Wake up, Brabantio! Wake up! Thieves! Thieves!Check on your daughter, your house, yourmoney! Thieves! Thieves!
Iago
Brabantio
What’s the reason for this horrible shouting?What’s the matter?
Roderigo and Iago enter and wake up Brabantio to tell him bad news about his daughter
Sir, is everyone in your family at home?
Roderigo
Roderigo
I’ll answer for everything. I don’t know if you know or approve of this, but in the wee hours of the morning your daughter left your house, to go into the rough embrace of a lustful Moor.
Brabantio and Roderigo and Iago walk out the house
Iago
For God’s sake, sir, you’ve been robbed. Your heart’s going to break. It’s like half your soul’s been ripped out.
Brabantio
Why are you talking about robbery? This is Venice. My house isn’t in some remote countryside.
Roderigo
I think I can find him. Get together a group ofarmed men and follow me.
Iago exits and Roderigo and Brabantio exit looking for Othello
Brabantio
Light the candles! Wake up my whole household! I dreamt about this. I’m starting to worry it’s true. Give me some light!
It’s time for me to say goodbye to you. It would be inappropriate—dangerous, even—for me to be seen working against the Moor, as I would if I stayed.