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Summary of Othello's Plot

dramatist Persona of Athell by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org dramatus persona duke of Venice read by Philip Pojo braantio a senator read by one to three first Senator read by David Lawrence second Senator read by Lucy Perry graciano brother to Berbantio read by Danny Syers lorovico kinsman to Bbantio read by Los Rolander athell a noble Moore in the service of Venice read by Bruce Perry casio his lieutenant played by Mark Smith iago his ancient read by MB Montano Athell's predecessor in the government of Cyprus read by Robert Kyper rodrigo a Venetian gentleman read by Matthew Hill clown servant to Athell read by Rashada harold read by Celeste Johnston desdona daughter to Bbontio and wife to Athell read by Aaya amelia wife to Iago read by Elizabeth Clatt bianca mistress to Cassio read by Nath first gentleman read by Za second gentleman read by Los Rolander third gentleman read by Miriam Master Goldman fourth gentleman read by Adam Bale sailor read by Celeste Johnston first musician read by Nathan King first officer read by Elizabeth Klatt messenger read by Adam Bailey narrated by Ariel Lipshaw act one of Athell by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act one scene one venice a street enter Rodrigo and Iago tush never tell me i take it much unkindly that thou Iago who hast had my purse as if the strings were thine should know this blood but you will not hear me if ever I did dream of such a matter abhore me thou toldest me and thou disold him in thy hate despise me if I do not three great ones of the city in personal suit to make me his left tenant off capped to him and by the faith of man I know my price i'm worth no worse a place but he as loving his own pride and purposes evades them with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with epithets of war and in conclusion non suits my mediators for cert says he I have already chose my officer and what was he for sooth a great arithmetician one Michael Casio a Florentine a fellow almost damned in a fair wife that never set a squadron in the field nor the division of a battle knows more than a spinster unless the bookish theoric wherein the toga consils can propose as masterly as he mere pratt without practice is all his soldiership but he sir had the election and I of whom his eyes had seen the proof at roads at Cyprus and on other grounds Christian and heathen must be belter and creditor this counterc he in good time must his left tenant be and I God bless the mark his more ships ancient by heaven I rather would have been his hangman why there's no remedy it is the curse of service preferment goes by letter and affection and not by the old gradation where each second stood heir to the first now sir be judge yourself whether I in any just term amined to love the more i would not follow him then oh sir content you i follow him to serve my turn upon him we cannot all be masters nor all masters cannot be truly followed you shall mark many a dutious and kneecrooing nave that doting on his own obsequious bondage wears out his time much like his master's ass for not but proender and when he's old cashiered whip me such honest naves others there are who trimmed in forms and visages of duty keep yet their hearts attending on themselves and throwing but shows of service on their lords do well thrive by them and when they have lined their coats do themselves homage these fellows have some soul and such a one do I profess myself for sir it is as sure as you are Rodrigo were I the more I would not be Iago in following him I follow but myself heaven is my judge not I for love and duty but seeming so for my peculiar end for when my outward action doth demonstrate the native act and figure of my heart in compliment extern it is not long after but I will wear my heart upon my sleeve for doors to peck at i am not what I am what a full fortune does the thick lip sow if he can carry it thus call up her father rouse him make after him poison his delight proclaim him in the streets incense her kinsmen and though he in a fertile climate dwell plague him with flies though that his joy be joy yet throw such changes of vexation on it as it may lose some color here's her father's house I'll call do with like timmerous accent and dire yell as when by night and negligence the fire is spied in populous cities what ho braanchio sign your braanchio oh awake what ho braanchantio thieves thieves thieves look to your house your daughter and your bags thieves thieves braantio appears above at a window what is the reason of this terrible summons what is the matter there signor is all your family within are your doors locked why wherefore as good is soon sir you are robbed for shame put on your gown your heart is burst you have lost half your soul even now now very now an old black ram is topping your white U arise arise awake the snorting citizens with the bell or else the devil will make a grand sire of you arise I say what have you lost your weights most Reverend Signor do you know my voice not I what are you my name is Rodrigo divorce are welcome i have chose not to haunt about my doors in honest plain thou hast heard me say my daughter is not for thee and now in madness being full of supper and distempering trs upon Melissa's bravery dust thou come to start my quiet sir sir sir but thou must need to be sure my spirit and my place have in them power to make this bitter to thee patience good sir what else thou me of robbing this is Venice my house is not a granch most scrap Bacho in simple and pure soul I come to you hon sir you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians you'll have your daughter covered with a barbery horse you'll have your nephews nigh to you you'll have coroursers for cousins and getons for Germans what proof rat thou i am one sir that comes to tell you that your daughter and the moore are now making the beast with two backs thou art the villain you are I said it her this thou shalt answer i know thee Rodrigo sir I will answer anything but I beseech you if it be your pleasure and most wise consent as partly I find it is that your fair daughter at this odd even and dull watch of the night transported with no worse no better regard but with a nave of common hire a gondelier to the gross claps of the vicious moore if this be known to you and your allowance we have then done you bold and saucy wrongs but if you know not this my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke do not believe that from the sense of all civility I would thus play and trifle with your reverence your daughter if you have not given her leave I say again hath made a gross revolt tying her duty beauty wits and fortunes into an extravagant and wheeling stranger here and everywhere straight satisfy yourself if she be in her chamber or your house let loose on me the justice of the state thus deluding you strike on the tinder ho give me a tapper call of all my people this accident is not unlike my dream billy forfeit oppresses me already light I say light exit from above farewell for I must leave you it seems not meat nor wholesome to my place to be produced as if I stay I shall against the moore for I do know the state however this may gall him with some check cannot with safety cast him for he's embarked with such loud reason to the cyprress wars which even now stand in act that for their souls and other of his fathom they have none to lead their business in which regard though I do hate him as I do hell pains yet for necessity of present life I must show out a flag and sign of love which is indeed but sign that you shall surely find him lead to the Sagittary the raised search and there will I be with him so farewell exit enter below Brabanchio and servants with torches it is too true and evil gone she is and what is to come of my despised time is not bitterness now Rodrigo where did thou see her oh unhappy girl would have more says thou who would be a father or did thou know it was she oh she deceives me by heart what said she to you get more tappers raise all my kindred are the merit thank you truly I think they are oh heaven how got she out oh treason of the blood fathers from hence trust not your daughter's minds by what you see them act are there not charms by which the property of youth and malehood may be abused have you not read Rodrigo of some such thing yes sir I have indeed call of my brother oh you had had her someone who is some other do you know where we may apprehend her and the more i think I can discover him if you please to get good guard and go along with me pray you lead on at every house I will call i may command at most get open so and raise some special officers of night on good Rodrigo I will deserve your pains excellent scene two venice another street enter Athell Iago and attendance with torches though in the trade of war I have slain men yet do I hold it very stuffly conscience to do no contrivate murder i lack iniquity sometimes to do me service nine or 10 times I thought to have yked him here under the ribs it is better as it is nay but he prayed it and spoke such scurvy and provoking terms against your honor that with the little goodliness I have I did full heart forebear him but I pray you sir are you fast married be assured of this that the Magnificico is much beloved and hath in his effect a voice potential as double as the Dukes he will divorce you or put upon you what restraint and grievance the law with all his might to enforce it on will give him cable let him do his spite my services which I have done the scenery shall out tongue his complaints it is yet to know which when I know that boasting is an honor I shall promulgate i fetch my life in being from men of royal siege and my demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached for no Yago but that I love the gentle desona I would not my unhoused free condition put into circumscription and confine for the sea's worth but look what lights come yawn those are the raised father and his friends you were best go in not I i must be found my parts my title and my perfect soul shall manifest me rightly is it they by Janice i think no enter Casio and certain officers with torches the servants of the Duke and my lieutenant the goodness of the night upon you friends what is the news the Duke does greet you General and he requires your haste posthaste appearance even on the instant what is the matter thank you something from Cyprus as I may divine it is a business of some heat the galleys have sent a dozen sequent messengers this very night at one another's heels and many of the consoles raised and met are at the dukes already you have been hotly called for when being not at your lodging to be found the Senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out it is well I am found by you I will but spend a word here in the house and go with you exit ancient what makes he faith heath tonight boarded a land carrick if it proves lawful prize he's made forever i do not understand he's married to who re-enter a fellow married come Captain will you go have with you here comes another troop to seek for you it is Brabbantio general be advised he comes to bad intent enter Bbanchio Rodrigo and officers with torches and weapons hola stand there senors the lord do him tiff they draw on both sides you rod ego come sir I am for you keep up your bright swords for the dew will rust them good senior you shall more command with years than with your weapons oh thou fallie where hast thou stored my daughter damned as thou art thou hast enchanted her for I will refer me to all things of sense if see and chains of magic were not bound whether a maid so tender fair and happy so was it demarish that santa well called darlings of our nation would ever have to encourage a general mock run from her goddess to the sury bosom of such a thing as thou to fear not to delight just made a wall if it is not gross in sense that thou has practiced on her with foul charms abused a delicate youth with drugs or minerals that we can motion all have it disputed on it is probable and palpable to thinking I apprehend and do addage for an abuser of the world a practice of arts inhibited and out of warrant lay hold upon him if he do resist subdue him at his peril hold your hands both you of my inclining and the rest were at it my cue to fight I should have known it without a prompter where will you that I go to answer this your charge to prison till fit time of law and course of direct session call thee to answer what if I do obey how may the Duke be therew with satisfied whose messengers are here about my side upon some present business of the state to bring me to him it is true most worthy Senor the Duke's in council and your noble self I am sure is sent for oh the Duke in council in this time of the night bring him away mine is not an idol cause the Duke himself or any of my brothers of the state cannot but feel this wrong as it were their own for if such actions may have passes free born slaves and pagans s of a statesman be excellent scene three venice a council chamber the Duke and senators sitting at a table officers attending there is no composition in these news that gives them credit indeed they are disproportioned my letters say 107 galls and mine 140 and mine 200 but though they jump not on a just account as in these cases where the aim reports it is oftle and bearing up to Cyprus nay it is possible enough to judgment i do not so secure me in the error but the main article I do approve in fearful sense within what ho what ho what ho a messenger from the galleys enter a sailor now what's the business the Turkish preparation makes for roads so what I did report here to the state by senior Angelo how say you by this change this cannot be by no essay of reason a pageant to keep us in false gaze when we consider the important importancy of Cyprus to the Turk and let ourselves again but understand that as it more concerns the Turk than roads so may he with more facil bear it for that it stands not in such warlike brace but altogether lacks the abilities that roads is dressed in if we make thought of this we must not think the Turk is so unskillful to leave that latest which concerns him first neglecting an attempt of ease and gain to wake and wage a danger profitless nay in all confidence he's not for roads here is more news enter a messenger the Ottomites reverend and gracious steering with due course towards the aisle of roads have there enjoy so I thought how many as you guess oh 30 sail and now they do re stem their backward course bearing with frank appearance their purpose is towards Cyprus senor Montano your trusty and most valiant servtor with his free duty recommends you thus and praise you to believe him it is certain then for Cyprus Marcos Lucos is not he in town he's now in Florence right from us to him post post haste dispatch here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moore enter Brabanchio Athell Iago Rodrigo and officers valant Toello we must straight employ you against the general enemy Ottoman to Brabanchio i did not see you welcome gentle senor we lacked your counsel and your help tonight so did I yours good your grace pardon me neither by place nor ought I hard of business had raised me from my bed nor do the general care take hold on me for my particular grief is of so floodgot and overbearing nature that it anglers and swallows other sorrows and it is steal itself why what's the matter my daughter oh my daughter dead i to me since abused is stolen from me and corrupted by spells and medicines bought of mount banks for nature so preposterously to air being not deficient blind or lame of sense since witchcraft could not whoever he be that in this foul proceeding hath thus begilled your daughter of herself and you of her the bloody book of law you shall yourself read in the bitter letter after your own sense yeah though our proper son stood in your action humbly I thank you Grace here's the man this Moore whom now it seems your special mandate for the state affairs had hid abroad we are very sorry for it to Athell what in your own part can you say to this nothing but this is so most potent grave and reverend seniors my very noble and approved good masters that I have taken away this old man's daughter it is most true true I have married her the very head and front of my offending hath this extent no more rude am I in my speech and little blessed with the soft phrase of peace for since these arms of mine had seven years pith till now some nine moons wasted they have used their dearest action in the tented