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IAGO Why the cry goes that you shall marry her.
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IAGO I swear, there’s a rumor going around that
you’ll marry her.
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CASSIO Prithee say true!
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CASSIO You’re kidding!
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IAGO I am a very villain else.
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IAGO If it’s not true, you can call me a villain.
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OTHELLO Have you scored me? Well.
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OTHELLO Have you given me bastard children to raise? All right,
then.
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CASSIO
115This is the monkey’s own giving out. She is persuaded I
will marry her, out of her own love and flattery, not out of my
promise.
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CASSIO The little monkey must have started that rumor herself. She thinks
I’ll marry her because she loves me. She’s
just flattering herself. I never promised her anything.
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OTHELLO Iago beckons me. Now he begins the story.
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OTHELLO Iago is gesturing for me to come closer. Now he’s
telling the story.
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CASSIO She was here even now. She haunts me in every place. I was the
other day talking on the sea-bank with certain Venetians, and
thither comes the bauble and, by this hand, she falls me thus about
my neck—
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CASSIO She was here just now. She hangs around me all the time. I was
talking to some Venetians down by the shore, and the fool showed up.
I swear to you, she put her arms around me like
this—
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OTHELLO Crying “O dear Cassio!” as it were. His
gesture imports it.
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OTHELLO Saying, “Oh, Cassio,” it seems, judging by
his gestures.
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CASSIO So hangs and lolls and weeps upon me, so shakes, and pulls me! Ha,
ha, ha!
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CASSIO She hangs around me and dangles from my neck and cries, shaking me
and pulling at me. Ha, ha, ha!
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OTHELLO
120Now he tells how she plucked him to my chamber. Oh, I see that
nose of yours, but not that dog I shall throw it to.
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OTHELLO Now he’s saying how she took him into our bedroom. Oh,
I can see your nose now. But I can’t see the dog
I’m going to throw it to.
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CASSIO Well, I must leave her company.
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CASSIO I have to get rid of her.
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IAGO Before me! Look, where she comes.
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IAGO Look out, here she comes.
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Enter BIANCA
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BIANCA enters.
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