Act 2

Question 1

Iago 2.1
With as little a … will I ensnare … .

Answer 1

Iago 2.1.
With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.

Question 2

Othello 2.1
If it were now … /
‘Twere now … .

Answer 2

Othello 2.1.
If it were now to die /
‘Twere now to be most happy.

Question 3

Iago 2.1
O, you are … ; /
But I’ll set down the … that make … /
As … .

Answer 3

Iago 2.1.
O, you are well tuned now; /
But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music, /
As honest as I am.

Question 4

Iago 2.3
If consequence do but … /
My … , both with … and … .

Answer 4

Iago 2.3.
If consequence do but approve my dream, /
My boat sails freely, both with wind and stream.

Question 5

Iago (regarding Cassio) 2.3
He’s a soldier fit …
And give… . And do but see his … :
Tis to his … a just … .

Answer 5

Iago (regarding Cassio) 2.3.
He’s a soldier fit to stand by Caesar /
And give direction. And do but see his vice: /
‘Tis to his virtue a just equinox.

Question 6

Othello 2.3
Now, … , /
My … begins my … to rule.

To manage … /
In night and on the … of safety? /
Tis … !

Answer 6

Othello 2.3.
Now, by heaven, /
My blood begins my safer guides to rule
…
To manage private and domestic quarrel /
In night and on the court and guard of safety? /
‘Tis monstrous!

Question 7

Cassio 2.3
Reputation, … , … ! Oh, … !
I have lost… and what remains … .

Answer 7

Cassio 2.3.
Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial.

Question 8

Iago 2.3
Divinity of … ! /
When devils … /
They do … /
As I … .

Answer 8

Iago 2.3.
Divinity of hell! /
When devils will the blackest sins put on, /
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows, /
As I do now.

Question 9

Iago 2.3
So will I turn … , /
And out of … make … /
That shall … .

Answer 9

Iago 2.3.
So will I turn her virtue into pitch, /
And out of her own goodness make the net /
That shall enmesh them all.