And yet I could bear that too, well, very well. But where I have gathered my heart, where either I must live or not bear life, the source from which my current flows, or it dries up, to be discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern for disgusting toads, to knot us and breed! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou rosy-lipped young cherub, — Yes, behold, thou hast a damned gloomy appearance!“ (Act IV Scene II Lines 54-64). He states that he believes that Desdemona actually cheats on him and says that he believed that Desdemona would be the woman from whom his family would descend, but that thought was shattered when he was enlightened by the fact that Desdemona was cheating on him. him. He used the fountain metaphor "The fountain from which my current flows, otherwise it fries." He compares it to a fountain from which water is supposed to flow (the water would be its descendant), however continuing he says that it dries up, meaning that there are no more descendants and he lets the reader understand that he does not want to make love and therefore he ago. don't love her. This also shows foreshadowing because she doesn't actually help Othello continue his line because he kills her. Although Shakespeare foreshadows many deaths of feelings and ideas, he also foreshadows their deaths