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I will chop her into messes... Cuckold me!

IAGO
O, ’tis foul in her.

OTHELLO
With mine officer!

IAGO
That’s fouler.

OTHELLO
Get me some poison, Iago, this night; I’ll [200] not expostulate with her, lest
her body and beauty unprovide my mind again, this night, Iago.

IAGO
Do it not with poison, strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath

contaminated.

OTHELLO
Good, good, the justice of it pleases, very good. [205]

IAGO
And for Cassio, let me be his undertaker: you shall hear more by midnight.

OTHELLO
Excellent good. (A trumpet within) What trumpet is that same?

Enter Lodovico, Desdemona, and Attendants.

IAGO
Something from Venice, sure; ’tis Lodovico, [210]

Come from the duke, and see, your wife is with him.

LODOVICO
God save the worthy general!