Act 1 Scene 1


I say again, hath made a gross revolt,75 Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger76 Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself:77 If she be in her chamber or your house, Let loose on me the justice of the state For thus deluding you.


BRABANTIO Strike on the tinder,78


140 Give me a taper!79 This accident80


ho!


Call up all my people! is not unlike my dream.


Belief of it oppresses me already. Light, I say! Light! [Exit above]


IAGO Farewell, for I must leave you.


It seems not meet,81 To be produced83


nor wholesome to my place,82 – as, if I stay, I shall –


Against the Moor. For I do know, the state, However this may gall84


Cannot with safety cast him,86 With such loud87


150 Which even now stand in act,88 Another of his fathom89


him with some check,85 for he’s embarked


reason to the Cyprus wars, – they have none


– that, for their souls,


To lead their business. In which regard, Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains, Yet, for necessity of present life, I must show out a flag and sign of love,90 Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him, Lead to the Sagittary the raised search,91 And there will I be with him. So, farewell.


[Exit] [Enter BRABANTIO below in his nightgown, and


Servants with torches] BRABANTIO


160


It is too true an evil: gone she is. And what’s to come of my despised time Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo, Where didst thou see her? – O unhappy girl! – With the Moor, say’st thou? – Who would be a father! – How didst thou know ’twas she? – O she deceives me Past thought! – What said she to you? – Get more tapers, Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?


10 81 meet: proper 82wholesome…place: appropriate to


my position 83


produced: called on as a witness 84 gall: irritate


85 check: reprimand


86cast him: cast him aside 87 loud: urgent


88 stand in act: have begun 89 fathom: ability


78 Strike on the tinder: Light the torches 79 taper: torch


80 accident: situation


Othello 75 revolt: rebellion (against her father) 76 extravagant…stranger: foreigner with


no permanent home 77


Straight…yourself: Go now and see for yourself


90a flag…of love: appear loyal 91


Lead to…raised search: lead the search party to the Sagittary Inn


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