Othello by William Shakespeare

Author:William Shakespeare
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3, pdf
Publisher: Penguin Group USA, Inc.
Published: 2010-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

IAGO

She that was ever fair, and never proud;

Had tongue at will, and yet was never loud;

Never lacked gold, and yet went never gay;

Fled from her wish, and yet said “Now I may”;

She that, being angered, her revenge being nigh,

Bade her wrong stay, and her displeasure fly;

She that in wisdom never was so frail

To change the cod’s head for the salmon’s tail;

She that could think, and ne’er disclose her mind;

See suitors following, and not look behind:

She was a wight (if ever such wights were) -

DESDEMONA To do what?

IAGO

To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.

DESDEMONA O most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband. How say you, Cassio? Is he not a most profane and liberal counselor?

CASSIO He speaks home, madam. You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.

IAGO [Aside] He takes her by the palm. Ay, well said, whisper! With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do! I will gyve thee in thine own courtship. - You say true; ’tis so, indeed! - If such tricks as these strip you out of your lieu-tenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your150 gay extravagantly dressed 151 Fled . . . I may i.e., did not allow herself to do what she could have 153 Bade her . . . fly i.e., put up with her trouble and dismissed her anger about it 155 To change . . . tail i.e., not so foolish (never . . . so frail) as to exchange something worthless - the cod’s head - for something precious - the salmon’s tail (cod [scrotum] and tail also have sexual connotations) 158 wight person 160 suckle take care of; chronicle small beer keep a tally of trivialities 163-64 profane and liberal lewd and free-talking 165 home bluntly 167 well said i.e., well done, good work 169- 70 gyve thee chain you up, entrap you

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