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SCENE III. The garden of the castle.
Enter DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and EMILIA
DESDEMONA
Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
All my abilities in thy behalf.
EMILIA
Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband,
As if the case were his.
DESDEMONA
O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were.
CASSIO
Bounteous madam,
Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
He's never any thing but your true servant.
DESDEMONA
I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord:
You have known him long; and be you well assured
He shall in strangeness stand no further off
Than in a polite distance.
CASSIO
Ay, but, lady,
That policy may either last so long,
Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
That, I being absent and my place supplied,
My general will forget my love and service.
DESDEMONA
Do not doubt that; before Emilia here
I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,
If I do vow a friendship, I'll perform it
To the last article: my lord shall never rest;
I'll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;
His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;
I'll intermingle every thing he does
With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;
For thy solicitor shall rather die
Than give thy cause away.
EMILIA
Madam, here comes my lord.
CASSIO
Madam, I'll take my leave.
DESDEMONA
Why, stay, and hear me speak.
CASSIO
Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
Unfit for mine own purposes.
DESDEMONA
Well, do your discretion.
Exit CASSIO
Enter OTHELLO and IAGO
IAGO
Ha! I like not that.
OTHELLO
What dost thou say?
IAGO
Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.
OTHELLO
Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
IAGO
Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,
That he would steal away so guilty-like,
Seeing you coming.
OTHELLO
I do believe 'twas he.
DESDEMONA
How now, my lord!
I have been talking with a suitor here,
A man that languishes in your displeasure.
OTHELLO
Who is't you mean?
DESDEMONA
Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
If I have any grace or power to move you,
His present reconciliation take;
For if he be not one that truly loves you,
That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,
I have no judgment in an honest face:
I prithee, call him back.
OTHELLO
Went he hence now?
DESDEMONA
Ay, sooth; so humbled
That he hath left part of his grief with me,
To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.
OTHELLO
Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.
DESDEMONA
But shall't be shortly?
OTHELLO
The sooner, sweet, for you.
DESDEMONA
Shall't be to-night at supper?
OTHELLO
No, not to-night.
DESDEMONA
To-morrow dinner, then?
OTHELLO
I shall not dine at home;
I meet the captains at the citadel.
DESDEMONA
Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;
On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:
I prithee, name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;
And yet his trespass, in our common reason--
Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
Out of their best--is not almost a fault
To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?
Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
What you would ask me, that I should deny,
Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,
That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do
To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--
OTHELLO
Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;
I will deny thee nothing.
DESDEMONA
Why, this is not a boon;
'Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,
Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
Or sue to you to do a peculiar profit
To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
It shall be full of poise and difficult weight
And fearful to be granted.
OTHELLO
I will deny thee nothing:
Whereon, I do beseech thee, grant me this,
To leave me but a little to myself.
DESDEMONA
Shall I deny you? no: farewell, my lord.
OTHELLO
Farewell, my Desdemona: I'll come to thee straight.
DESDEMONA
Emilia, come. Be as your fancies teach you;
Whate'er you be, I am obedient.
Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA
OTHELLO
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul,
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
IAGO
My noble lord--
OTHELLO
What dost thou say, Iago?
IAGO
Did Michael Cassio, when you woo'd my lady,
Know of your love?
OTHELLO
He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?
IAGO
But for a satisfaction of my thought;
No further harm.
OTHELLO
Why of thy thought, Iago?
IAGO
I did not think he had been acquainted with her.
OTHELLO
O, yes; and went between us very oft.
IAGO
Indeed!
OTHELLO
Indeed! ay, indeed: discern'st thou aught in that?
Is he not honest?
IAGO
Honest, my lord!
OTHELLO
Honest! ay, honest.
IAGO
My lord, for aught I know.
OTHELLO
What dost thou think?
IAGO
Think, my lord!
OTHELLO
Think, my lord!
By heaven, he echoes me,
As if there were some monster in his thought
Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something:
I heard thee say even now, thou likedst not that,
When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?
And when I told thee he was of my counsel
In my whole course of wooing, thou criedst 'Indeed!'
And didst contract and purse thy brow together,
As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain
Some horrible conceit: if thou dost love me,
Show me thy thought.
IAGO
My lord, you know I love you.
OTHELLO
I think thou dost;
And, for I know thou'rt full of love and honesty,
And weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath,
Therefore these stops of thine fright me the more:
For such things in a false disloyal knave
Are tricks of custom, but in a man that's just
They are close delations, working from the heart
That passion cannot rule.
IAGO
For Michael Cassio,
I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.
OTHELLO
I think so too.
IAGO
Men should be what they seem;
Or those that be not, would they might seem none!
OTHELLO
Certain, men should be what they seem.
IAGO
Why, then, I think Cassio's an honest man.
OTHELLO
Nay, yet there's more in this:
I prithee, speak to me as to thy thinkings,
As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts
The worst of words.
IAGO
Good my lord, pardon me:
Though I am bound to every act of duty,
I am not bound to that all slaves are free to.
Utter my thoughts? Why, say they are vile and false;
As where's that palace whereinto foul things
Sometimes intrude not? who has a breast so pure,
But some uncleanly apprehensions
Keep leets and law-days and in session sit
With meditations lawful?
OTHELLO
Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,
If thou but think'st him wrong'd and makest his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.
IAGO
I do beseech you--
Though I perchance am vicious in my guess,
As, I confess, it is my nature's plague
To spy into abuses, and oft my jealousy
Shapes faults that are not--that your wisdom yet,
From one that so imperfectly conceits,
Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble
Out of his scattering and unsure observance.
