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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Othello
[III, 3] |
Othello |
2036 |
Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore,
Be sure of it; give me the ocular proof:
Or by the worth of man's eternal soul,
Thou hadst been better have been born a dog
Than answer my waked wrath!
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2 |
Othello
[IV, 1] |
Iago |
2606 |
Yours by this hand: and to see how he prizes the
foolish woman your wife! she gave it him, and he
hath given it his whore.
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3 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Othello |
2757 |
Bid her come hither: go.
[Exit EMILIA]
She says enough; yet she's a simple bawd
That cannot say as much. This is a subtle whore,
A closet lock and key of villanous secrets
And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.
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4 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Othello |
2837 |
What, not a whore?
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5 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Othello |
2841 |
I cry you mercy, then:
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
That married with Othello.
[Raising his voice]
You, mistress,
That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
And keep the gate of hell!
[Re-enter EMILIA]
You, you, ay, you!
We have done our course; there's money for your pains:
I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.
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6 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Emilia |
2885 |
He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink
Could not have laid such terms upon his callat.
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7 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Emilia |
2890 |
Hath she forsook so many noble matches,
Her father and her country and her friends,
To be call'd whore? would it not make one weep?
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8 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Emilia |
2903 |
A halter pardon him! and hell gnaw his bones!
Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?
What place? what time? what form? what likelihood?
The Moor's abused by some most villanous knave,
Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.
O heaven, that such companions thou'ldst unfold,
And put in every honest hand a whip
To lash the rascals naked through the world
Even from the east to the west!
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9 |
Othello
[IV, 2] |
Desdemona |
2917 |
O good Iago,
What shall I do to win my lord again?
Good friend, go to him; for, by this light of heaven,
I know not how I lost him. Here I kneel:
If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love,
Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,
Or that mine eyes, mine ears, or any sense,
Delighted them in any other form;
Or that I do not yet, and ever did.
And ever will—though he do shake me off
To beggarly divorcement—love him dearly,
Comfort forswear me! Unkindness may do much;
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love. I cannot say 'whore:'
It does abhor me now I speak the word;
To do the act that might the addition earn
Not the world's mass of vanity could make me.
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10 |
Othello
[V, 2] |
Othello |
3463 |
She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.
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11 |
Othello
[V, 2] |
Iago |
3575 |
Villanous whore!
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