ACTFIVE Scene Two

3个月前 作者: 莎士比亚
    [A bedchamberin the castle:DESDEMONA in bed asleep;alight burning.Enter OTHELLO]


    OTHELLO


    It is the cause,it is the cause,my soul,——


    Let me not name it to you,you chastestars!——


    It is the cause.Yet I’ll not shedher blood;


    Nor scarthat whiter skin of hers than snow,


    And smooth as monumentlabaster.


    Yet she must die,else she’ll betraymore men.


    Put out thy light,and then put out the light:


    If I quenchthee,thou ming minister,


    I can again thy former light restore,


    Should I repentme:but once put out thy light,


    Thou cunning’stpatternof excellingnature,


    I know not where is that Prometheanheat


    That can thy light relume.When I have pluck’dthe rose,


    I cannot give it vitalgrowth again.


    It must needs wither :I’ll smell it on the tree.


    [Kissing her]


    Ah balmy breath,that dost almost persuade


    Justice to break her sword!One more,one more.


    Be thus when thou art dead,and I will kill thee,


    And love thee after.One more,and this thest:


    So sweet was ne’er so fatal.I must weep,


    But they are cruel tears:this sorrow’s heavenly;


    It strikes where it doth love.She wakes.


    DESDEMONA


    Who’s there?Othello?


    OTHELLO


    Ay.Desdemona.


    DESDEMONA


    Will youe to bed,my lord?


    OTHELLO


    Have you pray’dto-night,Desdemona?


    DESDEMONA


    Ay,my lord.


    OTHELLO


    If you bethink yourself of any crime


    Unreconciledas yet to heaven and grace,


    Solicitfor it straight.


    DESDEMONA


    s,my lord,what do you meam by that?


    OTHELLO


    Well,do it,and be brief;I will walk by:


    I would not kill thy unprepared spirit;


    No;heaven forfend!I would not kill thy soul.


    DESDEMONA


    Talk you of killing?


    OTHELLO


    Ay,I do.


    DESDEMONA


    Then heaven


    Have mercyon me!


    OTHELLO


    Amen,with all my heart!


    DESDEMONA


    If you say so,I hope you will not kill me.


    OTHELLO


    Hum!


    DESDEMONA


    And yet I fear you;for you are fatal then


    When your eyes rollso:why I should fear I know not,


    Since guiltinessI know not;but yet I feel I fear.


    OTHELLO


    Think on thy sins.


    DESDEMONA


    They are loves I bear to you.


    OTHELLO


    Ay,and for that thou diest.


    DESDEMONA


    That death’s unnatural that kills for loving.


    s,why gnawyou so yourherlip?


    Some bloody passion shakes your very frame:


    These are portents;but yet I hope,I hope,


    They do not point on me.


    OTHELLO


    Peace,and be still!


    DESDEMONA


    I will so.What’s the matter?


    OTHELLO


    That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee


    Thou gavestto Cassio.


    DESDEMONA


    No,by my life and soul!


    Send forthe man,and ask him.


    OTHELLO


    Sweet soul,take heed,


    Take heed of perjury;thou art on thy deathbed.


    DESDEMONA


    Ay,but not yet to die.


    OTHELLO


    Yes,presently:


    Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin;


    For to deny each article with oath


    Cannot remove nor chokethe strong conception


    That I do groanwithal.Thou art to die.


    DESDEMONA


    Then Lord have mercy on me!


    OTHELLO


    I say,amen.


    DESDEMONA


    And have you mercy too!I never did


    Offendyou in my life;never loved Cassio


    But with such general warrantyof heaven


    As I might love:I never gave him token.


    OTHELLO


    By heaven,I saw my handkerchief in’s hand.


    O perjuredwoman!thou dost stonemy heart,


    And makest me call what I intend to do


    A murder,which I thought a sacrifice:


    I saw the handkerchief.


    DESDEMONA


    He found it then;


    I never gave it him:send for him hither;


    Let him confess a truth.


    OTHELLO


    He hath confess’d.


    DESDEMONA


    What,my lord?


    OTHELLO


    That he hath used thee.


    DESDEMONA


    How?uwfully?


    OTHELLO


    Ay.


    DESDEMONA


    He will not say so.