It were not for your quiet nor your good,
Nor for my manhood, honesty, or wisdom,
To let you know my thoughts.
OTHELLO
What dost thou mean?
IAGO
Good name in man and woman, dear my lord,
Is the immediate jewel of their souls:
Who steals my purse steals trash; 'tis something, nothing;
'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands:
But he that filches from me my good name
Robs me of that which not enriches him
And makes me poor indeed.
OTHELLO
By heaven, I'll know thy thoughts.
IAGO
You cannot, if my heart were in your hand;
Nor shall not, whilst 'tis in my custody.
OTHELLO
Ha!
IAGO
O, beware, my lord, of jealousy;
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock
The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss
Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger;
But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er
Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet strongly loves!
OTHELLO
O misery!
IAGO
Poor and content is rich and rich enough,
But riches fineless is as poor as winter
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.
Good heaven, the souls of all my tribe defend
From jealousy!
OTHELLO
Why, why is this?
Think'st thou I'ld make a lie of jealousy,
To follow still the changes of the moon
With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt
Is once to be resolved: exchange me for a goat,
When I shall turn the business of my soul
To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,
Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous
To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,
Is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well;
Where virtue is, these are more virtuous:
Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw
The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt;
For she had eyes, and chose me. No, Iago;
I'll see before I doubt; when I doubt, prove;
And on the proof, there is no more but this,--
Away at once with love or jealousy!
IAGO
I am glad of it; for now I shall have reason
To show the love and duty that I bear you
With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound,
Receive it from me. I speak not yet of proof.
Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure:
I would not have your free and noble nature,
Out of self-bounty, be abused; look to't:
I know our country disposition well;
In Venice they do let heaven see the pranks
They dare not show their husbands; their best conscience
Is not to leave't undone, but keep't unknown.
OTHELLO
Dost thou say so?
IAGO
She did deceive her father, marrying you;
And when she seem'd to shake and fear your looks,
She loved them most.
OTHELLO
And so she did.
IAGO
Why, go to then;
She that, so young, could give out such a seeming,
To seal her father's eyes up close as oak-
He thought 'twas witchcraft--but I am much to blame;
I humbly do beseech you of your pardon
For too much loving you.
OTHELLO
I am bound to thee for ever.
IAGO
I see this hath a little dash'd your spirits.
OTHELLO
Not a jot, not a jot.
IAGO
I' faith, I fear it has.
I hope you will consider what is spoke
Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:
I am to pray you not to strain my speech
To grosser issues nor to larger reach
Than to suspicion.
OTHELLO
I will not.
IAGO
Should you do so, my lord,
My speech should fall into such vile success
As my thoughts aim not at. Cassio's my worthy friend--
My lord, I see you're moved.
OTHELLO
No, not much moved:
I do not think but Desdemona's honest.
IAGO
Long live she so! and long live you to think so!
OTHELLO
And yet, how nature erring from itself,--
IAGO
Ay, there's the point: as--to be bold with you--
Not to affect many proposed matches
Of her own clime, complexion, and degree,
Whereto we see in all things nature tends--
Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank,
Foul disproportion thoughts unnatural.
But pardon me; I do not in position
Distinctly speak of her; though I may fear
Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,
May fall to match you with her country forms
And happily repent.
OTHELLO
Farewell, farewell:
If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;
Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:
IAGO
[Going] My lord, I take my leave.
OTHELLO
Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtless
Sees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.
IAGO
[Returning] My lord, I would I might entreat
your honour
To scan this thing no further; leave it to time:
Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,
For sure, he fills it up with great ability,
Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,
You shall by that perceive him and his means:
Note, if your lady strain his entertainment
With any strong or vehement importunity;
Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,
Let me be thought too busy in my fears--
As worthy cause I have to fear I am--
And hold her free, I do beseech your honour.
OTHELLO
Fear not my government.
IAGO
I once more take my leave.
Exit
OTHELLO
This fellow's of exceeding honesty,
And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,
Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,
Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,
I'ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,
To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am black
And have not those soft parts of conversation
That chamberers have, or for I am declined
Into the vale of years,--yet that's not much--
She's gone. I am abused; and my relief
Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,
That we can call these delicate creatures ours,
And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,
And live upon the vapour of a dungeon,
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others' uses. Yet, 'tis the plague of great ones;
Prerogatived are they less than the base;
'Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:
Even then this forked plague is fated to us
When we do quicken. Desdemona comes:
Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA
If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!
I'll not believe't.
DESDEMONA
How now, my dear Othello!
Your dinner, and the generous islanders
By you invited, do attend your presence.
OTHELLO
I am to blame.
DESDEMONA
Why do you speak so faintly?
Are you not well?
OTHELLO
I have a pain upon my forehead here.
DESDEMONA
'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:
Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
It will be well.
OTHELLO
Your napkin is too little:
He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops
Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.
DESDEMONA
I am very sorry that you are not well.
Exeunt OTHELLO and DESDEMONA
EMILIA
I am glad I have found this napkin:
This was her first remembrance from the Moor:
My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Woo'd me to steal it; but she so loves the token,
For he conjured her she should ever keep it,
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. I'll have the work ta'en out,
And give't Iago: what he will do with it
Heaven knows, not I;
I nothing but to please his fantasy.
Re-enter Iago
IAGO
How now! what do you here alone?
EMILIA
Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.
IAGO
A thing for me? it is a common thing--
EMILIA
Ha!
IAGO
To have a foolish wife.
EMILIA
O, is that all? What will you give me now
For the same handkerchief?
IAGO
What handkerchief?
EMILIA
What handkerchief?
Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;
That which so often you did bid me steal.
IAGO
Hast stol'n it from her?
