Making it light to Cassio.”

Honesty and love! Ay, and who but the reader of the play could think otherwise?

Ib. Iago's soliloquy:—

“And what's he then that says—I play the villain?

When this advice is free I give, and honest,

Provable to thinking, and, indeed, the course

To win the Moor again.”

He is not, you see, an absolute fiend; or, at least, he wishes to think himself not so.

Act iii. sc. 3.—

“Des. Before Æmilia here,