Oth. A horned man's a monster and a beast.
Iago. There's many a beast then in a populous city,
And many a civil monster.
Oth. Did he confess it?
Iago. Good sir, be a man;[6255]
Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked[6256] 65
May draw with you: there's millions now alive[6257]
That nightly lie in those unproper beds[6258]
Which they dare swear peculiar: your case is better.[6259]
O, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock,[6260]
To lip a wanton in a secure couch, 70
And to suppose her chaste! No, let me know;[6261][6262]
And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.[6261][6263]
Oth. O, thou art wise; 'tis certain.[6261]
Iago. Stand you awhile apart;[6261][6264]
Confine yourself but in a patient list.
Whilst you were here o'erwhelmed with your grief—[6265] 75
A passion most unsuiting such a man—[6266]
Cassio came hither: I shifted him away,
And laid good 'scuse upon your ecstasy;[6267]
Bade him anon return and here speak with me;[6268]
The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,[6269] 80
And mark the fleers, the gibes and notable scorns,[6270]
That dwell in every region of his face;
For I will make him tell the tale anew,
Where, how, how oft, how long ago and when
He hath and is again to cope your wife:[6271] 85
I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience;
Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen,[6272]
And nothing of a man.
Oth. Dost thou hear, Iago?[6273]
I will be found most cunning in my patience;[6274]
But—dost thou hear?—most bloody.
Iago. That's not amiss;[6275] 90
But yet keep time in all. Will you withdraw?
[Othello retires.[6276]
Now will I question Cassio of Bianca,
A housewife that by selling her desires
Buys herself bread and clothes: it is a creature[6277]
That dotes on Cassio; as 'tis the strumpet's plague 95
To beguile many and be beguiled by one.
He, when he hears of her, cannot refrain[6278]
From the excess of laughter. Here he comes.