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SCENE II

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[Enter Cassio.]

IAGO

How now, Cassio!

CASSIO

What’s the matter?

IAGO

My lord is fallen into an epilepsy:

This is his second fit; he had one yesterday.

CASSIO

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?

OTHELLO

Dost thou mock me?

IAGO

I mock you! no, by heaven.

Would you would bear your fortune like a man!

OTHELLO

A hornèd man’s a monster and a beast.

IAGO

There’s many a beast, then, in a populous city,

And many a civil monster.

OTHELLO

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, ‘tis 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.

OTHELLO

O, thou art wise; ‘tis certain.

IAGO

Stand you awhile apart;

Confine yourself but in a patient list.

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, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;

Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,

And nothing of a man.

OTHELLO

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?

[Othello withdraws.]

Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,

A housewife that, by selling her desires,

Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature

That dotes on Cassio,—as ‘tis 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:—

As he shall smile Othello shall go mad;

And his unbookish jealousy must construe

Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behavior

Quite in the wrong.