1 An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest.
2 But notwithstanding with my personal eye Will I look to't.
3 I did so; and take heed on't, Make it a darling like your precious eye.
4 I would not there reside, To put my father in impatient thoughts, By being in his eye.
5 Look to her, Moor, if thou hast eyes to see: She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee.
6 Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio; Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure.
7 Nay, lay thee down and roar; For thou hast kill'd the sweetest innocent That e'er did lift up eye.
8 She that so young could give out such a seeming, To seal her father's eyes up close as oak, He thought 'twas witchcraft.'
9 And yet I fear you, for you are fatal then When your eyes roll so: why I should fear I know not, Since guiltiness I know not, but yet I feel I fear.
10 But if she lost it, Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me, And bid me, when my fate would have me wive, To give it her.
11 Tis not to make me jealous, To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose me.
12 But he, sir, had the election, And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds, Christian and heathen, must be belee'd and calm'd By debitor and creditor, this counter-caster, He, in good time, must his lieutenant be, And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship's ancient.
13 Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.