Othello: A Tragedy in Five Acts1882 - 68 pages |
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abused aught beseech blood Brabantio Cyprus damned daughter DESDEMONA and EMILIA devil didst dost thou doth DUKE EMIL END OF ACT Enter CASSIO Enter DESDEMONA Enter OTHELLO Exeunt Exit eyes false Farewell father fear fortunes foul give grace hand handkerchief hast hath heart Heaven hither honest IAGO is't jealous kill kiss knave lady LAGO lieutenant LODOVICO look lord lost love and duty love thee madam Michael Cassio mistress money in thy MONT Montano Moor murder ne'er never night noble offence pardon poison Pr'ythee pray reputation Roderigo sail SCENE SCENE IV scurvy Senators signor soul speak sure sweet sword there's thine thing Thou art thou dost thy purse to-night to't Trumpet Turkish twas twill valiant Venice villain Weber Piano weep What's the matter wife witchcraft Оти Отн Отп Сав
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Page 13 - Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, My very noble and approved good masters, — That I have ta'en away this old man's daughter, It is most true ; true, I have married her ; The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech, And little bless'd with the set phrase of peace ; For since these arms of mine had seven years...
Page 62 - It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul — Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars ! — It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood; Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, And smooth as monumental alabaster.
Page 13 - Their dearest action in the tented field, And little of this great •world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle, And therefore little shall I grace my cause In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience...
Page 42 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air Are to the jealous confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ This may do something.
Page 6 - In following him, I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so, for my peculiar end : For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, 'tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at : I am not what I am.
Page 38 - I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions?
Page 58 - Yet could I bear that too ; well, very well : But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either I must live, or bear no life ; The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else dries up...
Page 26 - tis apt, and of great credit : The Moor — howbeit that I endure him not, — Is of a constant, loving, noble nature ; And, I dare think, he'll prove to Desdemona A most dear husband.
Page 31 - As I am an honest man, I thought you had received some bodily wound; there is more sense in that than in reputation. Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.
Page 18 - tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners ; so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up thyme, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies...