Shakespeare's Tragedies — Chronicle
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Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Troy]] · tomorrow
Hector, in view of Trojans and of Greeks, Shall make it good or do his best to do it: He hath a lady wiser, fairer, truer, Than ever Greek did couple in his arms; And will tomorrow with his trumpet call Mid-way between your tents and walls of Troy To rouse a Grecian that is true in love.
Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Troy]] · tomorrow
But if there be not In our Grecian host A noble man that hath one spark of fire To answer for his love, tell him from me I’ll hide my silver beard in a gold beaver, And in my vambrace put this wither’d brawns, And meeting him, will tell him that my lady Was fairer than his grandam, and as chaste As may be in the world.
Troilus and Cressida · Act I, Scene III
Ulysses Nestor Ajax Hector Achilles
No, make a lott’ry; And, by device, let blockish Ajax draw The sort to fight with Hector. Among ourselves Give him allowance for the better man; For that will physic the great Myrmidon, Who broils in loud applause, and make him fall His crest, that prouder than blue Iris bends. If the dull brainless Ajax come safe off, We’ll dress him up in voices; if he fail, Yet go we under our opinion still That we have better men.
Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene I
I will see you hang’d like clotpoles ere I come any more to your tents. I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools. [Exit.]
Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene II · today
I take today a wife, and my election Is led on in the conduct of my will;
Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene II
I have a roisting challenge sent amongst The dull and factious nobles of the Greeks Will strike amazement to their drowsy spirits.
Troilus and Cressida · Act II, Scene III · tomorrow
Achilles will not to the field tomorrow.
Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
You have a Trojan prisoner call’d Antenor, Yesterday took; Troy holds him very dear. Oft have you—often have you thanks therefore— Desir’d my Cressid in right great exchange, Whom Troy hath still denied; but this Antenor, I know, is such a wrest in their affairs That their negotiations all must slack Wanting his manage; and they will almost Give us a prince of blood, a son of Priam, In change of him. Let him be sent, great Princes, And he shall buy my daughter; and her presence Shall quite strike off all service I have done In most accepted pain. AGAMEMNON. Let Diomedes bear him, And bring us Cressid hither. Calchas shall have What he requests of us.
Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
What comes the general to speak with me? You know my mind. I’ll fight no more ’gainst Troy.
Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
’Tis known, Achilles, that you are in love With one of Priam’s daughters. ACHILLES. Ha! known! ULYSSES. Is that a wonder? The providence that’s in a watchful state Knows almost every grain of Plutus’ gold; Finds bottom in th’uncomprehensive deeps; Keeps place with thought, and almost, like the gods, Do thoughts unveil in their dumb cradles. There is a mystery—with whom relation Durst never meddle—in the soul of state, Which hath an operation more divine Than breath or pen can give expressure to. All the commerce that you have had with Troy As perfectly is ours as yours, my lord; And better would it fit Achilles much To throw down Hector than Polyxena.
Troilus and Cressida · Act III, Scene III
Thou must be my ambassador to him, Thersites. THERSITES. Who, I? Why, he’ll answer nobody; he professes not answering. Speaking is for beggars: he wears his tongue in’s arms. I will put on his presence. Let Patroclus make his demands to me, you shall see the pageant of Ajax. ACHILLES. To him, Patroclus. Tell him I humbly desire the valiant Ajax to invite the most valorous Hector to come unarm’d to my tent; and to procure safe conduct for his person of the magnanimous and most illustrious six-or-seven-times-honour’d Captain General of the Grecian army, Agamemnon. Do this.
Troilus and Cressida · Act IV, Scene III · great morning
I’ll bring her to the Grecian presently;
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene I · tomorrow’s battle
I am thwarted quite From my great purpose in tomorrow’s battle. Here is a letter from Queen Hecuba, A token from her daughter, my fair love, Both taxing me and gaging me to keep An oath that I have sworn. I will not break it.
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene II
Cressid is mine, tied with the bonds of heaven. Instance, O instance! strong as heaven itself: The bonds of heaven are slipp’d, dissolv’d, and loos’d; And with another knot, five-finger-tied, The fractions of her faith, orts of her love, The fragments, scraps, the bits, and greasy relics Of her o’er-eaten faith, are given to Diomed.
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene III
My love with words and errors still she feeds, But edifies another with her deeds.
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene IV · today
They set me up, in policy, that mongrel cur, Ajax, against that dog of as bad a kind, Achilles; and now is the cur, Ajax prouder than the cur Achilles, and will not arm today
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene V
Epistrophus
Upon the pashed corses of the kings Epistrophus and Cedius.