field and little of this great world can I speak more than pertains to feats of broil and battle and therefore little shall I grace my cause in speaking for myself yet by your gracious patience I will around unvarnished tale deliver of my whole course of love what drugs what charms what conjuration and what mighty magic for such proceeding I am charged with all I won his daughter a maiden never bold of spirit so steel and quiet that a motion bluster at herself and see in spite of nature of yours of country credit everything to fall in love with what she feared to look on it is judgment maimed and most imperfect that will confess perfection so could air against all rules of nature and must be driven to find a practices of cunning hell why this should be i therefore vouch again that with some mixtures powerful over the blood or with some dram conjured to this effect he wrought upon her to vouch this is no proof without more wider and more over test than these thin habits and poor likelihoods of modern seeming do prefer against him but Athell speak did you by indirect or forced courses subdue and poison this young maid's affections or came it by request and such fair question as soulto soul affordth i do beseech you send for the lady to the sagittary and let her speak of me before her father if you do find me foul in her report the trust the office I do hold of you not only take away but let your sentence even fall upon my life fuch does Zimona hither ancient conduct them you best know the place excellent iago and attendance and till she come as truly as to heaven I do confess the vices of my blood so justly to your grave ears I'll present how I did thrive in this fair lady's love and she in mine say it oel her father loved me often me still questioned me the story of my life from year to year the battles sieges fortunes that I have passed i ran it through even from my boyish days to the very moment that he bad me tell it wherein I spake of most disastrous chances of moving accidents by flood and field of hair breath escapes in the imminent deadly breach of being taken by the insulent foe and sold to slavery of my redemption vents and portance in my travels history wherein of anters vast and deserts idle rough quaries rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven It was my hint to speak such was the process and of the cannibals that each other eat the anthropogi and men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders this to hear would desona seriously incline but still the house affairs would draw her thence whichever as she could with haste dispatch she'd come again and with a greedy ear devour up my discourse which I observing took once a hour and found good means to draw from her a prayer of earnest heart that I would all my pilgrimage dilate whereof by parcels she had something heard but not intentively i did consent and often did beguile her of her tears when I did speak of some distressful stroke that my youth suffered my story being done she gave me for my pains a world of size she swore in faith was strange was passing strange was pitiful was wondrous pitiful she wished she had not heard it yet she wished that heaven had made her such a man she thanked me and bad me if I had a friend that loved her I should but teach him how to tell my story and that would woo her upon this hint I spake she loved me for the dangers I had passed and I loved her that she did pity them this only is the witchcraft I have used here comes the lady let her witness it enter Desdona Iago and attendance i think this tale would win my daughter too good bravenio take up this mangled matter at the best men do their broken weapons rather use than their bare hands i pray you hear her speak if she confessed that she was half the war destruction on my head if my bad blame lie on the man come here gentle mistress do pursive in all this noble company where most you of obedience my noble father I do perceive her a divided duty to you I am bound for life and education my life and education both do learn me how to respect you you are the lord of duty i am hither to your daughter but here's my husband and so much duty as my mother showed to you preferring you before her father so much I challenge that I may profess due to the more my lord god be with you i have done please your grace onto the state affairs i had rather to adopt a child than get it come hither more i here to give thee that with all my heart which but thou hast already with all my heart I would keep from thee for your sake Joel I am glad at soul I have no other child for the escape would teach me tyranny to hang clogs on them I have done my lord let me speak like yourself and lay a sentence which as a grease or step may help these lovers into your favor When remedies are passed the griefs are ended by seeing the worst which late on hopes depended to mourn a mischief that is passed and gone is the next way to draw new mischief on what cannot be preserved when fortune takes patient her injury and mockery makes the robs steals something from the thief he robs himself that spans a bootless grief so let a turk of Cypress as begile we lose it not so long as we can smile he bears the sentence well that nothing beers but the free comport which from dance he hears but he beers both the sentence and the sorrow that to pay grief must of poor patience borrow the sentences to sugle but words are words i never yet did hear that the bruised heart was pierced through the ear i humbly beseech you proceed to the affairs of stay the Turk with the most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus ollo the fortitude of the place is best known to you and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency yet opinion a sovereign mistress of effects throws a more safer voice on you you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with these more stubborn and boisterous expedition the tyrant custom most grave senators hath made the flinty and steel couch of war my thrice-driven bed of down i do agnize a natural and prompt elacrity I find in hardness and do undertake these present wars against the Ottomites most humbly therefore bending to your state I crave fit disposition for my wife due reference of place and exhibition with such accommodation and besought as levels with her breeding if you please be to her fathers I will not have it so nor I nor I I would not thereight to put my father in impatient thoughts by being in his eye most gracious duke to my unfolding lend your prosperous ear and let me find a charter in your voice to assist my simpleness what would you Dimona that I did love the more to live with him my downright violence and storm of fortunes may trumpet to the world my heart subdued even to the very quality of my lord i saw a fellow's visage in his mind and to his honors and his valiant parts did I my soul and fortunes consecrate so that dear lords if I be left behind a moth of peace and he go to the war the rights for which I love him are beereft me and I a heavy interim shall support by his dear absence let me go with him let her have your voices vouch with me heaven I therefore beg it not to please the pallet of my appetite nor to comply with heat the young affects in me defunct and proper satisfaction but to be free and bounteous to her mind and heaven defend your good souls that you think I will your serious and great business scant for she is with me no when light-winged toys of feathered cupid seal with want and dullness my speculative and office instruments that my disports corrupt and taint my business let housewives make a skillet of my helm and all in dine and base adversities make head against my estimation be it as you shall privately determine either for his stay or going the affair cries haste and speed must answer it you must away tonight with all my heart at 9:00 in the morning here we'll meet again oll leave some officer behind and he shall our commission bring to you with such things else of quality and respect as doth import you so please your grace my ancient a man he is of honesty and trust to his conveyance I assign my wife with what else needful your good grace shall think to be sent after me let it be so good night to everyone to Brabanchio and noble senor if virtue no delighted beauty lack your son-in-law is far more fair than black i do bravemore used as demona well look to her more if thou hast eyes to see she has deceived her father and matey exant duke senators officers etc my life upon her faith honestago my Desdona must I leave to thee i privy let thy wife attend on her and bring them after in the best advantage come Desdona I have but an hour of love of worldly matters and direction to spend with thee we must obey the time exant and Desdona Iago what sayest thou noble heart what will I do thinkst thou why go to bed and sleep i will incontinently drawn myself if thou dost I shall never love thee after why thou silly gentleman it is silliness to live one to live is torment and then we have a prescription to die when our death is our physician oh villainous i have looked upon the world for four times seven years and since I could distinguish between the benefit and an injury I never found man that knew how to love himself air I would say I would drown myself for the love of a guinea hen i would change my humanity with a baboon what should I do i confess it is my shame to be so fond but it is not in my virtue to amend it virtue a fig is it ourselves that we are thus or thus our bodies are gardens to which our wills are gardeners so that if we plant nettles or sew lettuce set hissup or weed up time supply it with one gender of herbs or distract it with many either to have it sterile with idleness or manured with industry why the power and corable authority of this lies in our wills if the balance of our lives had not one scale of reason to poise another of sensuality the blood and baseness of our natures would conduct us to most preposterous conclusions but we have reason to cool our raging emotions our carnal stings our unbited lusts whereof I take this that you call love to be a sect or scion it cannot be it is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will come be a man drown thyself drown cats and blind puppies i have professed me thy friend and I confess me knit to thy deserving with cables of purable toughness i could never better stead thee than now put money in thy purse follow thou the wars defeat thy favor with an usered beard i say put money in thy purse it cannot be that Desdona should long continue her love to the Moore put money in thy purse nor he his to her it was a violent commencement and thou shalt see an unanswerable sequestration put money in thy purse these moors are changeable in their wills fill thy purse with money the food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as herb as the coloquenta she must change for youth when she is sated with his body she will find the error of her choice she must have changed she must and therefore put money in thy purse if thou wilt needs damn thyself do it a more delicate way than drowning make all the money thou canst if sanctimony and a frail vow between an ingr barbarian and a super subtle Venetian be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell thou shalt enjoy her therefore make money a pox of drowning thyself it is clean out of the way seek thou rather to be hanged encompassing thy joy than to be drowned and go without her wilt thou be fast in my hopes if I depend on the issue thou art sure of me go make money i have told thee often and I retell thee again and again I hate the boar my cause is hearted thine hath no less reason let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him if thou canst cuckold him thou dost thyself a pleasure be a sport there are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered traverse go provide thy money we will have more of this tomorrow adue where shall we meet in the morning at my lodging i'll be with thee myths go to farewell do you hear rodrigo what say you no more of drowning do you hear i am changed i'll go sell all my land exit thus do I ever make my fool my purse for I my own gained knowledge should profane if I would time expend with such a snipe but for my sport and profit i hate the Moore and it is thought abroad that twixed my sheets he has done my office i know not if it be true but I for mere suspicion in that kind will do as if for shortity he holds me well the better shall my purpose work on him casio is a proper man let me see now to get his place and to plume up my will in double navery how how let's see after some time to abuse Oll's ear that he is too familiar with his wife he had a person and a smooth disposed to be suspected framed to make women false the Moore is of a free and open nature that thinks men honest that but seem to be so and will as tenderly be led by the nose as asses are i have it is engendered hell and night must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light exit end of act one act two of a by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act two scene one a seapport in Cyprus a platform enter Montano and two gentlemen what from the cape can you discern at sea nothing at all it is a high rod flood i cannot twix the heaven and the maine describe a sail me thinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land a fuller blast n shook our battlements if it hath ruffian so upon the sea what ribs of oak when mountains melt on them can hold the mortise what shall we hear of this a segregation of the Turkish fleet for do but stand upon the foaming shore the chidden below seems to pelt the clouds the windsh surge with high and monstrous man seems to cast water on the burning bear and quench the guards of the ever fixed pole i never did like molestation view on the ench if that the Turkish fleet be not ensheltered and embedded they are drowned it is impossible to bear it out enter a third gentleman news lads our wars are done the desperate Tempest hath so bang the Turks that their designman halts a noble ship of Venice hath seen a grievous wreck and sufference on most part of their fleet how is this true the ship is here put in a Veronessa michael Casio lieutenant to the warlike Moore Aello is come on shore the Moore himself at sea and is in full commission here for Cyprus i am glad on it is a worthy governor but this same Casio though he speaks of comfort touching the Turkish loss yet he looks sadly and praised the more be safe for they were parted with foul and violent tempest pray heavens he be for I have served him and the man commands like a full soldier let's to the seaside hoe as well to see the vessel that's come in as to throw out our eyes for brave or even till we make the main and the aerial blue and indistinct regard come let's do so for every minute is expectancy of more arriv enter Casio thanks you the valiant of this warlike isle that so approved the Moore oh let the heavens give him defense against the elements for I have lost him on a dangerous sea is he well shipped his bark is stoutly timbered and his pilot of very expert and approved allowance therefore my hopes not surfeated to death stand in bold cure within a sail a sail a sail enter a fourth gentleman what noise the town is empty on the brow of the sea stand ranks of people and they cry a sail my hopes do shape him for the governor guns within they do discharge their shot of court see our friends at least i pray you sir go forth and give us truth who is that is arrived i shall exit but good lieutenant is your general wived most fortunately he hath achieved a maid that paragon's description and wild fame one that excels the quirks of blazing pens and in the essential vesture of creation does tire the engineer re-enter second gentleman how now who is put in this one ancient to the general he has had most favorable and happy speed tempest themselves high seas and howling winds the guttered rocks and congregated sands traitors in steep to clog the guiltless keel as having a sense of beauty do omit their mortal natures letting go safely by the divine Desdona what is she she that I spake of our great captain's captain left in the conduct of the bold Iago whose footing here anticipates our thoughts a senite speed great Jove a fellow guard and swell his sail with thine own powerful breath that he may bless this bay with his tall ship make love's quick pants in Desdona's arms give renewed fire to our extincted spirits and bring all cypress comfort enter Desdona Amelia Iago Rodrigo and attendance oh behold the riches of the ship is come on shore ye men of Cyprus let her have your knees hail to