EMILIA
No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence.
And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Look, here it is.
IAGO
A good wench; give it me.
EMILIA
What will you do with 't, that you have been
so earnest
To have me filch it?
IAGO
[Snatching it] Why, what's that to you?
EMILIA
If it be not for some purpose of import,
Give't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad
When she shall lack it.
IAGO
Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.
Go, leave me.
Exit EMILIA
I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,
And let him find it. Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.
The Moor already changes with my poison:
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons.
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood.
Burn like the mines of Sulphur. I did say so:
Look, where he comes!
Re-enter OTHELLO
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
OTHELLO
Ha! ha! false to me?
IAGO
Why, how now, general! no more of that.
OTHELLO
Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:
I swear 'tis better to be much abused
Than but to know't a little.
IAGO
How now, my lord!
OTHELLO
What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?
I saw't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:
I slept the next night well, was free and merry;
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips:
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all.
IAGO
I am sorry to hear this.
OTHELLO
I had been happy, if the general camp,
Pioners and all, had tasted her sweet body,
So I had nothing known. O, now, for ever
Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!
Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars,
That make ambition virtue! O, farewell!
Farewell the neighing steed, and the shrill trump,
The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife,
The royal banner, and all quality,
Pride, pomp and circumstance of glorious war!
And, O you mortal engines, whose rude throats
The immortal Jove's dead clamours counterfeit,
Farewell! Othello's occupation's gone!
IAGO
Is't possible, my lord?
OTHELLO
Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!
IAGO
Is't come to this?
OTHELLO
Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge nor loop
To hang a doubt on; or woe upon thy life!
IAGO
My noble lord,--
OTHELLO
If thou dost slander her and torture me,
Never pray more; abandon all remorse;
On horror's head horrors accumulate;
Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed;
For nothing canst thou to damnation add
Greater than that.
IAGO
O grace! O heaven forgive me!
Are you a man? have you a soul or sense?
God be wi' you; take mine office. O wretched fool.
That livest to make thine honesty a vice!
O monstrous world! Take note, take note, O world,
To be direct and honest is not safe.
I thank you for this profit; and from hence
I'll love no friend, sith love breeds such offence.
OTHELLO
Nay, stay: thou shouldst be honest.
IAGO
I should be wise, for honesty's a fool
And loses that it works for.
OTHELLO
By the world,
I think my wife be honest and think she is not;
I think that thou art just and think thou art not.
I'll have some proof. Her name, that was as fresh
As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black
As mine own face. If there be cords, or knives,
Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams,
I'll not endure it. Would I were satisfied!
IAGO
I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion:
I do repent me that I put it to you.
You would be satisfied?
OTHELLO
Would! nay, I will.
IAGO
And may: but, how? how satisfied, my lord?
Would you, the supervisor, grossly gape on--
Behold her topp'd?
OTHELLO
Death and damnation! O!
IAGO
It were a tedious difficulty, I think,
To bring them to that prospect: damn them then,
If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster
More than their own! What then? how then?
What shall I say? Where's satisfaction?
It is impossible you should see this,
Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
As ignorance made drunk. But yet, I say,
If imputation and strong circumstances,
Which lead directly to the door of truth,
Will give you satisfaction, you may have't.
OTHELLO
Give me a living reason she's disloyal.
IAGO
I do not like the office:
But, sith I am enter'd in this cause so far,
Prick'd to't by foolish honesty and love,
I will go on. I lay with Cassio lately;
And, being troubled with a raging tooth,
I could not sleep.
There are a kind of men so loose of soul,
That in their sleeps will mutter their affairs:
One of this kind is Cassio:
In sleep I heard him say 'Sweet Desdemona,
Let us be wary, let us hide our loves;'
And then, sir, would he gripe and wring my hand,
Cry 'O sweet creature!' and then kiss me hard,
As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots
That grew upon my lips: then laid his leg
Over my thigh, and sigh'd, and kiss'd; and then
Cried 'Cursed fate that gave thee to the Moor!'
OTHELLO
O monstrous! monstrous!
IAGO
Nay, this was but his dream.
OTHELLO
But this denoted a foregone conclusion:
'Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.
IAGO
And this may help to thicken other proofs
That do demonstrate thinly.
OTHELLO
I'll tear her all to pieces.
IAGO
Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;
She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?
OTHELLO
I gave her such a one; 'twas my first gift.
IAGO
I know not that; but such a handkerchief--
I am sure it was your wife's--did I to-day
See Cassio wipe his beard with.
OTHELLO
If it be that--
IAGO
If it be that, or any that was hers,
It speaks against her with the other proofs.
OTHELLO
O, that the slave had forty thousand lives!
One is too poor, too weak for my revenge.
Now do I see 'tis true. Look here, Iago;
All my fond love thus do I blow to heaven.
'Tis gone.
Arise, black vengeance, from thy hollow cell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom, with thy fraught,
For 'tis of aspics' tongues!
IAGO
Yet be content.
OTHELLO
O, blood, blood, blood!
IAGO
Patience, I say; your mind perhaps may change.
OTHELLO
Never, Iago: Like to the Pontic sea,
Whose icy current and compulsive course
Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on
To the Propontic and the Hellespont,
Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace,
Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love,
Till that a capable and wide revenge
Swallow them up. Now, by yond marble heaven,
Kneels
In the due reverence of a sacred vow
I here engage my words.
IAGO
Do not rise yet.
Kneels
Witness, you ever-burning lights above,
You elements that clip us round about,
Witness that here Iago doth give up
The execution of his wit, hands, heart,
To wrong'd Othello's service! Let him command,
And to obey shall be in me remorse,
What bloody business ever.
