The Complete Works of William Shakespeare In Plain and Simple English (Translated) (971 page)

Then punish me as the state allows

For thus deluding you.

For tricking you.

BRABANTIO

Strike on the tinder, ho!

Someone light a match!

Give me a taper! call up all my people!

Give me a candle! Wake my servants!

This accident is not unlike my dream:

What you have told me is similar to a dream I have had –

Belief of it oppresses me already.

Believing it as possible already haunts me.

Light, I say! light!

Give me a light, I say! A light!

Exit above

IAGO

Farewell; for I must leave you:

Goodbye, I must go

It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,

Since it is not good, or right since I serve him,

To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--

To be seen – which I will if I stay here –

Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,

As against the Moor. Especially because I know that the senator,

However this may gall him with some cheque,

However this may offend and upset him,

Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd

Cannot easily get rid of him, since the Moor is leaving

With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,

With clear and understood reason to Cyprus for the wars.

Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,

Even now these wars are raging and the statesmen

Another of his fathom they have none,

Do not have another general like him

To lead their business: in which regard,

To lead their war efforts. I admit this

Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.

Even though I hate him as I would the fires of hell.

Yet, for necessity of present life,

So it is necessary for now

I must show out a flag and sign of love,

That I carry his flag and act like I love him,

Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,

Which as I said is only an act. So that you definitely find him tonight,

Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;

Take the search party to the Arsenal

And there will I be with him. So, farewell.

And I will already be there with him. Goodbye.

Exit

Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches

BRABANTIO

It is too true an evil: gone she is;

And what's to come of my despised time

Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,

Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!

With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!

How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me

Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:

Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?

Is it true that she’s gone.

The rest of my life will be nothing without her

Where did you see her, Roderigo? That like unhappy brat.

Did you see her with the Moor? Who would want to be her father!

How did you know it was her? Does she really think she can trick me so easily?

What did she say to you? Get me more candles,

And wake up my relatives. Do you think they are married?

RODERIGO

Truly, I think they are.

Truly, I think they are.

BRABANTIO

O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!

Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds

By what you see them act. Is there not charms

By which the property of youth and maidhood

May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,

Of some such thing?

How on Earth did she get out?

My own relatives conspire against me!

Fathers, never trust your daughters just because they act innocent and good!

They are under an evil spell.

Is there any spell that can’t lead a young girl away?

Have you ever heard of something like that, Roderigo?

RODERIGO

Yes, sir, I have indeed.

BRABANTIO

Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!

Call for my brother. Oh, now I wish you married her!

Some one way, some another. Do you know

Some go one way, some go another. Do you know

Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?

Where we will find her and the Moor?

RODERIGO

I think I can discover him, if you please,

I think I know where he is. Please,

To get good guard and go along with me.

Get a good party of your guards and come with me.

BRABANTIO

Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;

I beg you to lead us. I will call at every house –

I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!

I can at least command men to join. Hey, arm yourselves!

And raise some special officers of night.

And XXX

On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.

Go forward, good Roderigo. You will be rewarded for your hard work.

Exeunt

Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Attendants with torches

IAGO

Though in the trade of war I have slain men,

Though I have killed men in war,

Yet do I hold it very stuff o' the conscience

I think it is the makeup of a good character

To do no contrived murder: I lack iniquity

To not commit murder. I lack the evil

Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times

That would sometimes help me. Nine or ten times

I had thought to have yerk'd him here under the ribs.

I thought to simply stab him through his ribs.

OTHELLO

'Tis better as it is.

It is better that you didn’t.

IAGO

Nay, but he prated,

No, he swore

And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms

And said such nasty and offensive things

Against your honour

Against you

That, with the little godliness I have,

That, with all the patience I could muster,

I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,

I listened to him say. But, I must ask, sir,

Are you fast married? Be assured of this,

Are you securely married? Because you should know

That the magnifico is much beloved,

That Brabantio is very respected and loved –

And hath in his effect a voice potential

He has a voice worth potentially

As double as the duke's: he will divorce you;

Twice the duke’s. He will force you to divorce

Or put upon you what restraint and grievance

Or will try to punish you according to

The law, with all his might to enforce it on,

The law, with all his strength,

Will give him cable.

As much as the law allows.

OTHELLO

Let him do his spite:

He can do his worst:

My services which I have done the signiory

All that I have done for the government

Shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know,--

Will outweigh his complaints against me. This is not known about me –

Which, when I know that boasting is an honour,

If it is ever honorable to boast

I shall promulgate--I fetch my life and being

Then I will let it known widely – but my life

From men of royal siege, and my demerits

Comes from a royal line, and my worth

May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune

Can show that I have as great a wealth and position

As this that I have reach'd: for know, Iago,

As the woman I’ve married. And know this, Iago:

But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

Unless I loved Desdemona,

I would not my unhoused free condition

I would never have ruined my bachelorhood and freedom

Put into circumscription and confine

By adding the fence of marriage –

For the sea's worth. But, look! what lights come yond?

Not for an ocean’s amount of money. But wait, what are those lights?

IAGO

Those are the raised father and his friends:

Those belong to the angry father and his friends.

You were best go in.

You should go inside and out of sight.

OTHELLO

Not I, I must be found:

No, I will let them come to me.

My parts, my title and my perfect soul

My qualities, my rank, and my lack of wrongdoing

Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?

Will prove me in the right. Is that them?

IAGO

By Janus, I think no.

Actually no, I don’t think so.

Enter CASSIO, and certain Officers with torches

OTHELLO

The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.

It is the duke’s servants and my new lieutenant, Cassio.

The goodness of the night upon you, friends!

I hope you are well, friends!

What is the news?

Why do you come?

CASSIO

The duke does greet you, general,

The duke has sent us to greet you, general,

And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance,

And he requests your presence right away,

Even on the instant.

Immediately.

OTHELLO

What is the matter, think you?

Do you know what the matter is?

CASSIO

Something from Cyprus as I may divine:

I think it is something about Cyprus,

It is a business of some heat: the galleys

And it seems to be important. The warships

Have sent a dozen sequent messengers

Have sent a dozen messengers

This very night at one another's heels,

Tonight, one after another,

And many of the consuls, raised and met,

And many of the statesmen have woken and are here

Are at the duke's already: you have been hotly call'd for;

With the duke. You were quickly asked for

When, being not at your lodging to be found,

And when you were not at found at your home,

The senate hath sent about three several guests

Three different groups were sent