What Does Othello Say He Is Likely Never to Have Again
-- Philip Weller, November thirteen, 1941 - February 1, 2021
Dr. Weller, an Eastern Washington University professor of English and Shakespearean scholar for more than than 50 years.
Othello: Human activity two, Scene 1
Enter MONTANO and two
GENTLEMEN.
MONTANO
iWhat from the cape can you discern at sea?
First Admirer
2Goose egg at all: information technology is a highwrought alluvion;
3I cannot, 'twixt the sky and the chief,
3.master: open ocean.
4Descry a sail.
4.Descry: catch sight of.
MONTANO
5Methinks the current of air hath spoke aloud at land;
6A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
7If information technology hath ruffian'd and then upon the sea,
7.ruffian'd: raged.
8What ribs of oak, when mountains cook on them,
eight.ribs of oak: i.e., ship. mountains: huge waves.
9Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?
nine.hold the mortise: hold their joints together. . . . more What shall we hear of this?: i.east., What is going to happen because of this storm?
Second Admirer
10A segregation of the Turkish fleet:
10.segregation of the Turkish armada: i.e., the Turkish armada will be broken upward and scattered.
11For exercise but stand upon the foaming shore,
12The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;
13The wind-shaked surge, with high and monstrous primary,
fourteenseems to bandage water on the burning bear,
14.burning bear: i.e., the starry bear; the constellation Ursa Major.
15And quench the guards of the ever-stock-still pole:
15.guards: the ii stars Dubhe and Merak. . . . more
16I never did like molestation view
sixteen.like molestation: comparable uproar.
17On the enchafed flood.
17.enchafed: aroused.
MONTANO
If that the Turkish armada
18Exist non enshelter'd and embay'd, they are drown'd:
19It is impossible they bear information technology out.
Enter a [third] GENTLEMAN.
Third Gentleman
20News, lads! our wars are done.
21The desperate storm hath so blindside'd the Turks,
22That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice
22.designment: plan. halts: is crippled.
23Hath seen a grievous wreck and sufferance
23.sufferance: disaster, damage.
24On most part of their fleet.
MONTANO
25How! is this true?
Third Gentleman
The ship is here put in,
26A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,
26.Veronesa: a blazon of ship associated with Verona.
27Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
28Is come up on shore: the Moor himself at sea,
29And is in full commission here for Republic of cyprus.
28.is in full commission here for Cyprus: i.due east., has total say-so from the Venetian Senate to govern Cyprus.
MONTANO
xxxI am glad on't; 'tis a worthy governor.
3rd Gentleman
31But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort
32Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
33And prays the Moor be safe; for they were parted
34With foul and tearing tempest.
MONTANO
Pray heavens he be;
35For I accept served him, and the human commands
36Similar a full soldier. Let's to the seaside, ho!
36.total: perfect.
37Besides to run into the vessel that's come in
38As to throw out our eyes for brave Othello,
39Even till we make the main and the aerial blue
twoscoreAn indistinct regard.
forty.An indistinct regard: duplicate to the sight.
Tertiary Gentleman
Come, let's practise so:
41For every minute is expectancy
42Of more arrivance.
41-42.every infinitesimal is expectancy / Of more arrivance: i.e., every minute nosotros expect another inflow of a ship.
Enter CASSIO.
CASSIO
43Thanks, you the valiant of this warlike isle,
44That so corroborate the Moor! O, let the heavens
44.approve: commend, admire.
45Give him defence against the elements,
46For I have lost him on a unsafe ocean.
MONTANO
47Is he well shipp'd?
CASSIO
48His bark is stoutly timber'd, his pilot
49Of very expert and approved allowance;
49.Of very expert and approved allowance: i.due east., of acknowledged and proved skill.
50Therefore my hopes, non surfeited to decease,
51Stand in assuming cure.
50-51. my hopes, not surfeited to death, / Stand in bold cure: my hopes, not fatally over-fed, are very healthy.
[A weep] inside, "A sail, a canvass, a sail!"
[Enter a quaternary Gentleman.]
CASSIO
52What dissonance?
Quaternary Gentleman
53The boondocks is empty; on the brow o' the bounding main
54Stand ranks of people, and they weep "A sail!"
CASSIO
55My hopes do shape him for the governor.
55. My hopes practise shape him for the governor: i.east., My hopes make me call back I see the new governor (Othello) coming.
[Guns heard.]
Second Gentlemen
56They do belch their shot of courtesy:
57Our friends at least.
CASSIO
I pray y'all, sir, go forth,
58And give usa truth who 'tis that is arrived.
