Act 4 Flashcards
the devil their virtue tempts
and they tempt heaven
handkerchief-confessions-
handkerchief-to confess
and by and by
breaks out in savage madness
a horned man’s
a monster and a beast
there’s many a beast then in a populous city
and many a civil monster
whilst you were here o’erwhelmed with your gried
a passion most unsuiting such a man
a housewife that by selling her desires
buys herself bread and clothes
‘tis the strumpet’s plague
to beguile many and be beguiled by one
I marry her!
what, a customer!
I will marry her, out
of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise
this is some minx’s token
and I must take out the work?
how shall I murder him, Iago?
did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?
ay, lot her rot and perish
and be damned to-night; for she shall not live
I will chop her into messes:
cuckold me!
strangle her in her bed,
even the bed she hath contaminated
fire and
brimstone!
devil (striking her)
I have not deserved this
and turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep
and she’s obedient, as you say
for if she be not honest, chaste and true
there’s no man happy
heaven truly knows
that thou are as false as hell
who art so lovely fair… that the sense aches at thee
would thou hadst ne’er been born
I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
that married with Othello
she was in love
and he she loved proved mad
I know a lady in Venice would have
walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip
and murmur’d her moans
sing willow, willow, willow
that there be women do
abuse their husbands in some gross kind?
nor I neither by this heavenly light
I might do’t as well in the dark
who would not make her husband
a cuckold to make him a monarch?
but I do think it is
their husband’s faults if wives do fall
they see and smell
and have palates both for sweet and sour as husbands have
what is it they do
when they change us for others? is it sport?
the ills we do
their ills instruct us so
