Act 3 Scene 3 Pioneers120


Othello


So I had nothing known. O now, for ever Farewell the tranquil121 Farewell the plumed122


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and all, had tasted her sweet body, mind! Farewell content!


troops, and the big wars,


That make ambition virtue! – O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,123 The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,124 The royal banner, and all quality, Pride, pomp and circumstance125 And O you mortal engines126 The immortal Jove’s128


of glorious war! , whose rude127 Farewell! Othello’s occupation’s gone!


IAGO Is’t possible, my lord?


OTHELLO Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore! Be sure of it! – Give me the ocular130


proof. 360


Or by the worth of man’s eternal soul, Thou hadst been better have been born a dog Than answer my waked wrath!131


IAGO Is’t come to this? OTHELLO


Make me to see’t – or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation132 To hang a doubt on133


bear no hinge nor loop – or woe upon thy life!


IAGO


My noble lord – OTHELLO


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If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse. On horror’s head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed: For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that.


IAGO


O grace! O heaven forgive me! Are you a man? Have you a soul or sense? God be wi’ you; take mine office.134 That lov’st to make thine honesty a vice!


O wretched fool, 134 office: job 87


132 probation: proof 133


probation…doubt on: the proof doesn’t have a mount nor a loop for doubt to cling to (proof without any doubt)


throats dread clamours counterfeit,129 120 Pioneers: foot soldiers of the lowest


rank who dug trenches 121


tranquil: peaceful/contented 122 plumed: decorated with feathers 123 trump: trumpet 124 fife: a military flute 125 Pride…circumstance: the pride,


stately displays and ceremony 126


127 rude: rough 128 Jove: (Jupiter) Roman god of thunder


and king of the gods 129


Jove’s…counterfeit: the imitation of Jove’s fearful roars (i.e. thunder)


mortal engines: deadly cannons


130 ocular: visible


131 waked wrath: awoken fury


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