IAGO: He hath not yet made wanton the night with her; and she is sport for Jove.
CASSIO: She’s a most exquisite lady.
IAGO: And, I’ll warrant her, fun of game.
CASSIO: Indeed, she’s a most fresh and delicate creature.
IAGO: What an eye she has! methinks it sounds a parley of provocation.
CASSIO: An inviting eye; and yet methinks right modest.
IAGO: And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?
CASSIO: She is indeed perfection.
IAGO: Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of wine; and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would fain have a measure to the health of black Othello.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 2, Scene 3. Iago attempts to manipulate Cassio into making sexual advances towards Desdemona. Ever the misogynist, Iago suggests that she is great in bed, looks provocatively at men and is full of game. But Cassio, always the gentleman, shows his respect for women by not rising to the bait. Instead he says that Desdemona has a "modest" eye, is "most exquisite" and "indeed perfection." He refuses to rise to Iago’s bait and speak of her as a sexual object. Iago then proceeds with his plan to get Cassio drunk on wine, by inviting him to toast his boss Othello.