'Bra'. Look to her, Moor; have a quick eye to see;
She has deceiv'd her father, and may thee.
'Oth'. My life upon her faith.
In real life, how do we look back to little speeches as presentimental of, or contrasted with, an affecting event! Even so, Shakspeare, as secure of being read over and over, of becoming a family friend, provides this passage for his readers, and leaves it to them.
'Ib.' Iago's speech:—
Virtue? a fig! 'tis in ourselves, that we are thus, or thus, &c.
This speech comprises the passionless character of Iago. It is all will in intellect; and therefore he is here a bold partizan of a truth, but yet of a truth converted into a falsehood by the absence of all the necessary modifications caused by the frail nature of man. And then comes the last sentiment,—
Our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts, whereof I
take this, that you call—love, to be a sect or scion!
Here is the true Iagoism of, alas! how many! Note Iago's pride of mastery in the repetition of 'Go, make money!' to his anticipated dupe, even stronger than his love of lucre: and when Roderigo is completely won—
I am chang'd. I'll go sell all my land—
when the effect has been fully produced, the repetition of triumph—
Go to; farewell; put money enough in your purse!