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Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief;

I am most unhappy in the loss of it.

Emil. T is not a year or two shows us a man. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full They belch us.

Enter CASSIO and LAGO.

Look you, Cassio and my husband! 106 Iago. There is no other way, 't is she must do 't;

And, lo, the happiness! Go, and importune her. Des. How now, good Cassio! what's the news with you?

Cas. Madam, my former suit. I do beseech

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And, like the devil, from his very arm
Puff'd his own brother:- and is he angry?
Something of moment then. I will go meet
him.

There's matter in 't indeed, if he be angry.

Erit lago.

Des. I prithee, do so. Something, sure, of

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Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practice Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him. Hath puddled his clear spirit; and in such cases Men's natures wrangle with inferior things, Though great ones are their object. "T is even

so;

For let our finger ache, and it indues
Our other healthful members even to a sense
Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods,
Nor of them look for such observancy
As fit the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia, se
I was, unhandsome warrior as I am,
Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
But now I find I had suborn'd the witness,
And he 's indicted falsely.

Emil. Pray Heaven it be state-matters, as you think,

And no conception nor no jealous toy
Concerning you.

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Des. Alas the day! I never gave him cause. Emil. But jealous souls will not be answer`d

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If I do find him fit, I'll move your suit
And seek to effect it to my uttermost.
Cas. I humbly thank your ladyship.
[Exeunt [Desdemona and Emilia).
Enter BIANCA.

Bian. Save you, friend Cassio!

Cas.

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What make you from home? How is it with you, my most fair Bianca? I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house. Bian. And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.

What, keep a week away? seven days and nights?

Eightscore eight hours? and lovers' absent hours,

More tedious than the dial eightscore times? O weary reck`ning!

Cas.

Pardon me, Bianca.

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I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd;

But I shall, in a more continuate time, Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca. [Giving her Desdemona's handkerchief.]

Take me this work out.

Bian. O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from a newer friend;

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he did. Oth. What? what? Iago. LieOth. Iago.

With her?

With her, on her; what you will. Oth. Lie with her! lie on her! We say lie on her, when they belie her. Lie with her! [35 'Zounds, that's fulsome! - Handkerchief confessions-handkerchief! - To confess, and be hang'd for his labour; - first, to be hang'd, and then to confess. I tremble at it. Nature would not invest herself in such shadowing (49 passion without some instruction. It is not words that shakes me thus. Pish! Noses, ears, and lips. Is 't possible? - Confess - handkerchief! O devil! [Falls in a trance. Iago. Work on,

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My medicine, work! Thus credulous fools are caught;

And many worthy and chaste dames even thus, All guiltless, meet reproach. - What, ho! my lord!

My lord, I say! Othello!

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Oth.

An unauthoriz'd kiss.

Iago. Or to be naked with her friend in bed An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

Oth. Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!

It is hypocrisy against the devil.

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They that mean virtuously, and yet do so, The devil their virtue tempts, and they tempt heaven.

Iago. If they do nothing. 't is a venial slip; But if I give my wife a handkerchief, Oth. What then?

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Iago. Why, then, 't is hers, my lord; and, being hers,

She may, I think, bestow 't on any man.

Oth. She is protectress of her honour too; May she give that?

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Iago. Her honour is an essence that's not

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Cas. What's the matter?

Tago. My lord is fallen into an epilepsy. This is his second fit; he had one yesterday. Cas. Rub him about the temples. Iago.

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[No, forbear;] The lethargy must have his quiet course; If not, he foams at mouth and by and by Breaks out to savage madness. Look, he stirs. Do you withdraw yourself a little while, He will recover straight. When he is gone, I would on great occasion speak with you. [Erit Cassio.

How is it, general? Have you not hurt your head?

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Oth. Dost thou mock me? Iago. I mock you not, by heaven. Would you would bear your fortune like a

man!

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Oth. Do ye triumph, Roman? Do you triumph?

Cas. I marry her! What? a customer! Prithee, bear some charity to my wit; do not think it so unwholesome. Ha, ha, ha!

Oth. So, so, so, so; they laugh that wins. Iago. Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.

Cas. Prithee, say true.

lago. I am a very villain else.

Oth. Have you scor'd me? Well.

Cas. This is the monkey's own giving out. She is persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.

Oth. Iago beckons me; now he begins the story.

Cas. She was here even now; she haunts me in every place. I was the other day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians; and thither comes the bauble, and, [by this hand, she] falls me thus about my neck

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Oth. Crying, "O dear Cassio!" as it were; his gesture imports it.

Cas. So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so shakes and pulls me. Ha, ha, ha! 144

Oth. Now he tells how she pluck'd him to my chamber. O, I see that nose of yours, but not that dog I shall throw it to.

Cas. Well, I must leave her company.
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Enter BIANCA.

Cas. 'Tis such another fitchew! Marry, a perfum'd one. - What do you mean by this haunting of me?

Bian. Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the work? - A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your chamber, and know not who left it there! This is some minx's token, and I must take out the work? There; give it your hobby-horse. Wheresoever you had it, I'll take out no work on 't.

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Cas. How now, my sweet Bianca! how now! how now!

Oth. By heaven, that should be my handker chief!

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Iago. Do it not with poison; strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated. Oth. Good, good; the justice of it pleases; very good.

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Iago. And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker. You shall hear more by midnight. [A trumpet. Enter LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, and Attendants. Oth. Excellent good. What trumpet is that same ?

lago. I warrant, something from Venice. Tis Lodovico, this, comes from the Duke. See, your wife 's with him.

Lod. God save the worthy general! Oth. With all my heart, sir. Lod. The Duke and senators of Venice [Gives him a letter.] 230 Oth. I kiss the instrument of their pleasures. [Opens the letter, and reads.]

greet you.

Des. And what 's the news, good cousin Lodovico?

Iago. I am very glad to see you, signior; Welcome to Cyprus.

Lod. I thank you. How does Lieutenant

Cassio?

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I do beseech your lordship, call her back. Oth. Mistress!

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What would you with her, sir? Lod. Who, I, my lord?

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Call all in all sufficient? Is this the nature

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