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RODERIGO

It cannot be.

IAGO
It is merely a lust of the blood, and a permission [335] of the will. Come, be a
man; drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies: I profess me thy friend,
and I confess me knit to thy deserving, with cables of perdurable toughness; I

could never better stead thee than now. Put money in thy purse; follow [340]
these wars, defeat thy favour with an usurp’d beard; I say, put money in thy
purse. It cannot be that Desdemona should long continue her love unto the
Moor,... put money in thy purse,... nor he to her; it was a violent

commencement, and thou [345] shalt see an answerable sequestration: put
but money in thy purse... These Moors are changeable in their wills:... fill thy
purse with money. The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts, shall be
to him shortly as acerb as the coloquintida. When she [350] is sated with his

body, she will find the error of her choice; she must have change, she must.
Therefore put money in thy purse: if thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a
more delicate way than drowning; make all the money thou canst. If
sanctimony, and [355] a frail vow, betwixt an erring barbarian, and a super-

subtle Venetian, be not too hard for my wits, and all the tribe of hell, thou
shalt enjoy her; therefore make money,... a pox o’ drowning, ’tis clean out of
the way: seek thou rather to be hang’d [360] in compassing thy joy, than to
be drown’d, and go without her.

RODERIGO

Wilt thou be fast to my hopes?

IAGO

Thou art sure of me... go, make money... I have told thee often, and I tell
thee again, and again, I hate [365] the Moor; my cause is hearted, thine has
no less reason, let us be communicative in our revenge against him: if thou
canst cuckold him, thou doest thyself a pleasure, and me a sport. There are

many events in the womb of time, which will be delivered. [370] Traverse,
go, provide thy money, we will have more of this to-morrow; adieu.

RODERIGO
Where shall we meet i’ the morning?