    OTHELLO


    No,his mouth stopp’d;


    Honest Iago hath ta’en order for’t.


    DESDEMONA


    O!my fear interprets:what,is he dead?


    OTHELLO


    Had all his hairs been lives,my great revenge


    Had stomach for them all.


    DESDEMONA


    s!he is betray’d and I undone.


    OTHELLO


    Out,strumpet!weep’st thou for him to my face?


    DESDEMONA


    O,banishme,my lord,but kill me not!


    OTHELLO


    Down,strumpet!


    DESDEMONA


    Kill me to-morrow:let me live to-night!


    OTHELLO


    Nay,if you strive——


    DESDEMONA


    But half an hour!


    OTHELLO


    Being done,there is no pause.


    DESDEMONA


    But while I say one prayer!


    OTHELLO


    It is toote.


    [He stiflesher]


    EMILIA


    [Within]My lord,my lord!what,ho!my lord,my lord!


    OTHELLO


    What noise is this?Not dead?not yet quite dead?


    I that am cruel am yet merciful;


    I would not have thee lingerin thy pain:So,so.


    EMILIA


    [Within]What,ho!my lord,my lord!


    OTHELLO


    Who’s there?


    EMILIA


    [Within]O,——good my lord,I would speak a word with


    you!


    OTHELLO


    Yes:’tis Emilia.By and by.She’s dead.


    ‘Tis like shees to speak of Cassio’s death.——


    The noise was here.Ha!no more moving?


    Stis the grave.Shall shee in?were’t good?——


    I think she stirsagain:——no.What’s best to do?


    If shee in,she’ll sure speak to my wife:


    My wife!my wife!what wife?I have no wife.


    O insupportable!O heavy hour!


    Methinks it should be now a huge eclipse


    Of sun and moon,and that the affrightedglobe


    Should yawnat alteration .


    EMILIA


    [Within]I do beseech you


    That I may speak with you,O,good my lord!


    OTHELLO


    I had forgot thee:Oe in,Emilia;


    Soft;by and by.Let me the curtainsdraw.


    Where art thou?


    [Unlocksthe door;Enter EMILIA]


    What’s the matter with thee now?


    EMILIA


    O,my good lord,yonder’sfoul murders done!


    OTHELLO


    What,now?


    EMILIA


    But now,my lord.


    OTHELLO


    It is the very errorof the moon;


    Shees more nearer earth than she was wont,


    And makes men mad.


    EMILIA


    Cassio,my lord,hath kill’d a young Vian


    Call’d Roderigo.


    OTHELLO


    Roderigo kill’d!


    And Cassio kill’d!


    EMILIA


    No,Cassio is not kill’d.


    OTHELLO


    Not Cassio kill’d!then murder’s out of tune,


    And sweet revenge grows harsh.


    DESDEMONA


    O,falsely,falsely murder’d!


    EMILIA


    s,what cry is that?


    OTHELLO


    That!what?


    EMILIA


    Out,and s!that was mydy’s voice.


    Help!help,ho!help!Ody,speak again!


    Sweet Desdemona!O sweet mistress,speak!


    DESDEMONA


    A guiltless death I die.


    EMILIA


    O,who hath done this deed?


    DESDEMONA


    Nobody;I myself.Farewell


    Commendme to my kind lord:O,farewell!


    [Dies]


    OTHELLO


    Why,how should she be murder’d?


    EMILIA


    s,who knows?


    OTHELLO


    You heard her say herself,it was not I.


    EMILIA


    She said so:I must needs report the truth.


    OTHELLO


    She’s,like a liar,gone to burning hell:


    ‘Twas I that kill’d her.


    EMILIA


    O,the more angelshe,


    And you the cker devil!


    OTHELLO


    She turn’d to folly,and she was a whore.


    EMILIA


    Thou dost belieher,and thou art a devil.


    OTHELLO


    She was false as water.


    EMILIA


    Thou art rash as fire,to say


    That she was false:O,she was heavenly true!


    OTHELLO


    Cassio did topher;ask thy husband else.


    O,I were damn’d beneath all depth in hell,


    But that I did proceed upon just grounds


    To this extremityThy husband knew it all.


    EMILIA


    My husband!


    OTHELLO


    Thy husband.


