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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
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