Troilus and Cressida · Act V, Scene V
Cedius
Upon the pashed corses of the kings Epistrophus and Cedius.
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · today
Saturninus Titus Andronicus Marcus
With voices and applause of every sort, Patricians and plebeians, we create Lord Saturninus Rome’s great emperor, And say “Long live our Emperor Saturnine!”
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I
Titus Andronicus Lucius Alarbus
Alarbus’ limbs are lopped, And entrails feed the sacrificing fire, Whose smoke like incense doth perfume the sky.
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Pantheon]]
Saturninus Lavinia Titus Andronicus
And for an onset, Titus, to advance Thy name and honourable family, Lavinia will I make my empress, Rome’s royal mistress, mistress of my heart, And in the sacred Pantheon her espouse.
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
What, villain boy, Barr’st me my way in Rome? [Stabbing Mutius.] MUTIUS. Help, Lucius, help! [Dies.]
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Pantheon]]
Behold, I choose thee, Tamora, for my bride, And will create thee Empress of Rome. Speak, Queen of Goths, dost thou applaud my choice?
Titus Andronicus · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]] · This day
Tamora Saturninus Titus Andronicus
I’ll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family, The cruel father and his traitorous sons, To whom I sued for my dear son’s life;
Titus Andronicus · Act II, Scene III
Tamora Chiron Demetrius Lavinia
Therefore away with her, and use her as you will; The worse to her, the better loved of me. LAVINIA. O Tamora, be called a gentle queen, And with thine own hands kill me in this place! For ’tis not life that I have begged so long; Poor I was slain when Bassianus died. TAMORA. What begg’st thou, then? Fond woman, let me go. LAVINIA. ’Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O, keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man’s eye may behold my body. Do this, and be a charitable murderer. TAMORA. So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee. No, let them satisfy their lust on thee.
Titus Andronicus · Act II, Scene III
TAMORA. Then all too late I bring this fatal writ, The complot of this timeless tragedy; And wonder greatly that man’s face can fold In pleasing smiles such murderous tyranny. [She giveth Saturnine a letter.]
Titus Andronicus · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[prison]]
Saturninus Quintus Martius Bassianus
SATURNINUS. [To Titus.] Two of thy whelps, fell curs of bloody kind, Have here bereft my brother of his life. Sirs, drag them from the pit unto the prison. There let them bide until we have devised Some never-heard-of torturing pain for them.
Titus Andronicus · Act II, Scene III
Saturninus Titus Andronicus Quintus Martius
SATURNINUS. Thou shalt not bail them. See thou follow me. Some bring the murdered body, some the murderers. Let them not speak a word; the guilt is plain; For, by my soul, were there worse end than death, That end upon them should be executed.
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
To rescue my two brothers from their death; For which attempt the judges have pronounced My everlasting doom of banishment.
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Rome]]
Speak, Lavinia, what accursed hand Hath made thee handless in thy father’s sight?
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene I
With all my heart I’ll send the emperor my hand. Good Aaron, wilt thou help to chop it off?
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[the Goths]] · Now
Now will I to the Goths, and raise a power To be revenged on Rome and Saturnine.
Titus Andronicus · Act III, Scene II
Pardon me, sir; ’twas a black ill-favoured fly, Like to the empress’ Moor; therefore I killed him. TITUS. O, O, O! Then pardon me for reprehending thee, For thou hast done a charitable deed.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene I
Titus Andronicus Marcus Lavinia Young Lucius
My lord, kneel down with me; Lavinia, kneel; And kneel, sweet boy, the Roman Hector’s hope; And swear with me, as, with the woeful fere And father of that chaste dishonoured dame, Lord Junius Brutus sware for Lucrece’ rape, That we will prosecute, by good advice Mortal revenge upon these traitorous Goths, And see their blood, or die with this reproach.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene I
YOUNG LUCIUS. Ay, with my dagger in their bosoms, grandsire. TITUS. No, boy, not so. I’ll teach thee another course.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II
O, that which I would hide from heaven’s eye, Our empress’ shame and stately Rome’s disgrace. She is delivered, lords, she is delivered.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II
His child is like to her, fair as you are. Go pack with him, and give the mother gold, And tell them both the circumstance of all, And how by this their child shall be advanced, And be received for the emperor’s heir, And substituted in the place of mine,
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II
Now to the Goths, as swift as swallow flies, There to dispose this treasure in mine arms, And secretly to greet the empress’ friends. Come on, you thick-lipped slave, I’ll bear you hence;
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene II
Titus Andronicus Aaron Chiron Demetrius
The old man hath found their guilt, And sends them weapons wrapped about with lines, That wound, beyond their feeling, to the quick.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene III
Titus Andronicus Marcus Publius Saturnine
Kinsmen, shoot all your shafts into the court. We will afflict the emperor in his pride.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene III
Then here is a supplication for you. And when you come to him, at the first approach you must kneel; then kiss his foot; then deliver up your pigeons; and then look for your reward. I’ll be at hand, sir; see you do it bravely. CLOWN. I warrant you, sir; let me alone. TITUS. Sirrah, hast thou a knife? Come let me see it. Here, Marcus, fold it in the oration; For thou hast made it like a humble suppliant. And when thou hast given it to the emperor, Knock at my door, and tell me what he says.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene IV · 📍 [[Rome]]
Ay, but the citizens favour Lucius, And will revolt from me to succour him.
