RODERIGO. Wilt thou be fast to my hopes if I depend on the issue? 

IAGO. Thou art sure of me. Go, make money. I have told thee often, and I retell thee again and again, I hate the Moor. My cause is hearted; thine hath no less reason. Let us be conjunctive in our revenge against him: if thou canst cuckold him, thou dost thyself a pleasure, me a sport. There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered. Traverse, go, provide thy money. We will have more of this tomorrow. Adieu. 

RODERIGO. Where shall we meet i’ the morning? 

IAGO. At my lodging. 

RODERIGO. I’ll be with thee betimes. 

IAGO. Go to, farewell. Do you hear, Roderigo? 

RODERIGO. What say you? 

IAGO. No more of drowning, do you hear? 

RODERIGO. I am changed. I’ll sell all my land. 

 [Exit.]

IAGO. Thus do I ever make my fool my purse. For I mine own gain’d knowledge should profane If I would time expend with such a snipe But for my sport and profit. I hate the Moor, And it is thought abroad that ’twixt my sheets He has done my office. I know not if ’t be true, But I, for mere suspicion in that kind, Will do as if for surety. He holds me well, The better shall my purpose work on him. Cassio’s a proper man. Let me see now, To get his place, and to plume up my will In double knavery. How, how? Let’s see. After some time, to abuse Othello’s ear That he is too familiar with his wife. He hath a person and a smooth dispose, To be suspected, fram’d to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature That thinks men honest that but seem to be so, And will as tenderly be led by the nose As asses are. I have’t. It is engender’d. Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light. 

 [Exit.]

 

 ACT II

 SCENE I. A seaport in Cyprus. A Platform.

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