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In following him, I follow but myself.35 Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end.36 For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In complement extern,37


’tis not long after


But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at:38


RODERIGO What a full fortune does the thicklips40


If he can carry’t thus!41 IAGO


Call up her father,42 70


Rouse him, make after him, poison his delight, Proclaim him in the streets, incense her kinsmen,43 And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,44 Plague him with flies!45


Yet throw such changes of vexation on’t,46 As it may lose some colour.47


RODERIGO


Here is her father’s house; I’ll call aloud. IAGO


Do, with like timorous accent48 and dire yell


As when, by night and negligence, the fire Is spied in populous cities.49


RODERIGO What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho! 80


IAGO Awake! What, ho, Brabantio! Thieves! Thieves! Thieves! Look to your house, your daughter and your bags! Thieves! Thieves! [BRABANTIO appears above, at a window]


BRABANTIO


What is the reason of this terrible summons? What is the matter there?


RODERIGO Signior, is all your family within?


7 owe I am not what I am.39


Othello, I look after myself 36


Othello 35 In following…myself: By serving peculiar end: personal purpose 37 For when…extern: When my


behaviour reflects my true intentions 38


at Iago’s exposed heart) 39


’tis not long…peck at: it won’t be long until I am exposed and vulnerable to others (the image is of jackdaws pecking


I am not what I am: 1. I’m not what I seem 2.That wouldn’t be me. This may be an inverted reference to Exodus 3:14


where God tells Moses ‘I am that I am’ 40


41


(succeed) 42


Brabantio 43


Though that his joy be joy,


relatives 44


thicklips: a racist reference to Othello


What a full…carry’t thus!: Othello will be a fortunate man if he can ‘carry it off’


enjoying success now 45


(Othello) 47


her father: Desdemona’s father, i.e. incense her kinsmen: infuriate her though…climate dwell: although he is Plague him with flies!: Ruin him!


46 throw such…on’t: torment him


it may…colour: ruin it, i.e. his current success and happiness


48 timorous accent: fearful voice 49


As when…populous cities: like when a fire has been spotted in a densely populated city


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