2nd Gentleman
59I shall.
Go out.
MONTANO
60But, skillful lieutenant, is your general wived?
CASSIO
61Nearly fortunately: he hath accomplished a maid
62That paragons description and wild fame;
62.paragons . . . fame: surpasses whatever praise is uttered of her.
63I that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,
63.quirks: poetic flourishes. blazoning pens: i.e., writers who list her beauties.
64And in the essential vesture of cosmos
65Does tire the ingener.
64-65. in the essential . . . ingener: i.east., just the fact that she lives in her natural beauty defeats all attempts of the inventive poet to praise her adequately.
Enter [second] Gentleman.
65.put in: come into the harbor.
How at present! who has put in?
Second Admirer
66'Tis i Iago, ancient to the general.
CASSIO
67H'equally had most favorable and happy speed:
67. favorable and happy speed: excellent good fortune.
68Tempests themselves, high seas, and howling winds,
69The gutter'd rocks and congregated sands—
69.gutter'd: jagged. congregated sands: sand bars.
seventyTraitors ensteep'd to clog the guiltless keel,—
lxx.ensteep'd: submerged. clog: encumber, obstruct.
71As having sense of dazzler, exercise omit
72Their mortal natures, letting go safely past
71-72.do omit / Their mortal natures: do not act in accordance with their deadly natures.
73The divine Desdemona.
MONTANO
What is she?
CASSIO
74She that I spake of, our swell captain'south captain,
75Left in the acquit of the assuming Iago,
76Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
76.ground: landing, arrival. anticipates our thoughts: runs alee of our expectations.
77A se'nnight's speed. Cracking Jove, Othello baby-sit,
77.se'nnight's: week'south.
78And nifty his sail with thine own powerful breath,
79That he may anoint this bay with his alpine ship,
80Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms,
81Give renew'd burn to our extincted spirits
82And bring all Cyprus comfort!
Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO,
RODERIGO, and EMILIA.
O, behold,
83The riches of the ship is come on shore!
84Ye men of Cyprus, let her have your knees.
85Hail to thee, lady! and the grace of sky,
86Before, backside thee, and on every hand,
87Enwheel thee circular!
DESDEMONA
I thank you, valiant Cassio.
88What tidings can you tell me of my lord?
88.my lord: my husband (Othello).
CASSIO
89He is not yet arrived: nor know I aught
90But that he's well and will exist presently hither.
DESDEMONA
91O, but I fear—How lost you lot visitor?
91.How lost you visitor?: how did you lose contact with Othello's transport?
CASSIO
92The great contention of the bounding main and skies
93Parted our fellowship.
For Nebraska Shakespeare'southward
production of Othello
(Shakespeare On Tour 2019)
Cassio was portrayed past Sam Cheeseman.
Within "A sheet, a sail!"
93 But, hark! a sheet.
2d Gentleman
94They give their greeting to the citadel;
95This as well is a friend.
CASSIO
95 Meet for the news.
[Go out Second Admirer.]
96Expert ancient, y'all are welcome.
[To Emilia.]
96 Welcome, mistress.
97Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
98That I extend my manners; 'tis my convenance
98.extend: prove.
99That gives me this bold show of courtesy.
98-99.'tis . . . courtesy: i.eastward., the way I was brought upwards makes me believe that kissing your wife is the courteous thing to do.
[Kissing her.]
"Kissing her"
IAGO
100Sir, would she give you and then much of her lips
101Equally of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
102You would have enough.
DESDEMONA
Alas, she has no voice communication.
IAGO
103In faith, too much;
104I observe it still, when I accept list to sleep:
104.list: inclination.
105Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
105.before your ladyship: in your ladyship's presence.
106She puts her natural language a piddling in her heart,
106.She . . . heart: i.e., she doesn't say as much as she usually does.
107And chides with thinking.
107.chides with thinking: i.due east., scolds with thoughts.
EMILIA
108You have little cause to say and then.
IAGO
109Come up on, come on; you are pictures out of doors,
109.pictures out of doors: picture-perfect in public.
110Bells in your parlors, wild-cats in your kitchens,
110.Bells: belles, gracious ladies.
111Saints in your injuries, devils existence offended,
111.Saints in your injuries: [hypocritically] saintly when you lot hurt others.
112Players in your huswifery, and huswives in your beds.
112.Players: actors, fakers. huswifery: housekeeping. huswives: hussies. A moment after Iago sums upwardly his opinion most the way housewives earn their living: "You rise to play and go to bed to work"; in other words, housewives are actually hussies. Of grade, he says it with a grin and makes everyone laugh.