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene IV
Go thou before, be our ambassador. Say that the emperor requests a parley Of warlike Lucius
Titus Andronicus · Act IV, Scene IV
Tamora Titus Andronicus Lucius
Now will I to that old Andronicus, And temper him with all the art I have, To pluck proud Lucius from the warlike Goths.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene I
Enter Lucius with an army of Goths, with drums and soldiers.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene I
I played the cheater for thy father’s hand, and, when I had it, drew myself apart
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene I
Lucius Titus Andronicus Marcus
Aemilius, let the emperor give his pledges Unto my father and my uncle Marcus, And we will come.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II
Tamora Titus Andronicus Chiron Demetrius
I am Revenge, sent from th’ infernal kingdom
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II
Titus Andronicus Tamora Chiron Demetrius
I knew them all, though they suppose me mad, And will o’erreach them in their own devices
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Rome]]
Tamora Titus Andronicus Lucius
When he is here, even at thy solemn feast, I will bring in the empress and her sons, the emperor himself, and all thy foes
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II
Titus Andronicus Marcus Lucius
Go, gentle Marcus, to thy nephew Lucius; Thou shalt inquire him out among the Goths.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II
Titus Andronicus Chiron Demetrius
The one is Murder, and Rape is the other’s name; And therefore bind them, gentle Publius.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene II
Titus Andronicus Lavinia Chiron Demetrius
This one hand yet is left to cut your throats, Whiles that Lavinia ’tween her stumps doth hold The basin that receives your guilty blood.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
Die, die, Lavinia, and thy shame with thee; And with thy shame thy father’s sorrow die! [He kills Lavinia.]
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
Titus Andronicus Chiron Demetrius Tamora
Why, there they are, both baked in that pie, Whereof their mother daintily hath fed, Eating the flesh that she herself hath bred. ’Tis true, ’tis true; witness my knife’s sharp point.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
’Tis true, ’tis true; witness my knife’s sharp point. [He stabs the Empress.]
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
Die, frantic wretch, for this accursed deed. [He kills Titus.]
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III
Can the son’s eye behold his father bleed? [He kills Saturninus.] There’s meed for meed, death for a deadly deed.
Titus Andronicus · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[Rome]]
Come, come, thou reverend man of Rome, And bring our emperor gently in thy hand, Lucius our emperor; for well I know The common voice do cry it shall be so. ROMANS. Lucius, all hail, Rome’s royal emperor!
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[Verona]]
Prince Escalus Capulet Montague
If ever you disturb our streets again, Your lives shall pay the forfeit of the peace.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[old Free-town]] · this afternoon
Prince Escalus Capulet Montague
You, Capulet, shall go along with me, And Montague, come you this afternoon, To know our farther pleasure in this case, To old Free-town, our common judgement-place.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene I
In sadness, cousin, I do love a woman. BENVOLIO. I aim’d so near when I suppos’d you lov’d. ROMEO. A right good markman, and she’s fair I love. BENVOLIO. A right fair mark, fair coz, is soonest hit. ROMEO. Well, in that hit you miss: she’ll not be hit With Cupid’s arrow, she hath Dian’s wit; And in strong proof of chastity well arm’d, From love’s weak childish bow she lives uncharm’d.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II
Let two more summers wither in their pride Ere we may think her ripe to be a bride.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II
But woo her, gentle Paris, get her heart, My will to her consent is but a part;
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene II
I’ll go along, no such sight to be shown, But to rejoice in splendour of my own.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Verona]] · This night
Juliet County Paris Lady Capulet
I’ll look to like, if looking liking move: But no more deep will I endart mine eye Than your consent gives strength to make it fly.
