act one/two key quotes - othello

epithets of war

with a bombast circumstance horribly stuffed with … … … (I, 1.1)

arithmetician

a great …, one michael cassio, a florentine (I, 1.1)

mere prattle, without practise

as masterly as he: … … … …, is all his soldiership (I, 1.1)

serve my turn

i follow him to … … … upon him (I, 1.1)

i am not what i am

i will wear my heart upon my sleeve for daws to peck at: … … … … … … (I, 1.1)

poison his delight

rouse him: make after him, … … … (I, 1.1)

thieves thieves thieves

…, …, …! look to your house, your daughter and your bags! (I, 1.1)

above

brabantio appears … at a window (sd, 1.1)

an old black ram is tupping your white ewe

even now, now, very now, … … … … … … … … … (I, 1.1)

the devil

or else … … will make a grandsire of you (I, 1.1)

barbary horse

you'll have your daughter covered with a … …; you'll have your nephews neigh to you (I, 1.1)

odd-even

at this …-… and dull watch o' the night (R, 1.1)

gross clasps of a lascivious moor

transported, with no worse nor better guard, but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the … … … … … … (R, 1.1)

gross revolt

if you have not given her leave, i say again, hath made a … … (R, 1.1)

yerked

i had thought t'have … him here, under the ribs (I, 1.2)

better

'tis … as it is (O, 1.2)

the magnifico

… … is much beloved (I, 1.2)

janus

by …, i think no (I, 1.2)

haste-post-haste

he requires your …-…-… appearance (C, 1.2)

chains of magic

if she in … … … were not bound (Br, 1.2)

abused her delicate youth

thou hast practised on her with foul charms, … … … … with drugs or minerals (Br, 1.2)

no composition

there is … … in these news (Duke, 1.3)

valiant othello

… …, we must straight employ you (Duke, 1.3)

i did not see you

… … … … …, welcome gentle signior (Duke, 1.3)

err

for nature so preposterously to … (Br, 1.3)

rude

… am i in my speech (O, 1.3)

dearest action

they have used their … … in the tented field (O, 1.3)

unvarnished tale

i will a round … … deliver (O, 1.3)

never bold

a maiden … … (Br, 1.3)

send for the lady

… … … … to the sagittary and let her speak of me before her father (O, 1.3)

loved

her father … me (O, 1.3)

hair-breadth scapes

of moving accidents by flood and field, of …-… … (O, 1.3)

greedy ear, devour

and with a … … … up my discourse (O, 1.3)

let me

… … go with him (D, 1.3)

please the palate

not to … … … of my appetite, nor to comply with heat (O, 1.3)

wills are gardeners

our bodies are gardens, to the which our … … … (I, 1.3)

money

put … in thy purse (I, 1.3)

erring barbarian and a super-subtle venetian

a frail vow betwixt an … … … … … …, be not too hard for my wits and all the tribe of hell, thou shalt enjoy her (I, 1.3)

framed to make women false

he hath a person and a smooth dispose to be suspected, … … … … … (I, 1.3)

paragons description

he hath achieved a maid that … … (C, 2.1)

our great captain’s captain

she that i spake of, … … … …, left in the conduct of bold iago (C, 2.1)

riches of the ship

the … … … … is come on shore: you men of cyprus, let her have your knees! (C, 2.1)

no speech

alas! she has … … (D, 2.1) (Iago: In faith, too much!)

devils

saints in your injuries, … being offended (I, 2.1)

scholar

you may relish him more in the soldier than in the … (C, 2.1)

ensnare as great a fly

with as little a web as this will i … … … … … as cassio (I, 2.1)

fair warrior

o my … … (O, 2.1) (D: My dear Othello!)

die

if it were now to …, ‘twere now to be most happy (O, 2.1)

set down

i’ll … … the pegs that make this music (I, 2.1)

eye must be fed

her … … … …, and what delight shall she have to look on the devil? (I, 2.1)

handsome, young and hath all those requisites

the knave is … … … … … … … in him that folly and green minds look after (I, 2.1)

shorter journey

so shall you have a … … to your desires (I, 2.1)

constant, loving, noble

the moor, howbeit that i endure him not, is of a … … … nature (I, 2.1)

judgement cannot cure

a jealousy so strong that … … … (I, 2.1)

celebration

for besides these beneficial news, it is the … of his nuptial (Herald, 2.2)

fruits are to ensue

the purchase made, the … … … … (O, 2.3)

poor and unhappy

i have very … … … brains for drinking (C, 2.3)

gallants desire it

what, man, ‘tis a night of revels, the … … … (I, 2.3)

my ancient

do not think, gentlemen, i am drunk: this is … … (C, 2.3)

prologue

‘tis evermore the … to his sleep (I, 2.3)

virtue that appears

his good nature prizes the … … … in cassio and looks not on his evils (Montano, 2.3)

beat the knave

i’ll … … … into a twiggen bottle (C, 2.3)

lives

hold for your …! (O, 2.3)

general speaks

hold, the … … to you: hold, for shame! (I, 2.3)

best judgement collied

passion, having my … … …, assays to lead the way (O, 2.3)

men are men

but … … …, the best sometimes forget (I, 2.3)

enter desdemona

cassio, i love thee / … … attended (sd) / but never more be officer of mine (O, 2.3)

example

i’ll make thee an … (O, 2.3)

reputation, reputation, reputation!

… … … o i have lost my reputation (C, 2.3)

repute yourself

you have lost no reputation at all, unless you … … such a loser (I, 2.3)

devil

invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee … (C, 2.3)

beasts

with joy, pleasance, revel, and applause, transform ourselves into … (C, 2.3)

general’s wife

our … … is now the general (I, 2.3)

vice in her goodness

she holds it a … … … … not to do more than she is requested (I, 2.3)

enfettered

his soul is so … to her love (I, 2.3)

divinity of hell!

… … … when devils will the blackest sins put on they do suggest at first with heavenly shows (I, 2.3)

pestilence

i’ll pour this … into his ear (I, 2.3)

turn her virtue into pitch

so will i … … … … … and out of her own goodness make the net that shall enmesh them all (I, 2.3)