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Roderigo

 * Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly
 * That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse
 * As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.



IAGO

 * 'Sblood, but you will not hear me:
 * If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.

RODERIGO

 * Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.

IAGO

 * Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
 * In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
 * Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
 * I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
 * But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,
 * Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
 * Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
 * And, in conclusion,
 * Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
 * 'I have already chose my officer.'
 * And what was he?
 * Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
 * One Michael Cassio [| Michael Cassio], a :Florentine,
 * A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
 * That never set a squadron in the field,
 * Nor the division of a battle knows
 * More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
 * Wherein the toged consuls can propose
 * As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
 * Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
 * And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
 * At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
 * Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
 * By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
 * He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
 * And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's [|Moors] :ancient.