thee lady and the grace of heaven before behind thee and on every hand in wheel thee round i thank you valiant Casio what tidings can you tell me of my lord he has not yet arrived nor know I ought but that he's well and will be shortly here oh but I fear how lost your company the great contention of the sea and skies parted our fellowship but Hark a sail within a sail a sail guns within they give their greeting to the citadel this likewise is a friend see for the news exit gentlemen good ancient you are welcome to Amelia welcome mistress let it not gull your patience good Iago that I extend my manners it is my breeding that gives me this bold show of courtesy kissing her sir would she give you so much of her lips as of her tongue she oft bestows on me you'd have enough alas she has no speech in faith too much i find it still when I have list to sleep mary before your lady ship I glad she puts her tongue a little in her heart and chides with thinking you have little cause to say so oh come on come on your pictures out of doors bells in your parlors wild cats in your kitchens saints in your injuries devils being offended players in your house and houses in your beds oh fire upon thee slanderer nay it is true or else I am a Turk you rise to play and go to bed to work you shall not write my praise no let me not what would thou write of me if thou shouldst praise me oh gentle lady do not put me to it for I am nothing if not critical come on I say there's one gone to the harbor i Madam I am not merry but I do begal the thing I am by seeming otherwise come how would thou praise me i am about it but indeed my invention comes from my pate as bird lime does from freeze it plucks out brains and all but my muse labors and thus she is delivered if she be fair and wise fairness and wit the ones for use the other useth it well praised how if she be black and witty if she be black and thereto have a wit she'll find a white that shall her blackness fit worse and worse how if fair and foolish she never yet was foolish that was fair for even her folly helped her to an air these are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh in the ale house what miserable praise hast thou for her that's foul and foolish there's none so foul and foolish there unonto but does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do oh heavy ignorance thou praises the worst best but what praise could thou bestow on a deserving woman indeed one that in the authority of her merit did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself she that was ever fair and never proud had tongue at will and yet was never loud never lacked gold and yet never went gay fled from her wish and yet said "Now I may." She that being angered her revenge being nigh bad her wrong stay and her displeasure fly she that in wisdom never was so frail to change the cod's head for the salmon's tail she that could think and nare disclose her mind see suitors following and not look behind she was a white if ever such white were to do what to suckle fools and chronicle small beer oh most lame and impotent conclusion do not learn of him Amelia though he be thy husband how say you Casio is he not the most profane and liberal counselor he speaks home madam you may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar aside he takes her by the palm i well said whisper with as little a web as this will I ens snare as great a fly as Casio i smile upon her too i will guide thee in thine own courtship you say true it is so indeed if such tricks as these strip you out of your left tenantry it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so often which now again you are most apt to play the surin very good well kissed and excellent courtesy that is so indeed yet again your fingers to your lips would they were cler pipes for your sake trumpet within the more I know his trumpet it is truly so let's meet him and receive him lo where he comes enter Athll and attendance oh my fair warrior my dear Oll it gives me wonder great as my content to see you here before me oh my soul's joy if after every tempest come such calms may the winds blow till they have wakened death and let the laboring bark climb hills of seas Olympus high and duck again as low as hells from heaven if it were now to die to were now to be most happy for I fear my soul hath her content so absolute that not another comfort like to this succeeds in unknown fate the heavens forbid but that our loves and comforts should increase even as our days do grow amen to that sweet powers i cannot speak enough of this content it stops me here it is too much of joy and this and this the greatest discords be kissing her that air our hearts shall make aside no you are well tuned now but I'll set down the pegs that make this music as honest as I am come let us to the castle news friends our wars are done the Turks are drowned how does my old acquaintance of this aisle honey you shall be well desired in Cyprus i have found great love amongst them oh my sweet I pratt out of fashion and I dot in my known comforts i pray thee good Yago go to the bay and disembark my coffers bring thou the master to the citadel he is a good one and his worthiness doth challenge much respect come Desdona once more well met at Cyprus exant Desdona and attendance do thou meet me presently at the harbor come hither if thou beest valiant as they say base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them list me the left tenant tonight watches on the court of guard first I must tell thee this desdona is directly in love with him with him like is not possible lay thy finger thus and let thy soul be instructed mark me with what violence she first loved the more but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies and will she love him still for praying let not thy discrete heart think it her eye must be fed and what delight shall she have to look on the devil when the blood is made dull with the act of sport there should be again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite loveliness in favor sympathy and years manners and beauties all which the Moore is defective in now for want of these required conveniences her delicate tenderness will find itself abuse begin to heave the gorge disreish and abhore the more very nature will instruct her in it and compel her to some second choice now sir this granted as it is most pregnant and unforced position who stands so eminently in the degree of this fortune as Casio does a nave very valuable no further consionable than in putting on the mere form of civil and humane seeming for the better compass of his salt and most hidden loose affection why none why none a slipper and subtle nave a finder out of occasions that has an eye can stamp and counterfeit advantages though true advantage never present itself a devilish nave besides the nave is handsome young and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after a pestilent complete nave and the woman hath found him already i cannot believe that in her she is full of most blessed condition blessed figs end the wine she drinks is made of grapes if she had been blessed she would never have loved the more blessed pudding did thou not see her paddle with the palm of his hand did not mark that yes that I did that was courtesy lechery by this hand an index and obscure prologue to the history of lust and foul thoughts they met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together villainous thoughts Rodrigo with these mutualities so marshall the way hard at hand comes the master and main exercise the incorporate conclusion pish but sir be you ruled by me i have brought you from Venice watch you tonight for the command lay upon you casio knows you not i'll not be far from you do you find some occasion to anger Casio either by speaking too loud or tainting his discipline or from what other course you please which the time shall more favorably minister well sir he is rash and very sudden in collar and happily with his trenchon may strike at you provoke him that he may for even out of that will I cause these of Cyprus to mutiny whose qualification shall come into no true taste again but by the displanting of Casio so shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by the means I shall then have to prefer them and the impediment most profitably removed without the which there were no expectation of our prosperity i will do this if I can bring it to any opportunity i warrant thee meet me by and by at the citadel i must fetch his necessaries ashore farewell i do exit that Casio loves her i do well believe it that she loves him it is apt and of great credit the more how being that I endure him not is of a constant loving noble nature and I dare think he'll prove to Desdona a most dear husband now I do love her too not out of absolute lust though per adventure I stand accountant for his greatest sin but partly led to diet my revenge for that I do suspect the lusty moore hath leaped into my seat and thought whereof doth like a poisonous mineral not my inards and nothing can or shall content my soul till I am even with him wife for wife or failing so yet that I put the more at least into a jealousy so strong that judgment cannot cure which thing to do if this poor trash of menace whom I trash for his quick hunting stand the putting on i'll have our Michael Casio on the hip abuse him to the Moore in the rank garb for I fear Casio with my night cap too make the Moore think me love me and reward me for making him egregiously an ass and practicing upon his peace and quiet even to madness it is here but yet confused navery's plain face is never seen till used exit scene two a street enter a herald with a proclamation people following it is a fellow's pleasure our noble and valiant general that upon certain tidings now arrived importing the mere predition of its Turkish fleet every man put himself into triumph some to dance some to make vampires each man to what sport and revel his addiction leads in for besides these beneficial news it is the celebration of his nuptual so much was his pleasure should be proclaimed all offices are open and there is full liberty of feasting from this present hour of 5 till the bell have told 11 heaven blessed the Isle of Cyprus and our noble general Aello exant scene three a hall in the castle enter Athell Desdona Casio and attendance good Michael look you to the guard tonight let's teach ourselves that honorable stop not to outport discretion yago hath direction what to do but notwithstanding with my personal eye will I look to it yago is most honest michael good night tomorrow with your earliest let me have speech with you to Desdona come my dear love the purchase made the fruits are to ensue the profits yet to come between me and you good night exant Desdona and attendance enter Iago welcome Iago we must to the watch not this hour Lieutenant it is not yet 10 of the clock our general cast us thus early for the love of his desona who let us not therefore blame he hath not yet made wanting the night with her and she is sport for jo she's a most exquisite lady and I'll warrant her full of game indeed she is a most fresh and delicate creature what an eye she has me thinks it sounds a parly to provocation an inviting eye and yet me thinks right modest and when she speaks is it not an alarm to love she is indeed perfection well happiness to their sheets come left tenant I have a scoop of wine and here without are a brace of cypress gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black a fellow not tonight goodyago i have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking i could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment oh they are our friends but one cup i'll drink for you i have drunk but one cup tonight and that was craftily qualified too and behold what innovation it makes here i am unfortunate in the infirmity and dare not task my weakness with any more what man is a light of rebels these galllets desire it where are they here at the door i pray you call them in i'll do it but it dislikes me exit if I confess and but one cup upon him with that which he hath drunk tonight already he'll be as full of quarrel and offense as my young mistress dog now my sick fool Roder whom love hath turned almost the wrong side out to Desdona hath tonight caroused quotations puddle deep and he's to watch three lads of Cyprus noble swelling spirits that hold their honors in a weary distance their very elements of this warlike aisle have I tonight flustered with flowing cups and they watch too now amongst this flock of drunkards am I to put our Casio in some action that may offend the aisle but here they come if consequence do but approve my dream my boat sails freely both with wind and steam re-enter Casio with him Montano and gentlemen followed by servant with wine for heaven they have given me a rouse already good faith a little one not past a pint as I am a soldier some wine ho sings and let me the clink clink and let me the can clink a soldier's a man oh life's but a spell when they let a soldier drink hey some wine boys for God an excellent song i learned it in England where indeed they are most potent in potting your dne your German and your swagbellied Hollander hey drink ho are nothing to your English is your Englishman so expert in his drinking why he drinks you with facility your dain dead drunk he sweats not to overthrow your own man he gives your hollander of vomit air the next puddle can be filled to the health of our general i am for it Lieutenant and I'll do you justice oh sweet England sings king Steven was a worthy pier his breaches cost him but a crown he held them six and all to dear with that he called the Taylor L he was a white of high renown and thou art but of low degree it is pride that pulls the country down then take thine old cloak about thee subo why this is a more exquisite song than the other oh will you hear it again no for I hold him to be unworthy of his place that does those things well gods above all and there be souls must be saved and there be souls must not be saved it's true good left tenant for my own part no offense to the general nor any man of quality i hope to be saved and so do I too left tenant i But by your leave not before me the lieutenant is to be saved before the ancient let's have no more of this let's to our affairs forgive us our sins gentlemen let's look to our business do not think gentlemen I am drunk this is my ancient this is my right hand and this is my left i am not drunk now i can stand well enough and I speak well enough excellent well why very well then you must not think then that I am drunk exit to the platform masters come let's set the watch you see this fellow that is gone before he's a soldier fit to stand by Caesar and give direction and do but see his vice it is to his virtue a just equinox the one as long as the other it is pity of him i fear the trust a fellow puts in him on some odd time of his infirmity will shake this island but is he often thus it is ever more the prologue to his sleep he'll watch the horolog a double set if drink not his cradle it were well the general were put in mind of it perhaps he sees it not or his good nature prizes the virtue that appears in Casio and looks not on his evils is not this true enter Rodrigo aside to him how now Rodrigo i pray you after the left tenant go exit Rodrigo and his great pity that the noble Moore should hazard such a place as his own second with one of an ingraft infirmity it were an honest action to say so to the Moore not I for this fair island i do love Casio well and would do much to cure him of this evil but Hark what noise cry within help help re-enter Casio driving in Rodrigo you rogue you rascal what's the matter Lieutenant a nave teach me my duty i'll beat the nave into a twigan bottle beat me dust thou pray rogue striking Rodrigo nay good lieutenant I pray you sir hold your hand let me go sir i'll knock you over the Mazard come come you're drunk drunk they fight aside to Rodrigo away I say go out and cry a mutiny exit Rodrigo nay good left tenant alas gentlemen help Po left tenant sir Montano sir help masters here is a goodly watch indeed bell rings who's that that rings the bell diablo ho the town will rise god's will left at hold you will be shamed forever re-enter a fellow and attendance what is the matter here Zans i bleed still i'm hurt to the death hold for your lives hold left tenant sir Montano gentlemen have you forgot all sense of place and duty hold the general speaks to you hold hold for shame why how now hoe from whence ariseth this are we turned Turks and to ourselves do that