OTHELLO

Act 5 Scene 1

(Enter Iago and Roderigo)
l1l	Iago	 Here, stand behind this bulk. Straight will he come.
l2l		Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home.
l3l		Quick, quick, fear nothing. I’ll be at thy elbow.
l4l		It makes us or it mars us. Think on that,
l5l		And fix most firm thy resolution.
l6l	Roderigo	Be near at hand. I may miscarry in ’t.
l7l	Iago	Here at thy hand. Be bold, and take thy stand.
l8l	Roderigo	(aside)
		 I have no great devotion to the deed,
l9l		And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons.
l10l		’Tis but a man gone. Forth my sword—he dies!
l11l	Iago	(aside)
		 I have rubbed this young quat almost to the sense,
l12l		And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio
l13l		Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other,
l14l		Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo,
l15l		He calls me to a restitution large
l16l		Of gold and jewels that I bobbed from him
l17l		As gifts to Desdemona.
l18l		It must not be. If Cassio do remain,
l19l		He hath a daily beauty in his life
l20l		That makes me ugly# and besides, the Moor
l21l		May unfold me to him—there stand I in much peril.
l22l		No, he must die. But so, I hear him coming.
		(Enter Cassio)
l23l	Roderigo	 I know his gait, ’tis he.
		(Attacking Cassio)
		 Villain, thou diest.
l24l	Cassio	That thrust had been mine enemy indeed,
l25l		But that my coat is better than thou know’st.
l26l		I will make proof of thine.
		(He stabs Roderigo, who falls)
		
	Roderigo	 O, I am slain!
		(Iago wounds Cassio in the leg from behind. Exit Iago)
l27l	Cassio	(falling)
		 I am maimed for ever. Help, ho, murder, murder!
		(Enter Othello above)
l28l	Othello	 The voice of Cassio. Iago keeps his word.
l29l	Roderigo	O, villain that I am!
l30l	Othello	It is even so.
l31l	Cassio	O, help, ho! Light, a surgeon!
l32l	Othello	’Tis he. O brave Iago, honest and just,
l33l		That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong—
l34l		Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
l35l		And your unblessed fate hies. Strumpet, I come.
l36l		Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted.
l37l		Thy bed, lust-stained, shall with lust’s blood be spotted.
		( 37 Exit)
l38l		(Enter Lodovico and Graziano)
		Cassio	 What ho, no watch, no passage? Murder, murder!
l39l	Graziano	’Tis some mischance. The voice is very direful.
l40l	Cassio	O, help!
l41l	Lodovico	Hark.
l42l	Roderigo	O wretched villain!
l43l	Lodovico	Two or three groan. ’Tis heavy night.
l44l		These may be counterfeits. Let’s think ’t unsafe
l45l		To come into the cry without more help.
l46l	Roderigo	Nobody come? Then shall I bleed to death.
		(Enter Iago with a light)
l47l	Lodovico	 Hark.
l48l	Graziano	Here’s one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
l49l	Iago	Who’s there? Whose noise is this that cries on murder?
l50l	Lodovico	We do not know.
	Iago	Do not you hear a cry?
l51l	Cassio	Here, here. For heaven’s sake, help me.
	Iago	What’s the matter?
l52l	Graziano	(to Lodovico)
		 This is Othello’s ensign, as I take it.
l53l	Lodovico	The same indeed, a very valiant fellow.
l54l	Iago	(to Cassio)
		 What are you here that cry so grievously?
l55l	Cassio	Iago—O, I am spoiled, undone by villains.
l56l		Give me some help.
l57l	Iago	O me, lieutenant, what villains have done this?
l58l	Cassio	I think that one of them is hereabout
l59l		And cannot make away.
	Iago	O treacherous villains!
l60l		(To Lodovico and Graziano)
		 What are you there? Come in and give some help.
l61l	Roderigo	O, help me there!
l62l	Cassio	That’s one of ’em.
l63l	Iago	(stabbing Roderigo)
		 O murderous slave! O villain!
l64l	Roderigo	O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!
l65l	Iago	Kill men i’ th’ dark? Where be these bloody thieves?
l66l		How silent is this town! Ho, murder, murder!
l67l		(To Lodovico and Graziano)
		 What may you be? Are you of good or evil?
l68l	Lodovico	As you shall prove us, praise us.
	Iago	Signor Lodovico.
l69l	Lodovico	He, sir.
l70l	Iago	I cry you mercy. Here’s Cassio hurt by villains.
l71l	Graziano	Cassio?
l72l	Iago	How is ’t, brother?
l73l	Cassio	My leg is cut in two.
l74l	Iago	Marry, heaven forbid!
l75l		Light, gentlemen. I’ll bind it with my shirt.
		(Enter Bianca)
l76l	Bianca	 What is the matter, ho? Who is ’t that cried?
l77l	Iago	Who is ’t that cried?
	Bianca	O my dear Cassio,
l78l		My sweet Cassio, O, Cassio, Cassio!
l79l	Iago	O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
l80l		Who they should be that have thus mangled you?
l81l	Cassio	No.
l82l	Graziano	I am sorry to find you thus. I have been to seek you.
l83l	Iago	Lend me a garter. So. O for a chair,
l84l		To bear him easily hence!
l85l	Bianca	Alas, he faints. O, Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
l86l	Iago	Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
l87l		To be a party in this injury.
l88l		Patience a while, good Cassio. Come, come,
l89l		Lend me a light.
		(Going to Roderigo)
		 Know we this face or no?
l90l		Alas, my friend, and my dear countryman.
l91l		Roderigo? No—yes, sure—O heaven, Roderigo!
l92l	Graziano	What, of Venice?
l93l	Iago	Even he, sir. Did you know him?
l94l	Graziano	Know him? Ay.
l95l	Iago	Signor Graziano, I cry your gentle pardon.
l96l		These bloody accidents must excuse my manners
l97l		That so neglected you.
	Graziano	I am glad to see you.
l98l	Iago	How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
l99l	Graziano	Roderigo.
l100l	Iago	He, he, ’tis he.
		(Enter attendants with a chair)
		 O, that’s well said, the chair!
l101l		Some good man bear him carefully from hence.
l102l		I’ll fetch the general’s surgeon.
		(To Bianca)
		 For you, mistress,
l103l		Save you your labour. He that lies slain here, Cassio,
l104l		Was my dear friend. What malice was between you?
l105l	Cassio	None in the world, nor do I know the man.
l106l	Iago	(to Bianca)
		 What, look you pale?
		( 106 To attendants)
		 O, bear him out o’ th’ air.
l107l		(To Lodovico and Graziano)
		 Stay you, good gentlemen.
		(Exeunt attendants with Cassio in the chair and with Roderigo's body)
		
