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SCENE IV

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Venice. Another street.

[Enter Othello, Iago, and Attendants with torches.]

IAGO

Though in the trade of war I have slain men,

Yet do I hold it very stuff o’ the conscience

To do no contrivèd murder: I lack iniquity

Sometimes to do me service: nine or ten times

I had thought to have yerk’d him here under the ribs.

OTHELLO

‘Tis better as it is.

IAGO

Nay, but he prated,

And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms

Against your honor,

That, with the little godliness I have,

I did full hard forbear him. But, I pray you, sir,

Are you fast married? Be assured of this,

That the magnifico is much beloved;

And hath, in his effect, a voice potential

As double as the duke’s: he will divorce you;

Or put upon you what restraint and grievance

The law,—with all his might to enforce it on,—

Will give him cable.

OTHELLO

Let him do his spite:

My services which I have done the signiory

Shall out-tongue his complaints. ‘Tis yet to know,—

Which, when I know that boasting is an honor,

I shall promulgate,—I fetch my life and being

From men of royal siege; and my demerits

May speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune

As this that I have reach’d: for know, Iago,

But that I love the gentle Desdemona,

I would not my unhousèd free condition

Put into circumscription and confine

For the sea’s worth. But, look! what lights come yond?