Oth. The tyrant custom, most grave senators,[5210]
Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war[5211]
My thrice-driven bed of down: I do agnize 230
A natural and prompt alacrity[5212]
I find in hardness; and do undertake[5213]
These present wars against the Ottomites.[5214]
Most humbly therefore bending to your state,
I crave fit disposition for my wife, 235
Due reference of place and exhibition,[5215]
With such accommodation and besort[5216]
As levels with her breeding.
Duke. If you please,[5217]
Be 't at her father's.[5217]
Bra. I'll not have it so.[5218]
Oth. Nor I.
Des. Nor I, I would not there reside,[5219] 240
To put my father in impatient thoughts
By being in his eye. Most gracious duke,
To my unfolding lend your prosperous ear,[5220]
And let me find a charter in your voice[5221]
To assist my simpleness.[5222] 245
Duke. What would you, Desdemona?[5223]
Des. That I did love the Moor to live with him,[5224]
My downright violence and storm of fortunes[5225]
May trumpet to the world: my heart's subdued[5226]
Even to the very quality of my lord:[5227] 250
I saw Othello's visage in his mind,
And to his honours and his valiant parts
Did I my soul and fortunes consecrate.
So that, dear lords, if I be left behind,[5228]
A moth of peace, and he go to the war, 255
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,[5229]
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
Oth. Let her have your voices.[5230]
Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,[5231] 260
To please the palate of my appetite;
Nor to comply with heat—the young affects[5232][5233]
In me defunct—and proper satisfaction;[5232][5234]
But to be free and bounteous to her mind:[5234][5235]
And heaven defend your good souls, that you think[5236] 265
I will your serious and great business scant[5237]
For she is with me. No, when light-wing'd toys[5238]
Of feather'd Cupid seel with wanton dullness[5239]
My speculative and officed instruments,[5240]
That my disports corrupt and taint my business, 270
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,[5241]
And all indign and base adversities
Make head against my estimation![5242]
Duke. Be it as you shall privately determine,
Either for her stay or going: the affair cries haste,[5243] 275
And speed must answer 't; you must hence to-night.[5244]
Des. To-night, my lord?[5245]