OTHELLO.
O monstrous! monstrous!
IAGO.
Nay, this was but his dream.
OTHELLO.
But this denoted a foregone conclusion.
’Tis a shrewd doubt, though it be but a dream.
IAGO.
And this may help to thicken other proofs
That do demonstrate thinly.
OTHELLO.
I’ll tear her all to pieces.
IAGO.
Nay, but be wise. Yet we see nothing done,
She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your wife’s hand?
OTHELLO.
I gave her such a one, ’twas my first gift.
IAGO.
I know not that: but such a handkerchief
(I am sure it was your wife’s) did I today
See Cassio wipe his beard with.
OTHELLO.
If it be that,—
IAGO.
If it be that, or any that was hers,
It speaks against her with the other proofs.