Enter LODOVICO, MONTANO, CASSIO, carried in a chair, and Officers, with IAGO, prisoner.

Lod. Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?
Oth. That's he, that was Othello; here I am.
Lod. Where is that viper? bring the villain forth.
Oth. I look down towards his feet; but that's a fable:

If that thou be'st a devil, I cannot kill thee.

[OTHELLO Wounds IAGO.

Lod. Wrench his sword from him.
Iago.

I bleed, fir; but not kill'd.

Oth. I am not forry neither; I'd have thee live;

For, in my sense, 'tis happiness to die.

Lod. O thou Othello, that wast once so good,

Fall'n in the practice of a cursed slave,

What shall be faid to thee?

Oth.

Why, any thing:

An honourable murderer, if you will;

For nought I did in hate, but all in honour.

Lod. This wretch hath part confefs'd his villainy:

Did you and he consent in Cassio's death?

Oth. Ay.

Caf. Dear general, I never gave you cause.
Oth. I do believe it, and I ask your pardon.

Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil,
Why he hath thus ensnar'd my soul and body?

Iago. Demand me nothing: What you know, you know:

From this time forth I never will speak word.

Lod. What? not to pray?

Gra.

Oth. Well, thou dost best.

Torments will ope your lips.

Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,

Which, as I think, you know not: Here is a letter,

Found in the pocket of the flain Roderigo;
And here, another: the one of them imports
The death of Caffio to be undertook

By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain!

Caf.

Most heathenish, and most gross !

Lod. Now here's another discontented paper,

Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have fent this damned villain;

But that, belike, Iago in the interim

Came in and fatisfied him.

Oth.

O the pernicious caitiff!

How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief

That was my wife's?

Caf.

I found it in my chamber:

And he himself confefs'd, but even now,

That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his defire.

:

Oth.

O fool! fool! fool!

Caf. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter,

How he upbraids Iago, that he made him

Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: And even but now he spake,

After long seeming dead,-Iago hurt him,

Iago set him on.

Lod. You must forsake this room, and go with us; Your power and your command is taken off, And Caffio rules in Cyprus. For this flave, If there be any cunning cruelty, That 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 known To the Venetian state: -Come, bring away.

Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.

I have done the state some service, and they know it;
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 fet down aught in malice: then must you speak

Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well;
Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,

Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away,

Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd eyes,

Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees

Their medicínal gum: Set you down this :

And say, besides, that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcifed dog,
And fmote him-thus.

Lod. O bloody period!

Gra.

[Stabs himself.

All, that's spoke, is marr'd. Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;-No way but this, [Falling upon DESDEMONA.

Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

[Dies.

Caf. 'This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;

For he was great of heart.

Lod.

O Spartan dog,

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the fea!
Look on the tragick loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons fight;-

[TO IAGO.

Let it be hid.-Gratiano, keep the house,

And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you.--To you, lord governor,

Remains the censure of this hellish villain;

The

3

The time, the place, the torture, -O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; antl, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

}:

A GLOSSARY

EXPLAINING

THE OBSOLETE AND DIFFICULT WORDS

IN THE

PLAYS OF SHAKSPEARE.

When a Word is borrowed from a foreign Language, and not ot familiarized by Ufe into our own; the original Word in fuch foreign Language is fet down.

A.

To Aby, to suffer for, to pay dear for.

To Accite, to call, to summon or fend for. Lat. Accire..

To Affeer, to confirm, to ascertain: A law-term used in Court-Leets, and signifying to confirm or fix, by persons properly chofen, the Mulcts there imposed upon such as have committed faults arbitrarily punishable, and which have no express penalty annexed to them by any ftatute. Fr. Affeurer.

To Affie, to affiance, to betroth; also, to confide.

To Affront, to front, or confront, or face.

An Aglet, the tag of a lace, or of the points formerly used as ornaments in dress, and which (for the greater finery) were often cut in

shape of little images. Fr. Aiguillette.

To Agnize, to acknowledge, to avow. Lat. Agnofcere.

Agood, much, a great deal.

An Aiery, the nest of an hawk, and sometimes the brood of hawks

beloning to a particular nest.

Alder

An A

all. Alder-Liefest, dearest of all.

nt, an ensign, or standard-bearer.

Anthre, phaginian, a man-eater. Gr. Ανθρωποφάγος.

An Antre, a cave or cavern. Fr. Antre. Lat. Antrum.

A

To

J