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. They stand Aside
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 ones on murder
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 spoiled, 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! What are you there?
[To Lodovico and Gratiano.] Come in, and give some help.
RODERIGO. O, help me here!
CASSIO. That’s one of them.
IAGO. O murderous slave! O villain! [Stabs Roderigo.]
RODERIGO. O damned Iago! O inhuman dog!
IAGO. Kill men i’ the dark! – Where be these bloody thieves?
How silent is this town! – Ho! murder! murder! –
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 many led you?
CASSIO. No.
GRATIANO. I am 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.