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Moor, she was chaste; she lov'd thee, cruel

Moor;

So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;
So speaking as I think, I die,—I die.

[Dies. Oth. I have another weapon in this chamber, It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook's temper! 0, here it is:-Uucle, I must come forth.

Gra. [Within.] If thou attempt it, it will cost thee dear;

Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer. Oth. Look in upon me then, and speak with me, Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.

Re-enter GRATIANO.

Gra. What is the matter?

Oth. Behold! I have a weapon; A better never did itself sustain

Upon a soldier's thigh: I have seen the day, That, with this little arm, and this good sword, I have made my way through more impediments Than twenty times your stop:-But, O vain

boast!

Who can control his fate? 'tis not so now.-
Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon'd;
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very seamark of my utmost sail.

Do you go back dismay'd? 'tis a lost fear;
Man but a rush against Othello's breast,
And he retires;-Where should Othello go?-
Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr'd
wench!

Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,
This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,
And fiends will snatch at it. Čold, cold, my girl?
Even like thy chastity.-

O cursed, cursed slave!-Whip me, ye devils,
From the possession of this heavenly sight!
Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!
Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!—
O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead?

Dead? O! O! O!

Enter LODOVICO, MONTANO, CASSIO, carried in a Chair, and Officers, with IAGO, prisoner.

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'st a devil, I cannot kill thee.

OTHELLO wounds IAGO.

Lod. Wrench his sword from him.

Iago. I bleed, sir; but not kill'd. Oth. I am not sorry neither; I'd have thee live; For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.

Lod. O thou Othello, that wast once so good, Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave. What shall be said 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 vil-
lany:

Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?
Oth. Ay.

Cas. Dear general, I never gave you cause. Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon. Will you, I pray you, demand that demi-devil, Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body? Tago. Demand me nothing: What you know, you know:

From this time forth I never will speak word. Lod. What! not to pray?

Gra.

Torments will ope your lips. Oth. Well, thou dost best.

Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath be-
fall'n,

Which, as I think, you know not: Here is a letter,
Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;
And here, another: the one of them imports
The death of Cassio to be undertook

By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain!

Cas.

!

Most heathenish, and most gross Lod. Now here's another discontented paper, Found in his pocket too: and this, it seems, Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;

But that belike, Iago, in the interim,

Came in and satisfied him.

Oth.

O the pernicious caitiff!—

How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief That was my wife's?

Cas.

I found it in my chamber: And he himself confess'd, but even now, That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose, Which wrought to his desire.

Oth O fool! fool! fool! Cas. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter,How he upbraids Iago, that he made him Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came That I was cast; And even but now he spake, After long seeming dead,-lago hurt him, Iago set him on.

Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us;

Your power and your command is taken off,
And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,-
If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,
It shall be his: You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian state:-Come, bring him away.
Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they
know it;

No more of that;-I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you
speak

Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well;
Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,
Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd
eyes,

Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Set you down this:
And say, besides,-that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
1 took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him-thus.

Lod. O bloody period!
Gra.

[Stabs himself.

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

Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;-No way but this, [Falling upon DESDEMONA.

Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

[Dies. Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no

weapon;

For he was great of heart.

Lod.
O Spartan dog,
More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!
Look on the tragick loading of this bed;

[To IAGO.
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;-
Let it be hid. Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you.-To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture,-O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard! and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

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GLOSSARY.

ABJECTS, the most servile and lowest of subjects. Aby, to pay dear for, to suffer. Abysm, abyss, from the French abysme, now abime. Accite, to call or summons. Aconitum, wolfsbane. Adam, the name of an outlaw, noted for his skillin archery. Much Ado.

Adam Cupid, an allusion to the

same person. Addrest, ready, prepared. Advertising, attentive. Aery, or Aiery, a nest. Affect the letter, to practise alliteration. Affects, affections or passions. Affeered, a law-term for confirmed. Affied, betrothed. Affined, joined by affinity. Affront, sometimes, to face or

confront.

Affy, to betroth in marriage. Aglet-baby, a diminutive heing, not exceeding in size the tag of a point; from aiguillettes.

Agnize, acknowledge, confess,

avow.

Aiery, a hawk's or eagle's nest. Airy fame, verbal eulogium. Alder-liefest, preferred to all things; from leve or lefe, dear, and alder, of all. A'life, at life.

Amazonian chin, a chin with-
out a beard.
Ames-ace, the lowestchance of
the dice.

Amort, sunk, dispirited.
Ancient, an ensign, or stand-
ard-bearer.
Angle, a fishing-rod.
Antres, caves and dens.
Apprack, to impeach.
Apple-John, species of apple
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Aroint, avaunt, or be gone.
Ascapart, a giant.

Ascaunt, askew, aside, side-
ways.
Aspersion, sprinkling.
Assay, to take the assay, ap-
plied to those who tasted
wine for princes.

Assinego, an ass driver, a foolish fellow.

Astringer, a gentleman falconer; from austercus, a goshawk.

At point, completely armed. Atomies, minute particles dis

cernible when the sun breaks into a darkened room. Attasked, taken to task, censured. Attent, attentive.

Baccare, a proverbial word, of doubtful meaning; perhaps from baccalare, arrogant. Bale, bane, ruin, misfortune. Baldrick, a belt.

Balked, either bathed, or piled

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