Vulgar words in Othello (Page 1)
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Forsooth, a great arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine, A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife; That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric, Wherein the toged consuls can propose As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practice, Is all his soldiership.
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You shall mark Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave That, doting on his own obsequious bondage, Wears out his time, much like his master's ass, For nought but provender; and when he's old, cashier'd: Whip me such honest knaves.
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Damn'd as thou art, thou hast enchanted her; For I'll refer me to all things of sense, If she in chains of magic were not bound, Whether a maid so tender, fair, and happy, So opposite to marriage that she shunn'd The wealthy curlèd darlings of our nation, Would ever have, to incur a general mock, Run from her guardage to the sooty bosom Of such a thing as thou,-to fear, not to delight.
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She must change for youth: when she is sated with his body, she will find the error of her choice: she must have change, she must: therefore put money in thy purse.-If thou wilt needs damn thyself, do it a more delicate way than drowning.
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CASSIO She that I spake of, our great captain's captain, Left in the conduct of the bold Iago; Whose footing here anticipates our thoughts A se'nnight's speed.-Great Jove, Othello guard, And swell his sail with thine own powerful breath, That he may bless this bay with his tall ship, Make love's quick pants in Desdemona's arms, Give renew'd fire to our extincted spirits, And bring all Cyprus comfort!
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Which thing to do,- If this poor trash of Venice, whom I trash For his quick hunting, stand the putting on, I'll have our Michael Cassio on the hip; Abuse him to the Moor in the rank garb,- For I fear Cassio with my night-cap too;- Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me For making him egregiously an ass And practicing upon his peace and quiet Even to madness.
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IAGO Is't possible, my lord?- OTHELLO Villain, be sure thou prove my love a whore;- [Taking him by the throat.]
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IAGO It were a tedious difficulty, I think, To bring them to that prospect: damn them then, If ever mortal eyes do see them bolster More than their own!
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OTHELLO Damn her, lewd minx!
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O, damn her!
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she gave it him, and he hath given it his whore.
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This is a subtle whore, A closet-lock-and-key of villainous secrets: And yet she'll kneel and pray; I have seen her do't.
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OTHELLO Come, swear it, damn thyself; Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves Should fear to seize thee: therefore be double-damn'd.- Swear thou art honest.
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OTHELLO Was this fair paper, this most goodly book, Made to write "whore" upon?
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OTHELLO What, not a whore?
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OTHELLO I cry you mercy then: I took you for that cunning whore of Venice That married with Othello.-You, mistress, That have the office opposite to Saint Peter, And keep the gate of hell!
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EMILIA He call'd her whore: a beggar in his drink Could not have laid such terms upon his callet.
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EMILIA Hath she forsook so many noble matches, Her father, and her country, and her friends, To be call'd whore?
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Why should he call her whore?
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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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RODERIGO O damn'd Iago!
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IAGO This is the fruit of whoring.-Pr'ythee, Emilia, Go know of Cassio where he supp'd to-night.- What, do you shake at that?
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OTHELLO She turn'd to folly, and she was a whore.
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O, I were damn'd beneath all depth in hell, But that I did proceed upon just grounds To this extremity.
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IAGO Villanous whore!