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    ti v ^^ 6 ^ jmnedr ^ , lsu ^ . ^ fle ^ tive , < orsan 8 J expanding into the s en ^ ep ^ f ^ ' y 0 < XL Wntiitigfrt ^ ^ m ^ flti eiic ^ d by % c ^ etivene , ^ ^ epesally diapfejfs itsetf ut ^ ef th # * ftinft bf a quiet , subdued ^ arpeism . Let us consider the first part 6 f the first scene * —> ' Venice . A street . Enter Roderigo and IagO . '

    "Utiderigo . Tush , never tell me , I take it much unkindly , ° Tfia # them , Iago , —who hast had my purse , Aaif the strings -were thine , —should ' st know of this . " These first few words of Roderigo place before us the Acquisitivenes s of Iago . A few lines further and we obtain a knowledge of his Self-esteem ; he says—

    " I know my price , I am worth no worse a place . " The lines succeeding are the words of a man who despises theory , and they give voucher for his Combativeness and Destructivenesfc , which indeed are sufficiently displayed afterwards . The speech commencing

    " O , sir , content you— ' displays his intellectual power , and the conclusion of the same speech- — For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern , ' tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at—I am not What I am . *

    certified fbr his Secretiveness . In this scene we have , however , no idea that Iago is a jealbus man . We can understand that he is a covetous man ; that he h&s made Roderigo his fool " and " his purse ;? that he is disappointed in his ambition of obtaining the lieutenancy undfcr Othello , and likely therefore to be his deadly , concealed , eneitty ; but it is not until the very end of the first act that he says , in soliloquy , —

    "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 ; Bujt I , for mere suspicion in that kind , Will do as if for surety . "

    It « Hay strike others , m it did me—until many years * after I had seen the tragedy and been in the habit of reading ^ ifcwthat this fciport of Othello ' s intimacy with his wife , is only ( as Iago says » , ^ l kftow ^ otif ' tbe true" ) put forward to irritate himself further with Othello , and in a manner t 6 give himself some fair reasons for his hatred and intended enmity . But I now

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    "Iago . " 213

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 1, 1837, page 213, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1830/page/23/