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look, he stirs:
    Â Â Â Â Do you withdraw yourself a little while,
    Â Â Â Â He will recover straight; when he is gone,
    Â Â Â Â I would on great occasion speak with you.
    (Exit Cassio.)
    Â Â Â Â How is it, general? have you not hurt your head? [60]
    OTHELLO. Dost thou mock me?
    IAGO. I mock you? no, by heaven.
    Â Â Â Â Would you would bear your fortunes like a man!
    OTHELLO. A horned man ’s a monster, and a beast.
    IAGO. There’s many a beast then in a populous city,
    Â Â Â Â And many a civil monster. [65]
    OTHELLO. Did he confess?
    IAGO. Good sir, be a man,
    Â Â Â Â Think every bearded fellow that ’s but yok’d
    Â Â Â Â May draw with you; there’s millions now alive
    Â Â Â Â That nightly lies in those unproper beds
    Â Â Â Â Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better: [70]
    Â Â Â Â O, ’tis the spite of hell, the fiend ’s arch-mock,
    Â Â Â Â To lip a wanton in a secure couch,
    Â Â Â Â And to suppose her chaste. No, let me know,
    Â Â Â Â And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.
    OTHELLO. O, thou art wise, ’tis certain.
    IAGO. Stand you awhile apart, [75]
    Â Â Â Â  Confine yourself but in a patient list :
    Â Â Â Â Whilst you were here erewhile , mad with your grief –
    Â Â Â Â A passion most unsuiting such a man –
    Â Â Â Â Cassio came hither; I shifted him away,
    Â Â Â Â And laid good ’scuse upon your ecstasy, [80]
    Â Â Â Â Bid him anon return, and here speak with me,
    Â Â Â Â The which he promis’d: but encave yourself,
    Â Â Â Â And mark the jeer s , the gibe s , and notable scorn s ,
    Â Â Â Â That dwell in every region of his face;
    Â Â Â Â For I will make him tell the tale anew, [85]
    Â Â Â Â Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when,
    Â Â Â Â He has, and is again to cope your wife:
    Â Â Â Â I say, but mark his gesture; marry, patience,
    Â Â Â Â Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen ,
    Â Â Â Â And nothing of a man.
    OTHELLO. Dost thou hear, Iago? [90]
    Â Â Â Â I will be found most cunning in my patience;
    Â Â Â Â But – dost thou hear? – most bloody.
    IAGO. That’s not amiss:
    Â Â Â Â But yet keep time in all; will you withdraw?
    (Othello withdraws.)
    Â Â Â Â Now will I question Cassio of Bianca;
    Â Â Â Â A housewife that by selling her desires [95]
    Â Â Â Â Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature
    Â Â Â Â That dotes on Cassio: as ’tis the strumpet ’s plague
    Â Â Â Â To beguile many, and be beguil’d by one.
    (Enter Cassio.)
    Â Â Â Â He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain
    Â Â Â Â From the excess of laughter: here he comes: [100]
    Â Â Â Â As he shall smile, Othello shall go mad,
    Â Â Â Â And his unbookish jealousy must conster
    Â Â Â Â Poor Cassio’s smiles, gestures, and light behaviour,
    Â Â Â Â Quite in the wrong. How do you now, lieutenant?
    CASSIO. The worser, that you give me the addition , [105]
    Â Â Â Â Whose want even kills me.
    IAGO. Ply Desdemona well, and you are sure on ’t.
    Â Â Â Â Now if this suit lay in Bianca’s power,
    Â Â Â Â How quickly should you speed!
    CASSIO. Alas, poor caitiff !
    OTHELLO. Look how he laughs already! [110]
    IAGO. I never knew a woman love man so.
    CASSIO. Alas, poor rogue , I think i’ faith she loves me.
    OTHELLO. Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.
    IA GO. Do you hear, Cassio?
    OTHELLO. Now he importunes him
    Â Â Â Â To tell it on; go to, well said, well said. [115]
    IAGO. She gives it out that you shall marry her,
    Â Â Â Â Do you intend it?
    CASSIO. Ha, ha, ha!
    OTHELLO. Do you triumph, Roman, do you triumph?
    CASSIO. I marry her? what? a customer ;