Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to do you service and you think we are ruffians, you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 1, Scene 1. Brabantio appears at his window to hear a voice shouting up to him from the dark below. It is Iago, hidden in the shadows, using racist language and a vulgar and insulting animal metaphor to tell him that his daughter Desdemona is being ravished by a "Barbary horse" – Othello. The Barbary horse is a North Africal breed of horse. Master maniplator Iago, in his bid to set Brabantio against Othello, warns that Brabantio’s grandsons will be beasts too.