Fall'n in the practice of a damned flave,

What shall be faid to thee?

Oth. Why any thing;

An honourable murderer, if you will,

For nought did I in hate, but all in honour.
Lod, This wretch hath part confeft his villainy.
Did you and he confent in Caffio's death?

Oth, Ay,

Caf, Dear General, I did never give you cause.
Qth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.
Will you, I pray, demand that demy-devil,
Why he hath thus enfnar'd my foul and body?

Iago, 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 beft.

i

Lod. Sir, you fhall understand what hath befall'n, Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter, Found in the pocket of the flain Roderigo,

k

And here another; the one of them imports

The death of Caffie to be undertook

Lod. Now here's another difcontented paper,
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have fent this damned villain,
But that, belike, lago in the nick
Came in and fatisfied him.

Oth. O the pernicious caitiff!

How came you, Caffie, by a handkerchief
That was my wife's?

Caf. I found it in my chamber;

And he himself confeftit ? but even now,
That there he dropt it for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his defire.

Oth. O fool, fool, fool!

Caf. There is, befides, in Roderigo's letter,
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon
the watch; whereon it came
That I was caft. And even but now he fpake,
After long feeming dead, Iago hurt him,

Jago fet him on.

Lod. You must forfake this room, and go with us;
Your power and your command is taken off,

And Caffio rules in Cyprus. For this flave,
If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,

It fhall be his. You fhall close prifoner reft,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian ftate. Come, bring him away.

Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.
I have done the ftate fome fervice, and they know 't;
No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,

When you shall thefe unlucky deeds relate,

x

Speak of them as they are; nothing extenuate,

Nor fet down ought in malice. Then muft you speak
Of one that lov'd not wifely, but too well;
Of one not eafily jealous, but being wrought,
Perplext in the extream; of one whofe hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away

Richer than all his tribe; of one, whofe fubdued eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Dropt tears as faft as the Arabian trees

down this.

Their medicinal gum.
Set you
And fay befides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the ftate,

So the qu's; the reft omit bim.
w The 1ft q. omits before you go.
* So the ift q; the rest, Speak of me
as I am, &c.

y The 2d q. you must for must you.

So the qu's and three laft fo's, R. and P; the ft f. H. and J. Judean ; T. and W. Judian; and they suppose Shakespeare to allude to the ftory of He roi and Mariamne. Vide Hearb in loc. Upton propofes to read Egyptian, allu

ding to the Ethiopian romance of Helms
darus; where Tbyamis an Egyptian robe
ber fell in love with Cbaricle; fung
with jealousy, and defpairing to enjoy
her himself, he refolves to murder her,
&c.

a P.T. H. and W. omit fubdued.
The fo's and C. medicinable.
J. gums.

d The fo's, Turbond Turk.

с

I took by th' throat, the circumcifed dog,

And fimote him thus.

Lod. O bloody period!

f

Gra. All that's fpoke is marr'd.

[Stabs binfelf

Oth. I kift thee ere I kill'd thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kifs.

[Die. Caf. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon; For he was of great heart.

Led. O Spartan dog!

17% Iago

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea!
Look on the tragick loading of this bed;
This is thy work; the object poisons fight-
Let it be hid. Gratiana, keep the house,
And feize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they fucceed to you. To you, Lord Governour,
Remains the cenfure of this hellish villain,

The time, the place, the torture, oh inforce it.
Myself will straight aboard; and to the ftate

This heavy act, with heavy heart, relate.

[Exeunt

i The qu's, lodging.

Almoft, if not intirely, throughost the whole play, the 1ft q. reads banda

g Here C. directs [ibrowing himself by kercher for bandkerchief, ba for baut;

bis wife.

h. The ad q. targicked

bas for bath, does for dotb.

FINI S