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[Enter LODOVICO. MONTANO, CASSIO carried in a chair,and Officers with IAGO, prisoner.]Othello Act V, scene iiLODOVICO: This wretch hath part confess’d his villany:Did you and he consent in Cassio’s death?LODOVICO: Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?OTHELLO: That’s he that was Othello: here I am.LODOVICO: Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.OTHELLO: I look down towards his feet; but that’s a fable.If that thou best a devil, I cannot kill thee.[Wounds IAGO.]OTHELLO: Ay.CASSIO: Dear general, I never gave you cause.OTHELLO: I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devilWhy he hath thus ensnared my soul and body?IAGO: Demand me nothing: what you know, you know:From this time forth I never will speak word.LODOVICO: Wrench his sword from him.IAGO:I bleed, sir; but not kill’d.OTHELLO: I am not sorry neither: I’ld have thee live;For, in my sense, ’tis happiness to die.LODOVICO: O thou Othello, thou wert once so good,Fall’n in the practice of a damned slave,What shall be said to thee?OTHELLO:Why, any thing:An honorable murderer, if you will;For nought I did in hate, but all in honor.98LODOVICO: What, not to pray?GRATIANO:OTHELLO: Well, thou dost best.Torments will ope your lips.LODOVICO: Sir, you shall understand what hath befall’n,Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letterFound in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;And here another: the one of them importsThe death of Cassio to be undertookBy Roderigo.
OTHELLO: O villain!CASSIO: Most heathenish and most gross!LODOVICO: Now here’s another discontented paper,Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;But that belike Iago in the interimCame in and satisfied him.OTHELLO:O the pernicious caitiff!How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchiefThat was my wife’s?CASSIO:I found it in my chamber:And he himself confess’d but even nowThat there he dropp’d it for a special purposeWhich wrought to his desire.OTHELLO: O fool! fool! fool!CASSIO: There is besides in Roderigo’s letter,How he upbraids Iago, that he made himBrave me upon the watch; whereon it cameThat I was cast: and even but now he spake,After long seeming dead, Iago hurt him,Iago set him on.Othello Act V, scene ii99LODOVICO: You must forsake this room, and go with us:Your power and your command is taken off,And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,If there be any cunning crueltyThat can torment him much and hold him long,It shall be his. You shall close prisoner rest,Till that the nature of your fault be knownTo the Venetian state. Come, bring him away.OTHELLO: Soft you; a word or two before you go.I have done the state some service, and they know’t.No more of that. I pray you, in your letters,When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speakOf one that loved not wisely but too well;Of one not easily jealous, but being wroughtPerplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,Like the base Indian, threw a pearl awayRicher than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,Albeit unused to the melting mood,Drop tears as fast as the Arabian treesTheir medicinal gum. Set you down this;And say besides, that in Aleppo once,Where a malignant and a turban’d TurkBeat a Venetian and traduced the state,I took by the throat the circumcised dog,And smote him, thus.
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