1. After Iago lied and told Othello that Cassio confessed going to bed with Desdemona, what advice did he give the overwhelmed Othello?

Iago tells Othello to remain calm and to hide while he (Iago) gets Cassio to confess.

Explanation:

"Othello" is the name of a famous Shakespearean tragedy as well as of its main character. Othello is deceived by Iago, a jealous man who's determined to destroy Othello's life. Iago concocts a successful plan to convince Othello that Desdemona, Othello's wife, has cheated on him with Cassio. After being lied to, Othello is overwhelmed and even has en epileptic fit. Iago tells him many women cheat. He says Othello has it better than other men, who go to bed with an unfaithful wife unknowingly. He then asks him to remain calm and to hide while he (Iago) gets Cassio to confess:

IAGO

Good sir, be a man, Think every bearded fellow that's but yoked May draw with you. There's millions now alive That nightly lie in those unproper beds Which they dare swear peculiar. Your case is better. Oh, 'tis the spite of hell, the fiend's arch-mock, To lip a wanton in a secure couch, And to suppose her chaste. No, let me know, And knowing what I am, I know what she shall be.

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IAGO

Stand you awhile apart, Confine yourself but in a patient list. Whilst you were here o'erwhelmèd with your grief - A passion most resulting such a man - Cassio came hither. I shifted him away And laid good 'scuses upon your ecstasy, Bade him anon return and here speak with me, The which he promised. Do but encave yourself, And mark the fleers, the gibes, and notable scorns That dwell in every region of his face. For I will make him tell the tale anew Where, how, how oft, how long ago, and when He hath, and is again to cope your wife. I say, but mark his gesture. Marry, patience, Or I shall say you are all in all in spleen, And nothing of a man.