Act 1 Scene 3 I crave fit disposition97 240 for my wife.


Due reference of place and exhibition,98 With such accommodation and besort99 As levels with her breeding.100


DUKE If you please,


Be’t at her father’s. BRABANTIO


I’ll not have it so.


OTHELLO Nor I.


DESDEMONA Nor I – I would not there reside,


To put my father in impatient thoughts By being in his eye. Most gracious Duke, To my unfolding101


And let me find a charter102


To assist my simpleness.103 DUKE


What would you, Desdemona? DESDEMONA 250


That I did love the Moor to live with him, My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world.104


Even to the very quality of my lord. I saw Othello’s visage106


in his mind,


And to his honour and his valiant parts Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.107 So that, dear lords, if I be left behind, A moth of peace,108


The rites for which I love him are bereft me,109 And I a heavy interim110


and he go to the war, shall support


By his dear absence. Let me go with him. OTHELLO


260


Let her have your voices. Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not To please the palate of my appetite,111 Nor to comply with heat112 In me defunct113


But to be free and bounteous114 28


– and proper satisfaction, to her mind.


104 My heart’s subdued105


My downright…the world: My rebellious behaviour and shunning of


fortune proclaims my love to the world 105


subdued: devoted


106 visage: face 107


And to his…consecrate: I am dedicated to the honourable and soldierly


aspects of his character 108


as a loving wife 110


time A moth of peace: an idler 109 The rites…bereft me: denied my role heavy interim: drawn-out passage of


lend your prosperous ear; in your voice,


101 my unfolding: my view I’m about to


give 102


charter: support 103 my simpleness: humble request 97 fit disposition: appropriate


arrangements 98


100


exhibition: financial support 99 besort: attendants


As levels…breeding: suitable to her upbringing


Othello


111 not / To please…appetite: not to


satisfy my needs 112


– the young affects


sexually 113


has died with age 114


to comply with heat: to satisfy me the young…defunct: youthful passion free and bounteous: generous


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