They rise
OTHELLO
I greet thy love,
Not with vain thanks, but with acceptance bounteous,
And will upon the instant put thee to't:
Within these three days let me hear thee say
That Cassio's not alive.
IAGO
My friend is dead; 'tis done at your request:
But let her live.
OTHELLO
Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her!
Come, go with me apart; I will withdraw,
To furnish me with some swift means of death
For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.
IAGO
I am your own for ever.
Exeunt第三场 城堡前
苔丝狄蒙娜、凯西奥及爱米利娅上。
苔丝狄蒙娜 好凯西奥，你放心吧，我一定尽力替你说情就是了。
爱米利娅 好夫人， 请您千万出力。不瞒您说，我的丈夫为了这件事情，也懊
恼得不得了，就像是他自己身上的事情一般。
苔丝狄蒙娜 啊！ 你的丈夫是一个好人。放心吧，凯西奥，我一定会设法使我
的丈夫对你恢复原来的友谊。
凯西奥 大恩大德的夫人， 无论迈克尔·凯西奥将来会有什么成就，他永远是
您的忠实的仆人。
苔丝狄蒙娜 我知道； 我感谢你的好意。你爱我的丈夫，你又是他的多年的知
交；放心吧，他除了表面上因为避免嫌疑而对你略示疏远以外，决不会真把你见外
的。
凯西奥 您说得很对， 夫人；可是为了这“避嫌”，时间可能就要拖得很长，
或是为了一些什么细碎小事，再三考虑之后还是不便叫我回来，结果我失去了在帐
下供奔走的机会，日久之后，有人代替了我的地位，恐怕主帅就要把我的忠诚和微
劳一起忘记了。
苔丝狄蒙娜 那你不用担心；当着爱米利娅的面，我保证你一定可以回复原职。
请你相信我，要是我发誓帮助一个朋友，我一定会帮助他到底。我的丈夫将要不得
安息，无论睡觉吃饭的时候，我都要在他耳旁聒噪；无论他干什么事，我都要插进
嘴去替凯西奥说情。所以高兴起来吧，凯西奥，因为你的辩护人是宁死不愿放弃你
的权益的。
奥瑟罗及伊阿古自远处上。
爱米利娅 夫人，将军来了。
凯西奥 夫人，我告辞了。
苔丝狄蒙娜 啊，等一等，听我说。
凯西奥 夫人，改日再谈吧；我现在心里很不自在，见了主帅恐怕反多不便。
苔丝狄蒙娜 好，随您的便。（凯西奥下。）
伊阿古 嘿！我不喜欢那种样子。
奥瑟罗 你说什么？
伊阿古 没有什么，主帅；要是——我不知道。
奥瑟罗 那从我妻子身边走开去的，不是凯西奥吗？
伊阿古 凯西奥， 主帅？不，不会有那样的事，我不能够设想，他一看见您来
了，就好像做了什么虚心事似的，偷偷地溜走了。
奥瑟罗 我相信是他。
苔丝狄蒙娜 啊，我的主！刚才有人在这儿向我请托，他因为失去了您的欢心，
非常抑郁不快呢。
奥瑟罗 你说的是什么人？
苔丝狄蒙娜 就是您的副将凯西奥呀。 我的好夫君，要是我还有几分面子，或
是几分可以左右您的力量，请您立刻对他恢复原来的恩宠吧；因为他倘不是一个真
心爱您的人，他的过失倘不是无心而是有意的，那么我就是看错了人啦。请您叫他
回来吧。
奥瑟罗 他刚才从这儿走开吗？
苔丝狄蒙娜 嗯， 是的；他是那样满含着羞愧，使我也不禁对他感到同情的悲
哀。爱人，叫他回来吧。
奥瑟罗 现在不必，亲爱的苔丝狄蒙娜；慢慢再说吧。
苔丝狄蒙娜 可是那不会太久吗？
奥瑟罗 亲爱的，为了你的缘故，我叫他早一点复职就是了。
苔丝狄蒙娜 能不能在今天晚餐的时候？
奥瑟罗 不，今晚可不能。
苔丝狄蒙娜 那么明天午餐的时候？
奥瑟罗 明天我不在家里午餐；我要跟将领们在营中会面。
苔丝狄蒙娜 那么明天晚上吧； 或者星期二早上，星期二中午，晚上，星期三
早上，随您指定一个时间，可是不要超过三天以上。他对于自己的行为失检，的确
非常悔恨；固然在这种战争的时期，听说必须惩办那最好的人物，给全军立个榜样，
可是照我们平常的眼光看来，他的过失实在是微乎其微，不必受什么个人的处分。
什么时候让他来？告诉我，奥瑟罗。要是您有什么事情要求我，我想我决不会拒绝
