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To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear;And let me find a charter in your voice,To assist my simpleness.DUKE OF VENICE: What would You, Desdemona?DESDEMONA: That I did love the Moor to live with him,My downright violence and storm of fortunesMay trumpet to the world: my heart’s subduedEven to the very quality of my lord:I saw Othello’s visage in his mind,And to his honor and his valiant partsDid 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 rites for which I love him are bereft me,And I a heavy interim shall supportBy his dear absence. Let me go with him.OTHELLO: Let her have your voices.Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,To please the palate of my appetite,Nor to comply with heat—the young affectsIn me defunct—and proper satisfaction.But to be free and bounteous to her mind:And heaven defend your good souls, that you thinkI will your serious and great business scantOthello Act I, scene iii18For she is with me: no, when light-wing’d toysOf feather’d Cupid seal with wanton dullnessMy speculative and officed instruments,That my disports corrupt and taint my business,Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,And all indign and base adversitiesMake head against my estimation!DUKE OF VENICE: Be it as you shall privately determine,Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,And speed must answer it.First Senator: You must away to-night.OTHELLO:With all my heart.DUKE OF VENICE: At nine i’ the morning here we’ll meet again.Othello, leave some officer behind,And he shall our commission bring to you;With such things else of quality and respectAs doth import you.OTHELLO: So please your grace, my ancient;A man he is of honest and trust:To his conveyance I assign my wife,With what else needful your good grace shall thinkTo be sent after me.
DUKE OF VENICE:Good night to every one.[To BRABANTIO]Let it be so.And, noble signior,If virtue no delighted beauty lack,Your son-in-law is far more fair than black.First Senator: Adieu, brave Moor, use Desdemona well.BRABANTIO: Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see:She has deceived her father, and may thee.[Exeunt Duke, Senators, Officers, &c.]OTHELLO: My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,My Desdemona must I leave to thee:I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:And bring them after in the best advantage.Come, Desdemona: I have but an hourOf love, of worldly matters and direction,To spend with thee: we must obey the time.[Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.]Othello Act I, scene iiiRODERIGO: Iago,—IAGO: What say’st thou, noble heart?RODERIGO: What will I do, thinkest thou?IAGO: Why, go to bed, and sleep.RODERIGO: I will incontinently drown myself.IAGO: If thou dost, I shall never love thee after. Why,thou silly gentleman!RODERIGO: It is silliness to live when to live is torment;and then have we a prescription to die when death isour physician.IAGO: O villainous! I have looked upon the world forfour times seven years; and since I could distinguishbetwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man thatknew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I would drownmyself for the love of a guinea-hen, I would change myhumanity with a baboon.RODERIGO: What should I do? I confess it is my shameto be so fond; but it is not in my virtue to amend it.19
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