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Othello
[I, 1] |
Iago |
8 |
Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,
In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,
Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,
I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:
But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,
Evades them, with a bombast circumstance
Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;
And, in conclusion,
Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,
'I have already chose my officer.'
And what was he?
Forsooth, a great arithmetician,
One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,
A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;
That never set a squadron in the field,
Nor the division of a battle knows
More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,
Wherein the toged consuls can propose
As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,
Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:
And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof
At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds
Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd
By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,
He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,
And I—God bless the mark!—his Moorship's ancient.
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2 |
Othello
[I, 2] |
Iago |
262 |
'Faith, he to-night hath boarded a land carack:
If it prove lawful prize, he's made for ever.
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3 |
Othello
[I, 3] |
Othello |
473 |
Her father loved me; oft invited me;
Still question'd me the story of my life,
From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,
That I have passed.
I ran it through, even from my boyish days,
To the very moment that he bade me tell it;
Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by flood and field
Of hair-breadth scapes i' the imminent deadly breach,
Of being taken by the insolent foe
And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence
And portance in my travels' history:
Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,
Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven
It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;
And of the Cannibals that each other eat,
The Anthropophagi and men whose heads
Do grow beneath their shoulders. This to hear
Would Desdemona seriously incline:
But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:
Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,
She'ld come again, and with a greedy ear
Devour up my discourse: which I observing,
Took once a pliant hour, and found good means
To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart
That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,
Whereof by parcels she had something heard,
But not intentively: I did consent,
And often did beguile her of her tears,
When I did speak of some distressful stroke
That my youth suffer'd. My story being done,
She gave me for my pains a world of sighs:
She swore, in faith, twas strange, 'twas passing strange,
'Twas pitiful, 'twas wondrous pitiful:
She wish'd she had not heard it, yet she wish'd
That heaven had made her such a man: she thank'd me,
And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her,
I should but teach him how to tell my story.
And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spake:
She loved me for the dangers I had pass'd,
And I loved her that she did pity them.
This only is the witchcraft I have used:
Here comes the lady; let her witness it.
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4 |
Othello
[I, 3] |
Othello |
652 |
My life upon her faith! Honest Iago,
My Desdemona must I leave to thee:
I prithee, let thy wife attend on her:
And bring them after in the best advantage.
Come, Desdemona: I have but an hour
Of love, of worldly matters and direction,
To spend with thee: we must obey the time.
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5 |
Othello
[II, 1] |
Iago |
890 |
In faith, too much;
I find it still, when I have list to sleep:
Marry, before your ladyship, I grant,
She puts her tongue a little in her heart,
And chides with thinking.
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6 |
Othello
[II, 3] |
Montano |
1198 |
Good faith, a little one; not past a pint, as I am
a soldier.
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7 |
Othello
[III, 3] |
Desdemona |
1695 |
Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;
On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:
I prithee, name the time, but let it not
Exceed three days: in faith, he's penitent;
And yet his trespass, in our common reason—
Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
Out of their best—is not almost a fault
To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?
Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
What you would ask me, that I should deny,
Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio,
That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,
When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do
To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,—
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8 |
Othello
[III, 3] |
Iago |
1871 |
I' faith, I fear it has.
I hope you will consider what is spoke
Comes from my love. But I do see you're moved:
I am to pray you not to strain my speech
To grosser issues nor to larger reach
Than to suspicion.
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9 |
Othello
[III, 3] |
Desdemona |
1949 |
'Faith, that's with watching; 'twill away again:
Let me but bind it hard, within this hour
It will be well.
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10 |
Othello
[III, 3] |
Emilia |
1980 |
No, 'faith; she let it drop by negligence.
And, to the advantage, I, being here, took't up.
Look, here it is.
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11 |
Othello
[III, 4] |
Cassio |
2367 |
What make you from home?
How is it with you, my most fair Bianca?
I' faith, sweet love, I was coming to your house.
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12 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Iago |
2447 |
'Faith, that he did—I know not what he did.
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13 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Cassio |
2542 |
Alas, poor rogue! I think, i' faith, she loves me.
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14 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Iago |
2555 |
'Faith, the cry goes that you shall marry her.
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15 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Cassio |
2593 |
'Faith, I must; she'll rail in the street else.
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16 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Cassio |
2595 |
'Faith, I intend so.
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17 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Iago |
2723 |
'Faith, that was not so well; yet would I knew
That stroke would prove the worst!
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18 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Desdemona |
2855 |
'Faith, half asleep.
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19 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Desdemona |
2874 |
I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
He might have chid me so; for, in good faith,
I am a child to chiding.
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20 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Roderigo |
2955 |
'Faith, I have heard too much, for your words and
performances are no kin together.
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