¶He is a good one, and his worthine
sse,
¶Does challenge much re
spect: come
Desdemona,
995Once more well met at
Cypres.
¶Iag. Doe thou meete me pre
sently at the Harbour
: come hither,
¶If thou bee
st valiant, as they
say, ba
se men being in loue, haue then
¶a Nobility in their natures, more then is natiue to them --- li
st me,
1000the Leiutenant to night watches on the Court of Guard
: fir
st I will
¶tell thee, this
Desdemona is directly in loue with him.
¶Rod. With him? why tis not po
ssible.
¶Iag. Lay thy finger thus, and let thy
soule be in
structed: marke
1005me, with what violence
she fir
st lou'd the Moore, but for bragging,
¶and telling her fanta
sticall lies; and will
she loue him
still for pra-
¶ting? let not the di
screet heart thinke
so. Her eye mu
st be fed, and
¶what delight
shall
she haue to look on the Diuell? When the blood
1010is made dull with the act of
sport, there
should be againe to inflame
¶it, and giue
saciety a fre
sh appetite. Loue lines in fauour,
sympathy
¶in yeares, manners and beauties; all which the Moore is defectiue in
:
¶now for want of the
se requir'd conueniences, her delicate tender-
1015ne
sse will finde it
selfe abus'd, beginne to heaue the gorge, di
srelli
sh
¶and abhorre the Moore, very nature will in
struct her to it, and com-
¶pell her to
some
second choice
: now
sir, this granted, as it is a mo
st
¶pregnant and vnforced po
sition, who
stands
so eminently in the de-
¶gree of this fortune, as
Cassio does? a knaue very voluble, no farder
¶con
scionable, then in putting on the meere forme of ciuill and hand-
¶seeming, for the better compa
ssing of his
salt and hidden affecti-
¶ons: A
subtle
slippery knaue, a finder out of occa
sions; that has an
1025eye, can
stampe and counterfeit the true aduantages neuer pre
sent
¶them
selues. Be
sides, the knaue is hand
some, yong, and hath all tho
se
¶requi
sites in him that folly and green mindes look after; a pe
stilent
¶compleate knaue, and the woman has found him already.
¶Rod. I cannot beleeue that in her,
shee's full of mo
st ble
st con-
1033.1Iag. Ble
st figs end
: the wine
shee drinkes is made of grapes: if
¶she had beene ble
st,
she would neuer haue lou'd the Moore
. Did
st
¶thou not
see her paddle with the palme of his hand?
¶Rod. Yes, but that was but courte
sie.
¶Iag. Lechery, by this hand: an Index and prologue to the hi-
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