您，或是这样吞吞吐吐的。什么！迈克尔·凯西奥，您向我求婚的时候，是他陪着
您来的；好多次我表示对您不满意的时候，他总是为您辩护；现在我请您把他重新
叙用，却会这样为难！相信我，我可以——
奥瑟罗 好了， 不要说下去了。让他随便什么时候来吧；你要什么我总不愿拒
绝的。
苔丝狄蒙娜 这并不是一个恩惠， 就好像我请求您戴上您的手套，劝您吃些富
于营养的菜餚，穿些温暖的衣服，或是叫您做一件对您自己有益的事情一样。不，
要是我真的向您提出什么要求，来试探试探您的爱情，那一定是一件非常棘手而难
以应允的事。
奥瑟罗 我什么都不愿拒绝你；可是现在你必须答应暂时离开我一会儿。
苔丝狄蒙娜 我会拒绝您的要求吗？不。再会，我的主。
奥瑟罗 再会，我的苔丝狄蒙娜；我马上就来看你。
苔丝狄蒙娜 爱米利娅， 来吧。您爱怎么样就怎么样，我总是服从您的。（苔
丝狄蒙娜、爱米利娅同下。）
奥瑟罗 可爱的女人！ 要是我不爱你，愿我的灵魂永堕地狱！当我不爱你的时
候，世界也要复归于混沌了。
伊阿古 尊贵的主帅——
奥瑟罗 你说什么，伊阿古？
伊阿古 当您向夫人求婚的时候，迈克尔·凯西奥也知道你们在恋爱吗？
奥瑟罗 他从头到尾都知道。你为什么问起？
伊阿古 不过是为了解释我心头的一个疑惑，并没有其他用意。
奥瑟罗 你有什么疑惑，伊阿古？
伊阿古 我以为他本来跟夫人是不相识的。
奥瑟罗 啊，不，他常常在我们两人之间传递消息。
伊阿古 当真！
奥瑟罗 当真！嗯，当真。你觉得有什么不对吗？他这人不老实吗？
伊阿古 老实，我的主帅？
奥瑟罗 老实！嗯，老实。
伊阿古 主帅，照我所知道的——
奥瑟罗 你有什么意见？
伊阿古 意见，我的主帅！
奥瑟罗 意见， 我的主帅！天哪，他在学我的舌，好像在他的思想之中，藏着
什么丑恶得不可见人的怪物似的。你的话里含着意思。刚才凯西奥离开我的妻子的
时候，我听见你说，你不喜欢那种样子；你不喜欢什么样子呢？当我告诉你在我求
婚的全部过程中他都参预我们的秘密的时候，你又喊着说，“当真！”蹙紧了你的
眉头，好像在把一个可怕的思想锁在你的脑筋里一样。要是你爱我，把你所想到的
事告诉我吧。
伊阿古 主帅，您知道我是爱您的。
奥瑟罗 我相信你的话； 因为我知道你是一个忠诚正直的人，从来不让一句没
有忖度过的话轻易出口，所以你这种吞吞吐吐的口气格外使我惊疑。在一个奸诈的
小人，这些不过是一套玩惯了的戏法；可是在一个正人君子，那就是从心底里不知
不觉自然流露出来的秘密的抗议。
伊阿古 讲到迈克尔·凯西奥，我敢发誓我相信他是忠实的。
奥瑟罗 我也这样想。
伊阿古 人们的内心应该跟他们的外表一致， 有的人却不是这样；要是他们能
够脱下了假面，那就好了！
奥瑟罗 不错，人们的内心应该跟他们的外表一致。
伊阿古 所以我想凯西奥是个忠实的人。
奥瑟罗 不，我看你还有一些别的意思。请你老老实实把你心中的意思告诉我，
尽管用最坏的字眼，说出你所想到的最坏的事情。
伊阿古 我的好主帅，请原谅我；凡是我名分上应尽的责任，我当然不敢躲避，
可是您不能勉强我做那一切奴隶们也没有那种义务的事。吐露我的思想？也许它们
是邪恶而卑劣的；哪一座庄严的宫殿里，不会有时被下贱的东西闯入呢？哪一个人
的心胸这样纯洁，没有一些污秽的念头和正大的思想分庭抗礼呢？
奥瑟罗 伊阿古， 要是你以为你的朋友受人欺侮了，可是却不让他知道你的思
想，这不成合谋卖友了吗？
伊阿古 也许我是以小人之腹度君子之心， 因为——我承认我有一种坏毛病，
是个秉性多疑的人，常常会无中生有，错怪了人家；所以请您凭着您的见识，还是
不要把我的无稽的猜测放在心上，更不要因为我的胡乱的妄言而自寻烦恼。要是我
让您知道了我的思想，一则将会破坏您的安宁，对您没有什么好处；二则那会影响
我的人格，对我也是一件不智之举。
奥瑟罗 你的话是什么意思？
伊阿古 我的好主帅， 无论男人女人，名誉是他们灵魂里面最切身的珍宝。谁
偷窃我的钱囊，不过偷窃到一些废物，一些虚无的东西，它只是从我的手里转到他
的手里，而它也曾做过千万人的奴隶；可是谁偷去了我的名誉，那么他虽然并不因
此而富足，我却因为失去它而成为赤贫了。
奥瑟罗 凭着上天起誓，我一定要知道你的思想。
伊阿古 即使我的心在您的手里， 您也不能知道我的思想；当它还在我的保管
之下，我更不能让您知道。
奥瑟罗 嘿！
伊阿古 啊，主帅，您要留心嫉妒啊；那是一个绿眼的妖魔，谁做了它的牺牲，
就要受它的玩弄。本来并不爱他的妻子的那种丈夫，虽然明知被他的妻子欺骗，算
来还是幸福的；可是啊！一方面那样痴心疼爱，一方面又是那样满腹狐疑，这才是
