Enter Brabantio, Roderigo, and Officers with torches and weapons.
Oth. Holla! stand there![5046]
Rod. Signior, it is the Moor.
Bra. Down with him, thief!
[They draw on both sides.[5047]
Iago. You, Roderigo! come, sir, I am for you.
Oth. Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them.[5048][5049]
Good signior, you shall more command with years[5048] 60
Than with your weapons.[5048]
Bra. O thou foul thief, where hast thou stow'd my daughter?[5050]
Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her;[5051]
For I'll refer me to all things of sense,[5052]
If she in chains of magic were not bound,[5053] 65
Whether a maid so tender, fair and happy,
So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd
The wealthy curled darlings of our nation,[5054]
Would ever have, to incur a general mock,[5055]
Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom[5056] 70
Of such a thing as thou, to fear, not to delight.[5057]
Judge me the world, if 'tis not gross in sense[5058][5059]
That thou hast practised on her with foul charms,[5058]
Abused her delicate youth with drugs or minerals[5058][5060]
That weaken motion: I'll have 't disputed on;[5058][5061] 75
'Tis probable, and palpable to thinking.[5058][5062]
I therefore apprehend and do attach thee[5058]
For an abuser of the world, a practiser[5063]
Of arts inhibited and out of warrant.[5064]
Lay hold upon him: if he do resist, 80
Subdue him at his peril.
Oth. Hold your hands,[5065]
Both you of my inclining and the rest:
Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it[5066]
Without a prompter. Where will you that I go[5067]
To answer this your charge?[5068]