Cassio that he said,
"Come, come, you're drunk!" Cassio then wounded him, and Iago sent
Roderigo out to scare the town with a cry of mutiny.

The uproar aroused Othello, who, on learning its cause, said, "Cassio, I
love thee, but never more be officer of mine."

On Cassio and Iago being alone together, the disgraced man moaned about
his reputation. Iago said reputation and humbug were the same thing.
"O God," exclaimed Cassio, without heeding him, "that men should put an
enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!"

Iago advised him to beg Desdemona to ask Othello to pardon him. Cassio
was pleased with the advice, and next morning made his request to
Desdemona in the garden of the castle. She was kindness itself, and
said, "Be merry, Cassio, for I would rather die than forsake your
cause."

Cassio at that moment saw Othello advancing with Iago, and retired
hurriedly.

Iago said, "I don't like that."

"What did you say?" asked Othello, who felt that he had meant something
unpleasant, but Iago pretended he had said nothing. "Was not that Cassio
who went from my wife?" asked Othello, and Iago, who knew that it was
Cassio and why it was Cassio, said, "I cannot think it was Cassio who
stole away in that guilty manner."

Desdemona told Othello that it was grief and humility which made Cassio
retreat at his approach. She reminded him how Cassio had taken his part
when she was still heart-free, and found fault with her Moorish lover.
Othello was melted, and said, "I will deny thee nothing," but Desdemona
told him that what she asked was as much for his good as dining.

Desdemona left the garden, and Iago asked if it was really true that
Cassio had known Desdemona before her marriage.

"Yes," said Othello.

"Indeed," said Iago, as though something that had mystified him was now
very clear.

"Is he not honest?" demanded Othello, and Iago repeated the adjective
inquiringly, as though he were afraid to say "No."

"What do you mean?" insisted Othello.

To this Iago would only say the flat opposite of what he said to Cassio.
He had told Cassio that reputation was humbug. To Othello he said, "Who
steals my purse steals trash, but he who filches from me my good name
ruins me."

At this Othello almost leapt into the air, and Iago was so confident
of his jealousy that he ventured to warn him against it. Yes, it was no
other than Iago who called jealousy "the green-eyed monster which doth
mock the meat it feeds o