Du. Nay, it is poffible enough to iudgement: I doe not fo fecure me to the error,

But the mayne articles + I doe approue

In fearefull fense.

Enter a messenger.

One within. What ho, what ho, what ho?
Sailor. A meffenger from the galley.

Du. Now, the bufineffe?

Sailor. The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes, So was I bid report here, to the state. †

Du How fay you by this change?

1 Sena. This cannot be by no affay of reafonTis a pageant,

To keepe vs in falfe gaze: when we confider
The importancy of Cypreffe to the Turke:
And let our felues againe, but vnderstand,
That as it more concernes the Turke then Rhodes,
So may he with more facile queftion beare it.
Du. And in all confidence, hee's not for Rhodes,
Officer. Here is more newes.

Enter a 2. meffenger.

Mef. The Ottamites, reuerend and gracious, Steering with due courfe toward the ifle of Rhodes, Haue there inioynted with an after fleete §

+ Article.

By Signer Angelo.

‡ For that it fands not in such warlike brace,
Who altogether lacks tl'abilities

That Rhodes is dreft in: if we make nought of this,
We must not thinke the Turke is fo unfkilfull,

To le ve that lateft which concernes bim firft;

Neglecting an attempt of eale and gaine,

To wake and wage a danger profilele. Edit. 1630.
Ney.

$1 Sena. I. So I thought, how many, as you guesse.
Meff. Of 30 faile, &c.

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Of

Of 30. faile, and now they doe refterine *
Their backward courfe, bearing with franke appearance
Their purposes towards Cypreffe: seignior Montano,
Your trufty and most valiant feruitor,

With his free duty recommends you thus,
And prayes you to beleeue him.

Du. Tis certaine then for Cypreffe,

Marcus Luccicos is not here

in towne.

I Sena. Hee's now in Florence.

Du. Write from vs, wish † him post, post hast dispatch.

Enter Brabantio, Othello, Roderigo, Iago, Caffio, Desdemona and officers.

1 Sena. Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moore. Du. Valiant Othello, we muft ftraite imploy you, Against the generall enemy Ottaman;

I did not fee you, welcome gentle feiguior,

We lacke your counfell, and your helpe to night,

Bra. So did I yours, good your grace pardon me,
Neither my place, nor ought I heard of bufineffe
Hath rais'd me from my bed, nor || doth the generall care
Take any hold of me; for my particular griefes *§,

Is of fo floodgate and orebearing nature,

That it engluts and swallowes other forrowes,

And it is ftill it felfe.

Du. Why, what's the matter?

Bra. My daughter, O my daughter.

Ail. Dead?

Bra. I to me :

She is abus'd, ftolne from me and corrupted,

By fpels and medicines, bought of mountebancks,

refterne. + be. † to. I lackt. Hnot.

* griefe.

§ any omitted,

For nature fo prepofterously to erre, ↓
Saunce witchcraft could not.

Du. Who ere he be, that in this foule proceeding
Hath thus beguild your daughter of her felfe,
And you of her, the bloody booke of law,
You fhall your felfe, read in the bitter letter,
After its owne fense, tho ‡ our proper fonne
Stood in your action.

Bra. Humbly I thanke your grace;

Here is the man, this Moore, whom now it feemes
Your fpeciall mandate, for the state affaires

Hath hither brought.

All. We are very forry for❜t.

Du. What in your owne part can you say to this?
Bra. Nothing, but this is fo.

Oth. Moit potent, graue, and reuerend feigniors,
My very noble and approoued good maifters:
That I haue tane away this old mans daughter,
It is most true: true, I haue married her,
The very head and front of my offending,
Hath this extent no more. Rude am I in my fpeech,
And little bleft with the fet phrafe of peace,
For fince thefe armes of mine had feuen yeares pith,
Till row fome nine moones wafted, they haue vs'd
Their eareft action in the tented field,

And little of this great world can I speake,

More then pertaines to feate of broyle, and battaile,
And there.ore little fhall I grace my cause,

In fpe king for my felfe; yet by your gracious patience,

I will a round vnuarnifb'd § tale deliuer,

Of my whole courfe of loue, what drugs, what charmes,
What coniuration, and what mighty magicke,

(Being not deficient, b'ind or lame of fenfe
yea tha.

+ Sans.

I would, § unrauifb'd.

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(For

(For fuch proceedings am I charg'd withall :) I wonne his daughter.

Bra. A maiden neuer bold of spirit,

So ftill and quiet, that her motion

Blusht at her felfe: and fhe in fpite of nature,
Of yeares, of countrey, credit, euery thing,
To fall in loue with what fhe fear'd to looke on ?
It is a iudgement maimd, and most imperfect,
That will confeffe perfection, fo would erre
Against all rules of nature, and must be driuen,
To find out practifes of cunning hell,

Why this should be, I therefore vouch againe,
That with fome mixtures powerfull ore the blood,
Or with fome dram coniur'd to this effect,
He wrought vpon her.

Du. To youth this is no proofe,

Without more certaine and more ouert test,
Thefe are thin habits, and poore likelihoods,
Of moderne feemings, you preferre against him.
1 Sena. But Othello fpeake,

Did you by indirect and forced courfes,

Subdue and poison this young maides affections?
Or came it by requeft, and fuch faire queftion,
As foule to foule affoordeth?

Oth. I doe befeech you,

Send for the lady to the Sagittar *,

And let her speake of me before her father;

If you doe finde me foule in her report †,

Not onely take away, but let your fentence,
Euen fall vpon my life.

Du. Fetch Desdemona hither.

* Sagittary.

Exit two or three.

The truft, the office, I de bold of you Edit. 1630.
Exeunt.

Oth. Ancient conduct them, you beft know the place; And till fhe come, as faithfull † as to heauen, ↓

So iuftly to your graue eares I'le prefent,

How I did thrive in this faire ladyes loue,
And fhe in mine.

Du. Say it Othello.

Oth. Her father loued me, oft inuited me,
Still queftioned me the ftory of my life,

From yeare to yeare, the battailes, feiges, fortunes
That I haue paft:

I ran it through, cucn from my boyifh dayes,
Toth' very moment that he bade me tell it.
Wherein I fpake of moft difaftrous chances,
Of moouing accident of ‡ flood and field;

Of heire §-breadth fcapes ith imminent deadly breach;
Of being taken by the infolent foe:

And fold to flaucry, and my redemption thence,
And with it all my travells hiftorie;

Wherein of antrees vaft, and deferts idle,

Rough quarries, rocks and hils, whofe heads touch heauen,

It was my hent †† to fpeake, fuch was the ‡‡ procelle :
And of the Cannibals, that each other eate;

The Anthropophagie, and men whofe heads

Doe grow beneath their fhoulders: this to heare,

Would Defdemona feriously incline;

But ftill the houfe affaires would draw her thence,
And euer as he could with haft difpatch,
Shee'd come againe, and with a greedy care
Deuoure vp my difcourfe; which I obferuing,
Tooke once a plyant houre, and found good meanes
To draw from her a prayer of earneft heart,
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,

+truely. I dae confefe the vices of my bloud.
And portance in. *antars. tt bins.

accidents by. bajre

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Whereof