which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites for Christian shame put by this barbarous brawl he that stirs next to carve for his own rage holds his soul light he dies upon his motion silence that dreadful bell it frights the aisle from her propriety what is the matter masters honest Yago that looks dead with grieving speak who began this on thy love I charge thee i do not know friends all but now even now in quarter and in terms like bride and groom devesting them for bed and then but now as if some planet had unwitted men swords out and tilting one another's breast in opposition bloody i cannot speak any beginning to this peevish odds and would in action glorious I had lost those legs that brought me to a part of it how comes it Michael you are thus forgot i pray you pardon me i cannot speak worthy Montano you were won't be civil the gravity and stillness of your youth the world hath noted and your name is great in mouths of wisest sincere what's the matter that you unlace your reputation thus and spend your rich opinion for the name of a nightbrawler give me answer to it worthy of fellow I am hurt to danger your officer Iago can inform you while I spare speech which something now offends me of all that I do know nor know I ought by me that said or done a miss this night unless self-charity be sometimes a vice and to defend ourselves it be a sin when violence assales us now by heaven my blood begins my safer guides to rule and passion having my best judgment colleague assays to lead the way if I once stir or do but lift this arm the best of you shall sink in my rebuke give me to know how this foul route began who set it on and he that is approved in this offense though he had twinned with me both at a birth shall lose me what in a town of war yet wild the people's hearts brimful of fear to manage private and domestic quarrel in night and on the court and guard of safety it is monstrous hiago who began it if partially effined or leagued in office thou dost deliver more or less than truth thou art no soldier touch me not so near i had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth than it should do offense to Michael Casio yet I persuade myself to speak the truth shall nothing wrong him thus it is general Montano and myself being in speech there comes a fellow crying out for help and Casio following him with determined sword to execute upon him sir this gentleman steps into Cassion and entreats his paws myself the crying fellow did pursue lest by his clamor as it so fell out the town might fall in fright he swift of foot outran my purpose and I returned the rather for that I heard the clink and fall of swords and casio high in oath which till tonight I n might say before when I came back for this was brief I found them close together at blow and thrust even as again they were when you yourself did part them more of this matter cannot I report but men are men and best sometimes forget though Casio did some little wrong to him as men in rage strike those that wish them best yet surely Casio I believe received from him that fled some strange indignity which patience would not pass i know Yago thy honesty and love doth mince this matter making it light to Casio casio I love thee but never more be officer of mine re-enter Desdona attended look if my gentle love be not raised up I'll make thee an example what's the matter all's well now sweeting come away to bed to Montano who is led off sir for your hurts myself will be your surgeon lead him off yago look with care about the town and silence those whom this vile brawl distracted come Desdona it is the soldiers life to have their bommy slumbers wake with strife exant all but Iago and Casio what are you hurt Lieutenant i passed all surgery mary heaven forbid reputation reputation reputation oh I have lost my reputation i have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is best my reputation Yago my reputation as I am an honest man I thought you had received some bodily wound there's more sense in that than in reputation reputation is an idle and most false imposition offgot without merit and lost without deserving you've lost no reputation at all unless you repute yourself such a loser what man there are ways to recover the general again you are but now cast in his mood a punishment more in policy than in malice even so as one would beat his offenseless dog to a fright and imperious lion suit him again and he is yours i would rather sue to be despised than to deceive so good a commander with so slight so drunken and so indiscreet an officer drunk and speak parrot and squabble swagger swear and discourse fustian with one's own shadow oh thou invisible spirit of wine if thou hast no name to be known by let us call thee devil what was he that you followed with your sword what had he done to you i know not is it possible i remember a mass of things but nothing distinctly a quarrel but nothing wherefore oh God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains that we should with joy pleasants revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts why but you're now well enough how came you thus recovered it hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath one unperfectness shows me another to make me frankly despise myself come you're too severe a moral as the time the place and the condition of this country stands I could hardly wish it had not befallen but since it is as it is mend it for your own good i will ask him for my place again he shall tell me I am a drunkard had I as many mouths as Hydra such an answer would stop them all to be now a sensible man by and by a fool and presently a beast oh strange every inordinate cup is unbed and the ingredient is a devil come come good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used exclaimed no more against it and good left tenant I think you think I love you i have well approved it sir i drunk you or any man living may be drunk at a time man i'll tell you what you shall do our general's wife is now the general i may say so in this respect for he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation mark and denotement of her parts and graces confess yourself freely to her import you in her help to put you in your place again she's so so free so kind so apt so blessed a disposition that she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she's requested the broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter and my fortunes against any lay worth naming this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before you advise me well i protest in the sincerity of love and honest kindness i think it freely and be times in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdona to undertake for me i am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here you are in the right good night left tenant i must do the watch good night honesty exit and what's he then that says I play the villain when this advice is free I give and honest probable to thinking and indeed the course to win the more again for it is most easy the inclining Desdona to subdue in any honest suit she framed as fruitful as the free elements and then for her to win the more or to renounce his baptism all seals and symbols of redeem sin her soul is so infettered to her love that she may make unmake what she lists even as her appetite shall play the god with his weak function how am I then a villain to counsel Casio in this parallel course directly to his good divinity of hell when devils with the blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows as I do now for whilst this honest fool plies Desdona to repair his fortune and she for him pleads strongly to the Moore I'll pour this pestilence into his ear that she repeals him for her body's lust and by how much he strives to do him good so shall undo her credit with the moore so will I turn her virtue into pitch and out of her own goodness make the net that shall insh them all enter Rodrigo how now Rodrigo i do follow here in the chase not like a hound that hunts but one that fills up the cry my money is almost spent i have been tonight exceedingly well cudgled and I think the issue will be I have so much experience for my pains and so with no money at all and a little more for wit will return again to venice how poor are they that have no patience what wound did ever heal but by degrees thou knowest we work by wit and not by witchcraft and wit depends on dilatory time dust not go well casio hath beaten thee and thou by that small hurt hath cashiered Casio though other things grow fair against the sun yet fruits that blossom first will first be ripe content thyself a while by the mast his morning pleasure and action make the hours seem short retire thee go where thou art billeted away I say thou shalt no more hereafter nay get thee gone exit Rodrigo two things are to be done my wife must move for Casio to her mistress i'll set her on myself the while to draw the Moore apart and bring him jump when he may Casio find soliciting his wife ah that's the way dull not device by coldness and delay exit end of act two act three of a by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act three scene one cyprus before the castle enter Casio and some musicians masters play here i will content your pains something that's brief and bid goodorrow general music enter clown why masters have your instruments been in Naples that they speak I the nose thus how sir how are these I pray you wind instruments i Mary are they sir oh thereby hangs a tail whereby hangs a tail sir mary sir by many a wind instrument that I know but masters here's money for you and the general so likes your music that he desires you for love's sake to make no more noise with it well sir we will not if you have any music that may not be heard to it again but as they say to hear music the general does not greatly care we have none such sir then put up your pipes in your bag for all away go vanish into air away exant musicians dust thou hear my honest friend no I hear not your honest friend i hear you for thee keep up thy quilllets there's a poor piece of gold for thee if the gentle woman that attends the general's wife be stirring tell her there's one Casio entreats her a little favor of speech wilt thou do this she is stirring sir if she will stir hither I shall seem to notify unto her do good my friend exit clown enter Iago in happy time Iago you have not been a bed then why no the day had broke before we parted i have made bold Iago to send in to your wife my suit to her is that she will to virtuous Desdona procure me some access i'll send her to you presently and I'll devise a mean to draw the Moore out of the way that your convers may be more free i humbly thank you for it exit iago i never knew a Florentine more kind and honest enter Amelia good tomorrow good lieutenant i am sorry for your displeasure but all will sure be well the general and his wife are talking of it and she speaks for you stoutly the Moore replies that he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus and great affinity and that in wholesome wisdom he might not but refuse you but he protests he loves you and needs no other suitor but his likings to take the safest occasion by the front to bring you in again yet I beseech you if you think fit or that it may be done give me advantage of some brief discourse with Desimonia alone pray you come in I will bestow you where you shall have time to speak your bosom freely i am much bound to you exant scene two cyprus a room in the castle enter Athell Iago and gentlemen these letters give Iago to the pilot and by him do my duties to the Senate that done I will be walking on the works repair there to me well my good lord I'll do it this fortification gentlemen shall we see it we await upon your lordship exant scene three cyprus the garden of the castle enter Desdona Casio and Amelia be thou assured good Casio i will do all my abilities in thy behalf good madam do i warranted Greavves my husband as if the cause were his oh that's an honest fellow do not doubt Casio but I will have my lord and you again as friendly as you were bounteous madam whatever shall become of Michael Casio he's never anything but your true servant i know it i thank you you do love my lord you have known him long and be you well assured he shall in strangeness stand no farther off than in a politic distance i but lady that policy may either last so long or feed upon such nice and waterish diet or breed itself so out of circumstance that I being absent and my place supplied my general will forget my love and service do not doubt that before Amelia here I give thee warrant of thy place assure thee if I do wow a friendship I'll perform it to the last article my lord shall never rest I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience his bed shall seem a school his border shrift i'll intermingle everything he does with Casio's suit therefore be merry Casio for thy solicitor shall rather die than give thy cause away madam here comes my lord madam I'll take my leave why stay and hear me speak madam not now i am very ill at ease unfit for my own purposes well do your discretion exit Casio enter Athell and Iago huh i like not that what dust thou say uh nothing my lord or if I know not what was not that Casio parted from my wife casio my lord no sure i cannot think it that he would steal away so guilty like seeing you coming i do believe it was he how now my lord i have been talking with a sua here a man that languishes in your displeasure who is it you mean why your lieutenant Casio good my lord if I have any grace or power to move you his present reconciliation take for if he be not one that truly loves you that urs in ignorance and not in cunning I have no judgment in an honest face i pre thee call him back would he hence now a sooth so humbled that he hath left part of his grief with me to suffer with him good love call him back not now sweet Desdam some other time but shall be shortly the sooner sweet for you shall it be tonight at supper no not tonight tomorrow dinner then i shall not dine at home i meet the captains at the citadel why then tomorrow night or Tuesday morning on Tuesday noon or night on Wednesday morning i pray thee name the time but let it not exceed 3 days in faith he is penitent and yet his trespass in our common reason save that they say the wars must make examples out of their best is not almost to fault to incur a private check when shall he come tell me Oll I wonder in my soul what you would ask me that I should deny or stand so mammaring on what Michael Casio that came a wooing with you and so many a time when I have spoke of you dispraisingly has taken your part to have so much to do to bring him in trust me I could do much privy no more let him come when he will i will deny thee nothing why this is not a boon he says "I should entreat you wear your gloves or feed on nourishing dishes or keep you warm or sue to you to do a peculiar profit to your own person nay when I have a suit wherein I mean to touch your love indeed it shall be full of poise and difficult weight and fearful to be granted." I will deny thee nothing whereon I do beseech thee grant me this to leave me but a little to myself shall I deny you no farewell my lord farewell my Desdona i'll come to thee straight amelia come be as your fancies teach you whatever you be I am obedient exit with Amelia excellent wretch predition catch my soul but I do love thee and when I love thee not chaos is come again my noble lord what dust thou say Yago did Michael Casio when you wooed my lady know of your love he did from first to last why dust thou ask but for a satisfaction of my thought no further harm why of thy thought Yago i did not think he had been acquainted with her oh yes and went between us very oft indeed indeed i indeed discernest thou art ought in that is he not honest honest my lord honest i honest my lord for art I know what dust thou think think my lord think my lord by heaven he echoes me as if there were some monster in his thought too hideous to be shown thou dost mean something i heard thee say even now thou likest not that when Casio left my wife what did not like and when I told thee he was of my counsel in my whole course of wooing thou criedst indeed and did contract and purse thy brow together as if thou then had shut up in thy brain some horrible conceit if thou dost love me show me thy thought my lord you know I love you i think thou dost and for I know thou art full of love and honesty and waest thy words before thou givest them breath therefore these stops of thine fright me the more for such things in a false