Page 1462 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

ALL

Excellent well.

CASSIO
Very well then; you must not think, that I am drunk.
Exit.

MONTANO
To the platform, masters. Come, let’s set the watch.

IAGO
You see this fellow that is gone before,

He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar, [115]
And give direction: and do but see his vice,
’Tis to his virtue a just equinox,
The one as long as th’ other: ’tis pity of him,

I fear the trust Othello put him in,
On some odd time of his infirmity, [120]
Will shake this island.

MONTANO
But is he often thus?

IAGO
’Tis evermore the prologue to his sleep:

He’ll watch the horologe a double set,
If drink rock not his cradle.

MONTANO
’Twere well
The general were put in mind of it; [125]
Perhaps he sees it not, or his good nature

Praises the virtues that appear in Cassio,
And looks not on his evils: is not this true?

Enter Roderigo.

IAGO