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1
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a counter…

A

caster

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2
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almost damn’d..

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in a fair wife

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3
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never set a..

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squadron in a field

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4
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bookish…

A

theoric

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5
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i follow him..

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to serve my turn upon him

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6
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in following him..

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i follow but myself

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7
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i will wear my…

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heart upon my sleeve

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8
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i am not..

A

what i am

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9
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the thick…

A

-lips

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10
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zounds, sir..

A

you’re robb’d

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11
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your daughter and/ the Moor…

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are now making the beast with two backs

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12
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an old black ram/…

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is tupping your white ewe

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13
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my parts, my title and my perfect soul..

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shall manifest me rightly

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14
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a maid so …

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tender, fair, happy

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15
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she is abus’d, …

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stol’n from me

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16
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most potent…

A

grave and reverend signiors

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17
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thou hast…

A

enchanted her

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18
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adieu, brave Moor;…

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use desdemona well

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19
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she has deceived…

A

her father, and may thee

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20
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my life upon…

A

her faith

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21
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honest…

A

iago

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22
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i hate the Moor,

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and it is thought abroad that ‘twixt my sheets
He’s done my office
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23
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The Moor is of…

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a free and open nature…/ And will as tenderly be led by the nose/As asses are
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24
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with as little a web as this…

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will i ensnare as great a fly as / Cassio

IAGO IN ACT 2 WHEN CASSIO KISSED DESDEMONAS HAND

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25
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O, my fair

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warrior!

ACT 2, OTH TO DES

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26
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O, my soul’s

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joy.

ACT 2, OTH TO DES

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27
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desdemona is…

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directly in love with him

ACT 2, IAG TO ROD ABT CAS

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28
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her delicate…

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tenderness will find itself / abused, begin to heave the gorge, disrelish and abhor / the Moor
ACT 2, IAG TO ROD ABT DES

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29
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that cassio loves…

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her, i do well believe’t

ACT 2 IAG SOL 2

30
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The Moor, howbeit that i endure him not, /

A

is of a constant, loving, noble nature

ACT 2, IAGO SOL 2

31
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And nothing can or shall content…

A

my soul / till i am even’d with him, wife for wife

32
Q

iago is most…

A

honest

ACT 2, OTH TO CAS

33
Q

she is a most..

A

fresh and delicate creature

ACT 2, CAS TO IAG ABT DES

34
Q

she is indeed..

A

perfection

ACT 2, CAS TO IAG ABT DES

35
Q

i have very poor and…

A

unhappy brains for drinking

ACT 2, CAS TO IAG

36
Q

am i to put cassio in some…

A

action / That may offend the isle

ACT 2, IAG ABT CAS

37
Q

i had rather have this tongue cut from…

A

my mouth / Than it should do offence to michael cassio

ACT 2, IAG TO OTH ABT CAS

38
Q

thy honesty and love…

A

doth mince this matter / making it light to cassio

ACT 2, OTH TO IAG ABT CAS

39
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cassio, i love thee…

A

but never more be officer of mine

ACT 2, OTH TO CAS

40
Q

reputation, reputation, reputation!…

A

O! i have lost my reputation! i have lost the immortal part of myself and what remains is bestial
ACT 2, CAS TO IAG

41
Q

Ill pour this pestilence into his ear;…

A

that she repeals him for her body’s lust;/ And by how much she strives to do him good / So i will turn her virture into pitch, / And out of her own goodness make the net / That shall enmesh them all
ACT 2, IAGO SOL 3 ABT DES

42
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i never knew a florentine..

A

more kind and honest

ACT 3, CAS ABT IAG

43
Q

Ha!..

A

i like not that

ACT 3, IAG TO OTH AFTER SEEING CAS LEAVE DES

44
Q

Cassio, my lord? No, sure i cannot…

A

think it / That he would steal away so guilty-like, / seeing you coming
ACT 3, IAG TO OTH

45
Q

Excellent wretch!..

A

Perdition catch my soul / But i do love thee; and when i love thee not / Chaos is come again
ACT 3, OTH WHEN DES LEAVES

46
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o beware, my lord, of jealousy:

A

it is the green-eyed monster

ACT 3, IAG TO OTH

47
Q

for she had eyes…

A

and chose me

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

48
Q

she did deceive her father, …

A

marrying you

ACT 3, IAG TO OTH ABT DES

49
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i do not think but desdemona’s …

A

honest

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

50
Q

i am bound to thee…

A

forever

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

51
Q

O curse of marriage, / That we call…

A

these delicate creatures ours / And not their appetites

ACT 3, OTH ABT DES

52
Q

if she be false, O then heaven…

A

mocks itself; I’ll not believe it

ACT 3, OTH ABT DES

53
Q

Trifles light as air…

A

Are to the jealous confirmations strong

ACT 3, IAG ABT DES HANDKERCHIEF

54
Q

Villain, be sure thou prove…

A

my love a whore; / Be sure of it. Give me the ocular proof

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

55
Q

if thou dost slander…

A

her and torture me, never pray more

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

56
Q

i think my wife be…

A

honest.. and think she is not

ACT 3, OTH TO IAG

57
Q

is he not…

A

jealous?

ACT 3, EMI TO DES ABT OTH

58
Q

i think the sun where…

A

he was born / drew all such humours from him

ACT 3, DES TO EMI ABT OTH

59
Q

fetch me the…

A

handkerchief. my mind misgives

ACT 3, OTH TO DES ABT HANDKERCHIEF

60
Q

how shall i murder…

A

him, iago?

ACT 4, OTH TO IAG FOLLOWING IAG AND CAS CONVO IN THE HEARING OF OTHELLO

61
Q

i will chop her into…

A

messes

ACT 4, OTH TO IAG ABT KILLING DES

62
Q

strangle her in her bed…

A

even the bed / she hath contaminated

ACT 4, IAG TO OTH ABT KILLING DES

63
Q

if any wretch have put this in your head…

A

let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse!

ACT 4, EMI TO OTH ABT DES

64
Q

impudent..

A

strumpet!

ACT 4, OTH TO DES

65
Q

the whiter skin of hers than snow…

A

and smooth as monumental alabaster - / yet she must die; else she’ll betray more men
ACT 5, OTH IN DES BEDCHAMBER

66
Q

a guiltless…

A

death i die

ACT 5, DES TO EMI

67
Q

but yet iago knows…

A

that she with cassio hath the act of shame / a thousand times committed
ACT 5, OTH TO GRATIANO

68
Q

then you must speak…

A

of one that lov’d not wisely, but too well

ACT 5, OTH TO LODOVICO

69
Q

killling myself…

A

to die upon a kiss

ACT 5, OTH TO DEAD DES

70
Q

look on the tragic loading…

A

of this bed: this is thy work

ACT 5, LOD TO IAG