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a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! Every unordinate cup
is unbless’d, and the ingredience is a devil.

IAGO
Come, come, good wine is a good familiar creature, [300] if it be well us’d;
exclaim no more against it; and, good lieutenant, I think you think I love you.

CASSIO
I have well approv’d it, sir,... I drunk!

IAGO
You, or any man living, may be drunk at some time: I’ll tell you what you

shall do... Our general’s [305] wife is now the general; I may say so in this
respect, for that he has devoted and given up himself to the contemplation,
mark and denotement of her parts and graces. Confess yourself freely to her,

importune her she’ll help to put you in your place again: she is so [310] free,
so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, that she holds it a vice in her
goodness not to do more than she is requested. This brawl between you and
her husband, entreat her to splinter, and my fortunes against any lay worth
naming, this crack of your love [315] shall grow stronger than ’twas before.

CASSIO
You advise me well.

IAGO
I protest, in the sincerity of love and honest kindness.

CASSIO
I think it freely, and betimes in the morning [320] will I beseech the virtuous
Desdemona, to undertake for me; I am desperate of my fortunes, if they
check me here.

IAGO

You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant, I must to the watch. [325]

CASSIO

Good night, honest Iago.