# Result number

Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

Character Indicates who said the line. If it's a play or sonnet, the character name is "Poet."

Line Shows where the line falls within the work.

The numbering is not keyed to any copyrighted numbering system found in a volume of collected works (Arden, Oxford, etc.) The numbering starts at the beginning of the work, and does not restart for each scene.

Text The line's full text, with keywords highlighted within it, unless highlighting has been disabled by the user.

1

Othello
[IV, 2]

Othello

2820

Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,
Made to write 'whore' upon? What committed!
Committed! O thou public commoner!
I should make very forges of my cheeks,
That would to cinders burn up modesty,
Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!
Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,
The bawdy wind that kisses all it meets
Is hush'd within the hollow mine of earth,
And will not hear it. What committed!
Impudent strumpet!

2

Othello
[IV, 2]

Othello

2832

Are you not a strumpet?

3

Othello
[IV, 2]

Desdemona

2833

No, as I am a Christian:
If to preserve this vessel for my lord
From any other foul unlawful touch
Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.

4

Othello
[V, 1]

Othello

3175

'Tis he:—O brave Iago, honest and just,
That hast such noble sense of thy friend's wrong!
Thou teachest me. Minion, your dear lies dead,
And your unblest fate hies: strumpet, I come.
Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted;
Thy bed, lust-stain'd, shall with lust's blood be spotted.

5

Othello
[V, 1]

Iago

3233

O notable strumpet! Cassio, may you suspect
Who they should be that have thus many led you?

6

Othello
[V, 1]

Emilia

3287

Fie, fie upon thee, strumpet!

7

Othello
[V, 1]

Bianca

3288

I am no strumpet; but of life as honest
As you that thus abuse me.

8

Othello
[V, 2]

Othello

3395

Out, strumpet! weep'st thou for him to my face?

9

Othello
[V, 2]

Othello

3397

Down, strumpet!