disloyal nave are tricks of custom but in a man that's just they are close relations working from the heart that passion cannot rule for Michael Casio I dare be sworn I think that he is honest i think so too men should be what they seem or those that be not would they might seem none certain men should be what they seem why then i think Casio is an honest man 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 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 are vile and false as where's that palace where unto foul things sometimes intrude not who has a breast so pure but some uncleanly apprehensions keep leits and law days and in session sit with meditations lawful thou dost conspire against thy friend Yago if thou but thinkst him wronged and makest his ear a stranger to thy thoughts i do beseech you though I per chance am vicious in my guess as I confess it is my nature's plague to spy into abuses and of my jealousy shape faults that are not that your wisdom yet from one that so imperfectly conceits would take no notice nor build yourself a trouble out of his scattering and unsure observance it were not for your quiet nor your good nor for my manhood honesty or wisdom to let you know my thoughts what dust thou mean good name in man and woman dear my lord is the immediate jewel of their souls who steals my purse steals trash his something nothing tw was mine is his and has been slave to thousands but he that filters from me my good name robs me of that which not enriches him and makes me poor indeed by heaven I'll know thy thoughts you cannot if my heart were in your hand nor shall not whilst it is in my custody huh oh beware my lord of jealousy it is the greeneyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on that cuckled lives in bliss who certain of his fate loves not his wronger but oh what damned in minutes tells Eior who doubts yet doubts suspects yet strongly loves oh misery poor and content is rich and rich enough but rich as Finless is as poor as winter to him that ever fears he shall be poor good heaven the souls of all my tribe defend from jealousy why why is this thinkst thou I'd make a life of jealousy to follow still the changes of the moon with fresh suspicions no to be once in doubt is once to be resolved exchange me for a goat when I shall turn the business of my soul to such exufflicate and blown surmises matching thy inference it is 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 are 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 Yako 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 i am glad of it 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 Casio wear your eye thus not jealous nor secure i would not have your free and noble nature out of self-bounty be abused look to it i know our country disposition well in Venice they do let heaven see the pranks they dare not show their husbands their best conscience is not to leave undone but keep unknown dust thou say so she did deceive her father marrying you and when she seemed to shake and fear your looks she loved the most and so she did why 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 it was witchcraft but I am much to blame i humbly do beseech you of your pardon for too much loving you i am bound to thee forever i see this hath a little dashed your spirits not a jot not a jot trust me I fear it has i hope you will consider what is spoke comes from my love but I do see you moved i am to pray you not to strain my speech to grosser issues nor to larger reach than to suspicion i will not should you do so my lord my speech should fall into such vile success which my thoughts aimed not casio is my worthy friend my lord I see you're moved no not much moved i do not think but Desdon is honest long live she so and long live you to think so and yet how nature ering from itself i there's the point as to be bold with you not to affect many proposed matches of her own climb complexion and degree whereto we see in all things nature tends one may smell in such a will most rank foul disproportion and 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 fail to match you with her country forms and happily repent farewell farewell if more thou dost perceive let me no more set on thy wife to observe leave me Yago going my lord I take my leave why did I marry this honest creature doubtless sees and knows more much more than he unfolds returning my lord I would I might entreat your honor to scan this thing no further leave it to time though it be fit that Casio have his place for sure 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 meantime 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 honor fear not my government i once more take my leave exit this fellows of exceeding honesty and knows all qualities with a learned spirit of human dealings if I do prove her haggarded though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings I whistle her off and let her down the wind to pray at fortune happily for I am black and have not those soft parts of conversation that chamberers have or for I am declined into the veil of years yet that's not much she's gone i am abused and my relief must be to loathe her oh curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites i had rather be a toad and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses yet it is the plague of great ones prerogative are they less than the base it is destiny unshunnable like death even then this forkid plague is fated to us when we do quicken desdona comes if she be false oh then heaven mocks itself i'll not believe it re-enter Desdona and Amelia how now my dear Roello your dinner and the generous islanders by you invited do attend your presence i am to blame why do you speak so faintly are you not well i have a pain upon my forehead here faith that's with watching twill away again let me but bind it hard within this hour it will be well your napkin is too little he puts the handkerchief from him and she drops it let it alone come I'll go in with you i am very sorry that you are not well exant and Desdona I am glad I have found this napkin this was her first remembrance from the Moore my weward husband hath a hundred times wooed me to steal it but she so loves the token for he conjured her she should ever keep it that she reserves it ever more about her to kiss and talk to i'll have the work tain out and give it Yago what he will do with it heaven knows not I i nothing but to please his fantasy re-enter Iago how now what do you hear alone do not you chide i have a thing for you a thing for me it is a common thing huh to have a foolish wife oh is that all what will you give me now for that same handkerchief what handkerchief what handkerchief why that the Moore first gave to Desdona that which so often you did bid me steal hast stolen it from her no Faith she let it drop by negligence and to the advantage I being here took it up look here it is a good wench give it me what will you do with that you have been so earnest to have me fil it snatching it why what's that to you if it be not for some purpose of import give it me again poor lady shall run mad when she shall lack it be not act no aunt I have use for it go leave me exit Amelia i will in Casio's lodging lose this napkin and let him find it trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmation strong as proofs of holy rit this may do something the more already changes with my poison dangerous conceits are in their nature's poisons which at the first are scarce found to distaste but with a little act upon the blood burn like the minds of sulfur yeah I did say so look where he comes not Poppy nor Mandraura nor all the drowsy syrups of the world shall ever medson thee to that sweet sleep which thou urged yesterday re-enter Athell false to me why how now General no more of that the va be gone thou hast set me on the rack i swear it is better to be much abused than but to know it a little how now my lord what sense had I of her stolen hours of lust i saw it not thought it not it harmed not me i slept the next night well was free and merry i found not Casio's kisses on her lips he that is robbed not wanting what is stolen let him not know it and he's not robbed at all i am sorry to hear this i had been happy if the general camp pioneers and all had tasted her sweet body so I had nothing known oh now forever farewell the tranquil mind farewell content farewell the plumid troop and the big wars that make ambition virtue oh farewell farewell the nighing steed and the shrill trump the spirit stirring drum the earpiercing f the royal banner and all quality pride pomp and circumstance of glorious roar and oh you mortal engines whose rude throats the immortal Joe's dead clamors counterfeit farewell a fellow's occupations gone is it possible my lord villain be sure thou prove my love a [ __ ] taking him by the throat be sure of it give me the ocular proof or by the worth of man's eternal soul thou hast been better have been born a dog than answer my weight wrath is come to this make me to see it or at the least so prove it that the probation bear no hinge nor loop to hang a doubt on or woe upon thy life my noble lord if thou dost slander her and torture me never pray more abandon all remorse on horrors head horrors accumulate do deeds to make heaven weep all earth amazed for nothing can thou to damnation add greater than that oh grace oh heaven defend me are you a man have you a soul or sense god be with you you take mine office oh wretched fool that lives to make thine honesty a vice oh monstrous world take note take note oh world to be direct and honest is not safe i thank you for this prophet and from that I'll love no friends his love breeds such offense nay stay thou shouldst be honest i should be wise for honesty is a fool and loses that it works for by the world i think my wife be honest and think she is not i think that thou art just and think thou art not i'll have some proof her name that was as fresh as Diane's visages now be grimed and black as mine own face if there be cords or knives poison or fire or suffocating streams I'll not endure it would I were satisfied i see sir you are eaten up with passion i do repent that I put it to you you would be satisfied would I will and may but how how satisfied my lord would you the supervisor grossly gape on behold her topped death and damnation oh it were a tedious difficulty I think to bring them to that prospect damn them then if ever mortalized to see them bolster more than their own what then how then what shall I say where is satisfaction it is impossible you should see this were they as prime as goats as hot as monkeys as salt as wolves in pride and fools as gross as ignorance made drunk but yet I say if imputation and strong circumstances which lead directly to the door of truth will give you satisfaction you may have give me a living reason she's disloyal i do not like the office but since I am entered in this cause so far pricricked to it by foolish honesty and love I will go on i lay with Casio lately and being troubled with a raging tooth I could not sleep there are a kind of men so loose of soul that in their sleeps will mutter their affairs one of this kind is Casio in sleep I heard him say "Sweet Desdona let us be weary let us hide our loves." And then sir would he gripe and ring my hand cry "Oh sweet creature," and then kiss me hard as if he plucked up kisses by the roots that grew upon my lips then laid his leg over my thigh and sighed and kissed and then cried cursed fate that gave thee to them more oh monstrous monstrous nay this was but his dream but this denoted a foregone conclusion it is a shrewd doubt though it be but a dream and this may help to thicken other proofs that do demonstrate thinly i'll tear her all to pieces nay but be wise yet we see nothing done she may be honest yet tell me this have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand i gave her such a want was my first gift i know not that but such a handkerchief I'm sure it was your wife's did I today see Casio wipe his beard with if it be that if it be that or any that was hers it speaks against her with the other proofs oh that the slave had 40,000 lives one is too poor too weak for my revenge now do I see it is true look here Yago all my fond love thus do I blow to heaven is gone arise black vengeance from thy hollow cell yield up oh love thy crown and hearted throne to tyrannous hate swell bosom with thy fraught for it is of aspic's tongues yet be content oh blood blood blood patience I say your mind perhaps may change never Yago like to the Pontic Sea whose icy current and compulsive course n feels retiring eb but keeps due on to the propontic and the helispont even so my bloody thoughts with violent pace shall nare look back near eb to humble love till that a capable and wide revenge swallow them up now by yawn marble heaven in the due reverence of a sacred vow kneels I here engage my words do not rise yet kneels witness you ever burning lights above you elements that clip us roundabout witness that here Iago doth give up the execution of his wit hands heart to wronged Oll's service let him command and to obey shall be in me remorse what bloody business ever they rise i greet thy love not with vain thanks but with acceptance bounteous and will upon the instant put thee to it within these three days let me hear thee say that Casio's not alive my friend is dead it is done at your request but let her live damn her LWD Minkx oh damn her come go with me apart i will withdraw to furnish me with some swift means of death for the fair devil now art thou my lieutenant i am your own forever excient Desdona Emmelia and Clown do you know Sira where Lieutenant Casio lies i dare not say he lies anywhere why man he's a soldier and for one to say a soldier lies is stabbing go to where lodges he to tell you where he lodges is to tell you where I lie can anything be made of this i know not where he lodges and for me to devise a logic and say he lies here or he lies there were to lie in my own throat can you inquire him out and be edified by report i will catechize the world for him that is make questions and buy them answer seek him bid him come hither tell him I have moved my lord on his behalf and hope all will be well to do this is within the compass of man's wit and therefore I will attempt the doing it exit where should I lose that handkerchief Amelia i know not madam believe me I had rather have lost my purse full of crusados and but my noble moore is true of mind and made of no such baseness as jealous creatures are it were enough to put him to ill thinking is he not jealous who he i think the son where he was born to all such humorous from him look where he comes i will not leave him now till Casio be called to him enter Oll how is with you my lord well my good lady aside oh hardness to dissemble how do you do Desdona well my good lord give me your hand this hand is moist my lady it yet hath felt no age no no sorrow this argues fruitfulness and liberal heart hot hot and moist this hand of yours requires a sequester from liberty fasting and prayer much castigation exercised devout for here's the young and sweating devil here that commonly rebelss it is a good hand a frank one you may indeed say so for it was that hand that gave away my heart a liberal hand the hearts of old gave hands but our new heraldry is hands not hearts i cannot speak of this come now your promise what promise Chuck i have sent to bid Casio come speak with you i have a salt and sorry room offends me lend me thy handkerchief here my lord that which I gave you i have it not about me not no faith my lord that is the fault that handkerchief did an Egyptian to my mother give she was a charmer and could almost read the thoughts of people she told her while she kept it it would make her amiable and subdue my father entirely to her love but if she lost it or made gift of it my father's eye should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt after new fancies she dying gave it me and bid me when my fate would have me wive to give it her i did so and take heed on it make it a darling like your precious eye to lose it or give it away where such predition as nothing else could match is it possible it is true there's magic in the web of it a syil that had numbered in the world the sun to course 200 compasses and her prophetic fury swed the work the worms were hallowed that did breed the silk and it was dyed in mummy which the skillful conserved of maiden's hearts indeed is true most veritable therefore look to it well then would to God that I had never seen it ha wherefore why do you speak so startingly