Than these thin habits and poor likelihoodsĭid you by indirect and forcèd courses 130
Or with some dram conjured to this effect,īrabantio pipes up and insists that his daughter is as pure as the snow, so there's no way she could come to love the Moor except via his trickery. That with some mixtures powerful o’er the blood, To find out practices of cunning hell 120 That will confess perfection so could errĪgainst all rules of nature, and must be driven It is a judgment maimed and most imperfect To fall in love with what she feared to look on! Of years, of country, credit, everything, 115 Of spirit so still and quiet that her motionīlushed at herself. Othello says he's a man of action, so his speech will be a poor defense, but he'll give them the whole story of how he won Brabantio's daughter, and they can then judge whether he's guilty or not. Actually, Othello has quite a bit to say: his only offense is to have married Brabantio's daughter.
The Duke asks Othello what he has to say for himself. (For such proceeding I am charged withal) 110 Of my whole course of love-what drugs, what More than pertains to feats of broil and battle.Īnd therefore little shall I grace my cause Their dearest action in the tented field, 100Īnd little of this great world can I speak Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used Rude am I in my speech,Īnd little blessed with the soft phrase of peace įor since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith, The very head and front of my offending 95 That I have ta’en away this old man’s daughter, Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, What, in your own part, can you say to this? Your special mandate for the state affairs Here is the man-this Moor, whom now it seems 85 Still, the Duke promises that whoever the man is that has enchanted Brabantio's daughter, even if it's the Duke's own son, he will get what's coming to him. The Duke says this is awful news, ignoring that this is probably not as awful as the fact that Cyprus is about to be pulverized by the Turks. You shall yourself read in the bitter letter,Īfter your own sense, yea, though our proper son Hath thus beguiled your daughter of herselfĪnd you of her, the bloody book of law 80 Whoe’er he be that in this foul proceeding And yeah, he brings up the whole witchcraft theory again. The Duke is quick to dispatch Othello to fight the Ottomans, but Brabantio pipes up. He says he hasn't come about matters of state, but rather because his daughter's been stolen. She is abused, stol’n from me, and corruptedīy spells and medicines bought of mountebanks īeing not deficient, blind, or lame of sense-īrabantio enters the scene with Othello, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo, and a bevy of other officers. That it engluts and swallows other sorrows Is of so floodgate and o’erbearing nature Take hold on me, for my particular grief 65 Hath raised me from my bed, nor doth the general Neither my place nor aught I heard of business We lacked your counsel and your help tonight. Valiant Othello, we must straight employ you 55Įnter Brabantio, Othello, Cassio, Iago, Roderigo, and Here comes Brabantio and the valiant Moor. The governor of Cyprus, Montano, has sent a message from his location in Florence to confirm that his city is soon to be under siege: the Turks, with a fleet of thirty ships, really are headed for Cyprus, and he needs help from Venice-right now. Signior Montano,Īfter much quibbling, the men realize that the Turkish fleet sent to Rhodes was only a decoy, as Cyprus is more strategically important to the enemy. Their backward course, bearing with frank Have there injointed them with an after fleet.Īy, so I thought. Steering with due course toward the isle of Rhodes, 40 Nay, in all confidence, he’s not for Rhodes. Neglecting an attempt of ease and gain 35 To leave that latest which concerns him first, We must not think the Turk is so unskillful That Rhodes is dressed in-if we make thought of So may he with more facile question bear it,įor that it stands not in such warlike brace, That, as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes, The men compare conflicting reports of a Turkish fleet approaching the island, but are interrupted by a messenger, who says that, actually, the Turkish fleet is headed to Rhodes (yet another island, this one in between Greece and Cyprus). The Duke and assorted senators of Venice are dealing with the impending war with the Turks over Cyprus, an island in the Mediterranean. The Turkish preparation makes for Rhodes. SAILOR, within What ho, what ho, what ho! 15
’Tis oft with difference), yet do they all confirmĪ Turkish fleet, and bearing up to Cyprus. (As in these cases, where the aim reports My letters say a hundred and seven galleys.īut though they jump not on a just account
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