?

IAGO. She did deceive her father, marrying you; And when she seem'd to shake, and fear your looks, She lov'd them most.

ОTH. And so she did.

IAGO. Go to then;

She, that so young, could give out such a seeming To seal her father's eyes up close as oak—

He thought 'twas witchcraft, but I'm much to blame: I humbly do beseech you of your pardon,

For too much loving you.

Orн. I am bound to you for ever.

IAGO. I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.
OтH. Not a jot; not a jot.

IAGO. Trust me, I fear, it has.

I hope you will consider what is spoke

Comes from my love. But I do see you're mov'd-
I am to pray you, not to strain my speech
To grosser issues, nor to larger reach,
Than to suspicion.

OTH I will not

IAGO. Should you do so, my Lord,

My speech would fall into such vile success,
Which my thoughts aim not at.

thy friend.

My Lord. I see you're mov'd

Он. No, not much mov'd

Cassio's my wQI..

I do not think bat Desdemona's honest.

IAGO. Long live she so! and long live you to

think so?

Orн. And yet, how Nature's erring from itself. LAGO. Ay, there's the point ?—as (to be bold with you,)

Not to affect many proposed matches

Of her own clime, complexion, and degree;
Whereto we see in all things nature tends :-
Foh! one may smell in such, a will most rank,
Foul disproportions, thoughts unnatural.
But, pardon me, I do not in position
Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear.
Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,
May fall to match you with her country forms
And, haply, so repent.

OтH. Farewell, farewell;

If more thou dost perceive, let me know more :
Set on thy wife t'observe.

Leave me, Iago..

IAGO. My Lord, I take my leave.

CTн. Why did I marry?

This honest creature, doubtless,

Sees and knows more, much more than he unfolds,

IAGO. My Lord, I would I might entreat your

honour

To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:

Although

Although 'tis fit that Cassio have his place,
For, sare, he fills it up with great ability;
Yet if you please to hold him off a while,
You shall by that perceive him and his means ;'
Note if your lady strain his entertainment
With any strong or vehement importunity:
Much will be seen in that In the mean time,
Let me be thought too busy in my fears,
(As worthy cause I have to fear I am,)
And hold her free., I do beseech your Honour,
OTH. Fear not my government.
JAGO. I once more take my leave.

HAMLET's SOLILOQUY ON HIS MOTHER'S MARRIAGE.

OH that this too, too solid flesh would melt,

Thaw and resolve itself into a dew!

Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd
His cannon 'gains seif slaughter!
How weary, stale, flat. and unprofitable,
Seem to me all the uses of this world!

Fie on't! oh fie! 'tis an unwende garden,

That grows to seed, things rank, and gross in nature,
Possess it merely. That it should come to this!
But two months deal; nay, not so much; nɔt two;
So excellent a king, that was to this,

Hyperion to a satyr: so loving to my mother,
That he permitted not the win is of "Heav'n
Visit her face too roughly Heav' and earth!
Must I remember!- Why, she would ha g on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown

By what it fed on; yet, within a nonthrs
1.et me not think-Frailty, thy name is vom un!
A little month! or ere those shoes wer· old,
With which she follo'd my poor father's body,
Like Niobe, all tears- -Wh,, she, evʼn she-

(O Heav'n