DESDEMONA
113O, fie upon thee, slanderer!
IAGO
114Nay, it is truthful, or else I am a Turk:
115You lot rise to play and go to bed to piece of work.
Mark Rylance as Iago
Shakespeare'due south Globe, 2018
EMILIA
116You shall non write my praise.
IAGO
No, let me non.
DESDEMONA
117What wouldst thou write of me, if thou shouldst
praise me?
IAGO
118O gentle lady, practise not put me to't;
119For I am nothing, if not critical.
DESDEMONA
120Come on, assay. —There's one gone to the harbor?
120.assay: try.
IAGO
121Ay, madam.
DESDEMONA
122I am not merry; but I practise beguile
123The affair I am, by seeming otherwise.—
123.The thing I am: i.e., my anxious cocky. Remember that she nonetheless doesn't know where Othello's ship is.
124Come, how wouldst thou praise me?
IAGO
125I am about information technology; merely indeed my invention
126Comes from my pate every bit birdlime does from frieze;
126.birdlime: sticky substance used to catch pocket-size birds. frieze: coarse woolen cloth
127Information technology plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labors,
128And thus she is evangelize'd.
129If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,
130The 1's for use, the other useth it.
130.The one'south for utilise, the other useth it: i.e., her cleverness will make use of her dazzler.
DESDEMONA
131Well praised! How if she be black and witty?
131.black: dark complexioned, unattractive.
IAGO
132If she be black, and thereto have a wit,
133She'll find a white that shall her blackness fit.
133.a white: a fair, attractive person. Iago could besides exist punning on "wight," which means "person."
DESDEMONA
134Worse and worse.
EMILIA
135How if fair and foolish?
IAGO
136She never yet was foolish that was fair;
137For even her folly assistance'd her to an heir.
137.folly: 1) foolishness; 2) "wantonness" or "lechery." to an heir: i.e., to comport a child.
DESDEMONA
138These are former fond paradoxes to make fools express joy i'
138.addicted: foolish.
139the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thou for
140her that's foul and foolish?
140.foul: ugly.
IAGO
141There's none so foul and foolish thereunto,
142Just does foul pranks which fair and wise ones exercise.
DESDEMONA
143O heavy ignorance! g praisest the worst
144all-time. Only what praise couldst k bestow on a
145deserving woman indeed,—1 that, in the authorization
145-146.in the authorization of: by virtue of. put on the vouch of: compel favorable testimony from.
146of her merit, did justly put on the vouch of very
147malice itself?
IAGO
148She that was always fair and never proud,
149Had natural language at will and yet was never loud,
150Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay,
150.gay: extravagantly dressed.
151Fled from her wish and all the same said "Now I may,"
151.Fled from her wish and yet said "Now I may": i.due east., knew when to practice restraint and when to let loose.
152She that beingness anger'd, her revenge being nigh,
153Bade her incorrect stay and her displeasure fly,
153.Bade her wrong stay: Allowable her justified anger to stop curt.
154She that in wisdom never was and so frail
155To change the cod'southward caput for the salmon'southward tail;
155.modify the cod'southward head for the salmon'due south tail: Obscure. Mayhap "give upwardly something mutual but valuable in substitution for something showy but worthless."
156She that could think and ne'er disclose her heed,
157See suitors following and not look behind,
158She was a wight, if ever such wight were,—
DESDEMONA
159To practise what?
IAGO
160To suckle fools and chronicle modest beer.
160.suckle fools and chronicle small beer: nurse babies and proceed lilliputian household accounts.
DESDEMONA
161O near lame and impotent determination! Exercise not learn
162of him, Emilia, though he exist thy husband. How say
163you, Cassio? is he not a well-nigh profane and liberal
163.liberal: licentious, free-spoken.
164counsellor?
CASSIO
165He speaks domicile, madam: Yous may savour him more
165.home: bluntly.
166in the soldier than in the scholar.
166.in: in the character of.
IAGO [Aside.]
167He takes her past the palm: ay, well said,
168whisper: with as petty a spider web equally this will I
169ensnare as great a wing as Cassio. Ay, grin upon
170her, do; I will gyve thee in thine own courting.
170.gyve: entangle, shackle. courtship: courtesy, display of ladylike manners.
171Yous say true; 'tis then, indeed: if such tricks as
172these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had
173been better you lot had not kissed your three fingers and so
174often, which at present over again you are most apt to play the
174.sir: fine gentleman, gallant.
175sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellent
176courtesy! 'tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers
176.courtesy: bow? air buss?