    EMILIA


    That she was false to wedlock?


    OTHELLO


    Ay,with Cassio.Nay,had she been true,


    If heaven would make me such another world


    Of one entire and Perfect chrysolite,


    I’ld not have sold her for it.


    EMILIA


    My husband!


    OTHELLO


    Ay,’twas he that told me first:


    An honest man he is,and hates the slime


    That sticks on filthydeeds.


    EMILIA


    My husband!


    OTHELLO


    What needs this iteration,woman?I say thy husband.


    EMILIA


    O mistress,vinyhath made mocks withlove,


    My husband say that she was false!


    OTHELLO


    He,woman;


    I say thy husband:dost understand the word?


    My friend,thy husband,honest,honest Iago.


    EMILIA


    If he say so,may his pernicioussoul


    Rot half a graina day!he lies to the heart:


    She was too fond of her most filthy bargain.


    OTHELLO


    Ha!


    EMILIA


    Do thy worst:


    This deed of thine is no more worthy heaven


    Than thou wast worthy her.


    OTHELLO


    Peace,you were best.


    EMILIA


    Thou hast not half that power to do me harmAs I have to be


    hurt.O gull!O dolt!


    As ignorantas dirt!thou hast done a deed——


    I care not for thy sword;I’ll make thee known,


    Though I lost twenty!lives.——Help!help,ho!help!


    The Moor hath kill’d my mistress!Murder!murder!


    [Enter MONTANO,GRATIANO,IAGO,and others.]


    MONTANO


    What is the matter?How now,general!


    EMILIA


    O,are youe,Iago?you have done well,


    That men musty their murders on your neck.


    GRATIANO


    What is the matter?


    EMILIA


    Disprovethis viin,if thou be’st a man:


    He says thou told’st him that his wife was false:


    I know thou didst not,thou’rt not such a viin:


    Speak,for my heart is full.


    IAGO


    I told him what I thought,and told no more


    Than what he found himself was apt and true.


    EMILIA


    But did you ever tell him she was false?


    IAGO


    I did.


    EMILIA


    You told a lie,an odious,damnedlie;


    Upon my soul,a lie,a wickedlie.


    She false with Cassio!——did you say with Cassio?


    IAGO


    With Cassio,mistress.Go to,charmyour tongue.


    EMILIA


    I will not charm my tongue;I am bound to speak:


    My mistress here lies murder’d in her bed,——


    All.O heavens forfend!


    EMILIA


    And your reports have set the murder on.


    OTHELLO


    Nay,stare not,masters:it is true,indeed.


    GRATIANO


    ‘Tis a strange truth.


    MONTANO


    O monstrousact!


    EMILIA


    Viny,viny,viny!


    I think upon’t,I think:I smell’t:O viny!——


    I thought so then:——I’ll kill myself for grief:——


    O viny,viny!


    IAGO


    What,are you mad?I charge you,get you home.


    EMILIA


    Good gentlemen,let me have leave to speak:


    ‘Tis proper I obey him,but not now.


    Perchance,Iago,I will ne’er go home.


    OTHELLO


    O!O!O!


    [He falls on the bed.]


    EMILIA


    Nayy thee down and roar;


    For thou hast kill’d the sweetest innocent


    That e’erdid lift up eye.


    OTHELLO


    [Rising]


    O,she was foul!


    I scarcedid know you,uncle:there lies your niece,


    Whose breath,indeed,these hands have newlystopp’d:


    I know this act shows horrible.and grim.


    GRATIANO


    Poor Desdemona!I am d thy father’s dead:


    Thy matchwas mortal to him,and pure grief


    Shorehis old threadin twain:did he live now,


    This sight would make him do a desperateturn,


    Yea,curse his better angel from his side,


    And fall to reprobation.


    OTHELLO


    ‘Tis pitiful;but yet Iago knows


    That she with Cassio hath the act of shame


    A thousand timesmitted;Cassio confess’d it:


    And she did gratifyhis amorousworks


    With that recognizanceand pledgeof love


    Which I first gave her;I saw it in his hand:


    It was a handkerchief,an antiquetoken


    My father gave my mother.


    EMILIA


    O heaven!O heavenly powers!


    IAGO


    Come,hold your peace.