and rash is it lost is it gone speak is it out of the way heaven bless us say you it is not lost but what and if it were how i say it is not lost fetch it let me see it why so I can sir but I will not now this is a trick to put me from my suit pray you let Casio be received again fetch me the handkerchief my mind misgiv come come you'll never meet a more efficient man the handkerchief I pray talk me of Casio the handkerchief a man that all his time hath founded his good fortunes on your love shared dangers with you the handkerchief ins you are to blame away exit is not this man jealous i may have saw this before should there some wonder in this handkerchief i am most unhappy in the loss of it it is not a year or two shows us a man they are all but stomachs and we all but food they eat us hungrily and when they are full they belch us look you Casio and my husband enter Casio and Iago there is no other way to she must do it and lo the happiness go and import you how now good Casio what's the news with you madam my former suit i do beseech you that by your virtuous means I may again exist and be a member of his love whom I with all the office of my heart entirely honor i would not be delayed if my offense be of such mortal kind that not my service past nor present sorrows nor purpose merit and futurity can ransom me into his love again but to know so must be my benefit so shall I clothe me in a forced contempt and shut myself up in some other course to fortune alas th gentle Casio my advocation is not now in tune my lord is not my lord nor should I know him were he in favor as in humor altered so help me every spirit sanctified as I have spoken for you all my best and stood within the blank of his displeasure for my free speech you must while be patient what I can do I will and more I will than for myself I dare let that suffice you is my lord angry he went hence but now and certainly in strange unquietness can he be angry i have seen the cannon when it had blown his ranks into the air and like the devil from his very arm puffed his own brother and can he be angry something of moment then I will go to meet him there is matter in it indeed if he be angry I prethe thee do so exit Iago something sure of state either from Venice or some unhatched practice made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him hath puddled his clear spirit and in such cases men's nature's wrangle with inferior things though great ones are their object it is even so for let our finger ache and it inducees our other healthful members even to that sense of pain nay we must think men are not gods nor of them look for such observancy as fits the bridal behrew me much Amelia i was unhander as I am arraigning his unkindness with my soul but now I find I had suborned the witness and he's indicted falsely pray heaven it be state matters as you think and no conception nor no jealous toy concerning you alas the day I never gave him cause but jealous souls will not be answered so they are not ever jealous for the cause but jealous for they are jealous it is a monster begot upon itself born on itself heaven keep that monster from Oll's mind lady Amen i will go seek him casio walk here about if I do find him fit I'll move your suit and seek to affect it to my uttermost i humbly thank your lady ship exant Desdona and Amelia enter Bianca save you friend casu what make you from home how is it with you my most fair Bianca in faith sweet love i was coming to your house and I was going to your lodging Casio what keep a week away seven days and nights eight score 8 hours and lover's absent hours more tedious than the dial eight score times oh weary reckoning pardon me Bianca i have this while with letin thoughts been pressed but I shall in a more continuate time strike off this score of absence sweet Bianca giving her Desdona's handkerchief take me this work out oh Casio whence came this this is some token from a newer friend to the felt absence now I feel the cause is it come to this well well go too woman throw your vile guesses in the devil's teeth from whence you have them you are jealous now that this is from some mistress some remembrance no in good trth Bianca why whose is it i know not neither i found it in my chamber i like the work well Erit be demanded as like enough it will I'd have it copied take it and do it and leave me for this time leave you wherefore i do attend here on the general and think it no addition nor my wish to have him see me wounded why I pray you not that I love you not but that you do not love me i pray you bring me on the way a little and say I shall see you soon at night it is but a little way that I can bring you for I attend here but I'll see you soon it is very good i must be circumstanced excient by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act four scene one cyprus before the castle enter Athell and Iago will you think so think so yago what to kiss in private an unauthorized kiss or to be naked with her friend in bed an hour or more not meaning any harm naked in bed Yago and not mean harm it is hypocrisy against the devil they that mean virtuously and yet do so the devil their virtue tempts and they tempt heaven so they do nothing it is a venial slip but if I give my wife a handkerchief what then why then it is hers my lord and being hers she may I think bestow it on any man she is protectress of her honor too may she give that her honor is an essence that's not seen they have it oft that have it not but for the handkerchief by heaven I would most gladly have forgot it thou saidst Oh it comes or my memory asth the raven or the infected house boating to all he had my handkerchief i What of that that's not so good now what if I had said I had seen him do you wrong or heard him say as naves be such a broad who having by their own important suit or voluntary doage of some mistress convinced or supplied them cannot choose but they must blab hath he said anything he hath my lord but be well assured no more than he'll unswear what hath he said faith that he did i I know not what he did what what lie with her with her on her what you will lie with her lie on her we say lie on her when they bely her lie with her that's foolsome handkerchief confessions handkerchief to confess and be hanged for his labor first to be hanged and then to confess i tremble at it nature would not invest herself in such shadowing passion without some instruction it is not words that shake me thus noses ears and lips is it possible confess handkerchief oh devil falls in a trance work on my medicine work thus credulous fools are caught and many worthy and chasted dames even thus all guiltless meet reproach what oh my lord my lord I say oll enter Casio how now Casio what's the matter my lord has fallen into an epilepsy this is his second fit he had one yesterday rub him about the temples no for bear the lethargy must have his quiet course if not he foams at mouth and by and by breaks out to savage madness look he stirs do you withdraw yourself a little while he will recover straight when he is gone I would on great occasion speak with you exit casio how is it General have you not heard your head dust thou mock me i mock you no by heaven would you would bear your fortune like a man a horned man's a monster and a beast there's many a beast then in a populous city and many a civil monster did he confess it good sir be a man think every bearded fellow that's but yolked may draw with you there's millions now alive that nightly lie in those unproper beds which they dare swear peculiar your case is better oh it is the spite of hell the fiend's arch mock to lip a wanted in a secure couch and to suppose her chasteed no let me know and knowing what I am I know what she shall be oh thou art wise to certain stand you a while apart confine yourself but in a patient list whilst you were here overwhelmed with your grief a passion most unsuiting such a man casio came hither i shifted him away and laid good excuse upon your ecstasy bad him a non return and here speak with me the which he promised do but encave yourself and mark the fleers the jibes and notable scorns that dwell in every region of his face for I will make him tell the tale a new where how how oft how long ago and when he hath and is again to cope your wife i say but mark his gesture mary patience or I shall say you are all in a spleen and nothing of a man dust thou hear Yago i will be found most cunning in my patience but dust thou hear most bloody that's not a miss but yet keep time in all will you withdraw a fellow withdraws now will I question Casio of Bianca a housewife that by selling her desires buys herself bread and clothes it is a creature that dots on Casio as this trumpet's plague to beguile many and be beguiled by one he when he hears of her cannot refrain from the excess of laughter here he comes as he shall smile a fellow shall go mad and his unbookish jealousy must construe poor Casio's smiles gestures and light behavior quite in the wrong re-enter Casio how do you now Lieutenant the worerer that you give me the addition whose want even kills me ply Desdon well and you are sure speaking lower now if this suit lay in Bianca's power how quickly should you speed alas poor Kative aside look how he laughs already i never knew a woman loved men so alas poor rogue i think if faith she loves me aside now he denies it faintly and laughs it out do you hear Casio now he importunes him to tell it or go to well said well said she gives it out that you will marry her do you intend it do you triumph Roman do you triumph i marry her what a customer i privy bear some charity to my wit do not think it's so unh wholesome so so so so they laugh that win faith the cry goes that you shall marry her p thee say true i am a very villain else have you scored me well this is the monkeykey's own giving out she is persuaded I will marry her out of her own love and flattery not out of my promise yago beckons me now he begins the story she was here even now she haunts me in every place i was the other day talking on the seabank with certain Venetians and thither comes the bobble and falls thus about my neck crying oh dear Casio as it were whose gesture imports it so hangs and lulls and weeps upon me so hails and pulls me now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber oh I see that nose of yours but not that dog I shall throw it to well I must leave her company before me look where she comes it is such another fit you marry a perfumed one enter Bianca what do you mean by this haunting of me let the devil and his damn haunt you what did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now i was a fine fool to take it i must take out the work a likely piece of work that you should find it in your chamber and not know who left it there this is some Ming's token and I must take out the work there give it your hobby horse wheresoever you had it I'll take out no work on how now my sweet Bianca how now how now by heaven that should be my handkerchief and you'll come to Sabba tonight you may and you will not come when you are next prepared for exit after her after her faith I must she'll rail in the street else will you s there faith I intend so well I may chance to see you for I would very faint speak with you privy come will you go to say no more exit casio coming forward how shall I murder him yago did you perceive how he laughed at his vice oh Yago and did you see the handkerchief was that mine yours by this hand and to see how he prizes the foolish woman your wife she gave it him and he hath given it his [ __ ] i would have him nine years a killing a fine woman a fair woman a sweet woman nay you must forget that i let her rot and perish and be damned tonight for she shall not live no my heart is turned to stone i strike it and it hurts my hand oh the world hath not a sweeter creature she might lie by an emperor's side and command him tasks nay that's not your way hang her I do but say what she is so delicate with her needle an admirable musician oh she will sing the savagess out of a bear of so high and plenteous wit and invention she's the worst for all this oh a thousand a thousand times and then of so gentle a condition i too gentle nay that's certain but yet the pity of it Yago oh Yago the pity of it Yago well if you are so fond over her iniquity give her patent to offend for if it touch not you it comes near nobody i will chop her into messes cuckold me oh it is foul in her with mine officer that's fowler get me some poison Yago this night i'll not expostulate with her lest her body and beauty unprovide my mind again this night yago do it not with poison strangle her in her bed even the bed she hath contaminated good good the justice of it pleases very good and for Casio let me be his undertaker you shall hear more by midnight excellent good a trumpet within what trumpet is that same something from Venice sure it is Loviko come from the Duke and see your wife is with him enter Loviko Desdona and attendance save you worthy general with all my heart sir the Duke and senators of Venice greet you gives him a packet i kiss the instrument of their pleasures opens the packet and reads and what's the news good cousin Lovico i am very glad to see you Senor welcome to Cyprus i thank you how does Lieutenant Casio lives sir cousin there's fallen between him and my lord and unkind breach but you shall make all well are you sure of that my lord reads "This fail you not to do as you will." He did not call his PC in the paper is there a division twix my lord and casio a most unhappy one i would do much to atone them for the love I bear to Casio fire and brimstone my lord are you wise what is he angry maybe the letter moved him for as I think they do command him home deputing Casio in his government trust me I'm glad on it indeed my lord i am glad to see you mad why sweet Oll devil striking her i have not deserved this my lord this would not be believed in Venice though I should swear I sought this very much make her amends she weeps oh devil devil if that the earth could team with woman's tears each drop she falls would prove a crocodile out of my sight i will not stay to offend you going truly an obedient lady i do beseech your lordship call her back mistress my lord what would you with her sir who I my lord i You did wish that I would make her turn sir she can turn and turn and yet go on and turn again and she can weep sir weep and she's obedient as you say obedient very obedient proceed you in your tears concerning this sir a well-p painted passion i am commanded home get your away i'll send for you a nun sir I obey the mandate and will return to Venice hence a vaunt exit Desdona casio shall have my place and sir tonight I do intreat that we may suck together you are welcome sir to Cyprus coats and monkeys exit is this the noble Moore whom our full Senate call all in all sufficient is this the nature whom passion could not shake whose solid virtue the shot of accident nor dart of chance could neither grace nor pierce he is much changed are his wit safe is he not light of brain he is that he is i may not breathe my sensual what he might be if what he might he is not i would to heaven he were what strike his wife faith that was not so well yet would I knew that stroke would prove the worst is it his use or did the letters work upon his blood and you create this fault alas alas it is not honesty in me to speak what I have seen and known you shall observe him and his own courses will denote him so that I may save my speech do but go after and mark how he continues i am sorry that I'm deceived in him exant scene two cyprus a room in the castle enter Athell and Amelia you have seen nothing then nor ever heard nor ever did suspect yes you have seen Casio and she together but then I saw no harm and then I heard each syllable that breath made up between them what did they never whisper never my lord nor send you out of the way never to fetch her fan her gloves her mask nor nothing never my lord that's strange i ded my lord to wager she is honest laid down my soul at stake if you think other remove your thought it doth abuse your bosom if any wretch have put this in your head let heaven reququite it with the serpent's curse for if she be not honest chasteed and true there's no man happy the purest of their wives is foul as slander bit her come hither go exit Emmelia she says enough yet she's a simple bod that cannot say as much this is a subtle horror a closet lock and key of villainous secrets and yet she'll kneel and pray i have seen her do it enter Amelia with Deszdona my lord what is your will pray Chuck come hither what is your