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Act VScene ICyprus. A streetEnter Iago and RoderigoIagoHere, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come: Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home: Quick, quick; fear nothing; I’ll be at thy elbow: It makes us, or it mars us; think on that, And fix most firm thy resolution.RoderigoBe near at hand; I may miscarry in’t.IagoHere, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.RetiresRoderigoI have no great devotion to the deed; And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons: ‘Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.IagoI have rubb’d this young quat almost to the sense, And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo, He calls me to a restitution large Of gold and jewels that I bobb’d from him, As gifts to Desdemona; It must not be: if Cassio do remain, He hath a daily beauty in his life That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril: No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.Enter CassioRoderigoI know his gait, ’tis he.—Villain, thou diest!Makes a pass at CassioCassioThat thrust had been mine enemy indeed, But that my coat is better than thou know’st I will make proof of thine.Draws, and wounds RoderigoRoderigoO, I am slain!Iago from behind wounds Cassio in the leg, and exitCassioI am maim’d for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder! [Falls]Enter OthelloOthelloThe voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.RoderigoO, villain that I am!OthelloIt is even so.CassioO, help, ho! light! a surgeon!Othello’Tis he:—O brave Iago, honest and just, That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead, And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come. Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted; Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.ExitEnter Lodovico and GratianoCassioWhat, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!Gratiano’Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.CassioO, help!LodovicoHark!RoderigoO wretched villain!LodovicoTwo or three groan: it is a heavy night: These may be counterfeits: let’s think’t unsafe To come in to the cry without more help.RoderigoNobody come? then shall I bleed to death.LodovicoHark!Re-enter Iago, with a lightGratianoHere’s one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.IagoWho’s there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?LodovicoWe do not know.IagoDid not you hear a cry?CassioHere, here! for heaven’s sake, help me!IagoWhat’s the matter?GratianoThis is Othello’s ancient, as I take it.LodovicoThe same indeed; a very valiant fellow.IagoWhat are you here that cry so grievously?CassioIago? O, I am spoil’d, undone by villains! Give me some help.IagoO me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?CassioI think that one of them is hereabout, And cannot make away.IagoO treacherous villains! What are you there? come in, and give some help.To Lodovico and GratianoRoderigoO, help me here!CassioThat’s one of them.IagoO murderous slave! O villain!Stabs RoderigoRoderigoO damn’d Iago! O inhuman dog!IagoKill men i’ the dark!—Where be these bloody thieves?— How silent is this town!—Ho! murder! murder!— What may you be? are you of good or evil?LodovicoAs you shall prove us, praise us.IagoSignior Lodovico?LodovicoHe, sir.IagoI cry you mercy. Here’s Cassio hurt by villains.GratianoCassio!IagoHow is’t, brother!CassioMy leg is cut in two.IagoMarry, heaven forbid! Light, gentlemen; I’ll bind it with my shirt.Enter BiancaBiancaWhat is the matter, ho? who is’t that cried?IagoWho is’t that cried!BiancaO my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!IagoO notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect Who they should be that have thus many led you?CassioNo.GratianoI am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.IagoLend me a garter. So. O, for a chair, To bear him easily hence!BiancaAlas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!IagoGentlemen all, I do suspect this trash To be a party in this injury. Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come; Lend me a light. Know we this face or no? Alas my friend and my dear countryman Roderigo! no:—yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.GratianoWhat, of Venice?IagoEven he, sir; did you know him?GratianoKnow him! ay.IagoSignior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon; These bloody accidents must excuse my manners, That so neglected you.GratianoI am glad to see you.IagoHow do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!GratianoRoderigo!IagoHe, he ’tis he.A chair brought inO, that’s well said; the chair!GratianoSome good man bear him carefully from hence; I’ll fetch the general’s surgeon. [To Bianca] For you, mistress, Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio, Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?CassioNone in the world; nor do I know the man.IagoTo BiancaWhat, look you pale? O, bear him out o’ the air.Cassio and Roderigo are borne offStay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress? Do you perceive the gastness of her eye? Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon. Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her: Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak, Though tongues were out of use.Enter EmiliaEmilia’Las, what’s the matter? what’s the matter, husband?IagoCassio hath here been set on in the dark By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped: He’s almost slain, and Roderigo dead.EmiliaAlas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!IagoThis is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia, Go know of Cassio where he supp’d to-night.To BiancaWhat, do you shake at that?BiancaHe supp’d at my house; but I therefore shake not.IagoO, did he so? I charge you, go with me.EmiliaFie, fie upon thee, strumpet!BiancaI am no strumpet; but of life as honest As you that thus abuse me.EmiliaAs I! foh! fie upon thee!IagoKind gentlemen, let’s go see poor Cassio dress’d. Come, mistress, you must tell’s another tale. Emilia run you to the citadel, And tell my lord and lady what hath happ’d. Will you go on? I pray.AsideThis is the night That either makes me or fordoes me quite.Exeunt

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