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Iago has convinced Othello that Desdemona is having an affair with Cassio, Othello’s disgraced lieutenant. Othello has demanded proof that Desdemona has been unfaithful, and this scene - at the top of Act Four - provides that opportunity. Iago’s wife Emilia has taken Desdemona’s handkerchief, distinctive in pattern and given by Othello. This handkerchief has passed from Emilia, to Iago, to Cassio, and now to Bianca, a woman that Cassio is pursuing. Othello has seen the handkerchief in Bianca’s
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IAGO Will you think so?
OTHELLO Think so, Iago!
IAGO What,
To kiss in private?
OTHELLO An unauthorized kiss.
IAGO Or to be naked with her friend in bed
An hour or more, not meaning any harm?
OTHELLO Naked in bed, Iago, and not mean harm!
It is hypocrisy against the devil:
They that mean virtuously, and yet do so,
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