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| | Green eyed monster |
 | | Green is a colour associated with sickness, possibly because people's skin takes on a slightly greenish tinge when they are seriuosly ill. Green is also the colour of many unripe foods that cause stomach pains. |
 | | Shakespeare also alludes to cats as green-eyed monsters in the way that they play with mice before killing them. |
 | | Iago: 'O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on; that cuckold lives in bliss Who, certain of his fate, loves not his wronger; But, O, what damned minutes tells he o'er Who dotes, yet doubts, suspects, ye |
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