Fort. This quarry cries on havock. Oh proud death! What feaft is tow'rd in thine † eternal cell, That thou fo many princes at a fhot So bloodily haft ftruck?

Amb. The fight is difmal,

And our affairs from England come too late: sm
The ears are fenfelefs that fhould give us hearing;
To tell him his command'ment is fulfill'd,
That Rofincroffe and Guildenstern are dead:
Where fhould we have our thanks?

Hor. Not from his mouth,

Had it th' ability of life to thank you:
He never gave command'ment for their death.
But fince fo full upon this bloody question,
You from the Polack wars, and you from England,
Are here arriv'd, give order that thefe bodies
High on a ftage be placed to the view,
And let me fpeak to th' yet unknowing world,
How thefe things came about. So fhall you hear
Of cruel, bloody, and unnatural acts,
Of accidental judgments, cafual flaughters,
Of deaths put on by cunning, and forc'd caufe,
And in this upfhot, purpofes miftook,

Fall'n on th' inventors heads. All this can I
Truly deliver.

Fort. Let us hafte to hear it,

And call the Noblefs to the audience.

For me, with forrow, I embrace my fortune,
I have fome rights of memory in this kingdom,
Which now to claim, my vantage doth invite me.

Hor. Of that I fhall have also cause to speak,
And from his mouth whofe voice will draw no more:
But let this fame be prefently perform'd,

Even while men's minds are wild, left more mifchance On plots and errors happen.

Fort. Let four captains

Bear Hamlet like a foldier f to the ftage;

In another edition infernal.

For

nobleft.

f off the stage.

For he was likely, had he been put on,

To have prov'd moft royally.

And for his paffage, The foldiers mufick, and the rites of war Speak loudly for him

Take up the body: fuch a fight as this

Becomes the field, but here fhews much amifs.
Go, bid the foldiers fhoot.

[Exeunt marching: after which, a peal of ordnance
are Shot off.

OTHELLO,

THE

MOOR of VENICE.

DUKE of Venice.

Brabantio, a noble Venetian.

Gratiano, Brother to Brabantio.

Lodovico, Kinfman to Brabantio and Gratiano, Othello, the Moor, General for the Venetians in Cyprus, Caffio, his Lieutenant-General.

Jago, Standard-bearer to Othello.

Rodorigo, a foolish Gentleman, in love with Desdemona. Montano, the Moor's Predeceffor in the Government of Cyprus.

Clown, Servant to the Moor.

Herald.

Defdemona, Daughter to Brabantio, and Wife to Othello' Emilia, Wife to Jago.

Bianca, Curtezan, Mifrefs to Caffio.

Officers, Gentlemen, Messengers, Musicians, and Attendants.

SCENE for the First At in Venice; du ring the rest of the Play in Cyprus.

The Story is taken from Cynthio's Novels.

OTHEL