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IV.

IAGO "abusing OTHELLO's ear, that he" (CASSIO) "is too familiar with his wife.”—CASSIO entreating DESDEMONA's assistance to obtain his reinstatement as lieutenant, of which office he had been deprived for his drunkenness.

"DES. Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do All my abilities in thy behalf.

CASS. Madam, I'll take my leave.

(The fatal handkerchief is seen in the hands of DESDEMONA.)

IAGO. Ha! I like not that.

Отн. What dost thou say?

IAGO. Nothing, my lord: or if-I know not what.

Отн.

OTH. Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?"

ACT III. S. 3.

V.

IAGO inducing CASSIO to relate some meeting with his mistress, BIANCA, having deluded OTHELLO into the idea that it was an interview with DESDEMONA, in which he is confirmed by BIANCA bringing in DESDEMONA's handkerchief to CASSIO.

"IAGO.

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.

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.

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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.

Отн.

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

CASS.

(Aside.)

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 this bauble. By this hand, she falls thus about my neck

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

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