...with his wife; He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected — framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th'nose As asses are. I have't: it is engendered. Hell and night Must bring this...

...Trust, his sworn brother, a very simple gentleman!' (The Winter's Tale, 4.4.597f); or as lago confides, The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th'nose As asses are. (1.3.397ff) Othello, like the other normal but naive people...

...Othello is destined always to "see" more than exists in the reality of an enunciation, and less, too ("the Moor is of a free and open nature, / That thinks men honest that but seem to be so"). The echoing produces clusters of overdetermined meaning that entrap Othello. At the same time, and...

...places himself in a position to become a pawn in lago's web of deceit as evinced by lago's comment that "the Moor is of a free and open nature / That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, / And will as tenderly be led by the nose / As asses are." At the end of Scene 3, lago expresses his attitude toward...

...with his wife; 390 He hath 2 person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th'nosc As asses are. I have't. It is engendered. Hell and night Must bring this...

...Venice, lago is excluded from the inner circle. At the end of the Council scene, when he suggests that, "The Moor is of a free and open nature, / That thinks men honest that but seem to be so" (1.3.382-83), the Ensign stealthily pockets the Duke's cigars. But after he arrives on the Cyprus quay,...

...smooth dispose To be suspected - framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, 425 That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have't. It is engendered. Hell and night. Must bring this...

..."I am not what I am" (act 1, scene 1, line 64). He knows that he can count on the Moor's credulity: "The Moor is of a free and open nature, /That thinks men honest that but seem to be so" (act 1, scene 3, line 405). Therefore, his aim, or at least the consequence of his action, is not just...

...familiar with his wife. He hath a person and a smooth dispose To be suspected, framed to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by th'nose As asses are. 400 I have't. It is engendered. Hell and night Must bring...

...How? How? Let's see. After some time, to abuse Othello's ears That he is too familiar with his wife. The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so; And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have it! It is engendered! Hell and night Must bring this...