Take it, and do 't; and leave me for this time.
BIAN. Leave you! wherefore?

CAS. I do attend here on the general;

And think it no addition, nor my wish,

To have him see me woman'd.

BIAN.

Why, I pray you?

CAS. Not that I love you not.
BIAN.

But that you do not love me.

I pray you, bring me on the way a little;

And say, if I shall see you soon at night.

CAS. "T is but a little way that I can bring you,

For I attend here: but I'll see you soon.

BIAN. 'T is very good: I must be circumstanc'd. [Exeunt.

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

Отн. She is protectress of her honour too;

May she give that?

IAGO. Her honour is an essence that 's not seen; They have it very oft that have it not:

But, for the handkerchief,—

Отн. By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it :— Thou said'st,-O, it comes o'er my memory,

As doth the raven o'er the infectious house,

Boding to all,-he had my handkerchief.

IAGO. Ay, what of that?

Отн.

That's not so good, now.

IAGO. What, if I had said I had seen him do you wrong? Or heard him say, (as knaves be such abroad, Who, having by their own importunate suit, Or voluntary dotage of some mistress, Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose But they must blab,)—

Отн.

Hath he said any thing? IAGO. He hath, my lord; but be you well assur'd, No more than he 'll unswear.

Отн.

What hath he said?

IAGO. Why, that he did,-I know not what he did.
Отн. What? what?

IAGO. Lie

Отн.

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! that 's fulsome.—Handker

chief,

confessions,

handkerchief.

To confess, and be hanged for his labour.-First, to be hanged, and then to

T

Enter CASSIO.

My lord, I say! Othello !-How now, Cassio?
CAS. What is the matter?

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

IAGO. 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.- [Exit CASSIO How is it, general? have you not hurt your head? ОTH. Dost thou mock me? IAGO. I mock you? no, by heaven : 'Would you would bear your fortune like a man. Отн. A horned man 's a monster, and a beast. IAGO. There's many a beast then in a populous city, And many a civil monster.

Отн. Did he confess it?

IAGO.

Good sir, be a man ;

Think, every bearded fellow that 's but yok'd

May draw with you: there's millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds,

Which they dare swear peculiar; your case is better.
O, 't is the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,

To lip a wanton in a secure couch,

And to suppose her chaste!

No, let me know;

And, knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.
Отн. O, thou art wise; 't is certain.
IAGO.

Confine yourself but in a patient list.

Stand you awhile apart;

Whilst you were here, o'erwhelmed with your grief,
(A passion most unsuiting such a man,)
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy;

Bade him anon return, and here speak with me;

The which he promis'd. Do but encave yourself,

And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns,
That dwell in every region of his face;

For I will make him tell the tale anew,-
Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when
He hath, and is again to cope your wife;

I

say, Or I shall say, you are all in

but mark his gesture.

And nothing of a man.

Отн.

Marry, patience; all in spleen,

Dost thou hear, Iago?

I will be found most cunning in my patience;
But (dost thou hear?) most bloody.

IAGO.

That's not amiss:

But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?

Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A housewife, that by selling her desires

[OTHELLO withdraws.

Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature

That dotes on Cassio,-as 't is the strumpet's plague,
To beguile many, and be beguil'd by one ;—

He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain

From the excess of laughter :-Here he comes:

Re-enter CASSIO.

As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad;
And his unbookish jealousy must construe
Poor Cassio's smiles, gestures, and light behaviour,
Quite in the wrong.-How do you now, lieutenant?
CAS. The worser, that you give me the addition,
Whose want even kills me.

IAGO. Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on 't.

To tell it o'er: Go to; well said, well said.

IAGO. She gives it out, that you shall marry her: Do you intend it?

[Aside.

Отн. Do you triumph, Roman? do you triumph? [Aside. CAS. I marry!-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 win.
IAGO. Why, the cry goes, that you marry her.

CAS. Prithee, say true.

[Aside.

[Aside.

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. [Aside. 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 falls me thus about my neck ;

Отн. Crying, O dear Cassio! as it were: his gesture imports it. [Aside. CAS. So hangs, and lolls, and weeps upon me; so shakes and pulls me: ha, ha, ha!—

OTH. Now he tells how she plucked 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.

IAGO. Before me! look, where she comes.

Enter BIANCA.

[Aside.

CAS. 'Tis such another fitchew! marry, a perfumed 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