...is as it is, mend it for your own good. CASSIO I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me I a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an...strange! Every inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredience is a devil. 300 IAGO Come come, good wine is a good familiar creature, if it be well used;...

...approval (ie, social approbation) 285 unperfectness failing 292 Hydra the legendary multiheaded monster an answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible...inordinate cup is unblessed, and the ingredient is 295 a devil. IAGO Come, come, good wine is a good familiar crea- 297 ture if it be well used. Exclaim...

...should with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts. (2.3.280-3) 1 will ask for my place again, he shall tell me I am a drunkard:...sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! (2.3.293-5) This recurring sense of brutality is the central fact of Cassio's shame: a horrid vision...

...expectation that he can easily profit from the 'show of courtesy' (2.1.102) characteristic of his discourse: 'I will ask him for my place again. He shall tell...mouths as Hydra, such an answer would stop them all.' (2.3.296-8). A rhetorician able to understand the mechanisms by which the polite Venetian social order,...

...spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! Cassio — Othello II.iii To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently...inordinate cup is unblessed and the ingredient is a devil. Cassio — Othello II. Hi Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest...

...could heartily wish this had not befallen; but since it is as it is, mend it for your own good. Cassio I will ask him for my place again; he shall tell me...a drunkard. Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an 285 answer would stop them all. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!...

...Moreover, though Cassio feels in n, iii that his drunkenness was the greatest part of his fault and says : I will ask him for my place again: he shall tell me I am a drunkard, (306-7) he never mentions the drinking incident in the latter part, nor do any of the other characters,...

...bestial' (2.3.255-6), 'O God ... that we should transform ourselves into beasts!' (2.3.280—3) and 'to be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!' (2.3.295—6). There is also the related imagery of the cuckold's shameful metamorphosis, here given...

...pestilence into his ear', (2.3.347)}, it is also a significant parallel that Cassio says of himself, 'Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an answer would...sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!' (2.3.297-9). For it was the many-headed Lemean Hydra that provided the poison that killed both Nessus...

...Zoey's Coffee House was smashed to bits, the rumble of boots fading from the scene and off to school. To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast! Now I turn to an event that crowned, with nettles, the extremes of those oh-so-clever years of like...