Passage #11

V.ii.397-422

1 OTHELLO
2 Soft you. A word or two before you go.
3 I have done the state some service, and they know 't.
4 No more of that. I pray you in your letters,
5 When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
6 Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
7 Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
8 Of one that loved not wisely, but too well;
9 Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought,
10 Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand,
11 Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away
12 Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes,
13 Albeit unused to the melting mood,
14 Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees
15 Their medicinable gum. Set you down this.
16 And say besides, that in Aleppo once,
17 Where a malignant and a turbanned Turk
18 Beat a Venetian and traduced the state
19 I took by th' throat the circumcised dog,
20 And smote him, thus. [He stabs himself.]