Romeo and Juliet · Act I, Scene V · this night
Content thee, gentle coz, let him alone, A bears him like a portly gentleman; And, to say truth, Verona brags of him To be a virtuous and well-govern’d youth. I would not for the wealth of all the town Here in my house do him disparagement. Therefore be patient, take no note of him, It is my will; the which if thou respect, Show a fair presence and put off these frowns, An ill-beseeming semblance for a feast. TYBALT. It fits when such a villain is a guest: I’ll not endure him. CAPULET. He shall be endur’d.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[orchard]] · tomorrow
If that thy bent of love be honourable, Thy purpose marriage, send me word tomorrow, By one that I’ll procure to come to thee, Where and what time thou wilt perform the rite, And all my fortunes at thy foot I’ll lay And follow thee my lord throughout the world.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene III · today
That thou consent to marry us today.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene III
In one respect I’ll thy assistant be; For this alliance may so happy prove, To turn your households’ rancour to pure love.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene IV · 📍 [[Friar Lawrence’ cell]] · this afternoon
Bid her devise Some means to come to shrift this afternoon, And there she shall at Friar Lawrence’ cell Be shriv’d and married. Here is for thy pains.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene IV · 📍 [[behind the abbey wall]] · Within this hour
And stay, good Nurse, behind the abbey wall. Within this hour my man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair, Which to the high topgallant of my joy Must be my convoy in the secret night.
Romeo and Juliet · Act II, Scene VI
Come, come with me, and we will make short work, For, by your leaves, you shall not stay alone Till holy church incorporate two in one.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene I · Immediately
Immediately we do exile him hence.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene II
Tybalt is gone, and Romeo banished, Romeo that kill’d him, he is banished.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene II · 📍 [[Lawrence’ cell]] · at night
Hark ye, your Romeo will be here at night. I’ll to him, he is hid at Lawrence’ cell.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene IV · Thursday
A Thursday let it be; a Thursday, tell her, She shall be married to this noble earl.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Saint Peter’s Church]] · early next Thursday morn
Lady Capulet Juliet County Paris
early next Thursday morn The gallant, young, and noble gentleman, The County Paris, at Saint Peter’s Church, Shall happily make thee there a joyful bride.
Romeo and Juliet · Act III, Scene V · 📍 [[Saint Peter’s Church]] · next Thursday
He shall not make me there a joyful bride.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene I · On Thursday
And in his wisdom, hastes our marriage,
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene I · On Thursday next
And ere this hand, by thee to Romeo’s seal’d, Shall be the label to another deed, Or my true heart with treacherous revolt Turn to another, this shall slay them both.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene I · Tomorrow night
Take thou this vial, being then in bed, And this distilled liquor drink thou off, When presently through all thy veins shall run A cold and drowsy humour; for no pulse Shall keep his native progress, but surcease.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Mantua]] · that very night
Shall Romeo by my letters know our drift, And hither shall he come, and he and I Will watch thy waking, and that very night Shall Romeo bear thee hence to Mantua.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene II · tomorrow morning
Send for the County, go tell him of this. I’ll have this knot knit up tomorrow morning.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene II · tomorrow
Go, Nurse, go with her. We’ll to church tomorrow.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene III · tomorrow morning
Romeo, Romeo, Romeo, here’s drink! I drink to thee.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene IV · ’tis day
The County will be here with music straight, For so he said he would. I hear him near. [Play music.] Nurse! Wife! What, ho! What, Nurse, I say! Re-enter Nurse. Go waken Juliet, go and trim her up. I’ll go and chat with Paris. Hie, make haste, Make haste; the bridegroom he is come already. Make haste I say.
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene V · the night before thy wedding day
O son, the night before thy wedding day Hath death lain with thy bride. There she lies,
Romeo and Juliet · Act IV, Scene V
Juliet Capulet Lady Capulet County Paris
All things that we ordained festival Turn from their office to black funeral:
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene I · tonight
Then I defy you, stars! Thou know’st my lodging. Get me ink and paper, And hire post-horses. I will hence tonight.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene I · 📍 [[Mantua]]
Romeo Apothecary
There is thy gold, worse poison to men’s souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison, thou hast sold me none.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Mantua]]
finding him, the searchers of the town, Suspecting that we both were in a house Where the infectious pestilence did reign, Seal’d up the doors, and would not let us forth, So that my speed to Mantua there was stay’d.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene II
I could not send it,—here it is again,— Nor get a messenger to bring it thee, So fearful were they of infection.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[churchyard]] · tonight
Wilt thou provoke me? Then have at thee, boy! [They fight.] PAGE. O lord, they fight! I will go call the watch. [Exit.] PARIS. O, I am slain!
