“This accident is not unlike my dream.”
The old careful senator, being caught careless, transfers his caution to his dreaming power at least.
Ib. Iago's speech:—
... “For their souls,
Another of his fathom they have not,
To lead their business.”
The forced praise of Othello, followed by the bitter hatred of him in this speech! And observe how Brabantio's dream prepares for his recurrence to the notion of philtres, and how both prepare for carrying on the plot of the arraignment of Othello on this ground.
Ib. sc. 2.—
“Oth. 'Tis better as it is.”
How well these few words impress at the outset the truth of Othello's own character of himself at the end—“that he was not easily wrought!” His self-government contradistinguishes him throughout from Leontes.