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IAGO Demand me nothing. What you know, you know.
From this time forth I never will speak word.
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IAGO Don’t ask me anything. You know what you know. From
this moment on, I’ll never say another word.
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LODOVICO What, not to pray?
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LODOVICO What, not even to pray?
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GRATIANO Torments will ope your lips.
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GRATIANO Torture will make you talk.
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OTHELLO
320Well, thou dost best.
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OTHELLO Well, do your best.
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LODOVICO Sir, you shall understand what hath befall'n,
Which, as I think, you know not. Here is a letter
Found in the pocket of the slain Roderigo,
And here another. The one of them imports
325The death of Cassio to be undertook
By Roderigo.
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LODOVICO Sir, you’ll understand everything that has happened. I
don’t think you know now. Here is a letter we found in
Roderigo’s pocket. And here’s another. This
one talks about how Roderigo should kill Cassio.
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OTHELLO Oh, villain!
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OTHELLO Oh, you villain!
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CASSIO Most heathenish and most gross!
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CASSIO Ungodly and monstrous!
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LODOVICO Now here’s another discontented paper
330Found in his pocket too, and this, it seems,
Roderigo meant to have sent this damnèd villain
But that, belike, Iago in the interim
Came in and satisfied him.
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LODOVICO Here’s another letter from his pocket, addressed to
Iago and full of complaints. We think he was going to send it to
Iago, but then Iago stepped in and answered his complaints by
killing him.
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OTHELLO O thou pernicious caitiff!
335How came you, Cassio, by that handkerchief
That was my wife’s?
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OTHELLO Oh, you wicked scoundrel! Cassio, how did you get my
wife’s handkerchief?
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CASSIO I found it in my
chamber,
And he himself confessed but even now
That there he dropped it for a special purpose
Which wrought to his desire.
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CASSIO I found it in my room, and Iago just confessed that he put it
there for his own purposes.
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