_Iago_. You or any man living may be drunk at a time, man. I'll tell you what you shall do. Our general's wife is now the general: I may say so in this respect, for that he hath devoted and given up himself to the contemplation, mark, and denotement of her parts and graces: confess yourself freely to her: importune her help to put you in your place again: she is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested: this broken joint between you and her husband entreat her to splinter; and my fortunes against any lay worth naming, this crack of your love shall grow stronger than it was before. _Cas_. You advise me well. _Iago_. I protest in the sincerity of love and honest kindness. _Cas_. I think it freely; and betimes in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me: I am desperate of my fortunes if they check me here. _Iago_. You are in the right. Good night, lieutenant; I must to the watch. _Cas_. Good night, honest Iago. HELPS TO STUDY. Notes "marry"--an exclamation--indeed! "cast"--dismissed. "fustian"--empty phrasing, "pleasance"--merriment. "moraler"--moralizer Words and Phrases for Discussion. "immortal part of myself" "repute yourself" "as many mouths as Hydra" "crack of your love" "false imposition" "speak parrot" "denotement" "must to the watch" * * * * * PART II SELECTIONS FROM GREAT AMERICAN AUTHORS _"He cometh unto you with a tale which holdeth children from play and old men from the chimney corner."_ --SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. * * * * * WASHINGTON IRVING "Washington's work is ended and the child shall be named after him," so said the mother of Washington Irving at his birth in New York, April 3, 1783. When, six years later, all New York was enthusiastically greeting the first President of the United States, a Scotch servant in the Irving family followed the President into a shop with the youngest son of the family and approaching him said, "Please, your honor, here's a bairn was named for you." Washington, putting his hand upon the boy's head, gave him his blessing. It seems eminently fitting that this boy, who became known as the Father of American Letters, should write the biography of the man whose name he bore, and whom we know as the Father of his Country.