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Preferment goes by letter and affection,
And not by old gradation, where each second
Stood heir to the first. |
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Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,
But seeming so, for my peculiar end; |
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| Iago to Roderigo expressing his jealousy of roderigo and how he is only being kind to steal his position |
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I am one, sir, who comes to tell you your daughter
and the Moor are making the beast with two backs. |
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| you’ll have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins |
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Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters’ minds
By what you see them act. |
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She is abused, stol’n from me, and corrupted
By spells and medicines bought of mountebanks |
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She’d come again, and with greedy ear
Devour up my discourse. |
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| Othello. characterization |
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| The food that to him now is as luscious as locusts shall be to him shortly as bitter as coloquintida. |
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| Put money in thy purse. tone? |
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| Iago tone: disdainful, cynical |
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The Moor is of a free and open nature
That thinks men honest that but seem to be so,
And will tenderly be led by the nose
As asses are. |
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I have’t! It is engend’red! Hell and night
Must bring this monstrous birth to the world’s light. |
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| Iago to himself about the plan he will enforce |
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She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain,
Left in the conduct of the bold Iago
Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts
A se’nnights speed. |
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| cassio about desdemona , wishing for her to return home so that she and othello may be together |
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Come on, come on! You are pictures out of doors,
Bells in your parlors, wildcats in your kitchens |
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| iago to desdemona and emilia |
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| Her eye must be fed; and when delight shall she have to look on the devil? When the blood is made devil with the act of sport, there should be, again to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite, loveliness in favor, sympathy in years, manners and beauties |
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| iago speaking of othellos flaws that desdemona will get tired of |
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| I have drunk but one cup tonight, and that was craftily qualified too; and behold what innovation it makes here. I am unfortunate in the infirmity and dare not task my weakness with any more. |
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The Moor replies
That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus
And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
He might not but refuse you,
And he needs no other suitor but his likings
To take the safest occasion by the front
To bring you in again |
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| emilia to cassio about his fight and that othello wishes to have him back as an officer. |
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Why then, tomorrow night, or Tuesday morn,
Or Tuesday noon or night, or Wednesday morn.
I prithee name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days |
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Did Michael Cassio, when wooed my lady,
Know of your love? |
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| Iago to othello.planting suspicion-ie did cassio know of you and desdemona before? |
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Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago
If thou but think’st him wronged, and mak’st his ear
A stranger to thy thoughts |
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| Othello to Iago plading him to tell him all of what he thinks |
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O, beware, my lord, of jealousy!
It is the green eyed monster, which doth mock
The meat it feeds on. |
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Look to your wife; observe her well with Cassio;
Wear your eye thus, not jealous nor secure. |
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had rather be a toad
And live upon the vapor of a dungeon
Than keep a corner in the thing I love
For others’ uses |
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I will in Cassio’s lodging lose this napkin
And let him find it. |
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Not poppy nor mandagora
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world, shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou ow’dst yesterday. |
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| iago to himself speaking of the mental turmoil he will cause othello |
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My wayward husband hath a hundred times
Wooed me to steal it; but she so loves the token
(For her she should ever keep it)
That she reserves it evermore about her
To kiss and talk to. |
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Thou hast set me on the rack:
I swear ‘tis better to be much abused
Than but to know’t a little. |
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It is impossible that you see this,
Were they as prime as goats, as hot as monkeys,
As salt as wolves in pride, and fools as gross
As ignorance made drunk |
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Arise, black vengeance, from the hollow hell!
Yield up, O love, thy crown and hearted throne
To tyrannous hate! Swell, bosom,with thy fraught,
For ‘tis of aspics’ tongues |
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Madam… I do beseech you
That by your virtuous means I may again
Exist, and be a member of his love
Whom I with all the office of my heart
Entirely honor. |
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I was (unhandsome warrior as I am!)
Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
But now I find I had suborned the witness,
And he’s indicted falsely. |
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| desdemona to emilia talking about othello after cassios fight |
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Act IV, 1
… It is a creature
That dotes on Cassio, as ‘tis the strumpet’s plague
To beguile many and be beguiled by one |
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| I would have him nine years a-killing! |
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| othello to iago about cassio |
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O, devil, devil!
If that the Earth could teem with woman’s tears,
Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.
Out of my sight! |
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Act IV, 2
I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest,
Lay down my soul at stake. If you think other,
Remove your thought; it doth abuse your bosom. |
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Was this fair paper, this most goodly book
Made to write “whore” upon? What committed? |
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I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozzening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander. |
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| Emilia to iago and othello ironically about her husband planting lies |
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I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
That married Othello.- You mistress,
That have the office opposite Saint Peter
And keep the gate of hell! |
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| othello; frist to desdemona, then emilia |
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| I will be near to second your attempt, and he shall fall between us |
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Act IV, 3
… What is it that they do
When they change us for others? Is it sport?
I think it is. And doth affection breed it?
I think it doth. Is’t frailty that thus errs?
It is so too. And have we not affections,
Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have?
Then let them use us well; else let them know,
The ills we do, their ills instruct us so. |
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| emilia to desdemona; characterization |
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Act V, 1
That thrust had been my enemy indeed
But that my coat is better than thou knows’t. |
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| cassio to roderigo while he is being attacked, speaking of armor |
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Gentlemen all, I do suspect this trash
To be a party in this injury |
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Act V, 2
Put out the light, and then put out the light.
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore,
Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
Thy cunning’st pattern of excelling nature
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume. |
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Thou art rash as fire to say
That she was false. O, she was heavenly true |
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If he say so, may his pernicious soul
Rot half a grain a day! He lies to the heart.
She was too fond of her most filthy bargain |
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Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain. Diod he live now,
This sight would make him do a desperate turn |
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| emilia speaking of brabantio's death |
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Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak
Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; |
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To you Lord Governor
Remains the censure of this hellish villain.
The time, the place, the torture- O, enforce it! |
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| lodovico to cassio about iago |
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