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Exit.

IAGO
And what’s he then, that says I play the villain,
When this advice is free I give, and honest,
Probal to thinking, and indeed the course
To win the Moor again? For ’tis most easy [330]

The inclining Desdemona to subdue,
In any honest suit; she’s fram’d as fruitful
As the free elements: and then for her

To win the Moor, were’t to renounce his baptism,
All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, [335]
His soul is so infetter’d to her love,
That she may make, unmake, do what she list,
Even as her appetite shall play the god

With his weak function. How am I then a villain,
To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, [340]
Directly to his good? Divinity of hell!

When devils will their blackest sins put on,
They do suggest at first with heavenly shows,
As I do now: for while this honest fool
Plies Desdemona to repair his fortunes, [345]
And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor,

I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear,
That she repeals him for her body’s lust;
And by how much she strives to do him good,

She shall undo her credit with the Moor; [350]
So will I turn her virtue into pitch,
And out of her own goodness make the net
That shall enmesh ’em all.

Enter Roderigo.

How now, Roderigo?

RODERIGO

I do follow here in the chase, not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up
the cry: my [355] money is almost spent, I ha’ been to-night exceedingly well