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Oth. Well, thou dost best.

Lod. Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n, Which, as I think, you know not: Here is a letter, Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo;

And here, another: the one of them imports
The death of Cassio to be undertook

By Roderigo.

Oth. O villain!

Cas. Most heathenish, and most gross!
Lod. Now here's another discontented paper,
Found in his pocket too; and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have sent this damned villain;
But that, belike, Iago in the interim

Came and satisfied him.

Oth. O the pernicious caitiff !—

How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
That was my wife's?

Cas. I found it in my chamber :

And he himself confess'd, but even now,
That there he dropp'd it, for a special purpose,
Which wrought to his desire.

Oth. O fool! fool! fool!

Cas. There is, besides, in Roderigo's letter,-
How he upbraids Iago, that he made him
Brave me upon the watch; whereon it came
That I was cast: And even but now he spake,
After long seeming dead,---Iago hurt him,
Iago set him on.

go

Lod. You must forsake this room, and with us; Your power and your command is taken off, And Cassio rules in Cyprus. For this slave,--If there be any cunning cruelty,

That can torment him much, and hold him long,
It shall be his: You shall close prisoner rest,
Till that the nature of your fault be known
To the Venetian state: Come, bring him away.
Oth. Soft you; a word or two, before you go.
I have done the state some service, and they know it;
No more of that:---I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,

Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one, that lov'd not wisely, but too well;

Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex'd in the extreme; of one, whose hand,
Like the base Júdean, threw a pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu'd eyes,
Albeit unused to the melting mood,

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees

Their medicínal gum: Set you down this:
And say, besides,---that in Aleppo once,
Where a malignant and a turban'd Turk
Beat a Venetian, and traduc'd the state,
I took by the throat the circumcised dog,
And smote him---thus.

Lod. O bloody period!

Gra. All, that's spoke, is marr❜d.

[Stabs himself.

Oth. I kiss'd thee, ere I kill'd thee;---No way but

this,

[Falling upon DESDEMONA.

Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

[Dies.

Cas. This did I fear, but thought he had no weapon;

For he was great of heart.

Lod. O Spartan dog,

More fell than anguish, hunger, or the sea!

[TO IAGO.

Look on the tragick loading of this bed;
This is thy work: the object poisons sight;---
Let it be hid.---Gratiano, keep the house,
And seize upon the fortunes of the Moor,
For they succeed to you.---To you, lord governor,
Remains the censure of this hellish villain;
The time, the place, the torture,---O enforce it!
Myself will straight aboard; and, to the state,
This heavy act with heavy heart relate.

[Exeunt.

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