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ACT II.

Scene I. Messina. Pompey's house .

Enter P OMPEY , M ENECRATES , and M ENAS , in warlike manner .

Pom. If the great gods be just, they shall assist
The deeds of justest men.
Mene. Know, worthy Pompey,
That what they do delay, they not deny.
Pom. Whiles we are suitors to their throne, decays
The thing we sue for.
Mene. We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit

ACT I.

Scene I. Alexandria. A room in Cleopatra's palace .

Enter D EMETRIUS and P HILO .

Phi. Nay, but this dotage of our general's
O'erflows the measure: those his goodly eyes,
That o'er the files and musters of the war
Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn,
The office and devotion of their view
Upon a tawny front: his captain's heart,
Which in the scuffles of great fights hath burst
The buckles on his breast, reneges all temper,

ACT V.

Scene I. Cyprus. A street .

Enter IAGO and RODERIGO .

Iago. 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.
Rod. Be near at hand; I may miscarry in 't.
Iago. Here, at thy hand: be bold, and take thy stand.
Rod. I have no great devotion to the deed;
And yet he hath given me satisfying reasons:

ACT IV.

Scene I. Cyprus. Before the castle .

Enter OTHELLO and IAGO .

Iago. Will you think so?
Oth. Think so, Iago!
Iago. What,
To kiss in private?
Oth. An unauthorized kiss.
Iago. Or to be naked with her friend in bed
An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
Oth. Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!
It is hypocrisy against the devil:
They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,
The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.
Iago. So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:

ACT III.

Scene I. Before the Castle .

Enter CASSIO and some Musicians.

Cas. Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
Something that 's brief; and bid " Good morrow, general."

Enter Clown.

Clo. Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' the nose thus?
First Mus. How, sir, how!
Clo. Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?
First Mus. Ay, marry, are they, sir.
Clo. O, thereby hangs a tail.
First Mus. Whereby hangs a tale, sir?

ACT II.

Scene I. A Sea-port in Cyprus. An open place near
the quay .

Enter MONTANO and two Gentlemen.

Mon. What from the cape can you discern at sea?
First Gent. Nothing at all: it is a high-wrought flood;
I cannot, 'twixt the heaven and the main,
Descry a sail.
Mon. Methinks the wind hath spoke aloud at land;
A fuller blast ne'er shook our battlements:
If it hath ruffian'd so upon the sea,
What ribs of oak, when mountains melt on them,
Can hold the mortise? What shall we hear of this?

ACT I.

Scene I. Venice. A street .

Enter RODERIGO and IAGO .

Rod. Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly
That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.
Iago. 'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
If ever I did dream of such a matter,
Abhor me.
Rod. Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.
Iago. Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,

ACT V.

Scene I. A churchyard .

Enter two Clowns, with spades, &c .

First Clo. Is she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation?
Sec. Clo. I tell thee she is; and therefore make her grave straight: the crowner hath sat on her, and finds it Christian burial.
First Clo. How can that be, unless she drowned herself in her own defence?
Sec. Clo. Why, 'tis found so.

ACT IV.

Scene I. A room in the castle .

Enter K ING , Q UEEN , R OSENCRANTZ , and G UILDENSTERN .

King. There's matter in these sighs, these profound heaves:
You must translate: 'tis fit we understand them.
Where is your son?
Queen. Bestow this place on us a little while.
Ah, mine own lord, what have I seen tonight!
King. What, Gerirude? How does Hamlet?
Queen. Mad as the sea and wind, when both contend
Which is the mightier: in his lawless fit,

ACT III.

Scene I. A room in the castle .

Enter K ING , Q UEEN , P OLONIUS , O PHELIA , R OSENCRANTZ , and G UILDENSTERN .

King. And can you, by no drift of circumstance,
Get from him why he puts on this confusion,
Grating so harshly all his days of quiet
With turbulent and dangerous lunacy?
Ros. He does confess he feels himself distracted;
But from what cause he will by no means speak.
Guil. Nor do we find him forward to be sounded,
But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof,