Page 1573 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Oh, oh, oh.

Enter Lodovico, Montano, Officers with Iago, prisoner, and Cassio in a
chair.

LODOVICO
Where is this rash and most unfortunate man?

OTHELLO
That’s he that was Othello; here I am. [285]

LODOVICO
Where is this viper? bring the villain forth.

OTHELLO

I look down towards his feet, but that’s a fable,
If that thou be’st a devil, I cannot kill thee.
Wounds Iago.

LODOVICO
Wring his sword from him.

IAGO
I bleed, sir, but not kill’d.

OTHELLO
I am not sorry neither, I’ld have thee live, [290]

For in my sense ’tis happiness to die.

LODOVICO
O thou Othello, that wert once so good,
Fall’n in the practice of a damned slave,
What should be said to thee?

OTHELLO
Why, anything,

An honourable murderer, if you will: [295]