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Othello Act I, scene iiiBRABANTIO:Humbly I thank your grace. Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,Here is the man, this Moor, whom now, it seems,Your special mandate for the state-affairsHath hither brought.What conjuration and what mighty magic,For such proceeding I am charged withal,I won his daughter.DUKE OF VENICE & Senator:We are very sorry for’t.DUKE OF VENICE: [To Othello] What, in your own part,can you say to this?BRABANTIO: Nothing, but this is so.OTHELLO: Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,My very noble and approved good masters,That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter,It is most true; true, I have married her:The very head and front of my offendingHath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,And little bless’d with the soft phrase of peace:For since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith,Till now some nine moons wasted, they have usedTheir 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 causeIn speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver14BRABANTIO:A maiden never bold;Of spirit so still and quiet, that her motionBlush’d at herself; and she, in spite of nature,Of years, of country, credit, every thing,To fall in love with what she fear’d to look on!It is a judgment maim’d and most imperfectThat will confess perfection so could errAgainst all rules of nature, and must be drivenTo find out practices of cunning hell,Why this should be. I therefore vouch againThat with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood,Or with some dram conjured to this effect,He wrought upon her.DUKE OF VENICE:To vouch this, is no proof,Without more wider and more overt testThan these thin habits and poor likelihoodsOf modern seeming do prefer against him.First Senator: But, Othello, speak:Did you by indirect and forced coursesSubdue and poison this young maid’s affections?
Or came it by request and such fair questionAs soul to soul affordeth?OTHELLO: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 sentenceEven fall upon my life.DUKE OF VENICE:Fetch Desdemona hither.OTHELLO: Ancient, conduct them: you best know the place.[Exeunt Iago and Attendants.]And, till she come, as truly as to heavenI do confess the vices of my blood,So justly to your grave ears I’ll presentHow I did thrive in this fair lady’s love,And she in mine.DUKE OF VENICE: Say it, Othello.OTHELLO: Her father loved me; oft invited me;Still question’d me the story of my life,Othello Act I, scene iiiFrom 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 bade me tell it;Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,Of moving accidents by flood and fieldOf hair-breadth scapes i’ the imminent deadly breach,Of being taken by the insolent foeAnd sold to slavery, of my redemption thenceAnd portance in my travels’ history:Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heavenIt was my hint to speak,—such was the process;And of the Cannibals that each other eat,The Anthropophagi and men whose headsDo grow beneath their shoulders. This to hearWould Desdemona seriously incline:But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,She’ld come again, and with a greedy earDevour up my discourse: which I observing,Took once a pliant hour, and found good meansTo draw from her a prayer of earnest heartThat 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,15
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