The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Israel Gollancz William Shakespeare [896]
O wretched villain!
LODOVICO.
Two or three groan; it is a heavy night.
These may be counterfeits; let's think't unsafe
To come in to the cry without more help.
RODERIGO.
Nobody come? Then shall I bleed to death.
LODOVICO.
Hark!
Re-enter Iago, with a light.
GRATIANO.
Here's one comes in his shirt, with light and weapons.
IAGO.
Who's there? Whose noise is this that cries on murther?
LODOVICO.
We do not know.
IAGO.
Did not you hear a cry?
CASSIO.
Here, here! for heaven's sake, help me!
IAGO.
What's the matter?
GRATIANO.
This is Othello's ancient, as I take it.
LODOVICO.
The same indeed; a very valiant fellow.
IAGO.
What are you here that cry so grievously?
CASSIO.
Iago? O, I am spoil'd, undone by villains!
Give me some help.
IAGO.
O me, lieutenant! What villains have done this?
CASSIO.
I think that one of them is hereabout,
And cannot make away.
IAGO.
O treacherous villains!
[To Lodovico and Gratiano.] What are you there?
Come in and give some help.
RODERIGO.
O, help me here!
CASSIO.
That's one of them.
IAGO.
O murtherous slave! O villain!
Stabs Roderigo.
RODERIGO.
O damn'd Iago! O inhuman dog!
IAGO.
Kill men i' the dark! Where be these bloody thieves?
How silent is this town! Ho! Murther! Murther!
What may you be? Are you of good or evil?
LODOVICO.
As you shall prove us, praise us.
IAGO.
Signior Lodovico?
LODOVICO.
He, sir.
IAGO.
I cry you mercy. Here's Cassio hurt by villains.
GRATIANO.
Cassio?
IAGO.
How is't, brother?
CASSIO.
My leg is cut in two.
IAGO.
Marry, heaven forbid!
Light, gentlemen; I'll bind it with my shirt.
Enter Bianca.
BIANCA. What is the matter, ho? Who is't that cried?
IAGO.
Who is't that cried?
BIANCA.
O my dear Cassio, my sweet Cassio! O Cassio, Cassio,
Cassio!
IAGO.
O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
Who they should be that have thus mangled you?
CASSIO.
No.
GRATIANO.
I am sorry to find you thus; I have been to seek you.
IAGO.
Lend me a garter. So. O, for a chair,
To bear him easily hence!
BIANCA.
Alas, he faints! O Cassio, Cassio, Cassio!
IAGO.
Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
To be a party in this injury.
Patience awhile, good Cassio. Come, come;
Lend me a light. Know we this face or no?
Alas, my friend and my dear countryman
Roderigo? No- yes, sure. O heaven! Roderigo.
GRATIANO.
What, of Venice?
IAGO.
Even he, sir. Did you know him?
GRATIANO.
Know him! ay.
IAGO.
Signior Gratiano? I cry you gentle pardon;
These bloody accidents must excuse my manners,
That so neglected you.
GRATIANO.
I am glad to see you.
IAGO.
How do you, Cassio? O, a chair, a chair!
GRATIANO.
Roderigo!
IAGO.
He, he, 'tis he. [A chair brought in.] O, that's well said:
the chair.
Some good man bear him carefully from hence;
I'll fetch the general's surgeon. [To Bianca.] For you,
mistress,
Save you your labor. He that lies slain here, Cassio,
Was my dear friend; what malice was between you?
CASSIO.
None in the world; nor do I know the man.
IAGO.
[To Bianca.] What, look you pale? O, bear him out o' the air.
Cassio and Roderigo are borne off.
Stay you, good gentlemen. Look you pale, mistress?
Do you perceive the gastness of her eye?
Nay, if you stare, we shall hear more anon.
Behold her well; I pray you, look upon her.
Do you see, gentlemen? Nay, guiltiness will speak,
Though tongues were out of use.
Enter Emilia.
EMILIA. 'Las, what's the matter? What's the matter, husband?
IAGO.
Cassio hath here been set on in the dark
By Roderigo, and fellows that are 'scaped;
He's almost slain, and Roderigo dead.
EMILIA.
Alas, good gentleman! alas, good Cassio!
IAGO.
This is the fruit of whoring. Prithee, Emilia,
Go know of Cassio where he supp'd tonight.
What, do you shake at that?
BIANCA.
He supp'd at my house; but I therefore shake not.
IAGO.
O, did he so? I charge you, go with me.
EMILIA.
Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!
BIANCA.
I am no strumpet, but of life as honest