活活的受罪！
奥瑟罗 啊，难堪的痛苦！
伊阿古 贫穷而知足， 可以赛过富有；有钱的人要是时时刻刻都在担心他会有
一天变成穷人，那么即使他有无限的资财，实际上也像冬天一样贫困。天啊，保佑
我们不要嫉妒吧！
奥瑟罗 咦， 这是什么意思？你以为我会在嫉妒里销磨我的一生，随着每一次
月亮的变化，发生一次新的猜疑吗？不，我有一天感到怀疑，就要把它立刻解决。
要是我会让这种捕风捉影的猜测支配我的心灵，像你所暗示的那样，我就是一头愚
蠢的山羊。谁说我的妻子貌美多姿，爱好交际，口才敏慧，能歌善舞，弹得一手好
琴，决不会使我嫉妒；对于一个贤淑的女子，这些是锦上添花的美妙的外饰。我也
绝不因为我自己的缺点而担心她会背叛我；她倘不是独具慧眼，决不会选中我的。
不，伊阿古，我在没有亲眼目睹以前，决不妄起猜疑；当我感到怀疑的时候，我就
要把它证实；果然有了确实的证据，我就一了百了，让爱情和嫉妒同时毁灭。
伊阿古 您这番话使我听了很是高兴， 因为我现在可以用更坦白的精神，向您
披露我的忠爱之忱了；既然我不能不说，您且听我说吧。我还不能给您确实的证据。
注意尊夫人的行动；留心观察她对凯西奥的态度；用冷静的眼光看着他们，不要一
味多心，也不要过于大意。我不愿您的慷慨豪迈的天性被人欺罔；留心着吧。我知
道我们国里娘儿们的脾气；在威尼斯她们背着丈夫干的风流活剧，是不瞒天地的；
她们可以不顾羞耻，干她们所要干的事，只要不让丈夫知道，就可以问心无愧。
奥瑟罗 你真的这样说吗？
伊阿古 她当初跟您结婚， 曾经骗过她的父亲；当她好像对您的容貌战栗畏惧
的时候，她的心里却在热烈地爱着它。
奥瑟罗 她正是这样。
伊阿古 好， 她这样小小的年纪，就有这般能耐，做作得不露一丝破绽，把她
父亲的眼睛完全遮掩过去，使他疑心您用妖术把她骗走。——可是我不该说这种话；
请您原谅我对您的过分的忠心吧。
奥瑟罗 我永远感激你的好意。
伊阿古 我看这件事情有点儿令您扫兴。
奥瑟罗 一点不，一点不。
伊阿古 真的， 我怕您在生气啦。我希望您把我这番话当作善意的警戒。可是
我看您真的在动怒啦。我必须请求您不要因为我这么说了，就武断地下了结论；不
过是一点嫌疑，还不能就认为是事实哩。
奥瑟罗 我不会的。
伊阿古 您要是这样， 主帅，那么我的话就要引起不幸的后果，完全违反我的
本意了。凯西奥是我的好朋友——主帅，我看您在动怒啦。
奥瑟罗 不，并不怎么动怒。我怎么也不能不相信苔丝狄蒙娜是贞洁的。
伊阿古 但愿她永远如此！但愿您永远这样想！
奥瑟罗 可是一个人往往容易迷失本性——
伊阿古 嗯， 问题就在这儿。说句大胆的话，当初多少跟她同国族、同肤色、
同阶级的人向她求婚，照我们看来，要是成功了，那真是天作之合，可是她都置之
不理，这明明是违反常情的举动；嘿！从这儿就可以看到一个荒唐的意志、乖僻的
习性和不近人情的思想。可是原谅我，我不一定指着她说；虽然我恐怕她因为一时
的孟浪跟随了您，也许后来会觉得您在各方面不能符合她自己国中的标准而懊悔她
的选择的错误。
奥瑟罗 再会， 再会。要是你还观察到什么事，请让我知道；叫你的妻子留心
察看。离开我，伊阿古。
伊阿古 主帅，我告辞了。（欲去。）
奥瑟罗 我为什么要结婚呢？ 这个诚实的汉子所看到、所知道的事情，一定比
他向我宣布出来的多得多。
伊阿古（回转）主帅，我想请您最好把这件事情搁一搁，慢慢再说吧。凯西奥
虽然应该让他复职，因为他对于这一个职位是非常胜任的；可是您要是愿意对他暂
时延宕一下，就可以借此窥探他的真相，看他钻的是哪一条门路。您只要注意尊夫
人在您面前是不是着力替他说情；从那上头就可以看出不少情事。现在请您只把我
的意见认作无谓的过虑——我相信我的确太多疑了——仍旧把尊夫人看成一个清白
无罪的人。
奥瑟罗 你放心吧，我不会失去自制的。
伊阿古 那么我告辞了。（下。）
奥瑟罗 这是一个非常诚实的家伙， 对于人情世故是再熟悉不过的了。要是我
能够证明她是一头没有驯伏的野鹰，虽然我用自己的心弦把她系住，我也要放她随
风远去，追寻她自己的命运。也许因为我生得黑丑，缺少绅士们温柔风雅的谈吐；
也许因为我年纪老了点儿——虽然还不算顶老——所以她才会背叛我；我已经自取
其辱，只好割断对她这一段痴情。啊，结婚的烦恼！我们可以在名义上把这些可爱
的人儿称为我们所有，却不能支配她们的爱憎喜恶！我宁愿做一只蛤蟆，呼吸牢室
中的浊气，也不愿占住了自己心爱之物的一角，让别人把它享用。可是那是富贵者
也不能幸免的灾祸，他们并不比贫贱者享有更多的特权；那是像死一样不可逃避的
