Enter DESDEMONA, IAGO, and Attendants DUKE 1/ I think this tale would win my daughter too. 2/ Good Brabantio, Take up this mangled matter at the best: 3/ Men do their broken weapons rather use Than their bare hands. BRABANTIO 4/ I pray you, hear her speak: 5/ If she confess that she was half the wooer, 6/ Destruction on my head, if my bad blame Light on the man! 7/ Come hither, gentle mistress: 8/ Do you perceive in all this noble company 9/ Where most you owe obedience? DESDEMONA 10/ My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: 11/ To you I am bound for life and education; 12/ My life and education both do learn me How to respect you; 13/ you are the lord of duty; I am hitherto your daughter: 14/ but here's my husband,
15/ And so much duty as my mother show'd To you, preferring you before her father, 16/ So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor, my lord. BRABANTIO 17/ God be with you! I have done. 18/ Under the affairs of your states! 19/ I had rather to adopt a child than get it. 20/ Come hither, Moor: I here do give thee that with all my heart 21/ Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart I would keep from thee. 22/ For your sake, jewel, 23/ I am glad at soul I have no other child: For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on them. 24/ I have done, my lord. 25/ Beseech you, under the affairs of state! DUKE 26/ The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. 27/ Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you; 28/ and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, 29/ yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, 30/ throws a more safer voice on you: 31/ you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes 32/ with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. OTHELLO 33/ The tyrant custom, most grave senators, Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war 34/ My thrice-driven bed of down: 35/ I do agnize A natural and prompt alacrity I find in hardness, 36/ and do undertake These present wars against the Ottomites. 37/ Most humbly therefore bending to your state, 38/ I crave fit disposition for my wife. 39/ Due reference of place and exhibition, With such accommodation and besort As levels with her breeding. DUKE 40/ If you please, Be't at her father's. BRABANTIO 41/ I'll not have it so. OTHELLO 42/ Nor I. DESDEMONA 43/ Nor I; 44/ I would not there reside, To put my father in impatient thoughts By being in his eye. 45/ Most gracious duke, 46/ To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear; 47/ And let me find a charter in your voice, To assist my simpleness. DUKE 48/ What would You, speak? DESDEMONA 49/ That I did love the Moor to live with him, 50/ My downright violence and storm of fortunes May trumpet to the world. 52/ My heart's subdued