Imo.
Who's there? my woman Helen? ^note

Lady.
Please you, madam. ^note

Imo.
What hour ^note is it?

Lady.
Almost midnight, madam.

Imo.
I have read three hours then: mine eyes are weak: ^note
Fold down the leaf where I have left: to bed:
Take not away the taper, leave it burning;
And if thou canst awake by four o' the clock,
I prithee, call me. Sleep hath seized ^note me wholly. [Exit Lady. ^note
To your protection I commend me, gods!
From fairies and the tempters of the night
Guard me, beseech ye! [Sleeps. Iachimo comes ^note from the trunk.

Iach.
The crickets sing, and man's o'er-labour'd sense
Repairs itself by rest. Our Tarquin thus
Did softly press the rushes, ere he waken'd
The chastity he wounded. Cytherea,
How bravely thou becomest thy bed! fresh lily!
And whiter than the sheets! That I might touch! ^{note note}
But kiss; one kiss! Rubies unparagon'd,
How dearly they ^note do't! 'Tis her breathing that
Perfumes the chamber thus: the flame o' the taper
Bows toward her, and would under-peep her lids ^note
To see the enclosed lights, now canopied
Under these ^note windows, white and azure, laced ^note
With blue ^note of heaven's own tinct. But my ^note design, ^{note note}
To note the chamber: ^note I will write all down:
Such and such pictures; there the window; such

The adornment ^note of her bed; the arras, figures ^note, ^note
Why, such and such; and the contents o' the story.
Ah, but some ^note natural notes about her body,
Above ten thousand meaner moveables ^note
Would testify, to enrich mine inventory ^note.
O sleep, thou ape of death, lie dull upon her!
And be her sense but as a monument,
Thus in a chapel lying! Come off, come off: ^note [Taking off ^note her bracelet.
As slippery as the Gordian knot was hard!
'Tis mine; and this will ^note witness outwardly,
As strongly as the conscience does within,
To the madding of her lord. On her left breast
A mole cinque-spotted, like the crimson drops
I' the bottom of a cowslip: here's a voucher,
Stronger than ever law could make: this secret
Will force him think I have ^note pick'd the lock and ta'en
The treasure of her honour. No more ^note. To what end?
Why should I write this down, that's riveted ^note,
Screw'd to my memory? She hath been reading late
The tale of Tereus; here the leaf's turn'd down
Where Philomel gave up. I have enough:
To the trunk again, and shut the spring of it.
Swift, swift, you dragons of the night, that dawning
May bare the raven's eye ^note! I lodge in fear;

Though this ^note a heavenly angel, hell is here. [Clock strikes. ^{note note}
One, two, three: time, time! [Goes into the trunk. The scene closes. ^{note note}

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