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1

Othello
[III, 3]

Othello

1952

Your napkin is too little:
[He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops]
Let it alone. Come, I'll go in with you.

2

Othello
[III, 3]

Emilia

1973

O, is that all? What will you give me now
For the same handkerchief?

3

Othello
[III, 3]

Iago

1975

What handkerchief?

4

Othello
[III, 3]

Emilia

1976

What handkerchief?
Why, that the Moor first gave to Desdemona;
That which so often you did bid me steal.

5

Othello
[III, 3]

Iago

2116

Nay, but be wise: yet we see nothing done;
She may be honest yet. Tell me but this,
Have you not sometimes seen a handkerchief
Spotted with strawberries in your wife's hand?

6

Othello
[III, 4]

Desdemona

2193

Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?

7

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2229

I have a salt and sorry rheum offends me;
Lend me thy handkerchief.

8

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2236

That is a fault.
That handkerchief
Did an Egyptian to my mother give;
She was a charmer, and could almost read
The thoughts of people: she told her, while
she kept it,
'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father
Entirely to her love, but if she lost it
Or made gift of it, my father's eye
Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt
After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me;
And bid me, when my fate would have me wive,
To give it her. I did so: and take heed on't;
Make it a darling like your precious eye;
To lose't or give't away were such perdition
As nothing else could match.

9

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2276

Fetch me the handkerchief: my mind misgives.

10

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2279

The handkerchief!

11

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2281

The handkerchief!

12

Othello
[III, 4]

Othello

2285

The handkerchief!

13

Othello
[III, 4]

Desdemona

2290

I ne'er saw this before.
Sure, there's some wonder in this handkerchief:
I am most unhappy in the loss of it.

14

Othello
[III, 4]

Cassio

2375

Pardon me, Bianca:
I have this while with leaden thoughts been press'd:
But I shall, in a more continuate time,
Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca,
[Giving her DESDEMONA's handkerchief]
Take me this work out.

15

Othello
[IV, 1]

Iago

2420

So they do nothing, 'tis a venial slip:
But if I give my wife a handkerchief,—

16

Othello
[IV, 1]

Iago

2427

Her honour is an essence that's not seen;
They have it very oft that have it not:
But, for the handkerchief,—

17

Othello
[IV, 1]

Othello

2430

By heaven, I would most gladly have forgot it.
Thou said'st, it comes o'er my memory,
As doth the raven o'er the infected house,
Boding to all—he had my handkerchief.

18

Othello
[IV, 1]

Bianca

2579

Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you
mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now?
I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the
work?—A likely piece of work, that you should find
it in your chamber, and not know who left it there!
This is some minx's token, and I must take out the
work? There; give it your hobby-horse: wheresoever
you had it, I'll take out no work on't.

19

Othello
[IV, 1]

Othello

2588

By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!

20

Othello
[IV, 1]

Iago

2604

And did you see the handkerchief?