Page 1574 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

For nought did I in hate, but all in honour.

LODOVICO
This wretch hath part confess’d his villainy:
Did you and he consent in Cassio’s death?

OTHELLO
Ay.

CASSIO
Dear general, I did never give you cause. [300]

OTHELLO
I do believe it, and I ask you pardon;

Will you, I pray, demand that demi-devil
Why he hath thus ensnar’d my soul and body?

IAGO
Demand me nothing, what you know, you know,
From this time forth I never will speak word. [305]

LODOVICO
What, not to pray?

GRATIANO

Torments will ope your lips.

OTHELLO

Well, thou dost best.

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; [310]
And here another; the one of them imports

The death of Cassio; to be undertook
By Roderigo.