EMILIA: O heaven! O heavenly powers!Othello Act V, scene iiIAGO:Filth, thou liest!IAGO: Come, hold your peace.EMILIA:‘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.IAGO: Be wise, and get you home.EMILIA: By heaven, I do not, I do not, gentlemen.O murderous coxcomb! what should such a foolDo with so good a woman?OTHELLO:Are there no stones in heavenBut what serve for the thunder?—Precious villain![He runs at Iago: Iago, from behind, stabs Emilia, and exit.]EMILIA:I will not.GRATIANO: The woman falls; sure, he hath kill’d his wife.[Iago offers to stab Emilia.]GRATIANO: Fie!Your sword upon a woman?EMILIA: O thou dull Moor! that handkerchief thou speak’st ofI found by fortune and did give my husband;For often, with a solemn earnestness,More than indeed belong’d to such a trifle,He begg’d of me to steal it.EMILIA: Ay, ay: O, lay me by my mistress’ side.GRATIANO: He’s gone, but his wife’s kill’d.MONTANO: ’Tis a notorious villain. Take you this weapon,Which I have here recover’d from the Moor:Come, guard the door without; let him not pass,But kill him rather. I’ll after that same villain,For ’tis a damned slave.IAGO:Villanous whore![Exeunt Montano and Gratiano.]EMILIA: She give it Cassio! no, alas! I found it,<strong>An</strong>d I did give’t my husband.OTHELLO:I am not valiant neither,But ever puny whipster gets my sword:96
But why should honor outlive honesty?Let it go all.EMILIA: What did thy song bode, lady?Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.<strong>An</strong>d die in music.[Singing]Willow, willow, willow,—Moor, she was chaste; she loved thee, cruel Moor;So come my soul to bliss, as I speak true;So speaking as I think, I die, I die.[Dies.]OTHELLO: I have another weapon in this chamber;It is a sword of Spain, the ice-brook’s temper:—O, here it is. Uncle, I must come forth.GRATIANO: [Within] If thou attempt it, it will costthee dear:Thou hast no weapon, and perforce must suffer.OTHELLO: Look in upon me then and speak with me,Or, naked as I am, I will assault thee.Othello Act V, scene ii[Re-enter GRATIANO.]97GRATIANO: What is the matter?OTHELLO:Behold, I have a weapon;A better never did itself sustainUpon 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 impedimentsThan twenty times your stop: but, O vain boast!Who can control his fate? ’tis not so now.Be not afraid, though you do see me weapon’d;Here is my journey’s end, here is my butt,<strong>An</strong>d very sea-mark of my utmost sail.Do you go back dismay’d? ’tis a lost fear;Man but a rush against Othello’s breast,<strong>An</strong>d he retires. Where should Othello go?Now, how dost thou look now? O ill-starr’d wench!Pale as thy smock! when we shall meet at compt,This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven,<strong>An</strong>d fiends will snatch at it. Cold, cold, my girl!Even like thy chastity. O cursed slave!Whip me, ye devils,From the possession of this heavenly sight!Blow me about in winds! roast me in sulphur!Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!O Desdemona! Desdemona! dead!Oh! Oh! Oh!
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