pleasure let me see your eyes look in my face what horrible fancy is this to Amelia some of your function mistress leave procreants alone and shut the door cough or crym if anybody come your mystery your mystery may dispatch exit amelia upon my knees what do your speech import i understand a fury in your words but not the words why what art thou your wife my lord your true and loyal wife come swear it damn thyself lest being like one of heaven the devils themselves should fear to seize thee therefore be double damned swear thou art honest heaven doth truly know it heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell to whom my lord with whom how am I false oh Desdona away away away alas a heavy day why do you weep am I the motive of these tears my lord if happily you my father do suspect an instrument of this you're calling back lay not your blame on me if you have lost him why I have lost him too had it pleased heaven to try me with affliction had they reigned all kinds of soores and shames on my bare head steeped me in poverty to the very lips given to captivity me and my utmost hopes i should have found in some place of my soul a drop of patience but alas to make me a fixed figure for the time for scorn to point his slow unmoving finger at yet could I bear that too well very well but there where I have garnered up my heart where either I must live or bear no life the fountain from the which my current runs or else dries up to be discarded thence or keep it as a sistern for foul toads to not engender in turn thy complexion there patience thou young and roselipped cheruban i there look grim as hell i hope my noble lord esteems me honest oh I as summer flies are in the shambles that quicken even with blowing oh thou weed who art so lovely fair and smell so sweet that the sense aches at thee would thou had snare been born alas what ignorant sin have I committed was this fair paper this most goodly book made to write [ __ ] upon what committed committed oh thou public commoner i should make very forges of my cheeks that would to cinders burn up modesty did I but speak thy deeds what committed heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks the body wind that kisses all it meets is hushed within the hollow mine of earth and will not hear it what committed impudent trumpet by heaven you do me wrong are you not a trumpet no as I am a Christian if to preserve this vessel for my lord from any other foul unlawful touch be not to be a trumpet i am none what not a [ __ ] no as I shall be saved is it possible oh heaven forgive us i cry you mercy then i took you for that cunning [ __ ] of Venice that married with a fellow you mistress that have the office opposite the St peter and keep the gate of hell re-enter Amelia you you I you we have done our course there's money for your pains i pray you turn the key and keep our counsel exit alas what does this gentleman conceive how do you madam how do you my good lady faith half asleep good madam what's the matter with my lord with who why with my lord madam who is thy lord he that is yours sweet lady I have none do not talk to me Amelia i cannot weep nor answer I none but what should go by water pry thee tonight lay on my bed my wedding sheets remember and call thy husband hither here's a change indeed exit it is meat i should be used so very meat how have I been behaved that he might stick the smallest opinion on my last misuse re-enter Amelia with Iago what is your pleasure madam how is with you i cannot tell those that do teach young babes do it with gentle means and easy tasks he might have cheated me so for in good faith I am a child to chiding what's the matter lady alas Iago my lord hath so behold her thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her as true hearts cannot bear am I that name Iago what name fair lady such as she says my lord did say I was he called her [ __ ] a beggar in his drink could not have laid such terms upon his pallet why did he so i do not know i am sure I am none such do not weep do not weep alas the day how has she forsook so many noble matches her father and her country and her friends to be called [ __ ] would it not make one weep it is my wretched fortune brew him for it how comes this trick upon him nay heaven doth no i will be hanged if some eternal villain some busy and insinuating rogue some coging cousining slave to get some office have not devised this slander I'll be hanged else father there is no such man it is impossible if any such there be heaven pardon him a halter pardon him and hell gnaw his bones why should he call her [ __ ] who keeps her company what place what time what form from what likelihood the Moors abused by some most villainous nave some base notorious nave some scurvy fellow oh heaven that such companions thoust unfold and put in every honest hand a whip to lash the rascals naked through the world even from the east to the west speak within the door oh figh upon them some such squire he was that turned your wit the seamy side without and made you to suspect me with the moore you are a fool go to alas go what shall I do to win my lord again good friend go to him for by this light of heaven I know not how I lost him here I kneel if ever my will did trespass against his love either in discourse of thought or actual deed or that mine eyes mine ears or any sense delighted them in any other form or that I do not yet and ever did and ever will though he do shake me off to beggely divorcement love him dearly comfort forear me unkindness may do much and his unkindness may defeat my life but never taint my love i cannot say [ __ ] it has upore me now I speak the word to do the act that might the addition earn not the world's mass of vanity could make me i pray you be content it is but his humor the business of the state does him some offense and he does tried with you if to no other it is but so I warrant trumpets within hark how these instruments summon to supper the messengers of Venice stay the meat go in and weep not all things shall be well exantient does Deona and Amelia enter Rodrigo how now Rodrigo i do not find that thou dealest justly with me what in the contrary every day thou dastest me with some device Iago and rather as it seems to me now keepest for me all conveniency and supplies me with the least advantage of hope i will indeed no longer endure it nor am I yet persuaded to put up in peace what I've already foolishly suffered will you hear me Rodrigo faith I have heard too much for your words and performances are no kin together you charge me most unjustly with not but truth i've wasted myself out of my means the jewels you have had for me to deliver to Desimona would have corrupted a voterist you have told me she hath received them and returned to me expectations and comforts of sudden respect and acquaintance but I find none well go to very well very well go to i cannot go to man nor is not very well may I say it is very scurvy and begin to find myself bobbed in it very well i tell you it is not very well i will make myself known to Desdonora as she will return to me my jewels i will give over my suit and repent my unlawful solicitation if not assure yourself I will seek satisfaction of you you have said now i and said nothing but what I protest intendment of doing why now I see there's metal in thee and even from this instant do build on thee a better opinion than ever before give me thy hand Rodrigo thou hast taken against me a most just exception but yet I protest and have dealt most directly in thy affair it hath not appeared i grant indeed it hath not appeared and your suspicion is not without wit and judgment but Rodrigo if thou hast that in thee indeed which I have greater reason to believe now than ever I mean purpose courage and valor this night show it if thou the next night following enjoy not Desdona take me from this world with treachery and devise engines for my life well what is it is it within reason and compass sir there is a special commission come from Venice to depute Casio in Oll's place is that true why then athell and Desdona are returning to Venice oh no he goes into Moritania and takes away with him the fair Desdona unless his abode be lingered here by some accident wherein none can be so determinate as the removing of Casio how do you mean removing of him why by making him unccapable of Athell's place knocking out his brains and that you would have me do i if you would dare do yourself a profit and a right he ss tonight with a harlotry and thither will I go to him he knows not yet of his honorable fortune if you will watch his going then which I will fashion to fall out between 12 and 1 you may take him at your pleasure i will be near to second your attempt and he shall fall between us come stand not amazed at it but go along with me i will show you such a necessity in his death that you shall think yourself bound to put it on him it is now nigh supper time and the night grows to waste about it i will hear further reason for this and you shall be satisfied exant scene three cyprus another room in the castle enter Athell Lovico Desdona Amelia and attendance i do beseech you sir trouble yourself no further oh pardon me it will do me good to walk madam good night i humbly thank your lady ship your honor is most welcome will you walk sir oh Desdona my lord get you to bed on the instant i will be returned forth with dismiss your attendant there look it be done i will my lord exient Athell Livico and attendance how goes it now he looks gentler than he did he says he will return in continent he hath commanded me to go to bed and bade me to dismiss you dismiss me it was his bidding therefore good Amelia give me my nightly wearing and adure we must not now displease him why would you had never seen him so would not I my love doth so approve him that even his stubbornness his checks his frowns pri unpin me have grace and favor in them i have laid those sheets you bad me on the bed als good faith how foolish are our minds if I do die before thee prie shroud me in one of those same sheets oh come you talk my mother had a maid called Barbara she was in love and he she loved proved mad and did forsake her she had a song of willow an old thing it was but it expressed her fortune and she died singing it that song tonight will not go from my mind i have much to do but to go hang my head all at one side and sing it like poor Barbara priy dispatch shall I go fetch your night gown no unpin me here this lot of eco is a proper man a very handsome man he speaks well i know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip sings the poor soul said sighing by a sycamore tree sing all the green willow her hand on her bosom her head on her knees sing willow willow willow the fresh streams ran by her and murmured her moans sing willow willow willow her salt tears fell from her and softened the stones lay by these sings sing willow willow willow pry thee hi thee he'll come on sings sing all the green willow must be my garland let nobody blame him his scorn I approve nay that's not next hark who is dead it's the wind sings i called my love false love but what said he then sing willow willow willow if I court more women you'll couch with more men so get thee gone good night mine eyes do itch dust that boat weeping it is neither here nor there i have heard it said so oh these men these men dust thou in conscience think tell me Amelia that there be women to abuse their husbands in such gross kind there be some such no question would thou do such a deed for all the world why would not you no by this heavenly light nor I neither by this heavenly light i might do it as well in the dark would thou do such a deed for all the world the world's a huge thing it is a great price for a small vice in truth I think thou would not in truth I think I should and undo it when I had done mary I would not do such a thing for a joint ring nor for measures of lawn nor for gowns petticoats nor caps nor any petty exhibition but for the whole world why who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch i should venture purgatory for it be true me if I would do such a wrong for the whole world why the wrong is but a wrong of the world and having the world for your labor is a wrong in your own world and you might quickly make it right i do not think there is any such woman yes a dozen and as many to the vantage as would store the world they played for but I do think it is their husband's faults if wives do fall say that they slack their duties and pour our treasures into foreign laps or else break out in peevish jealousies throwing restraint upon us or say they strike us or scant our former having in despite why we have galls and though we have some grace yet have we some revenge let husbands know their wives have scents like them they see and smell and have their pallets both for sweet and sour as husbands have what is it that they do when they change us for others is it sport i think it is and doth affection breed it i think it doth it's frailty that thus errors it is so too and have not we affections desires for sport and frailty as men have then let them use us well else let them know the ills we do their ills instruct us so good night good night heaven me such usage sent not to pick bad from bad but by bad men exant end of act four act five of Athell by William Shakespeare this is a LibriVox recording all LibriVox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org act five scene one cyprus a street enter Iago and Rodrigo here stand behind this bulk straight will he come wear thy good rapier bear and put it home quick quick fear nothing i'll be at thy elbow it makes us or admires us think on that and fix most firm thy resolution be near at hand i may carry in it here at thy hand be bold and take thy stand retires to a little distance i have no great devotion to the need and yet he hath given me satisfying reasons it is but a man god forth my sword he dies goes to his stand i have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense and he grows angry now whether he kill Casio or Casio him or each do kill the other every way makes my gain live Rodrigo he calls me to a restitution large of gold and jewels that I bobbed from him as gifts to Desdona it must not be if Casio do remain he hath a daily beauty in his life that makes me ugly and besides the more may unfold me to him there stand I in much peril no he must die but so I hear him coming enter Casio i know his gate is he villain thou dest rushes out and makes a pass at Casio that thrust had been mine enemy indeed but that my coat is better than thou knowest i will make proof of thine draws and wounds rodrigo oh I am slain iagoago rushes from his post cuts Casio behind in the leg and exit i am maimed forever help ho murder murder falls enter Athll at a distance the voice of Casio yago keeps his word oh villain that I am it is even so oh hell po light a surgeon it is he oh brave Yago honest and just that hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong thou teachest me minion your dear lies dead and your unbed fate eyes trumpet I come forth of my heart to those charms thine eyes are blotted thy bed lust stained shall with lust's blood be spotted exit enter Loviko and Graciano at a distance what ho no watch no passage murder murder it is some mischance the cry is very direful oh help Hark oh wretched villain two or three groan it is a heavy night these may be counterfeits let's think it unsafe to come into the cry without more help nobody come then shall I bleed to death hark re-enter Iago with a light here comes one in a shirt with light and weapons who's there what noise is this that cries on murder we do not know did you not hear a cry here here for heaven's sake help me what's the matter this is Oll's ancient as I take it the same indeed a very valiant fellow what are you here that cry so grievously hiago oh I am spoiled undone by villains give me some help oh me Lieutenant what villains have done this i think that one of them is here about and cannot make a way oh treacherous villains chloe Vikico and Graciano what are you there come in and give some help oh help me here that's one of them oh murderous slave oh villain stabs Rodrigo oh damn Ninjago oh inhuman dog kill men in the dark where be these bloody thieves how silent is this town oh murder murder what may you be are you of good or evil as you shall prove us praise us senior Lord of Eco he sir I cry you mercy here's Casio hurt by villains casio how is brother my leg is cut in two mary heaven forbid light gentleman I'll bind it with my shirt enter Bianca what is the matter ho who is that cried who is