Iago. [Snatching it] Why, what's that to you?[5991]
Emil. If 't be not for some purpose of import,[5992] 320
Give 't me again: poor lady, she'll run mad[5993]
When she shall lack it.
Iago. Be not acknown on 't; I have use for it.[5994][5995]
Go, leave me. [Exit Emilia.[5994]
I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin,[5996] 325
And let him find it. Trifles light as air
Are to the jealous confirmations strong
As proofs of holy writ: this may do something.[5997]
The Moor already changes with my poison:[5998]
Dangerous conceits are in their natures poisons,[5999] 330
Which at the first are scarce found to distaste,
But with a little act upon the blood[6000]
Burn like the mines of sulphur. I did say so:[6001]
Look, where he comes!
Re-enter Othello.[6002]
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,[6003] 335
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
Oth. Ha! ha! false to me?[6004]
Iago. Why, how now, general! no more of that.
Oth. Avaunt! be gone! thou hast set me on the rack:[6005]
I swear 'tis better to be much abused 340
Than but to know 't a little.
Iago. How now, my lord![6006]
Oth. What sense had I of her stol'n hours of lust?[6007]
I saw 't not, thought it not, it harm'd not me:[6008]
I slept the next night well, was free and merry;[6009]
I found not Cassio's kisses on her lips: 345
He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stol'n,
Let him not know 't and he's not robb'd at all.