Rod. I am changed: I'll go sell all my land. [Exit.[5297][5299]
Iago. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse;[5297][5300]
For I mine own gain'd knowledge should profane, 375
If I would time expend with such a snipe[5301]
But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor;
And it is thought abroad that 'twixt my sheets
He has done my office: I know not if't be true;[5302]
But I for mere suspicion in that kind[5303] 380
Will do as if for surety. He holds me well;
The better shall my purpose work on him.
Cassio's a proper man: let me see now;
To get his place, and to plume up my will[5304]
In double knavery—How, how?—Let's see:—[5305] 385
After some time, to abuse Othello's ear[5306]
That he is too familiar with his wife.[5307]
He hath a person and a smooth dispose
To be suspected; framed to make women false.
The Moor is of a free and open nature,[5308] 390
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so;[5309]
And will as tenderly be led by the nose[5310][5311]
As asses are.[5310]
I have 't. It is engender'd. Hell and night[5312]
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light. [Exit.[5313]395
FOOTNOTES:
[4877] Act i. Scene i.] Acts and Scenes are marked throughout in Ff, not in Qq, except at the beginning of Acts II, III, IV and V.
Venice. A street.] Capell. Venice. Rowe. A street in Venice. Theobald.
Enter....] Enter Iago and Roderigo. Qq. Enter Rodorigo and Iago. Ff.
[4878] Tush,] Qq. om. Ff.
much] Qq F1. very F2 F3 F4.
[4879] thou] Ff. you Qq.
Iago,] om. Q2 Q3.