But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier-
To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,-
If this be known to you, and your allowance,1
We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;
But if you know not this, my manners tell me,
We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe,
That, from the sense of all civility,

2

I thus would play and trifle with your reverence. Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,— I say again, hath made a gross revolt;

Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes,

3

In an extravagant and wheeling stranger,

Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself ;] If she be in her chamber, or your house,

Let loose on me the justice of the state

For thus deluding you.

Bra.

Strike on the tinder, ho!

Give me a taper;-call up all my people.

This accident is not unlike my dream;

Belief of it oppresses me already.

[Exit, from above.

Light, I say! light!
Iago.
Farewell; for I must leave you.
It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,
To be produced (as, if I stay, I shall)

Against the Moor. For, I do know, the state-
However this may gall him with some check—
Cannot with safety cast him! for he's embarked
With such loud reason to the Cyprus' wars,
(Which even now stand in act,) that, for their souls,
Another of his fathom they have not,

To lead their business; in which regard,
Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains,
Yet, for necessity of present life,

I must show out a flag and sign of love,

1 i. e. done with your approbation.

2 That is, in opposition to or departing from the sense of all civility. 3 Extravagant is here again used in its Latin sense, for wandering." In is here used for on; a common substitution in ancient phraseology. 4 i. e. some rebuke.

5 That is, dismiss him.

May speak, unbonneted,' to as proud a fortune
As this that I have reached. For know, lago,
But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my unhoused, free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea's worth.

yonder?

But, look! what lights come

Enter CASSIO, at a distance, and certain Officers with

torches.

Jago. These are the raised father, and his friends. You were best go in.

Oth.

Not I; I must be found;

My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,

Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?
Iago. By Janus, I think no.

Oth. The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant. The goodness of the night upon you, friends!

What is the news?

Cas.

The duke does greet you, general;

And he requires your haste, post-haste appearance,

Even on the instant.

Oth.
Cas. Something from Cyprus, as I may
It is a business of some heat. The galleys
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
This very night at one another's heels;
And many of the consuls, raised, and met,

What is the matter, think you

divine;

Are at the duke's already. You have been hotly called

for;

When, being not at your lodging to be found,

1 "I am his equal or superior in rank; and were it not so, such are my merits, that, unbonneted, without the addition of patrician or senatorial dignity, they may speak to as proud a fortune," &c.

21. e. unsettled, free from domestic cares.

3 Pliny, the naturalist, has a chapter on the riches of the sea. pression seems to have been proverbial.

The ex

4 These words were ordinarily written on the covers of letters or packets requiring the most prompt and speedy conveyance; often reduplicated thus:-" Haste, haste, haste, post-haste!"

5 See note 4, p. 400.

For I'll refer me to all things of sense,
If she in chains of magic were not bound,
Whether a maid-so tender, fair, and happy;
So opposite to marriage, that she shunned
The wealthy, curled darlings of our nation-
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom
Of such a thing as thou; to fear, not to delight.2
[Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense,3
That thou hast practised on her with foul charms;
Abused her delicate youth with drugs, or minerals,
That waken motion.--I'll have it disputed on;
'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.

I therefore apprehend and do attach thee,]
For an abuser of the world, a practiser
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.-
Lay hold upon him; if he do resist,
Subdue him at his peril.

Oth.

Hold your hands,
Both you of my inclining, and the rest.

Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it
Without a prompter.-Where will you that I
To answer this your charge?

Bra.

go,

To prison; till fit time

Of law, and course of direct session,

Call thee to answer.

Oth.

What if I do obey?

How may the duke be therewith satisfied;
Whose messengers are here about my side,
Upon some present business of the state,
To bring me to him?
of.

'Tis true, most worthy scignior,

1 It was the fashion of the Poet's time for lusty gallants to wear "a curled bush of frizzled hair." See Hall's Satires, ed. 1824, book iii.

sat. 5.

2 "Of such a thing as thou; a thing to fear (i. e. terrify), not to delight."

3 The lines in crotchets are not in the first edition, 4to. 1629.

4 The old copy reads, "That weaken motion." The emendation is Hanmer's. Motion is elsewhere used by our Poet precisely in the sense required here. To waken is to incite, to stir up.

The duke's in council; and your noble self,
I am sure, is sent for.

Bra.
How! the duke in council!
In this time of the night?-Bring him away.
Mine's not an idle cause: the duke himself,
Or any of my brothers of the state,
Cannot but feel this wrong, as 'twere their own.
For if such actions may have passage free,
Bond-slaves, and pagans,' shall our statesmen be.

[Exeunt

SCENE III. The same. A Council Chamber.

The Duke, and Senators, sitting at a table; Officers

attending.

2

Duke. There is no composition in these news, That gives them credit.

1 Sen.

Indeed, they are disproportioned;

My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.
Duke. And mine, a hundred and forty.

2 Sen. And mine, two hundred. But though they jump not on a just account, (As in these cases, where the aim3 reports, 'Tis oft with difference,) yet do they all confirm A Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus.

Duke. Nay, it is possible enough to judgment; I do not so secure me in the error,

But the main article I do approve

In fearful sense.

Sailor. [Within.] What, ho! what, ho! what, ho!

1 Pagan was a word of contempt; and the reason will appear from nts etymology: :-"Paganus, villanus vel inculsus; et derivatur a pagus quod est villa. Et quicunque habitat in villa est paganus. Præterea quicunque est extra civitatem Dei, i. c. ecclesiam, dicitur paganus; anglice, a paynim."-Ortus Vocabulorum, 1528.

2 Composition for consistency. News was considered of the plural number by our ancestors.

3 Aim is guess, conjecture. The quarto reads, "they aim reports." The meaning appears to be, "In these cases where conjecture tells the

tale."