CodalSearch this book — or all of Codal…⌘K
nydus/OthelloPublic

Jealousy destroys the marriage between an older black man and a younger white woman in 1500s Venice.

Page 81 of 229
Table of Contents

Act II

Iago
Why, but you are now well enough: how came you thus recovered?
Cassio
It hath pleased the devil drunkenness to give place to the devil wrath; one unperfectness shows me another, to make me frankly despise myself.
Iago
Come, you are too severe a moraler: as the time, the place, and the condition of this country stands, I could heartily wish this had not befallen; but, since it is as it is, mend it for your own good.
Cassio
I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! O strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil.
Iago
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used: exclaim no more against it. And, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.
Cassio
I have well approved it, sir. I drunk!
81