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The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.Come, how wouldst thou praise me?IAGO: I am about it; but indeed my inventionComes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labors,And thus she is deliver’d.If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,The one’s for use, the other useth it.DESDEMONA: Well praised! How if she be black and witty?IAGO: If she be black, and thereto have a wit,She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit.DESDEMONA: Worse and worse.Othello Act II, scene iDESDEMONA: O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worstbest. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deservingwoman indeed, one that, in the authority of hermerit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,Never lack’d gold and yet went never gay,Fled from her wish and yet said ‘Now I may,’She that being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,She that in wisdom never was so frailTo 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 wight were,—EMILIA: How if fair and foolish?IAGO: She never yet was foolish that was fair;For even her folly help’d her to an heir.DESDEMONA: These are old fond paradoxes to make foolslaugh i’ the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thoufor her that’s foul and foolish?DESDEMONA: To do what?IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.DESDEMONA: O most lame and impotent conclusion! Donot learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband.How say you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberalcounsellor?IAGO: There’s none so foul and foolish thereunto,But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.26CASSIO: He speaks home, madam: You may relish himmore 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 asgreat a fly as Cassio. Ay, smile upon her, do; I will gyvethee in thine own courtship. You say true; ’tis so, indeed:if such tricks as these strip you out of yourlieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed yourthree fingers so oft, which now again you are most aptto play the sir in. Very good; well kissed! an excellentcourtesy! ’tis so, indeed. Yet again your fingers to yourlips? would they were clyster-pipes for your sake![Trumpet within.]The Moor! I know his trumpet.CASSIO: ’Tis truly so.DESDEMONA: Let’s meet him and receive him.CASSIO: Lo, where he comes![Enter OTHELLO and Attendants.]OTHELLO: O my fair warrior!DESDEMONA:My dear Othello!Othello Act II, scene i27OTHELLO: It gives me wonder great as my contentTo see you here before me. O my soul’s joy!If after every tempest come such calms,May the winds blow till they have waken’d death!And let the laboring bark climb hills of seasOlympus-high and duck again as lowAs hell’s from heaven! If it were now to die,‘Twere now to be most happy; for, I fear,My soul hath her content so absoluteThat not another comfort like to thisSucceeds in unknown fate.DESDEMONA:The heavens forbidBut that our loves and comforts should increase,Even as our days do grow!OTHELLO:Amen to that, sweet powers!I cannot speak enough of this content;It stops me here; it is too much of joy:And this, and this, the greatest discords be[Kissing her.]That e’er our hearts shall make!IAGO: [Aside] O, you are well tuned now!But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,As honest as I am.
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The thing I am, by seeming otherwise.Come, how wouldst thou praise me?IAGO: I am about it; but indeed my inventionComes from my pate as birdlime does from frize;It plucks out brains and all: but my Muse labors,<strong>An</strong>d thus she is deliver’d.If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,The one’s for use, the other useth it.DESDEMONA: Well praised! How if she be black and witty?IAGO: If she be black, and thereto have a wit,She’ll find a white that shall her blackness fit.DESDEMONA: Worse and worse.Othello Act II, scene iDESDEMONA: O heavy ignorance! thou praisest the worstbest. But what praise couldst thou bestow on a deservingwoman indeed, one that, in the authority of hermerit, did justly put on the vouch of very malice itself?IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud,Had tongue at will and yet was never loud,Never lack’d gold and yet went never gay,Fled from her wish and yet said ‘Now I may,’She that being anger’d, her revenge being nigh,Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly,She that in wisdom never was so frailTo 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 wight were,—EMILIA: How if fair and foolish?IAGO: She never yet was foolish that was fair;For even her folly help’d her to an heir.DESDEMONA: These are old fond paradoxes to make foolslaugh i’ the alehouse. What miserable praise hast thoufor her that’s foul and foolish?DESDEMONA: To do what?IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer.DESDEMONA: O most lame and impotent conclusion! Donot learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband.How say you, Cassio? is he not a most profane and liberalcounsellor?IAGO: There’s none so foul and foolish thereunto,But does foul pranks which fair and wise ones do.26CASSIO: He speaks home, madam: You may relish himmore in the soldier than in the scholar.
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