命运，我们一生下来就已经在冥冥中注定了要戴那顶倒楣的绿头巾。瞧！她来了。
倘然她是不贞的，啊！那么上天在开自己的玩笑了。我不信。
苔丝狄蒙娜及爱米利娅重上。
苔丝狄蒙娜 啊， 我的亲爱的奥瑟罗！您所宴请的那些岛上的贵人们都在等着
您去就席哩。
奥瑟罗 是我失礼了。
苔丝狄蒙娜 您怎么说话这样没有劲？您不大舒服吗？
奥瑟罗 我有点儿头痛。
苔丝狄蒙娜 那一定是因为睡少的缘故， 不要紧的；让我替您绑紧了，一小时
内就可以痊愈。
奥瑟罗 你的手帕太小了。 （苔丝狄蒙娜手帕坠地）随它去；来，我跟你一块
儿进去。
苔丝狄蒙娜 您身子不舒服，我很懊恼。（奥瑟罗、苔丝狄蒙娜下。）
爱米利娅 我很高兴我拾到了这方手帕； 这是她从那摩尔人手里第一次得到的
礼物。我那古怪的丈夫向我说过了不知多少好话，要我把它偷出来；可是她非常喜
欢这玩意儿，因为他叫她永远保存好，所以她随时带在身边，一个人的时候就拿出
来把它亲吻，对它说话。我要去把那花样描下来，再把它送给伊阿古；究竟他拿去
有什么用，天才知道，我可不知道。我只不过为了讨他的喜欢。
伊阿古重上。
伊阿古 啊！你一个人在这儿干吗？
爱米利娅 不要骂；我有一件好东西给你。
伊阿古 一件好东西给我？一件不值钱的东西——
爱米利娅 嘿！
伊阿古 娶了一个愚蠢的老婆。
爱米利娅 啊！ 只落得这句话吗？要是我现在把那方手帕给了你，你给我什么
东西？
伊阿古 什么手帕？
爱米利娅 什么手帕！ 就是那摩尔人第一次送给苔丝狄蒙娜，你老是叫我偷出
来的那方手帕呀。
伊阿古 已经偷来了吗？
爱米利娅 不， 不瞒你说，她自己不小心掉了下来，我正在旁边，乘此机会就
把它拾起来了。瞧，这不是吗？
伊阿古 好妻子，给我。
爱米利娅 你一定要我偷了它来，究竟有什么用？
伊阿古 哼，那干你什么事？（夺帕。）
爱米利娅 要是没有重要的用途， 还是把它还了我吧。可怜的夫人！她失去这
方手帕，准要发疯了。
伊阿古 不要说出来； 我自有用处。去，离开我。（爱米利娅下）我要把这手
帕丢在凯西奥的寓所里，让他找到它。像空气一样轻的小事，对于一个嫉妒的人，
也会变成天书一样坚强的确证；也许这就可以引起一场是非。这摩尔人已经中了我
的毒药的毒，他的心理上已经发生变化了；危险的思想本来就是一种毒药，虽然在
开始的时候尝不到什么苦涩的味道，可是渐渐地在血液里活动起来，就会像硫矿一
样轰然爆发。我的话果然不差；瞧，他又来了！
奥瑟罗重上。
伊阿古 罂粟、 曼陀罗或是世上一切使人昏迷的药草，都不能使你得到昨天晚
上你还安然享受的酣眠。
奥瑟罗 嘿！嘿！对我不贞？
伊阿古 啊，怎么，主帅！别老想着那件事啦。
奥瑟罗 去！ 滚开！你害得我好苦。与其知道得不明不白，还是糊里糊涂受人
家欺弄的好。
伊阿古 怎么，主帅！
奥瑟罗 她瞒着我跟人家私通， 我不是一无知觉吗？我没有看见，没有想到，
它对我漠不相干；到了晚上，我还是睡得好好的，逍遥自得，无忧无虑，在她的嘴
唇上找不到凯西奥吻过的痕迹。被盗的人要是不知道偷儿盗去了他什么东西，旁人
也不去让他知道，他就等于没有被盗一样。
伊阿古 我很抱歉听见您说这样的话。
奥瑟罗 要是全营的将士， 从最低微的工兵起，都曾领略过她的肉体的美趣，
只要我一无所知，我还是快乐的。啊！从今以后，永别了，宁静的心绪！永别了，
平和的幸福！永别了，威武的大军、激发壮志的战争！啊，永别了！永别了，长嘶
的骏马、锐厉的号角、惊魂的鼙鼓、刺耳的横笛、庄严的大旗和一切战阵上的威仪！
还有你，杀人的巨炮啊，你的残暴的喉管里摹仿着天神乔武的怒吼，永别了！奥瑟
罗的事业已经完了。
伊阿古 难道一至于此吗，主帅？
奥瑟罗 恶人， 你必须证明我的爱人是一个淫妇，你必须给我目击的证据；否
则凭着人类永生的灵魂起誓，我的激起了的怒火将要喷射在你的身上，使你悔恨自
己当初不曾投胎做一条狗！
伊阿古 竟会到了这样的地步吗？
奥瑟罗 让我亲眼看见这种事实， 或者至少给我无可置疑的切实的证据，不这
样可不行；否则我要活活要你的命！
伊阿古 尊贵的主帅——
奥瑟罗 你要是故意捏造谣言， 毁坏她的名誉，使我受到难堪的痛苦，那么你
再不要祈祷吧；放弃一切恻隐之心，让各种骇人听闻的罪恶丛集于你罪恶的一身，
尽管做一些使上天悲泣、使人世惊愕的暴行吧，因为你现在已经罪大恶极，没有什
么可以使你在地狱里沉沦得更深的了。
伊阿古 天啊！ 您是一个汉子吗？您有灵魂吗？您有知觉吗？上帝和您同在！
我也不要做这捞什子的旗官了。啊，倒楣的傻瓜！你一生只想做个老实人，人家却
