"Othello" by William Shakespeare, Act II-III

The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds;

That paragons description and wild fame;

The great contention of the sea and skies

They give their greeting to the citadel;

These are old fond paradoxes to make fools laugh i'
the alehouse.

How say
you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberal
counsellor?

You say true; 'tis so, indeed: if such tricks as
these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had
been better you had not kissed your three fingers so
oft, which now again you are most apt to play the
sir in.

When the blood is made dull with the act of
sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to
give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favour,
sympathy in years, manners and beauties; all which
the Moor is defective in: now, for want of these
required conveniences, her delicate tenderness will
find itself abused, begin to heave the gorge,
disrelish and abhor the Moor; very nature will
instruct her in it and compel her to some second
choice.

Now, sir, this granted, -- as it is a most
pregnant and unforced position -- who stands so
eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio
does? a knave very voluble; no further
conscionable than in putting on the mere form of
civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing
of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,
none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and
counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never
present itself; a dev

Now, sir, this granted, -- as it is a most
pregnant and unforced position -- who stands so
eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio
does? a knave very voluble; no further
conscionable than in putting on the mere form of
civil and humane seeming, for the better compassing
of his salt and most hidden loose affection? why,
none; why, none: a slipper and subtle knave, a
finder of occasions, that has an eye can stamp and
counterfeit advantages, though true advantage never
present itself; a dev

Besides, the
knave is handsome, young, and hath all those
requisites in him that folly and green minds look
after: a pestilent complete knave; and the woman
hath found him already.

So
shall you have a shorter journey to your desires by
the means I shall then have to prefer them; and the
impediment most profitably removed, without the
which there were no expectation of our prosperity.

That hold their honours in a wary distance,

I learned it in England, where, indeed, they are
most potent in potting: your Dane, your German, and
your swag-bellied Hollander -- Drink, ho! -- are nothing
to your English.

From her propriety.

Any beginning to this peevish odds;

The gravity and stillness of your youth

Steps in to Cassio, and entreats his pause:

I'll pour this pestilence into his ear,

And wit depends on dilatory time.

A man that languishes in your displeasure.

Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;

As thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts

To such exsufflicate and blown surmises,

With any strong or vehement importunity;

As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black

It were a tedious difficulty, I think,

If imputation and strong circumstances,

A sequester from liberty, fasting and prayer,