Letter: Who said it first?

From Mr Mark Pappenheim

Sir: Brian Wilson (letter, 29 March) need not have gone to Nepal to find the "meaning of life". The slogan that impressed him is nothing less than a cheap paraphrase of Othello's words:

Who steals my purse steals trash ...

But he that filches from me my good name

Robs me of that which not enriches him,

And makes me poor indeed

- and we know where the Moor's sense of honour got him.

Yours,

MARK PAPPENHEIM

Lewes, Sussex