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[monument]]
Here’s to my love! [Drinks.] O true apothecary! Thy drugs are quick. Thus with a kiss I die.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[monument]]
Yea, noise? Then I’ll be brief. O happy dagger. [Snatching Romeo’s dagger.] This is thy sheath. [stabs herself] There rest, and let me die.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III
Romeo, there dead, was husband to that Juliet, And she, there dead, that Romeo’s faithful wife. I married them; and their stol’n marriage day
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · yesternight
But he which bore my letter, Friar John, Was stay’d by accident; And yesternight Return’d my letter back.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · tonight
Alas, my liege, my wife is dead tonight. Grief of my son’s exile hath stopp’d her breath.
Romeo and Juliet · Act V, Scene III · 📍 [[Verona]] · this morning
O brother Montague, give me thy hand. This is my daughter’s jointure, for no more Can I demand. MONTAGUE. But I can give thee more, For I will raise her statue in pure gold, That whiles Verona by that name is known, There shall no figure at such rate be set As that of true and faithful Juliet. CAPULET. As rich shall Romeo’s by his lady’s lie, Poor sacrifices of our enmity.
Macbeth · Act I, Scene I · 📍 [[the heath]] · When the hurlyburly’s done
First Witch Second Witch Third Witch Macbeth
When the hurlyburly’s done, When the battle’s lost and won. THIRD WITCH. That will be ere the set of sun. FIRST WITCH. Where the place? SECOND WITCH. Upon the heath. THIRD WITCH. There to meet with Macbeth.
Macbeth · Act I, Scene II
For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel, Which smok’d with bloody execution, Like Valour’s minion, carv’d out his passage, Till he fac’d the slave; Which ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chops, And fix’d his head upon our battlements.
Macbeth · Act I, Scene III
THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter! BANQUO. Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear Things that do sound so fair?—I’ th’ name of truth, Are ye fantastical, or that indeed Which outwardly ye show? My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say which grain will grow, and which will not, Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favours nor your hate. FIRST WITCH. Hail! SECOND WITCH. Hail! THIRD WITCH. Hail! FIRST WITCH. Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. SECOND WITCH. Not so happy, yet much happier. THIRD WITCH. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none:
Macbeth · Act I, Scene V
This have I thought good to deliver thee (my dearest partner of greatness) that thou might’st not lose the dues of rejoicing, by being ignorant of what greatness is promis’d thee.
Macbeth · Act I, Scene V · tonight
The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.
Macbeth · Act I, Scene VII · When Duncan is asleep
When Duncan is asleep (Whereto the rather shall his day’s hard journey Soundly invite him), his two chamberlains Will I with wine and wassail so convince That memory, the warder of the brain, Shall be a fume, and the receipt of reason A limbeck only: when in swinish sleep Their drenched natures lie as in a death, What cannot you and I perform upon Th’ unguarded Duncan? what not put upon His spongy officers; who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?
Macbeth · Act I, Scene VII
I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Macbeth · Act II, Scene II
I have drugg’d their possets, That death and nature do contend about them, Whether they live or die.
Macbeth · Act II, Scene II
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures. ’Tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil. If he do bleed, I’ll gild the faces of the grooms withal, For it must seem their guilt.
Macbeth · Act II, Scene II
I hear knocking At the south entry:—retire we to our chamber.
Macbeth · Act II, Scene IV · 📍 [[Colmekill]]
Where is Duncan’s body? MACDUFF. Carried to Colmekill,
Macbeth · Act II, Scene IV · 📍 [[Scone]]
He is already nam’d; and gone to Scone To be invested.
Macbeth · Act III, Scene I · tonight
Within this hour at most, I will advise you where to plant yourselves, Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ time, The moment on’t; for’t must be done tonight and something from the palace; always thought That I require a clearness. And with him (To leave no rubs nor botches in the work) Fleance his son, that keeps him company, Whose absence is no less material to me Than is his father’s, must embrace the fate Of that dark hour.
Macbeth · Act III, Scene II · Ere the bat hath flown
Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Fleance
Thou know’st that Banquo, and his Fleance, lives. LADY MACBETH. But in them nature’s copy’s not eterne. MACBETH. There’s comfort yet; they are assailable. Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flown His cloister’d flight, ere to black Hecate’s summons The shard-born beetle, with his drowsy hums, Hath rung night’s yawning peal, there shall be done A deed of dreadful note.
Macbeth · Act III, Scene III · tonight
O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge—O slave! [Dies. Fleance escapes.]
Macbeth · Act III, Scene IV · At once
Macbeth Lady Macbeth Ross Lennox
At once, good night:— Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once.
