Othello (Quarto 1, 1622)
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The Tragedy of Othello the Moore
of Venice.
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Enter Iago and Roderigo.
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Roderigo.
5That you Iago, who has had my purse,
¶Iag. S'blood, but you will not heare me,
If euer I did dreame of_such a matter, abhorre me.
¶Oft capt to him, and by the faith of man,
15I know my price, I am worth no worse a place.
¶But he, as louing his owne pride and purposes,
¶Horribly stuft with Epithites of warre:
18.1And in conclusion,
20I haue already chosen my officer, and what was he?
¶Forsooth, a great Arithmetition,
¶One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
¶A fellow almost dambd in a faire wife,
25Nor the deuision of a Battell knowes,
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