Othello Act 2 scene 2-3

1/6/09

"Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and/ unhappy brains for drinking; I could well wish/ courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment/"(2.3.31-34).

I believe this quote is important because it foreshadows early on that Cassio cant really handle drinking. Here we get this sense that if Iago or Rodrigo can get him to drink they can pretty much make him do anything. Also this explains how Iago can sneakily retrieve information such as the fact that beer/drinks one of Cassio's weak points.

Ingraft: To be ingrained.
Collied: Darkened.