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Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO with attendants. DESDEMONA, EMILIA, IAGO, RODERIGO, and attendants enter. Oh, behold, The riches of the ship is come on shore! You men of Cyprus, let her have your knees. Hail to thee, lady, and the grace of heaven, 95 Before, behind thee, and on every hand, Enwheel thee round!
Come on, come on. You are pictures out of door, bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens, saints in your injuries, devils being offended, players in your housewifery, and housewives in your beds. Oh, fie upon thee, slanderer! Oh, fie upon thee, slanderer! 120 Nay, it is true, or else I am a Turk.
Let’s shout up to Desdemona’s father, wake him, pester him, spoil his happiness, spread rumors about him in the streets, enrage his relatives, and irritate him endlessly. However real his happiness is, it will vanish in light of this. Here is her father’s house, I’ll call aloud. Here’s her father’s house.
OTHELLO. Ay, let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live. No, my heart is turned to stone. I strike it and it hurts my hand. Oh, the world hath not a sweeter creature, she might lie by an emperor’s side and command him tasks. IAGO. 145 Nay, that’s not your way.
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Act 1, Scene 2. OTHELLO and IAGO enter with attendants and torches. Though in the trade of war I have slain men, Yet do I hold it very stuff o' th' conscience To do no contrived murder. I lack iniquity Sometimes to do me service. Nine or ten times 5 I had thought t' have yerked him here under the ribs.
But, masters, here’s money for you, and the general so likes your music that he desires you, for love’s sake, to make no more noise with it. 10 Well, sir, we will not. Well, sir, we will not. If you have any music that may not be heard, to ’t again. But, as they say, to hear music the general does not greatly care.
