Act 1 Scene 1


BRABANTIO What tell’st thou me of robbing? This is Venice: My house is not a grange.58


RODERIGO Most grave Brabantio,


In simple and pure soul I come to you. IAGO


110


’Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to do you service59


have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;60 you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers61


for cousins and jennets for germans.62


BRABANTIO What profane63


IAGO


I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.64


BRABANTIO


Thou art a villain! IAGO


You, are a senator! BRABANTIO This thou shalt answer! I know thee, Roderigo.


RODERIGO Sir, I will answer anything. But, I beseech65


120 you,


If’t be your pleasure and most wise consent, As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, At this odd-even and dull watch o’ the night,66 Transported, with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire,67 To the gross clasps69


of a lascivious70 65beseech: beg


64the beast with two backs: sexual union


wretch art thou? and you think we are ruffians, you’ll 59 service: a good deed


60Barbary horse: a North African horse 61 coursers: fast horses


62


jennets for germans: horses as relatives


63 profane: vulgar 58 grange: remote farmhouse


Othello


66odd-even…the night: neither night nor


a gondolier,68 Moor –


If this be known to you and your allowance,71 We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs.72 But if you know not this, my manners tell me We have your wrong rebuke.73


Do not believe 130


That, from the sense of all civility,74 I thus would play and trifle with your reverence. Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,


day, i.e. just after midnight 67


are used to taxi people) 69


knave…hire: a common servant 68 gondolier: boatman (in Venice, boats


gross clasps: disgusting embraces 70 lascivious: lustful/lecherous 71 allowance: permission 72saucy wrongs: insolence


73We have…rebuke: We have been


unfairly scolded 74


civility: well-mannered behaviour 9


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