At the beginning of the play, Iago tells Othello about all of the bad things Roderigo was saying about him and Othello replies, “My services which I have done the signiory shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know—which, when I know that boasting is an honor, I shall promulgate. I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege, and my demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached” (Shakespeare 1.2. 11). He wants Iago to know that he knows that it is not honorable to boast of it, but he is sure that he has natural honor as a descendant
At the beginning of the play, Iago tells Othello about all of the bad things Roderigo was saying about him and Othello replies, “My services which I have done the signiory shall out-tongue his complaints. 'Tis yet to know—which, when I know that boasting is an honor, I shall promulgate. I fetch my life and being from men of royal siege, and my demerits may speak unbonneted to as proud a fortune as this that I have reached” (Shakespeare 1.2. 11). He wants Iago to know that he knows that it is not honorable to boast of it, but he is sure that he has natural honor as a descendant