		(To Bianca)
		 Look you pale, mistress?
l108l		(To Lodovico and Graziano)
		 Do you perceive the ghastness of her eye?
l109l		(To Bianca)
		 Nay, an you stare we shall hear more anon.
l110l		(To Lodovico and Graziano)
		 Behold her well# I pray you look upon her.
l111l		Do you see, gentlemen? Nay, guiltiness
l112l		Will speak, though tongues were out of use.
		(Enter Emilia)
l113l	Emilia	 Alas, what is the matter? What is the matter, husband?
l114l	Iago	Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
l115l		By Roderigo and fellows that are scaped.
l116l		He’s almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
l117l	Emilia	Alas, good gentleman! Alas, good Cassio!
l118l	Iago	This is the fruits of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
l119l		Go know of Cassio where he supped tonight.
l120l		(To Bianca)
		 What, do you shake at that?
l121l	Bianca	He supped at my house, but I therefore shake not.
l122l	Iago	O, did he so? I charge you go with me.
l123l	Emilia	(to Bianca)
		 O, fie upon thee, strumpet!
l124l	Bianca	I am no strumpet, but of life as honest
l125l		As you that thus abuse me.
	Emilia	As I? Fough, fie upon thee!
l126l	Iago	Kind gentlemen, let’s go see poor Cassio dressed.
l127l		(To Bianca)
		 Come, mistress, you must tell ’s another tale.
l128l		Emilia, run you to the citadel
l129l		And tell my lord and lady what hath happed.
l130l		Will you go on afore?
		(Exit Emilia)
		
		(Aside)
		 This is the night
l131l		That either makes me or fordoes me quite.
		(Exeunt)