Macbeth · Act III, Scene IV · tomorrow
I will tomorrow (And betimes I will) to the Weird Sisters: More shall they speak
Macbeth · Act III, Scene V · ere noon
Great business must be wrought ere noon. Upon the corner of the moon There hangs a vap’rous drop profound; I’ll catch it ere it come to ground: And that, distill’d by magic sleights, Shall raise such artificial sprites, As, by the strength of their illusion, Shall draw him on to his confusion.
Macbeth · Act III, Scene VI · 📍 [[English court]]
Macduff Edward Northumberland Siward
Thither Macduff Is gone to pray the holy king, upon his aid To wake Northumberland, and warlike Siward
Macbeth · Act III, Scene VI
And this report Hath so exasperate the King that he Prepares for some attempt of war.
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene I
Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Birnam wood]]
Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Fife]] · even now
And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done: The castle of Macduff I will surprise; Seize upon Fife
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene II
I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: If you will take a homely man’s advice, Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene II
What, you egg! [Stabbing him.] Young fry of treachery! SON. He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you! [_Dies. Exit Lady Macduff, crying “Murder!” and pursued by the Murderers.]
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[England]] · before thy here-approach
Old Siward, with ten thousand warlike men, Already at a point, was setting forth.
Macbeth · Act IV, Scene III
Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; Within my sword’s length set him; if he ’scape, Heaven forgive him too!
Macbeth · Act V, Scene I · Since his Majesty went into the field
Since his Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper, fold it, write upon’t, read it, afterwards seal it, and again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast sleep.
Macbeth · Act V, Scene I
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
Macbeth · Act V, Scene II · 📍 [[Birnam wood]] · Near
The English power is near, led on by Malcolm, His uncle Siward, and the good Macduff. Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes Would to the bleeding and the grim alarm Excite the mortified man. ANGUS. Near Birnam wood Shall we well meet them. That way are they coming.
Macbeth · Act V, Scene II · Now
Now minutely revolts upbraid his faith-breach; Those he commands move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.
Macbeth · Act V, Scene IV · 📍 [[The wood of Birnam]]
Let every soldier hew him down a bough, And bear’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow The numbers of our host
Macbeth · Act V, Scene V · 📍 [[Dunsinane]]
I pull in resolution; and begin To doubt th’ equivocation of the fiend, That lies like truth. “Fear not, till Birnam wood Do come to Dunsinane;” and now a wood Comes toward Dunsinane.—Arm, arm, and out!
Macbeth · Act V, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Scotland]]
Hail, King of Scotland! ALL. Hail, King of Scotland!
Macbeth · Act V, Scene VIII · 📍 [[Scotland]] · Henceforth
Henceforth be earls, the first that ever Scotland In such an honour nam’d.
Hamlet · Act I, Scene I
Our last King, Whose image even but now appear’d to us, Was, as you know, by Fortinbras of Norway, Thereto prick’d on by a most emulate pride, Dar’d to the combat; in which our valiant Hamlet, For so this side of our known world esteem’d him, Did slay this Fortinbras; who by a seal’d compact, Well ratified by law and heraldry, Did forfeit, with his life, all those his lands Which he stood seiz’d of, to the conqueror;
Hamlet · Act I, Scene I · 📍 Norway
Now, sir, young Fortinbras, Of unimproved mettle, hot and full, Hath in the skirts of Norway, here and there, Shark’d up a list of lawless resolutes, For food and diet, to some enterprise That hath a stomach in’t; which is no other, As it doth well appear unto our state, But to recover of us by strong hand And terms compulsatory, those foresaid lands So by his father lost.
Hamlet · Act I, Scene I · tonight
Break we our watch up, and by my advice, Let us impart what we have seen tonight Unto young Hamlet; for upon my life, This spirit, dumb to us, will speak to him. Do you consent we shall acquaint him with it, as needful in our loves, fitting our duty? MARCELLUS. Let’s do’t, I pray
Hamlet · Act I, Scene II · 📍 [[Elsinore]] · Two nights together
Hamlet Horatio Marcellus Barnardo
Two nights together had these gentlemen, Marcellus and Barnardo, on their watch In the dead waste and middle of the night, Been thus encounter’d. A figure like your father, Armed at point exactly, cap-à-pie, Appears before them
Hamlet · Act II, Scene I
Lord Hamlet, with his doublet all unbrac’d, No hat upon his head, his stockings foul’d, Ungart’red, and down-gyved to his ankle, Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in purport As if he had been loosed out of hell To speak of horrors, he comes before me.
