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ago. Go to, farewel.

Rod. What fay you?

* Do you hear, Roderigo?

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Iago. No more of drowning, do you hear.

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Iago. Go to, farewel, put money enough in your purse.

[Exit Roderigo.

SCENE XI.

Manet Iago.

Iago. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane,
If I fhould time expend with fuch a fnipe,
But for my fport and profit. I hate the Moor;
And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my fheets
He has done my office: I know not if 't be true;
Yet I, for mere fufpicion in that kind,
Will do, as if for furety. He holds me well;
The better fhall my purpose work on him.
Caffio's a proper man. Let me fee now;-
To get his place, and " to " plume up my will,

C. omits, Do you hear, Roderigo ? h This fpeech is omitted in the fo's, R. P. H. and C,

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P So the 2d q. P. T. H. W. and 7;

i The fo's, R, P. and C. omit this the reft, would for fhould.

Speech.

k H. omits, do you bear.

1 The fo's, R. P. H. and C. omit I m chang'd.

m The 1ft q. omits I'll go fell all my land.

n The fo's, R. P. H. and C, omit ge.

9 The three laft fo's, R. P. and H. read fwane for fnipe.

The 1ft f. fhe for be.

So the qu's; the reft, But for Yet. The qu's, three last fo's, R. and P. read this for bis.

u The two laft fo's omit to.
w The ift q, make for plume.
▾ A double

A double knavery-How? how? Let me fee
After fome time to abuse Othello's Year,
That he is too familiar with his wife-

He hath a person, and a smooth dispose,

To be fufpected; fram'd to make women falfe

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That thinks men honeft, that but feem to be fo;
And will as tenderly be led by th' nofẹ

As affes are.

I hav't

it is ingender'd-Hell and night

Muft bring this monftrous birth to the world's light.

w The fo's, R. and C. In for A.
* So the qu's; the rest, Let's fee.

y The fo's, R. P. and H. read cars.
z The ift q. reads,

The Moor a free and open nature too,
That thinks, &c.

a The qu's, seems."
b W. reads fpite for night.

ACT

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ACT II.

SCENE I.

The capital City of Cyprus.

Enter Montano, Governor of Cyprus, and two Gentlemen,

Mont.

WHAT from the Cape can you discern at

fea?

1 Gent. Nothing at all, it is a high-wrought flood; I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main

Defcry a fail.

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Mont. Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land; A fuller blaft ne'er shook our battlements;

If it hath ruffian'd fo upon the fea,

What ribs of oak, when the huge mountain melts,

Can

wrong place: and what confirms this

The 1ft q. baven; R. P. and H. the compofitor haftily put again in the beavens. d The qu's, doth speake for bath spoke. fuppofition, this word is the last in the The 2d q. band for land. f The ft q. reads, when the buge mountain mes lt; where, in compofing the types, the letters l seem to have falJen out of the word melts, and were by

page in that quarto. P. reads, when the buge mountains melt; the rest, when mountains melt on them. But the fenfe feems to require either the reading of the text, or that of P: If it hath ruf

fian'd

Can hold the mortife? What shall we hear of this?

2 Gent. A fegregation of the Turkish fleet; For do but ftand upon the foaming fhore,

k

The chiding billows feem to pelt the clouds;

The wind-shak'd furge, with high and monftrous main,
Seems to caft water on the burning bear,

And quench the guards of th' ever-fired pole.
I never did like moleftation view

m On the 'enchafed flood.

Mont. If that the Turkish fleet

Be not infhelter'd and embay'd, they're drown'd;
It is impoffible" they bear it out.

fran'd fo upon the fea, as here at land, where the huge mountain melts away before the ftorm, what ribs of oak can hold the mortife? what fhip, though ever so strongly built, can endure at fea? But T. would have mountains here to fignify waves as big as mountains melting on the fhips; and fneers P. for not taking his author's meaming, falfely accufing him of an arbitrary change, when he had the q. 1622, for his authority, and varied inconfiderably therefrom. T. did not confider the impropriety of waves melting: clouds have been faid to

melt indeed, but never waves that I re member. I don't doubt that Shakespeare had the following passage of scripture in his eye, The mountains melt at the prefence of the Lord, &c.*

h First q. banning for foaming.
i The fo's and R. cbidden.

k The 1ft q. fo's, R. and C. billow feems, &c.

1 The fo's, R. J. and C. read, th' ever-fixed pole, &c.

m H. reads, On' th' enchaƒ'd fleed.
So the ift q. and C; the reft, to for

thy.

SCENE

SCENE II.

Enter a third Gentleman.

3 Gent. News, Lords, P our wars are done:
The defperate tempeft hath fo bang'd the Turks,
That their defignment halts. A' noble ship of Venice
Hath feen a grievous wreck and fufferance

On most part of their fleet.

Mont. How! is this true?

3 Gent. The fhip is here put in,

A Veronea. Michael Caffio,

Lieutenant" to the warlike Moor, Othello,

W

Is come on fhore; the Moor himself 's at fea,

And is in full commiffion here for Cyprus.

Mont. I am glad on 't; 'tis a worthy governor.

3 Gent. But this fame Caffio, though he fpeak of comfort Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks fadly,

And prays the Moor be fafe; for they were parted
With foul and violent tempeft.

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Mont. Pray heaven he be!

For I have ferv'd him, and the man commands

• The ad q. the fo's, R. J. and C. J. and C. read Veronese; the reft, Ve

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u So the qu's, three aft fo's, and C; the reft, of for to.

w All before R. read bimself for himSelf's.

x So the qu's and C; all the reft, beavens,

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