    EMILIA


    ‘Twill out,’twill out:I peace!


    No,I will speak as libers the north:


    Let heaven and men and devils,let them all,


    All,all,cry shame against me,yet I’ll speak.


    IAGO


    Be wise,and get you home.


    EMILIA


    I will not.


    [IAGO offers to stab EMILIA.]


    GRATIANO


    Fie!


    Your sword upon a woman?


    EMILIA


    O thou dull Moor!that handkerchief thou speak’st of


    I found by fortuneand did give my husband;


    For often,with a solemnearnestness,


    More than indeed belong’d to such a trifle,


    He begg’d of me to steal it.


    IAGO


    Vinous whore!


    EMILIA


    She give it Cassio!no,s!I found it,


    And I did give’t my husband.


    IAGO


    Filth,thou liest!


    EMILIA


    By heaven,I do not,I do not,gentlemen.


    O murderouscob!what should such a fool


    Do with so good a woman?


    OTHELLO


    Are there no stones in heaven


    But what serve for the thunder?——Preciousviin!


    [He runs at IAGO,IAGO,from behind,stabs EMILIA,andexit]


    GRATIANO


    The woman falls;sure,he hath kill’d his wife.


    EMILIA


    Ay,ay:Oy me by my mistress’side.


    GRATIANO


    He’s gone,but his wife’s kill’d.


    MONTANO


    ‘Tis a notoriousviin.Take you this weapon,


    Which I have here recover’dfrom the Moor:


    Come,guardthe door without;let him not pass,


    But kill him rather.I’ll afterthat same viin,


    For’tis a damned ve.


    [Exeunt MONTANO and GRATIANO]


    OTHELLO


    I am not valiantneither,


    But ever punywhipstergets my sword:


    But why should honour outlive honesty?


    Let it go all.


    EMILIA


    What did thy song bodedy?


    Hark,canst thou hear me?I will y the swan.


    And die in music.


    [Singing]


    Willow,willow,willow,——Moor,she was chaste;she


    loved thee,cruel Moor;


    Soe my soul to bliss,as I speak true;


    So speaking as I think,I die,I die.


    [Dies]


    OTHELLO


    I have another weapon in this chamber;


    It is a sword of Spain,the ice-brook’stemper:——


    O,here it is.Uncle,I muste forth.


    GRATIANO


    [Within]If thou attemptit,it will cost thee dear:


    Thou hast no weapon,and perforcemust suffer.


    OTHELLO


    Look in upon me then and speak with me,


    Or,nakedas I am,I will assaultthee.


    [Re-enter GRATIANO]


    GRATIANO


    What is the matter?


    OTHELLO


    Behold ,I have a weapon;


    A better never did itself sustain


    Upon a soldier’s thigh:I have seen the day,


    That,with this little arm and this good sword,


    I have made my waythrough more impediments


    Than twenty times your stop:but,O vain boast!


    Who can control his fate?’tis not so now.


    Be not afraid,though you do see me weapon’d;


    Here is my journey’send,here is my butt,


    And very sea-markof my utmost sail.


    Do you go back dismay’d?’tis a lost fear;


    Man but a rush against Othello’s breast,


    And he retires.Where should Othello go?


    Now,how dost thou look now?O ill-starr’dwench!


    Pale as thy smock!when we shall meet atpt,


    This look of thine will hurlmy soul from heaven,


    And fiendswill snatchat it.Cold,cold,my girl!


    Even like thy chastity.O cursed ve!


    Whip me,ye devils,


    From the possession of this heavenly sight !


    Blow me about in winds!roastme in sulphur!


    Wash me in steep-down gulfs of liquid fire!


    O Desdemona!Desdemona!dead!


    Oh!Oh!Oh!


    [Enter LODOVICO.MONTANO,CASSIO carried in a chair,and Officers with IAGO,prisoner]


    LODOVICO


    Where is this rashand most unfortunateman?


    OTHELLO


    That’s he that was Othello:here I am.


    LODOVICO


    Where is that viper?bring the viin forth.


    OTHELLO


    I look down towards his feet;but that’s a fable.


    If that thou besta devil,I cannot kill thee.


    [Wounds IAGO]


    LODOVICO


    Wrenchhis sword from him.