Hamlet · Act II, Scene II
Claudius Gertrude Rosencrantz Guildenstern
The need we have to use you did provoke Our hasty sending. Something have you heard Of Hamlet’s transformation; so I call it
Hamlet · Act II, Scene II
which he, in brief, obeys, Receives rebuke from Norway; and in fine, Makes vow before his uncle never more To give th’assay of arms against your Majesty. Whereon old Norway, overcome with joy, Gives him three thousand crowns in annual fee, And his commission to employ those soldiers So levied as before, against the Polack
Hamlet · Act II, Scene II
That she should lock herself from his resort, Admit no messengers, receive no tokens. Which done, she took the fruits of my advice, And he, repulsed,—a short tale to make— Fell into a sadness, then into a fast, Thence to a watch, thence into a weakness, Thence to a lightness, and, by this declension, Into the madness wherein now he raves
Hamlet · Act II, Scene II
Hamlet Rosencrantz Guildenstern Claudius Gertrude
GUILDENSTERN. My lord, we were sent for.
Hamlet · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Elsinore]] · tomorrow night
We’ll ha’t tomorrow night. You could for a need study a speech of some dozen or sixteen lines, which I would set down and insert in’t
Hamlet · Act III, Scene I · This night
Hamlet Rosencrantz Guildenstern
They are about the court, And, as I think, they have already order This night to play before him.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene II · tonight
OPHELIA. The King rises. HAMLET. What, frighted with false fire? QUEEN. How fares my lord? POLONIUS. Give o’er the play. KING. Give me some light. Away. All. Lights, lights, lights.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene II
GUILDENSTERN. The King, sir— HAMLET. Ay, sir, what of him? GUILDENSTERN. Is in his retirement, marvellous distempered.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene II · ere you go to bed
Player Queen Guildenstern Hamlet
ROSENCRANTZ. She desires to speak with you in her closet ere you go to bed. HAMLET. We shall obey, were she ten times our mother.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene III · 📍 [[England]] · forthwith
Claudius Rosencrantz Guildenstern Hamlet
Therefore prepare you, I your commission will forthwith dispatch, And he to England shall along with you.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene III
Forgive me my foul murder! That cannot be; since I am still possess’d Of those effects for which I did the murder,— My crown, mine own ambition, and my queen.
Hamlet · Act III, Scene IV
I must to England, you know that? QUEEN. Alack, I had forgot. ’Tis so concluded on. HAMLET. There’s letters seal’d: and my two schoolfellows, Whom I will trust as I will adders fang’d,— They bear the mandate, they must sweep my way And marshal me to knavery.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene I · The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch
The sun no sooner shall the mountains touch But we will ship him hence, and this vile deed We must with all our majesty and skill Both countenance and excuse.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[chapel]]
Rosencrantz Guildenstern Polonius
Friends both, go join you with some further aid: Hamlet in madness hath Polonius slain, And from his mother’s closet hath he dragg’d him. Go seek him out, speak fair, and bring the body Into the chapel.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[England]] · tonight
Hamlet, this deed, for thine especial safety,— Which we do tender, as we dearly grieve For that which thou hast done,—must send thee hence With fiery quickness. Therefore prepare thyself; The bark is ready, and the wind at help, Th’associates tend, and everything is bent For England. HAMLET. For England? KING. Ay, Hamlet. HAMLET. Good. KING. So is it, if thou knew’st our purposes. HAMLET. I see a cherub that sees them. But, come; for England! Farewell, dear mother. KING. Thy loving father, Hamlet. HAMLET. My mother. Father and mother is man and wife; man and wife is one flesh; and so, my mother. Come, for England. [Exit.] KING. Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard; Delay it not; I’ll have him hence tonight.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[England]] · tonight
Claudius Rosencrantz Guildenstern Hamlet
Follow him at foot. Tempt him with speed aboard; Delay it not; I’ll have him hence tonight. Away, for everything is seal’d and done That else leans on th’affair. Pray you make haste.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene IV · 📍 [[Poland]]
Enter Fortinbras and Forces marching. FORTINBRAS. Go, Captain, from me greet the Danish king. Tell him that by his license, Fortinbras Craves the conveyance of a promis’d march Over his kingdom.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene V
The rabble call him lord, And, as the world were now but to begin, Antiquity forgot, custom not known, The ratifiers and props of every word, They cry ‘Choose we! Laertes shall be king!’
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene VI · Ere we were two days old at sea
Ere we were two days old at sea, a pirate of very warlike appointment gave us chase. Finding ourselves too slow of sail, we put on a compelled valour, and in the grapple I boarded them. On the instant they got clear of our ship, so I alone became their prisoner.
