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Othello
I am very ill at ease ,
    Unfit for mine own purpose.
DESDEMONA. Well, do your discretion .
(Exit Cassio.)
IAGO. Ha, I like not that. [35]
OTHELLO. What dost thou say?
IAG O. Nothing, my lord, or if â I know not what.
OTHELLO. Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
IAGO. Cassio, my lord? ... no, sure, I cannot think it,
    That he would sneak away so guilty-like, [40]
    Seeing you coming.
OTHELLO. I do believe âtwas he.
DESDEMONA. How now, my lord?
    I have been talking with a suitor here,
    A man that languish es in your displeasure.
OTHELLO. Who isât you mean? [45]
DESDEMONA. Why, your lieutenant, Cassio, good my lord,
    If I have any grace or power to move you,
    His present reconciliation take:
    For if he be not one that truly loves you,
    That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning , [50]
    I have no judgement in an honest face,
    I prithee call him back.
OTHELLO. Went he hence now?
DESDEMONA. Yes, faith, so humbled,
    That he has left part of his griefs with me,
    I suffer with him; good love, call him back. [55]
OTHELLO. Not now, sweet Desdemona, some other time.
DESDEMONA. But shall ât be shortly?
OTHEL LO. The sooner, sweet, for you.
DESDEMONA. Shall ât be to-night at supper?
OTHELLO. No, not to-night.
DESDEMONA. To-morrow dinner then?
OTHELLO. I shall not dine at home,
    I meet the captains, at the citadel. [60]
DESDEMONA. Why then to-morrow night, or Tuesday morn,
    On Tuesday noon, or night, or Wednesday morn:
    I prithee name the time, but let it not
    Exceed three days: iâ faith, heâs penitent ,
    And yet his trespass , in our common reason, [65]
    (Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
    Out of their best) is not almost a fault
    To incur a private check: when shall he come?
    Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
    What you could ask me, that I should deny ? [70]
    Or stand so mammer ing on? What? Michael Cassio,
    That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time
    When I have spoke of you dispraisingly ,
    Hath taâen your part, to have so much to do
    To bring him in? Byrlady , I could do much â [75]
OTHELLO. Prithee no more, let him come when he will,
    I will deny thee nothing.
DESDEMONA. Why, this is not a boon ,
    âTis as I should entreat you wear your gloves;
    Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,
    Or sue to you, to do a peculiar profit [80]
    To your own person: nay, when I have a suit
    Wherein I mean to touch your love indeed,
    It shall be full of poise and difficulty,
    And fearful to be granted.
OTHELLO. I will deny thee nothing,
    Whereon I do beseech thee grant me this, [85]
    To leave me but a little to myself.
DES DEMONA. Shall I deny you? no, farewell, my lord.
OTHELLO. Farewell, my Desdemona, Iâll come to thee straight.
DESD EMONA. Emilia, come; be it as your fancies teach you,
    Whateâer you be, I am obedient . [90]
(Exeunt Desdemona and Emilia.)
OTHELLO. Excellent wretch , perdition catch my soul,
    But I do love thee, and when I love thee not,
    Chaos is come again.
IAGO. My noble lord, â
OTHELLO. What dost thou say, Iago?
IAGO. Did Michael Cassio, when you wooâd my lady, [95]
    Know of your love?
OTHELLO. He did, from first to last: ... why dost thou ask?
IAGO. But for a satisfaction of my thought.
    No further harm.
OTHELLO. Why of thy thought, Iago?
IAGO. I did not think he had been acquainted with her. [100]
OTHELLO. O yes, and went between us very often.
IAGO. Indeed?
OTHELLO. Indeed? Indeed: discernâst thou aught in that?
    Is he not honest?
IAGO. Honest, my lord? [105]
OTHELLO. Honest? ay, honest.
IAGO. My lord, for aught I know.
OTHELLO. What dost thou think?
IAGO. Think, my lord?
OTHELLO. Think, my lord? By heaven, he echoes me, [110]
    As if there were some monster in
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