Page 1513 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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OTHELLO
What then?
IAGO
Why then ’tis hers, my lord, and being hers,
She may, I think, bestow’t on any man.
OTHELLO
She is protectress of her honour too,
May she give that? [15]
IAGO
Her honour is an essence that’s not seen,
They have it very oft that have it not:
But for the handkerchief −
OTHELLO
By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it:
Thou said’st (O, it comes o’er my memory, [20]
As doth the raven o’er the infected house,
Boding to all) he had my handkerchief.
IAGO
Ay, what of that?
OTHELLO
That’s not so good now.
IAGO
What if I had said I had seen him do you wrong?
Or heard him say − as knaves be such abroad, [25]
Who having, by their own importunate suit,
Or voluntary dotage of some mistress,
Convinced or supplied them, cannot choose
But they must blab −
OTHELLO