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now is as luscious as locusts, shall shortly be as bitter as coloquintida. When she is sated with his body, she will find the errors of her choice. She must have change, she must: therefore put money in thy purse. If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning. Make all the money thou canst. If sanctimony and a frail vow, betwixt an erring barbarian, and a supersubtle Venetian, be not too hard for my wits, and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her; therefore make money. A pox of drowning thyself! it is clean out of the way. Seek thou rather to be hanged in compassing thy joy, than to be drowned and go without her.

Rod. Wilt thou be fast to my hopes, if I depend on the issue?

My cause is hearted ; Let us be conjunctive If thou canst cuckold

Iago. Thou art sure of me. Go, make money. I have told thee often, and I re-tell thee again and again, I hate the Moor. (36) thine hath no less reason. in our revenge against him. him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, and me a sport. There are many events in the womb of Time, which will be delivered. Traverse, go, provide thy

(36) I hate the Moor. By the position of Iago, his libration in the moon is in opposition to the space occupied by Othello, with whom, therefore, he may be conceived to be at war, or in hatred.

money.

A dieu.

We will have more of this to-morrow.

Rod. Where shall we meet i' th' morning?
Iago. At my lodgings.

Rod. I'll be with thee betimes.

Iago. Go to, farewel. Do you hear, Rodorigo? Rod. What say you ?

Iago. No more of drowning, do hear.

you

Rod. I am changed; I'll go sell all my land.

Manet IAGO.

[Exit.

Iago. Go to, farewel, put money in your purseThus do I ever make my fool my purse; For I mine own gained knowledge should profane, If I should time expend with such a snipe, (37) But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, And it is thought abroad, that 'twixt my sheets He has done my office. I know not if't be trueBut I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety. He holds me wellThe better shall my purpose work on him; Cassio's a proper man; let me see now; To get his place, and to plume up my will, A double knavery-How? how?-let's seeAfter some time t' abuse Othello's ear,

(37) The woodcock, (or snipe,) on Rodorigo's person has been before drawn in fig, 62.

That he is too familiar with his wife-
He hath a person, and a smooth dispose,
To be suspected: framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,

That thinks men honest that but seem to be so;
And will as tenderly be led by th' nose,

As asses are: (38)

I have't-it is engendered-hell and night

Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. (39)

[Exit.

ACT II.

SCENE-The Capital City of Cyprus.

Enter MONTANO, Governor of Cyprus, and Gentlemen.

Montano. What from the Cape can you discern at sea?

(38) Observe the ass, in light, as drawn in fig. 69, just behind Othello's head. This figure is again repeatedly alluded to in the next act.

(39) Put money in thy purse; money, money. The frequent mention of money in this last scene has regard to this, that besides the circular spots of white light which are scattered over the person of Rodorigo, and have the appearance of coins, he has also at his side what resembles a purse full of them.

(40) 1 Gent. Nothing at all, it is a high wrought flood

I cannot 'twixt the heaven and the main

Descry a sail.

Mont. Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements: [land; If it hath ruffianed so upon the sea,

What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? what shall we hear of this?
2 Gent. A segregation of the Turkish fleet;
For do but stand upon the foaming shore,
The chiding billows seem to pelt the clouds; (41)
The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous
Seems to cast water on the burning bear, [main,

(40) I take the first Gentleman to be the same as Edmund in King Lear, (who being the same as Magnano in Hudibras, is drawn in fig. 19,) the outline of his breast and body marks the figure one, as introduced in fig. 85. The second Gentleman may be the same as Edgar, standing just by the former, on whose person is the mark of the figure 2, as introduced in fig. 85; and the outline of the figure 3, (also introduced in fig. 85,) may form the body, as the extension of it above may be conceived to form the face of the third gentleman, standing by the two former.

(41) It is not difficult to imagine the illumined and lower part of the moon, if its north side be placed uppermost, to resemble a sea: and the smaller shadowed spots thereon, to be a fleet at a distance scattered upon it.

And quench the guards of th' ever fir'd pole;
I never did like molestation view

On the enchafed flood.

Mont. If that the Turkish fleet

Be not ensheltered, and embayed, they're drowned; It is impossible to bear it out.

Enter a third Gentleman.

3 Gent. News, lords, our wars are done; The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks, That their designment halts. A noble ship of

Venice

Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance

On most part of the fleet.

Mont. How! is this true?

3 Gent. The ship is here put in, A Veronessa; Michael Cassio,

Lieutenant of the warlike Moor Othello, (42)
Is come on shore; the Moor himself's at sea, (43)
As in the full commission here for Cyprus.

(42) Besides the large ship which the general form of the shadows of the moon exhibits, as drawn in fig. 72, other smaller likenesses to ships may be traced there, and such as may be supposed to belong severally to Cassio, Iago, and Othello, as lying within or near the same spaces of shadow which constitute their persons.

(43) Michael Cassio, from Mico; as alluding to the streaks of glittering light which mark his person.

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