Act 4

Question 1

the devil their virtue tempts

Answer 1

and they tempt heaven

Question 2

handkerchief-confessions-

Answer 2

handkerchief-to confess

Question 3

and by and by

Answer 3

breaks out in savage madness

Question 4

a horned man’s

Answer 4

a monster and a beast

Question 5

there’s many a beast then in a populous city

Answer 5

and many a civil monster

Question 6

whilst you were here o’erwhelmed with your gried

Answer 6

a passion most unsuiting such a man

Question 7

a housewife that by selling her desires

Answer 7

buys herself bread and clothes

Question 8

‘tis the strumpet’s plague

Answer 8

to beguile many and be beguiled by one

Question 9

I marry her!

Answer 9

what, a customer!

Question 10

I will marry her, out

Answer 10

of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise

Question 11

this is some minx’s token

Answer 11

and I must take out the work?

Question 12

how shall I murder him, Iago?

Answer 12

did you perceive how he laughed at his vice?

Question 13

ay, lot her rot and perish

Answer 13

and be damned to-night; for she shall not live

Question 14

I will chop her into messes:

Answer 14

cuckold me!

Question 15

strangle her in her bed,

Answer 15

even the bed she hath contaminated

Question 16

fire and

Answer 16

brimstone!

Question 17

devil (striking her)

Answer 17

I have not deserved this

Question 18

and turn again; and she can weep, sir, weep

Answer 18

and she’s obedient, as you say

Question 19

for if she be not honest, chaste and true

Answer 19

there’s no man happy

Question 20

heaven truly knows

Answer 20

that thou are as false as hell

Question 21

who art so lovely fair… that the sense aches at thee

Answer 21

would thou hadst ne’er been born

Question 22

I took you for that cunning whore of Venice

Answer 22

that married with Othello

Question 23

she was in love

Answer 23

and he she loved proved mad

Question 24

I know a lady in Venice would have

Answer 24

walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip

Question 25

and murmur’d her moans

Answer 25

sing willow, willow, willow

Question 26

that there be women do

Answer 26

abuse their husbands in some gross kind?

Question 27

nor I neither by this heavenly light

Answer 27

I might do’t as well in the dark

Question 28

who would not make her husband

Answer 28

a cuckold to make him a monarch?

Question 29

but I do think it is

Answer 29

their husband’s faults if wives do fall

Question 30

they see and smell

Answer 30

and have palates both for sweet and sour as husbands have

Question 31

what is it they do

Answer 31

when they change us for others? is it sport?

Question 32

the ills we do

Answer 32

their ills instruct us so