I thank my God for my humility!
freedom from prejudice.
Of a kindred nature is his perfect frankness and fairness to his victims: villainy never clouds his judgment. Iago, astutest of intriguers, was deceived, as has been already noted, by his own morbid acuteness, and firmly believed—what the simplest spectator can see to be a delusion—that Othello has tampered with his wife. Richard, on the contrary, is a marvel of judicial impartiality; he speaks of King Edward in such terms as these—
i. i. 36.
If King Edward be as true and just
As I am subtle, false and treacherous;
and weighs elaborately the superior merit of one of his victims to his own:
i. ii. from 240.
Hath she forgot already that brave prince,
Edward, her lord, whom I, some three months since,