the cried oh my dear Casio my sweet Casio oh Casio Casio Casio oh notable trumpet casio may you suspect who they should be that have thus mangled you no i am sorry to find you thus i have been to seek you lend me a guarder so oh for a chair to bury him easily hence alas he faints oh Casio Casio Casio gentlemen all I do suspect this trash to be a party in this injury patience a while good Casio come come lend me light know we this face or no alas my friend and my dear countryman Rodrigo no yes sure oh heaven rodrigo what of Venice even he sir did you know him know him i Senor Gratiano I cry your gentle pardon these bloody accidents must excuse my manners that so neglected you i am glad to see you how do you do Casio oh a chair a chair rod Rico he He is He a chair brought in oh that's well said the chair some good man bear him carefully from hence i'll fetch the general surgeon to Bianca for you mistress save your labor he that lies slain here Casio was my dear friend what malice was between you none in the world nor do I know the man to Bianca what look you pale oh bear him out of the air casio and Rodrigo are born off stay you good gentleman look you pale mistress do you perceive the ghastness of her eye and nay if you stare we shall hear more a non behold her well i I pray you look upon her do you see gentlemen nay guiltiness will speak though tongues were out of use enter Amelia lass what's the matter what's the matter husband casio have here been set on in the dark by Rodrigo and fellows that escaped he's almost slain and Rodrigo dead alas good gentlemen alas good Casio this is the fruit of whoring pretty Amelia go know of Casio where he sucked tonight what do you shake at that he slept at my house but I therefore shake not oh did he so I charge you go with me f upon thee trumpet i am no trumpet but of life as honest as you that thus abuse me as I fire upon thee kind gentlemen let's go see poor Casio dressed come mistress you must tell us another tale amelia run you to the citadel and tell my lord and lady what has happened will you go on a four aside this is the night that either makes me or for does me quite exant scene two cyprus a bed chamber in the castle desdona in bed asleep a light burning enter Oll it is the cause it is the cause my soul let me not name it to you you chased stars it is the cause yet I'll not shed her blood nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow and smooth as monumental alabaster takes off his sword yet she must die else she'll betray more men put out the light and then put out the light if I quench thee thou flaming minister I can againain thy former light restore should I repent me but once put out thy light thou cunning pattern of excelling nature i know not where is that prometheian heat that can thy light reloom when I have plucked the rose I cannot give it vital growth again it must needs wither i'll smell it on the tree kissing her oh bombie breath that dust almost persuade justice to break her sword one more one more be thus when thou art dead and I will kill thee and love thee after one more and this the last so sweet was nare so fatal i must weep but they are cruel tears this sorrows heavenly it strikes where it doth love she wakes who's there oll I Desona will you come to bed my lord have you prayed tonight does Deona i my lord if you be think yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace solicit for yet straight a lack my lord what may you mean by that well do it and be brief i will walk by i would not kill thy unprepared spirit no heaven forend i would not kill thy soul talk you of killing i I do then heaven have mercy on me amen with all my heart if you say so I hope you will not kill me h And yet I fear you for you are fatal then when your eyes roll so why I should fear I know not since guiltiness I know not but yet I feel I fear think on thy sins they are loves I bear to you i and for that thou diest that death's unnatural that kills for loving alas why ignore you saw your nether lip some bloody passion shakes your very frame these are portants but yet I hope I hope they do not point on me peace and be still i will so what's the matter that handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee thou gavest to Casio no by my life and soul send for the man and ask him sweet soul take heed take heed of perjury thou art on thy deathbed i but not yet to die yes presently therefore confess thee freely of thy sin for to deny each article with oath cannot remove nor choke the strong conception that I do groan with all thou art to die then Lord have mercy on me i say amen and have you mercy too i never did offend you in my life never loved Casio but with such general warranty of heaven as I might love I never gave him token by heaven I saw my handkerchief in hand oh perjured woman thou dost stone my heart and makest me call what I intend to do a murder which I thought a sacrifice i saw the handkerchief he found it then I never gave it him send for him hither let him confess the truth he hath confessed what my lord that he hath used thee how unlawfully i He will not say so no his mouth is stopped honest yago has taken order for it oh my fear interprets what is he dead had all his hairs been lives my great revenge had stomach for them all alas he is betrayed and I undone oh trumpet weepest thou for him to my face oh banish me my lord but kill me not down trumpet kill me tomorrow let me live tonight nay if you strive but half an hour being done there is no pause but while I say one prayer it is too late smothers her within my lord my lord what ho my lord my lord what noise is this not dead not yet quite dead i that am cruel am yet merciful i would not have thee linger in thy pain so so within what ho my lord my lord who's there within how good my lord I would speak a word with you yes it is Amelia by and by she's dead it is like she comes to speak of Casio's death the noise was high no more moving still as the grave shall she come in were it good i think she stirs again no what's best to do if she come in she'll sure speak to my wife my wife my wife what wife i have no wife oh insupportable oh heavy hour he thinks it should now be a huge eclipse of sun and moon and that the aphrighted globe should yawn at alteration within i do beseech you that I may speak with you oh good my lord i had forgot thee oh come in Amelia soft by and by let me the curtains draw where art thou unlocks the door enter Amelia what's the matter with thee now oh my good lord yonder's foul murders done what now but now my lord it is the very error of the moon she comes more nearer earth than she was won't and makes men mad casio my lord hath killed a young Venetian called Rodrigo rodrigo killed and Casio killed no Cassie was not killed not Casio killed then murders out of tune and sweet revenge grows harsh oh falsely falsely murdered alas what cry is that that what out and alas that was my lady's voice help help ho help oh lady speak again sweet Desdon sweet mistress speak a guiltless death I die oh who hath done this deed nobody i myself farewell commend me to my kind lord oh farewell dies why how should she be murdered alas who knows you heard her say herself it was not I She said so i must needs report the truth she is like a liar gone to burning hell it was I that killed her oh the more angels she and you the blacker devil she turned to folly and she was a [ __ ] thou dost bely her and thou art a devil she was false as water thou art as rash as fire to say that she was false oh she was heavenly true casio did top her ask thy husband else oh I were damned beneath all depth in hell but that I did proceed upon just grounds to this extremity thy husband knew it all my husband thy husband that she was false to wedlock i with Casio they had she been true if heaven would make me such another world of one entire and perfect crystalite I'd not have sold her for it my husband i It was he that told me first an honest man he is and hates the slime that sticks on filthy deeds my husband what needs this utterance woman I say thy husband oh mistress villain hath made mocks with love my husband say that she was false he woman I say thy husband dust understand the word my friend thy husband honest honest Yago if he say so may his pernitious soul rot half a grain a day he lies to the heart she was too fond of her most filthy bargain huh do thy worst this deed of thine is no more worthy heaven than thoust worthy her peace your best thou hast not half that power to do me harm as I have to be hurt oh gull oh doalt as ignorant as dirt thou hast done a deed i care not for thy sword i'll make thee known though I lost 20 lives help help ho help the Moore hast killed my mistress murder murder enter Montano Graciano and Iago what's the matter how now General oh are you come Yago you have done well that men must lay their murders on your neck what is the matter disprove this villain if thou beast a man he says thou toldst him that his wife was false i know thou did not thou art not such a villain speak for my heart is full i I told him what I thought and told no more than what he found himself was apt and true but did you ever tell him she was false i did you told a lie an odious damned lie upon my soul a lie a wicked lie she false with Casio did you say with Casio with Casio mistress go to charm your tongue i will not charm my tongue i am bound to speak my mistress here lies murdered in her bed and your reports have set the murder on nay stare not masters it is true indeed it is a strange truth oh monstrous act villain villain villain i think upon I think I smell it oh villain i thought so then I'll kill myself for grief oh villain villain what are you mad i charge you get you home good gentlemen let me have leave to speak it is proper I obey him but not now per chance Iago I will never go home [Music] hanging over his wife nay lay thee down and roar for thou hast killed the sweetest innocent that air did lift up I rising oh she was foul i scarceed know you uncle there lies your niece whose breath indeed these hands have newly stopped i know this act shows horrible and grim poor Desdona i am glad thy father's dead thy match was mortal to him and pure grief sure his old thread and twain did he live now this sight would make him do a desperate turn yay curse his better angel from his side and fall to reprebence it is pitiful but yet knows that she with Casio hath the act of shame a thousand times committed casio confessed it and she did gratify his amorous works with that recgnissance and pledge of love which I first gave her i saw it in his hand it was a handkerchief an antique token my father gave my mother oh heaven oh heavenly powers come hold your peace twill out twill out i peace no I will speak as liberal as the north let heaven and men and devils let them all all all cry shame against me yet I'll speak be wise and get you home i will not iago offers to stab his wife fi your sword upon a woman oh thou dull more that handkerchief thou speakst of I found by fortune and did give my husband for often with a solemn earnestness more than indeed belonged to such a trifle he begged of me to steal it villus [ __ ] she give it Casio no alas I found it and I did give it to my husband filth thou liest by heaven I do not i do not gentlemen oh murderous cockscom what should such a fool do with so good a wife are there no stones in heaven but what serve for the thunder precious villain iago stabs Amelia and then runs out the woman falls sure he has killed his wife i I Oh lay me by my mistress side he's gone but his wife's killed it is a notorious villain take you this weapon which I have here recovered from the moore come guard the door without let him not pass but kill him rather i'll after that same villain for it is a damned slave exit Montano and Graciano i am not valiant neither but every puny whipster gets my sword but why should honor outlive honesty let it go all what did thy song bode lady hark can't thou hear me i will play the swan and die in music willow willow willow more she was chased she loved thee cruel Moore so come my soul to bliss as I speak true so speaking as I think I die i die dies i have another weapon in this chamber it is a sword of Spain the icebrook's temper oh here it is uncle I must come forth within if thou attempt it it will cost thee dear thou hast no weapon and perforce must suffer look in upon me then and speak with me or naked as I am I will assault thee re-enter Graciano what is the matter behold I have a weapon a better never did it self- 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 20 times your stop but oh vain boast who can control his fate it is not so now be not afraid though you do see me weaponed here is my journey's end here is my butt and very sea mark of my utmost sail do you go back dismayed it is a lost fear man but a rush against a fellow's breast and he retires where should a fellow go now how dust thou look now oh illst starred wench pale as thy smok when we shall meet at compt this look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven and fiends will snatch at it cold cold my girl even like thy chastity oh cursed cursed slave whip me ye devils from the possession of this heavenly sight blow me about in winds roast me in sulfur wash me in steep down gulfs of liquid fire oh Desdon deadon dead oh enter Lavico Montano Casio carried in a chair and officers with Iago prisoner where is this rash and most unfortunate man that's he that was a fellow here I am where is that viper bring the villain forth i look down towards his feet but that's a fable if that thou beest a devil I cannot kill thee wounds Iago wrench his sword from him i bleed sir but not killed i am not sorry neither i'd have thee live for in my sense it is happiness to die oh thou that wer so good fallen in the practice of a damned slave what shall be said to thee why anything an honorable murderer if you will for not I did in hate but all in honor this wretch hath part confessed his villain did you and he consent in Casio's death i dear general I never gave you cause i do believe it and I ask your pardon will you I pray demand that demide why he hath thus ens snared my soul and body demand me nothing what you know you know from this time forth I never will speak word what not to pray torments will open your lips well thou dust best sir you shall understand what hath befallen which as I think you know not here is a letter found in the pocket of the slain Rodrigo and here another the one of them imports the death of Casio to be undertook by Rodrigo oh villain most heathenish and most gross now here's another discontented paper found in his pocket too and this it seems Rodrigo meant to have sent this damned villain but that be like Jargo in the interim came in and satisfied him oh the pernitious cadiff how came you Casio buy that handkerchief that was my wife's i found it in my chamber and he himself confessed but even now that there he dropped it for a special purpose which brought to his desire oh fool fool fool there is besides in Rodrigo's letter how he upgrades 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 yago heard him iago set him on you must forsake this room and go with us your power and your command is taken off and cast your 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 prison arrest till that the nature of your fault be known to the Venetian state come bring away 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 extenduate nor set down ought in malice then must you speak of one that loved not wisely but too well of one not easily jealous but being wrought perplexed in the extreme of one whose hand like the base Judeian threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe of one whose subdued 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 turbaned Turk beat a Venetian and produced the state i took by the throat the circumcised dog and smokeote him thus stabs himself oh bloody period all that spoke is marred i kissed thee air I killed thee no way but this killing myself to die upon a kiss falling upon Desdona this did I fear but I thought he had no weapon for he was great of heart to Iago oh Spartan dog more fell than anguish hunger or the sea look on the tragic loading of this bed this is thy work the object poison sight let it be hid gratziano keep the house and seize upon the fortunes of the Moore for they succeed on you to you Lord Governor remains the sensor of this hellish villain the time the place the torture oh enforce it myself will straight aboard and to the state this heavy act with heavy heart relate exant end of act five end of Aellow by William Shakespeare