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Enter Caffio, Montano, and Gentlemen.

Caf. 'Fore heav'n, they have given me roufe al

ready.

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Mont. Good faith, a little one. Not past a pint, as I am a foldier.

Jago. Some wine, hood [lago fings.
And let me the canakin clink, clink, clink,
And let me the canakin clink.

A foldier's a man; oh, man's life's but anfpango
Why, then let a foldier drink.nda

Some wine, boys.

Caf. 'Fore heav'n, an excellent fong.

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Iago. I learn'd it in England: where, indeed, they are most potent in potting. Your Dane, your German and your fwag-belly'd Hollander, Drink, ho

are nothing to your English.

Caf. Is your Englishman fo exquifite in his drinking? Iago. Why, he drinks you with facility your Dane dead drunk; he fweats not to overthrow your Almain; he gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle can be filla.

Caf. To the health of our General.

copies concur in this reading,
but, I think, it does not come
up to the poet's intention; Ira-
ther imagine that he wrote,

If confequence do but approve my
Deem,

i.e. my opinion, the judgment
I have form'd of what muft hap-
pen. So, in Troilus and Cref-
fida;

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Mon. I am for it, lieutenant, and I'll do you justice.
Iago. Oh fweet England.

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King Stephen was an a worthy peer,
His breeches coft him but a crown;

is He held them fix-pence all too dear,
With that he call'd the tailor 5 lown.

es Jaig's fig cold, are puis
He was a wight of high renown,
And thou art but of low degree:
Tis pride that pulls the country down,
Then take thine auld cloak about thee.

Some wine, ho!

Caf. Why, this is a more exquifite fong than the other.

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Iago. Will you hear't again?

Caf. No, for I hold him to be unworthy of his place, that does thofe things. Well-Heaven's above all; and there be fouls that must be saved, and there be fouls must not be faved.

dago. It's true, good lieutenant.

Caf. For mine own part, no offence to the General, nor any man of quality; I hope to be faved. ylago. And fo I do too, lieutenant.

Let's

Caf. Ay, but, by your leave, not before me. The Lieutenant is to be faved before the Ancient. have no more of this. Let's to our affairs. Forgive our fins. Gentlemen, let's look to our bufinefs. Do not think, gentlemen, I am drunk. This is my Ancient. This is my right hand, and this is my left. I am not drunk now; I can stand well enough, and I fpeak well enough.

-King Stephen, &c.] Thefe flanzas are taken from an old fong, which the reader will find recovered and preferved in a curious work lately printed, in

tituled, Relics of Ancient Poetry, confifting of old hercic Ballads, Songs, &c. 3 vols. 12mo.

5lown Sorry fellow, paltry wretch. Bb 3

Gent.

Gent. Excellent well.

Caf. Why, very well then; you must not think

then that I am drunk.

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Mont. To the platform, mafters. Come, let's fet the Watch.

Iago. You fee this fellow, that is gone before? He is a foldier fit to ftand by Cafar,

And give direction. And do but fee his vice 'Tis to his virtues a juft equinox,

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The one as long as th' other. 'Tis pity of him;
I fear, the Truft Othello puts him in,
On fome odd time of his infirmity,

Will fhake this island.

Mont. But is he often thus ?

Iago. 'Tis evermore the prologue to his fleep.
He'll watch the horologue a double fet,

If drink rock not his cradle.

Mont. It were well,

The General were put in mind of it:

Perhaps, he fees it not; or his good nature
Prizes the virtue that appears in Caffio,

And looks not on his evils. Is not this true?

Enter Rodorigo.

Iago. How now, Rodorigo!
I pray you after the lieutenant, go.

6 He'll watch the horologue a double fet.] If he have no drink, he'll keep awake while

[Exit Rod.

the clock ftrikes two rounds, or four and twenty hours.

Mont

Mont. And 'tis great pity, that the noble Moor Should hazard fuch a place as his own Second, With one of an ingraft infirmity;

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It were an honeft action to fay fo
Unto the Moor.

Iago. Not I, for this fair island.

I do love Caffio well, and would do much

To cure him of this evil. Hark, what noife?

[Within, help! help!

Re-enter Caffio, pursuing Rodorigo.

Caf. You rogue! you rafcal!

Mont. What's the matter, lieutenant ?

Caf. A knave teach me my duty! I'll beat the

knave into a twiggen bottle.

Rod. Beat me

Caf. Doft thou prate, rogue ?
Mont. Nay, good lieutenant;

I pray you, Sir, hold your hand.

Caf. Let me go, Sir, or I'll knock mazzard.

Mont. Come, come, you're drunk,

Caf. Drunk?

[Staying him.

you o'er the

[They fight.

Iago. Away, I fay, go out and cry a mutiny.
[Exit Rodorigo.

Nay, good Lieutenant-Alas, Gentlemen
Help, ho!-Lieutenant-Sir-Montano-
Help, mafters here's a goodly watch, indeed-
Who's that, who rings the bell-diablo, ho!

[Bell rings. The town will rife. Fy, fy, Lientenant! hold. You will be fham'd for ever.

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SCENE XIII. ALSO
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Enter Othello, and Attendants,arvaig adī

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Iago.

Gentlemen

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OzatioW NOM Have you forgot all fenfe of place and duty TOY The General speaks to you. Hold, hold, for fhame-w Oth. Why, how now, ho? From whence arifeth

this?

v't om v¶ Are we turn'd Turks? and to ourselves do that, Which heaven hath forbid the Ottomites?bot br For chriftian fhame, put by this barbarous brawl; He, that stirs next to carve for his own rage, 110 Holds his foul light: he dies upon his motion. 1/ Silence that dreadful bell; it frights the inle From her propriety. What is the matter? Honeft Iago, that looks dead with grieving, Speak, who began this? on thy love, I charge thee. Iago. I do not know. Friends all, but now, event

now

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In quarter, and in terms like bride and groom
Divefting them for bed; and then, but now
As if fome planet had unwitted men,
Swords out, and tilting one at other's breast,
In oppofition bloody. I can't fpeak
Any beginning to this peevith odds,
And, 'would, in action glorious I had lost
Thofe legs that brought me to a part of it!

8 So Hanmer. The ref,
--all place of fenfe and duty.
9-it frights the ifle
From her propriety.-] From

her regular and proper fiate.
1 In quarter] in their
quarters; at their lodging.

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