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from Venice, or some unhatched practice 150
     Made demonstrable here in Cyprus to him,
     Hath puddled 152 his clear spirit: and in such cases
     Men’s natures wrangle with inferior things,
     Though great ones are their object. ’Tis even so,
     For let our finger ache, and it indues 155
     Our other healthful members 156 even to a sense
     Of pain. Nay, we must think men are not gods,
     Nor of them look for such observancy 158
     As fits the bridal . Beshrew 159 me much, Emilia,
     I was — unhandsome 160 warrior as I am —
      Arraigning 161 his unkindness with my soul,
     But now I find I had suborned the witness 162 ,
     And he’s indicted falsely.
    EMILIA    Pray heaven it be state matters, as you think,
     And no conception nor no jealous toy 165
     Concerning you.
    DESDEMONA    Alas the day! I never gave him cause.
    EMILIA    But jealous souls will not be answered so;
     They are not ever jealous for the cause,
     But jealous for they’re jealous: it is a monster
      Begot upon 171 itself, born on itself.
    DESDEMONA    Heaven keep the monster from Othello’s mind!
    EMILIA    Lady, amen.
    DESDEMONA    I will go seek him.— Cassio, walk hereabout:
     If I do find him fit, I’ll move your suit
     And seek to effect it to my uttermost.
    Exeunt
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Desdemona and Emilia
]
    CASSIO    I humbly thank your ladyship.
    Enter Bianca
    BIANCA    Save 178 you, friend Cassio!
    CASSIO    What make you 179 from home?
     How is’t with you, my most fair Bianca?
     Indeed, sweet love, I was coming to your house.
    BIANCA    And I was going to your lodging, Cassio.
     What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights?
      Eight score eight 184 hours? And lovers’ absent hours
     More tedious than the dial 185 eight score times?
     O weary reck’ning 186 !
    CASSIO    Pardon me, Bianca:
         I have this while with leaden thoughts been pressed:
     But I shall, in a more continuate 189 time,
      Strike off this score 190 of absence. Sweet Bianca,
    Gives her
Desdemona’s handkerchief
          Take me this work out 191 .
    BIANCA    O Cassio, whence came this?
     This is some token from a newer friend 193 :
      To the felt absence now I feel a cause 194 .
     Is’t come to this? Well, well.
    CASSIO    Go to, woman!
     Throw your vile guesses in the devil’s teeth,
     From whence you have them. You are jealous now
     That this is from some mistress, some remembrance;
     No, in good troth, Bianca.
    BIANCA    Why, whose is it?
    CASSIO    I know not, neither: I found it in my chamber.
     I like the work well. Ere it be demanded 203 —
     As like enough it will — I would have it copied:
     Take it, and do’t, and leave me for this time.
    BIANCA    Leave you? Wherefore?
    CASSIO    I do attend here on the general,
     And think it no addition, nor my wish,
     To have him see me womaned 209 .
    BIANCA    Why, I pray you?
    CASSIO    Not that I love you not.
    BIANCA    But that you do not love me.
     I pray you bring 213 me on the way a little,
     And say if I shall see you soon at night 214 .
    CASSIO    ’Tis but a little way that I can bring you,
     For I attend here: but I’ll see you soon.
    BIANCA    ’Tis very good: I must be circumstanced 217 .
    Exeunt

Act 4 Scene 1
running scene 8 continues
    Enter Othello and Iago
    IAGO    Will you think so?
    OTHELLO    Think so, Iago?
    IAGO    What, to kiss in private?
    OTHELLO    An unauthorized kiss!
    IAGO    Or to be naked with her friend in bed
     An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
    OTHELLO    Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm?
     It is hypocrisy against the devil 8 :
     They that mean virtuously, and yet