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ACT V - SCENE I. Cyprus. A street.
Enter IAGO and RODERIGO

IAGO
1    Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come:
2    Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home:
3    Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow:
4    It makes us, or it mars us; think on that,
5    And fix most firm thy resolution.
RODERIGO
6    Be near at hand; I may miscarry in't.
IAGO
7    Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.
Retires

RODERIGO
8    I have no great devotion to the deed;
9    And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:
10   'Tis but a man gone. Forth, my sword: he dies.
IAGO
11   I have rubb'd this young quat almost to the sense,
12   And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio,
13   Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
14   Every way makes my gain: live Roderigo,
15   He calls me to a restitution large
16   Of gold and jewels that I bobb'd from him,
17   As gifts to Desdemona;
18   It must not be: if Cassio do remain,
19   He hath a daily beauty in his life
20   That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor
21   May unfold me to him; there stand I in much peril:
22   No, he must die. But so: I hear him coming.
Enter CASSIO

RODERIGO
23   I know his gait, 'tis he.--Villain, thou diest!
Makes a pass at CASSIO

CASSIO
24   That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
25   But that my coat is better than thou know'st
26   I will make proof of thine.
Draws, and wounds RODERIGO

RODERIGO
27   O, I am slain!
IAGO from behind wounds CASSIO in the leg, and exit

CASSIO
28   I am maim'd for ever. Help, ho! murder! murder!
Falls

Enter OTHELLO

OTHELLO
29   The voice of Cassio: Iago keeps his word.
RODERIGO
30   O, villain that I am!
OTHELLO
31   It is even so.
CASSIO
32   O, help, ho! light! a surgeon!
OTHELLO
33   'Tis he:--O brave Iago, honest and just,
34   That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
35   Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
36   And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
37   Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
38   Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.
Exit

Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO

CASSIO
39   What, ho! no watch? no passage? murder! murder!
GRATIANO
40   'Tis some mischance; the cry is very direful.
CASSIO
41   O, help!
LODOVICO
42   Hark!
RODERIGO
43   O wretched villain!
LODOVICO
44   Two or three groan: it is a heavy night:
45   These may be counterfeits: let's think't unsafe
46   To come in to the cry without more help.
RODERIGO
47   Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death.
LODOVICO
48   Hark!
Re-enter IAGO, with a light

GRATIANO
49   Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
IAGO
50   Who's there? whose noise is this that ones on murder?
LODOVICO
51   We do not know.
IAGO
52   Did not you hear a cry?
CASSIO
53   Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!
IAGO
54   What's the matter?
GRATIANO
55   This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.
LODOVICO
56   The same indeed; a very valiant fellow.
IAGO
57   What are you here that cry so grievously?
CASSIO
58   Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!
59   Give me some help.
IAGO
60   O me, lieutenant! what villains have done this?
CASSIO
61   I think that one of them is hereabout,
62   And cannot make away.
IAGO
63   O treacherous villains!
64   What are you there? come in, and give some help.
To LODOVICO and GRATIANO

RODERIGO
65   O, help me here!
CASSIO
66   That's one of them.
IAGO
67   O murderous slave! O villain!
Stabs RODERIGO

RODERIGO
68   O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!
IAGO
69   Kill men i' the dark!--Where be these bloody thieves?--
70   How silent is this town!--Ho! murder! murder!--
71   What may you be? are you of good or evil?
LODOVICO
72   As you shall prove us, praise us.
IAGO
73   Signior Lodovico?
LODOVICO
74   He, sir.
IAGO
75   I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.
GRATIANO
76   Cassio!
IAGO
77   How is't, brother!
CASSIO
78   My leg is cut in two.
IAGO
79   Marry, heaven forbid!
80   Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.
Enter BIANCA

BIANCA
81   What is the matter, ho? who is't that cried?
IAGO
82   Who is't that cried!
BIANCA
83   O my dear Cassio! my sweet Cassio! O Cassio,
84   Cassio, Cassio!
IAGO
85   O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
86   Who they should be that have thus many led you?
CASSIO
87   No.
GRATIANO
88   I am to find you thus: I have been to seek you.
IAGO
89   Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,
90   To bear him easily hence!
BIANCA
91   Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
IAGO
92   Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
93   To be a party in this injury.
94   Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;
95   Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
96   Alas my friend and my dear countryman
97   Roderigo! no:--yes, sure: O heaven! Roderigo.
GRATIANO
98   What, of Venice?
IAGO
99   Even he, sir; did you know him?
GRATIANO
100  Know him! ay.
IAGO
101  Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;
102  These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
103  That so neglected you.
GRATIANO
104  I am glad to see you.
IAGO
105  How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
GRATIANO
106  Roderigo!
IAGO
107  He, he 'tis he.
A chair brought in
108  O, that's well said; the chair!
GRATIANO
109  Some good man bear him carefully from hence;
110  I'll fetch the general's surgeon.
To BIANCA
111  For you, mistress,
112  Save you your labour. He that lies slain
113  here, Cassio,
114  Was my dear friend: what malice was between you?
CASSIO
115  None in the world; nor do I know the man.
IAGO
To BIANCA
116   What, look you pale? O, bear him out
117  o' the air.
CASSIO and RODERIGO are borne off
118  Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?
119  Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
120  Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
121  Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her:
122  Do you see, gentlemen? nay, guiltiness will speak,
123  Though tongues were out of use.
Enter EMILIA

EMILIA
124  'Las, what's the matter? what's the matter, husband?
IAGO
125  Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
126  By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped:
127  He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
EMILIA
128  Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!
IAGO
129  This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
130  Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.
To BIANCA
131  What, do you shake at that?
BIANCA
132  He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not.
IAGO
133  O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.
EMILIA
134  Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!
BIANCA
135  I am no strumpet; but of life as honest
136  As you that thus abuse me.
EMILIA
137  As I! foh! fie upon thee!
IAGO
138  Kind gentlemen, let's go see poor Cassio dress'd.
139  Come, mistress, you must tell's another tale.
140  Emilia run you to the citadel,
141  And tell my lord and lady what hath happ'd.
142  Will you go on? I pray.
Aside
143  This is the night
144  That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
Exeunt

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Scene Index
ACT I
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III


  • ACT II
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III


  • ACT III
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III
  • SCENE IV


  • ACT IV
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II
  • SCENE III


  • ACT V
  • SCENE I
  • SCENE II

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