177to your lips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake!
177.clyster-pipes: enema tubes.
[Trumpet within.]
178The Moor! I know his trumpet.
CASSIO
179'Tis truly and then.
DESDEMONA
180Let'south meet him and receive him.
CASSIO
181Lo, where he comes!
Enter OTHELLO and Attendants.
OTHELLO
182O my fair warrior!
DESDEMONA
My dear Othello!
OTHELLO
183Information technology gives me wonder neat equally my content
184To see you hither before me. O my soul'southward joy!
185If after every tempest come such calms,
186May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!
187And allow the laboring bark climb hills of seas
188Olympus-loftier and duck again as low
189Every bit hell's from heaven! If it were now to die,
190'Twere at present to be nigh happy; for, I fear,
191My soul hath her content then absolute
192That not some other comfort like to this
193Succeeds in unknown fate.
193.Succeeds in unknown fate: i.e., tin can follow in the unknown future.
DESDEMONA
The heavens foreclose
194Merely that our loves and comforts should increase,
195Fifty-fifty as our days do grow!
Eamonn Walker as Othello and Zoe Tapper as Desdemona
Shakespeare'southward Globe, London, 2007
OTHELLO
Amen to that, sweet powers!
196I cannot speak enough of this content;
197It stops me here; it is besides much of joy:
198And this, and this, the greatest discords exist
[They buss.]
199That due east'er our hearts shall make!
IAGO [Bated.]
199 O, you are well tuned at present!
200But I'll set down the pegs that make this music,
200.fix downwardly the pegs: i.e., untune the instrument (and then produce discords).
201Every bit honest as I am.
OTHELLO
Come, let us to the castle.
202News, friends; our wars are done, the Turks are drown'd.
203How does my old acquaintance of this island?
204Love, you lot shall be well desir'd in Cyprus;
204.desir'd: welcomed, loved.
205I have plant nifty beloved amongst them. O my sugariness,
206I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
206.out of fashion: irrelevantly or unconventionally.
207In mine ain comforts. I prithee, good Iago,
208Become to the bay and disembark my coffers:
208.coffers: official baggage.
209Bring thou the master to the citadel;
209.master: ship's captain.
210He is a good 1, and his worthiness
211Does claiming much respect. Come, Desdemona,
211.challenge: claim, deserve.
212Once more, well met at Cyprus.
Exeunt Othello and Desdemona [with all merely
Iago and Roderigo].
IAGO [To an bellboy.]
213Exercise thou meet me presently at the harbour.
[To Roderigo.]
214Come here. If thou exist'st valiant,— as, they say, base
214-215.base men: men of low nativity.
215men beingness in love have then a dignity in their
216natures more is native to them—list me. The
216.native: natural. list me: heed to me.
217lieutenant this night watches on the courtroom of
218guard. Get-go, I must tell thee this—Desdemona is
217-218.watches on the courtroom of guard: has charge of the soldiers on night spotter.
219straight in love with him.
RODERIGO
220With him! why, 'tis not possible.
IAGO
221Lay thy finger thus, and let thy soul be instructed.
221.thus: i.e., on your lips.
222Marking me with what violence she first loved the Moor,
223but for bragging and telling her fantastical lies: To
224dearest him nonetheless for prating—let not thy discreet heart
224.still: always.
225call up it. Her center must be fed; and what please shall
226she take to expect on the devil? When the blood is
226.the devil: In Shakespeare'south time, devils are ever black and grotesque. . . . more
227made tiresome with the act of sport, there should exist, once again
228to inflame it and to requite satiety a fresh ambition,
229loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners and
229.favor: confront, advent. sympathy: similarity.
230beauties; all which the Moor is defective in: at present, for
231want of these required conveniences, her delicate
231.conveniences: compatibilities.
232tenderness will discover itself abused, begin to heave the
233gorge, disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will
232-233.heave the gorge: vomit.
234instruct her in it and compel her to some 2nd choice.
234.instruct . . . choice: i.e. teach her a lesson and make take make her cull a different human being for her lover.
235Now, sir, this granted,—as it is a most pregnant and
235.pregnant: axiomatic, readily believable, obvious.
236unforced position—who stands then eminent in the caste
237of this fortune every bit Cassio does? a knave very voluble;
238.conscionable: jump past considerations of censor.
238no further conscionable than in putting on the mere
239form of civil and humane seeming, for the meliorate
239.ceremonious and humane: polite and courteous.
240compassing of his salt and most hidden loose affection?
240.salt: licentious, lewd. affection: passion.
241why, none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
241.slipper: slippery.
242finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and
242.postage stamp: money, manufacture.
243counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never
243. counterfeit advantages: counterfeit opportunities.
244present itself; a devilish knave. As well, the knave
245is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in
246him that folly and green minds look afterwards: a pestilent
246.folly: wantonness. greenish: youthful, lusty.
247complete knave; and the woman hath found him
247.found him: sized him upward.
248already.
RODERIGO
249I cannot believe that in her; she'south full of
250about blessed status.
250.condition: disposition. graphic symbol.
IAGO
251Blest fig'due south-stop! the vino she drinks is made of
252grapes: if she had been blessed, she would never
253have loved the Moor. Blest pudding! Didst thou
254not see her paddle with the palm of his manus? didst
255non marking that?
RODERIGO
256Yes, that I did; but that was but courtesy.
IAGO
257Lechery, by this hand; an index and obscure prologue
257.index: table of contents at the beginning of a book.
258to the history of lust and foul thoughts. They met
259and then virtually with their lips that their breaths embraced
260together. Villainous thoughts, Roderigo! when these
261mutualities then marshal the way, hard at hand comes
261.mutualities: exchanges, intimacies. hard at hand: very soon after.
262the main and main practise, the incorporate
262.comprise: lecherous.
263conclusion, Pish! But, sir, be yous ruled by me: I
264.Watch y'all: serve as a fellow member of the lookout.
264accept brought you from Venice. Watch you this night;
265.lay't upon y'all: arrange for your orders.
265for the command, I'll lay't upon you lot. Cassio knows
266you lot non. I'll not be far from you: practice yous detect
267some occasion to anger Cassio, either by speaking
268as well loud, or tainting his discipline; or from what
268.tainting: disparaging, discrediting. his bailiwick: his conduct as an officer.
269other course you please, which the time shall more
270favorably minister.
RODERIGO
271Well.
IAGO
272Sir, he is rash and very sudden in choler, and haply
272.rash: impetuous. choler: anger. haply: perchance.
273may strike at you: provoke him, that he may; for
274fifty-fifty out of that will I crusade these of Republic of cyprus to
275mutiny; whose qualification shall come up into no true
275. mutiny: riot.howdy
276taste over again but by the displanting of Cassio. So
275-276. whose . . Cassio: i.e., but the firing of Cassio will calm the riot and restore normalcy.
277shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
278the means I shall then take to adopt them; and the
278.adopt them: i.due east., give your desires advantages.
279impediment most profitably removed, without the
280which at that place were no expectation of our prosperity.
RODERIGO
281I volition practise this, if I can bring it to any
282opportunity.
IAGO
283.I warrant thee: I guarantee you lot'll have opportunity. by and by: immediately.
283I warrant thee. Run into me by and past at the citadel:
284I must fetch his necessaries aground. Farewell.
RODERIGO
285Cheerio.
Exit.
IAGO
286That Cassio loves her, I exercise well believe it;
287That she loves him, 'tis apt and of great credit.
287.apt and of dandy credit: likely and apparent.
288The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not,
289Is of a abiding, loving, noble nature,
290And I cartel call back he'll prove to Desdemona
291A about dear married man. At present, I do love her too;
292Not out of absolute lust, though maybe
293I stand auditor for equally great a sin,
293.accountant: accountable.
294But partly led to diet my revenge,
294.diet: feed.
295For that I do suspect the brawny Moor
296Hath spring'd into my seat; the thought whereof
297Doth, similar a poisonous mineral, gnaw my inward;
298And nothing tin can or shall content my soul
299Till I am fifty-fifty'd with him, wife for married woman,
300Or declining so, yet that I put the Moor
301At least into a jealousy and so strong
302That judgment cannot cure. Which thing to do,
303If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trace
303.trace: put in harness; i.east., use for my own purposes.
304For his quick hunting, stand up the putting on,
304.stand . . . on: be effective when the moment comes.
305I'll accept our Michael Cassio on the hip,
305.on the hip: in a position where I tin can throw him (wrestling term).
306Corruption him to the Moor in the rank garb—
306.rank garb: fibroid fashion.
307For I fright Cassio with my dark-cap as well—
307.with my nighttime-cap: i.east., as a sexual rival. Iago apparently believes that his wife might be having affairs with
bothOthello and Cassio.
308Make the Moor thank me, love me and advantage me.
309For making him egregiously an ass
310And practising upon his peace and tranquility
311Fifty-fifty to madness. 'Tis here, only yet confused:
312Knavery's manifestly face up is never seen till used.
Exit.
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