That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind? Emi. There be some such, no question. Des. Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? Emi. Why, would not you? Des. No, by this heavenly light! Emi. Nor I neither by this heavenly light: I might do 't as well i' the dark. Des. Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world? Emi. The world is a huge thing: 'tis a great price For a small vice. Des. Good troth, I think thou wouldst not. Emi. By my troth, I think I should, and undo 't when I had done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn; nor for gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exnibition: 1 but, for the whole world,--Why, who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch? I should venture purgatory for 't. Des. Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong for the whole world. Emi. Why, the wrong is but a wrong i' the world; and, having the world for your labor, 'tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it right. 1 Pecuniary allowance. Des. I do not think there is any such woman. To the vantage,1 as would store the world they play'd for. But, I do think, it is their husbands' faults, If wives do fall. Say, that they slack their duties, Throwing restraint upon us; or, say, they strike us, Why, we have galls; and, though we have some grace, Yet we have some revenge. Let husbands know, Their wives have sense 3 like them: they see and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, Des. Good night, good night. Heaven me such usage send, Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! [Exeunt. 1 Over and above. 2 Abridge our pin-money in a pet. 3 Sensation. ACT V. SCENE I. A street. Enter IAGO and RODERIGO. Tago. Here, stand behind this bulk; straight will he come: Wear thy good rapier bare, and put it home; Quick, quick; fear nothing; I'll be at thy elbow: It makes us or it mars us; think on that; And fix most firm thy resolution. Ro. Be near at hand; may miscarry in 't. Iago. Here, at thy hand; be bold, and take thy sword. [retires to a little distance. Ro. I have no great devotion to the deed; And yet he has given me satisfying reasons.'Tis but a man gone :-forth, my sword; he dies. Egoes to his stand. Iago. I have rubb'd this young quat1 almost to the sense,2 And he grows angry. Now, whether he kill Cassio, Or Cassio him, or each do kill the other, Every way makes my gain. Live Roderigo, He calls me to a restitution large Of gold and jewels, that I bobb'd from him, As gifts to Desdemona ; It must not be: if Cassio do remain, That makes me ugly; and, besides, the Moor May unfold me to him: there stand I in much peril. No, he must die :-but, so; I hear him coming. Enter CASSIO. Ro. I know his gait; 'tis he :-villain, thou diest. [rushes from his post, and makes a pass at Cassio. Cas. That thrust had been mine enemy indeed, But that my coat is better than thou think'st: I will make proof of thine. Ro. [draws, and wounds Roderigo. O, I am slain ! [Iago rushes from his post, cuts Cassio behind in the leg, and exit. Cas.. I am maim'd for ever.-Help, ho! murder. murder! Enter OTHELLO, at a distance. [falls. Oth. The voice of Cassio:-Iago keeps his word. Ro. O, villain that I am! Oth. Hark! 'tis even so. Cas. O, help! ho! light! a surgeon! Oth. 'Tis he.-O brave Iago, honest and just, That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong! Thou teachest me.-Minion, your dear lies dead, And your fate hies apace.-Strumpet, I come : Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted; Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be [Exit Othello. spotted. Enter LODOVICO and GRATIANO, at a distance. Cas. What, ho! no watch? no passage? 2 murder! murder! Gra. 'Tis some mischance; the cry is very Lo. Two or three groans !-it is a heavy 3 night: These may be counterfeits; let's think 't unsafe To come in to the cry, without more help. Ro. Nobody come? then shall I bleed to death. Lo. Hark! Enter IAGO, with a light. Gra. Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons. Iago. Who's there? whose noise is this, that cries on murder? Lo. We do not know. Iago. Did you not hear a cry? Cas. Here, here; for heaven's sake, help me. 1 Out. 2 No passengers. 3 Thick, cloudy. |