    IAGO


    I bleed,sir;but not kill’d.


    OTHELLO


    I am not sorry neither:I’ld have thee live;


    For,in my sense,’tis happiness to die.


    LODOVICO


    O thou Othello,thou wertonce so good,


    Fall’n in the practise of a damned ve,


    What shall be said to thee?


    OTHELLO


    Why,any thing:


    An honourable murderer,if you will;


    For noughtI did in hate,but all in honour.


    LODOVICO


    This wretchhath part confess’d his viny:


    Did you and he consentin Cassio’s death?


    OTHELLO


    Ay.


    CASSIO


    Dear general,I never gave you cause.


    OTHELLO


    I do believe it,and I ask your pardon.


    Will you,I pray,demandthat demi-devil


    Why he hath thus ensnaredmy soul and body?


    IAGO


    Demand me nothing:what you know,you know:


    From this time forthI never will speak word.


    LODOVICO


    What,not to pray?


    GRATIANO


    Tormentswill opeyour lips.


    OTHELLO


    Well,thou dost best.


    LODOVICO


    Sir,you shall understand what hath befall’n,


    Which,as I think,you know not.Here is a letter


    Found in the pocket of the inRoderigo;


    And here another:the one of them imports


    The death of Cassio to be undertook


    By Roderigo.


    OTHELLO


    O viin!


    CASSIO


    Most heathenishand most gross!


    LODOVICO


    Now here’s another discontentedpaper,


    Found in his pocket too;and this,it seems,


    Roderigo meant to have sent this damned viin;


    But that belikeIago in the interim


    Came in and satisfied him.


    OTHELLO


    O the perniciouscaitiff!


    How came you,Cassio,by that handkerchief


    That was my wife’s?


    CASSIO


    I found it in my chamber:


    And he himself confess’d but even now


    That there he dropp’d it for a special purpose


    Which wroughtto his desire.


    OTHELLO


    O fool!fool!fool!


    CASSIO


    There is besides in Roderigo’s letter,


    How he upbraidsIago,that he made him


    Brave me upon the watch;whereon it came


    That I was cast :and even but now he spake,


    After long seeming dead,Iago hurt him,


    Iago set him on.


    LODOVICO


    You must forsakethis room,and go with us:


    Your power and yourmandis taken off,


    And Cassio rules in Cyprus.For this ve,


    If there be any cunningcruelty


    That can tormenthim much and hold him long,


    It shall be his.You shall close prisoner rest,


    Till that the nature of your faultbe known


    To the Vian state.Come,bring him away.


    OTHELLO


    Soft you;a word or two before you go.


    I have done the state some service,and they know’t.


    No more of that.I pray you,in your letters,


    When you shall these unlucky deeds rte,


    Speak of me as I am;nothing extenuate,


    Nor set down aughtin malice:then must you speak


    Of one that loved not wisely but too well;


    Of one not easily jealous,but being wrought


    Perplex’din the extreme;of one whose hand,


    Like the base Indian,threw a peaway


    Richer than all his tribe;of one whose subduedeyes,


    Albeit unused to the meltingmood,


    Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees


    Their medicinalgum.Set you down this;


    And say besides,that in Aleppo once,


    Where a malignantand a turban’dTurk


    Beat a Vian and traducedthe state,


    I took by the throat the circumciseddog,


    And smotehim,thus.


    [Stabs himself]


    LODOVICO


    O bloody period!


    GRATIANO


    All that’s spoke is marr’d.


    OTHELLO


    I kiss’d thee ereI kill’d thee:no way but this;


    Killing myself,to die upon a kiss.


    [Falls on the bed,and dies.]


    CASSIO


    This did I fear,but thought he had no weapon;


    For he was great of heart.


    LODOVICO


    [To IAGO]O Spartandog,


    More fellthan anguish,hunger,or the sea!


    Look on the tragicloading of this bed;


    This is thy work:the object poisons sight;


    Let it be hid.Gratiano,keep the house,


    And seize upon the fortunesof the Moor,


    For they seedon you.To you,lord governor,


    Remains the censureof this hellishviin;


    The time,the ce,the torture :O,enforceit!


    Myself will straight aboard:and to the state


    This heavy act with heavy heart rte.


    [Exeunt]
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