Help, ho!-Lieutenant,-sir,-Montano,-sir;- Oth. Enter OTHELLO, and Attendants. What is the matter here? Mon. I bleed still, I am hurt to the death;-he dies.4 Oth. Hold, for your lives. Iago. Hold, hold, lieutenant,-sir, Montano,gentlemen, Have you forgot all sense of place and duty? Hold, hold! the general speaks to you; hold, for shame! Oth. Why, how now, ho! from whence ariseth this? Are we turn'd Turks; and to ourselves do that, ters? Honest Iago, that look'st dead with grieving, Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee. lago. I do not know;-friends all but now, even 6 now, In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom He dies.] i. e. he shall die. From her propriety.] From her regular and proper state. (As if some planet had unwitted men,) Cas. I pray you, pardon me, I cannot speak. The world hath noted, and your name is great And spend your rich opinion, for the name Mon. Worthy Othello, I am hurt to danger; Your officer, lago, can inform you While I spare speech, which something now offends me; Of all that I do know: nor know I aught When violence assails us. Oth. Now, by heaven, you are thus forgot?] i. e. you have thus forgot yourself. self-charity-] Care of one's self. 9 And passion, having my best judgment collied,] Othello means, that passion has discoloured his judgment. To colly, anciently signified to besmut, to blacken as with coal. And he that is approv'd' in this offence, Mon. If partially affin'd, or leagu'd in office, Iago. Touch me not so near: I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth, More of this matter can I not report: But men are men; the best sometimes forget:Though Cassio did some little wrong to him,— 1 he that is approv'd-] He that is convicted by proof, of having been engaged in this offence. 2 If partially affin'd,] Affin'd is bound by proximity of relationship; but here it means related by nearness of office. As men in rage strike those that wish them best,- Oth. I know, Iago, Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, Enter DESDEMONA, attended. Look, if my gentle love be not rais'd up;- Des. What's the matter, dear? Oth. All's well now, sweeting; Come away to bed. Sir, for your hurts, Myself will be your surgeon: Lead him off. [To MONTANO, who is led off. Iago, look with care about the town; And silence those whom this vile brawl distracted. Come, Desdemona; 'tis the soldiers' life, To have their balmy slumbers wak'd with strife. Exeunt all but IAGO and CASSIO. Iago. What, are you hurt, lieutenant ? Cas. Ay, past all surgery. Iago. Marry, heaven forbid! Cas. Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part, sir, of myself, and what remains is bestial.— My reputation, Iago, my reputation. Iago. As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more offence in that, than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving: You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser. What, man! there are ways to recover the C c VOL. X. general again: You are but now cast in his mood, a punishment more in policy than in malice; even so as one would beat his offenceless dog, to affright an imperious lion: sue to him again, and he's yours. Cas. I will rather sue to be despised, than to deceive so good a commander, with so slight, so drunken, and so indiscreet an officer. Drunk? and speak parrot? and squabble? swagger? swear? and discourse fustian with one's own shadow?-O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee-devil! Iago. What was he that you followed with your sword? What had he done to you? Cas. I know not. Iago. Is it possible? Cas. I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore.-O, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts! Iago. Why, but you are now well enough: How came you thus recovered? Cas. It hath pleased the devil, drunkenness, to give place to the devil, wrath: one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise my self. Iago. Come, you are too severe a moraler: As the time, the place, and the condition of this country stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen; but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good. Cas. I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me, I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths 3 cast in his mood,] Ejected in his anger. 4 and speak parrot?] A phrase signifying to act foolishly and childishly. |