把你的老实当作了罪恶！啊，丑恶的世界！注意，注意，世人啊！说老实话，做老
实人，是一件危险的事哩。谢谢您给我这一个有益的教训，既然善意反而遭人嗔怪，
从此以后，我再也不对什么朋友掬献我的真情了。
奥瑟罗 不，且慢；你应该做一个老实人。
伊阿古 我应该做一个聪明人； 因为老实人就是傻瓜，虽然一片好心，结果还
是自己吃了亏。
奥瑟罗 我想我的妻子是贞洁的， 可是又疑心她不大贞洁；我想你是诚实的，
可是又疑心你不大诚实。我一定要得到一些证据。她的名誉本来是像狄安娜的容颜
一样皎洁的，现在已经染上污垢，像我自己的脸一样黝黑了。要是这儿有绳子、刀
子、毒药、火焰或是使人窒息的河水，我一定不能忍受下去。但愿我能够扫空这一
块疑团！
伊阿古 主帅， 我看您完全被感情所支配了。我很后悔不该惹起您的疑心。那
么您愿意知道究竟吗？
奥瑟罗 愿意！嘿，我一定要知道。
伊阿古 那倒是可以的； 可是怎样办呢？怎样才算知道了呢，主帅？您还是眼
睁睁地当场看她被人奸污吗？
奥瑟罗 啊！该死该死！
伊阿古 叫他们当场出丑，我想很不容易；他们干这种事，总是要避人眼目的。
那么怎么样呢？又怎么办呢？我应该怎么说呢？怎样才可以拿到真凭实据？即使他
们像山羊一样风骚，猴子一样好色，豺狼一样贪淫，即使他们是糊涂透顶的傻瓜，
您也看不到他们这一幕把戏。可是我说，有了确凿的线索，就可以探出事实的真相；
要是这一类间接的旁证可以替您解除疑惑，那倒是不难让你得到的。
奥瑟罗 给我一个充分的理由，证明她已经失节。
伊阿古 我不欢喜这件差使； 可是既然愚蠢的忠心已经把我拉进了这一桩纠纷
里去，我也不能再保持沉默了。最近我曾经和凯西奥同过榻；我因为牙痛不能入睡；
世上有一种人，他们的灵魂是不能保守秘密的，往往会在睡梦之中吐露他们的私事，
凯西奥也就是这一种人；我听见他在梦寐中说，“亲爱的苔丝狄蒙娜，我们须要小
心，不要让别人窥破了我们的爱情！”于是，主帅，他就紧紧地捏住我的手，嘴里
喊，“啊，可爱的人儿！”然后狠狠地吻着我，好像那些吻是长在我的嘴唇上，他
恨不得把它们连根拔起一样；然后他又把他的脚搁在我的大腿上，叹一口气，亲一
个吻，喊一声“该死的命运，把你给了那摩尔人！”
奥瑟罗 啊，可恶！可恶！
伊阿古 不，这不过是他的梦。
奥瑟罗 但是过去发生过什么事就可想而知； 虽然只是一个梦，怎么能不叫人
起疑呢。
伊阿古 本来只是很无谓的事，现在这样一看，也就大有文章了。
奥瑟罗 我要把她碎尸万段。
伊阿古 不， 您不能太卤莽了；我们还没有看见实际的行动；也许她还是贞洁
的。告诉我这一点：您有没有看见过在尊夫人的手里有一方绣着草莓花样的手帕？
奥瑟罗 我给过她这样一方手帕；那是我第一次送给她的礼物。
伊阿古 那我不知道； 可是今天我看见凯西奥用这样一方手帕抹他的胡子，我
相信它一定就是尊夫人的。
奥瑟罗 假如就是那一方手帕——
伊阿古 假如就是那一方手帕， 或者是其他她所用过的手帕，那么又是一个对
她不利的证据了。
奥瑟罗 啊， 我但愿那家伙有四万条生命！单单让他死一次是发泄不了我的愤
怒的。现在我明白这件事情全然是真的了。瞧，伊阿古，我把我的全部痴情向天空
中吹散；它已经随风消失了。黑暗的复仇，从你的幽窟之中升起来吧！爱情啊，把
你的王冠和你的心灵深处的宝座让给残暴的憎恨吧！胀起来吧，我的胸膛，因为你
已经满载着毒蛇的螫舌！
伊阿古 请不要生气。
奥瑟罗 啊，血！血！血！
伊阿古 忍耐点儿吧；也许您的意见会改变过来的。
奥瑟罗 决不， 伊阿古。正像黑海的寒涛滚滚奔流，奔进马尔马拉海，直冲达
达尼尔海峡，永远不会后退一样，我的风驰电掣的流血的思想，在复仇的目的没有
充分达到以前，也决不会踟蹰回顾，化为绕指的柔情。（跪）苍天在上，我倘不能
报复这奇耻大辱，誓不偷生人世。
伊阿古 且慢起来。 （跪）永古炳耀的日月星辰，环抱宇宙的风云雨雾，请你
们为我作证：从现在起，伊阿古愿意尽心竭力，为被欺的奥瑟罗效劳；无论他叫我
做什么残酷的事，我一切唯命是从。
奥瑟罗 我不用空口的感谢接受你的好意， 为了表示我的诚心的嘉纳，我要请
你立刻履行你的诺言：在这三天以内，让我听见你说凯西奥已经不在人世。
伊阿古 我的朋友的死已经决定了，因为这是您的意旨；可是放她活命吧。
奥瑟罗 该死的淫妇！ 啊，咒死她！来，跟我去；我要为这美貌的魔鬼想出一
个干脆的死法。现在你是我的副将了。
伊阿古 我永远是您的忠仆。（同下。）
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