Page 1453 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

I cannot speak enough of this content,
It stops me here, it is too much of joy:
And this, and this, the greatest discord be
They kiss.

That e’er our hearts shall make!

IAGO
(Aside)
O, you are well tun’d now,
But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, [200]

As honest as I am.

OTHELLO

Come, let us to the castle.
News, friends, our wars are done, the Turks are drown’d.
How do our old acquaintance of the isle?
Honey, you shall be well desir’d in Cyprus;

I have found great love amongst them: O my sweet, [205]
I prattle out of fashion, and I dote
In mine own comforts: I prithee, good Iago,
Go to the bay, and disembark my coffers;

Bring thou the master to the citadel;
He is a good one, and his worthiness [210]
Does challenge much respect: come, Desdemona,
Once more well met at Cyprus.

Exeunt all but Iago and Roderigo.

IAGO
Do thou meet me presently at the harbour: come hither. If thou be’st valiant
− as, they say, base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures
[215] more than is native to them − list me; the lieutenant to-night watches

on the court of guard: first, I will tell thee this, Desdemona is directly in love
with him.

RODERIGO
With him? why, ’tis not possible.

IAGO