Hamlet · Act IV, Scene VII
When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide, And mermaid-like, awhile they bore her up
Hamlet · Act V, Scene I
Her death was doubtful; And but that great command o’ersways the order, She should in ground unsanctified have lodg’d
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
Hamlet Claudius Guildenstern Rosencrantz
I sat me down, Devis’d a new commission, wrote it fair: I once did hold it, as our statists do, A baseness to write fair, and labour’d much How to forget that learning; but, sir, now It did me yeoman’s service. Wilt thou know The effect of what I wrote? HORATIO. Ay, good my lord. HAMLET. An earnest conjuration from the King, As England was his faithful tributary, As love between them like the palm might flourish, As peace should still her wheaten garland wear And stand a comma ’tween their amities, And many such-like ‘as’es of great charge, That on the view and know of these contents, Without debatement further, more or less, He should the bearers put to sudden death, Not shriving-time allow’d.
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing, To tell him his commandment is fulfill’d, That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead.
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
QUEEN. No, no, the drink, the drink! O my dear Hamlet! The drink, the drink! I am poison’d. [Dies.]
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
LAERTES. It is here, Hamlet. Hamlet, thou art slain. No medicine in the world can do thee good. In thee there is not half an hour of life; The treacherous instrument is in thy hand, Unbated and envenom’d. The foul practice Hath turn’d itself on me. Lo, here I lie, Never to rise again. Thy mother’s poison’d. I can no more. The King, the King’s to blame. HAMLET. The point envenom’d too! Then, venom, to thy work. [Stabs the King.]
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
HAMLET. O, I die, Horatio. The potent poison quite o’er-crows my spirit: I cannot live to hear the news from England, But I do prophesy th’election lights On Fortinbras. He has my dying voice. So tell him, with the occurrents more and less, Which have solicited. The rest is silence. [Dies.]
Hamlet · Act V, Scene II
FORTINBRAS. Let four captains Bear Hamlet like a soldier to the stage, For he was likely, had he been put on, To have prov’d most royally; and for his passage, The soldiers’ music and the rites of war Speak loudly for him. Take up the bodies. Such a sight as this Becomes the field, but here shows much amiss. Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
King Lear · Act I, Scene II
It is his. [...] O villain, villain! His very opinion in the letter! Abhorred villain! Unnatural, detested, brutish villain! worse than brutish! Go, sirrah, seek him; I’ll apprehend him.
King Lear · Act I, Scene II · this very evening
If your honour judge it meet, I will place you where you shall hear us confer of this, and by an auricular assurance have your satisfaction, and that without any further delay than this very evening.
King Lear · Act I, Scene V · 📍 Gloucester
Go you before to Gloucester with these letters: acquaint my daughter no further with anything you know than comes from her demand out of the letter.
King Lear · Act II, Scene I
But that I told him the revenging gods ’Gainst parricides did all their thunders bend;
King Lear · Act II, Scene I
Let him fly far; Not in this land shall he remain uncaught; And found—dispatch’d.
King Lear · Act II, Scene I
And of my land, Loyal and natural boy, I’ll work the means To make thee capable.
King Lear · Act II, Scene II
Draw, you rascal: you come with letters against the King; and take vanity the puppet’s part against the royalty of her father: draw, you rogue, or I’ll so carbonado your shanks:—draw, you rascal; come your ways! OSWALD. Help, ho! murder! help! KENT. Strike, you slave; stand, rogue, stand; you neat slave, strike! [Beating him.]
King Lear · Act II, Scene II
I know ’tis from Cordelia, Who hath most fortunately been inform’d Of my obscured course.
King Lear · Act II, Scene III · While I may scape
While I may scape I will preserve myself: and am bethought To take the basest and most poorest shape That ever penury in contempt of man, Brought near to beast: my face I’ll grime with filth, Blanket my loins; elf all my hair in knots, And with presented nakedness outface The winds and persecutions of the sky.
King Lear · Act II, Scene IV · the night comes on
The King is in high rage. CORNWALL. Whither is he going? GLOUCESTER. He calls to horse; but will I know not whither.
King Lear · Act III, Scene I · This night
But, true it is, from France there comes a power Into this scatter’d kingdom; who already, Wise in our negligence, have secret feet In some of our best ports, and are at point To show their open banner.
King Lear · Act III, Scene I · 📍 [[Dover]]
If you shall see Cordelia, As fear not but you shall, show her this ring; And she will tell you who your fellow is That yet you do not know.
King Lear · Act III, Scene III · this night
we must incline to the King. I will look him, and privily relieve him
King Lear · Act III, Scene III
This courtesy, forbid thee, shall the Duke Instantly know; and of that letter too.
King Lear · Act III, Scene IV · this tyrannous night
Gloucester King Lear Goneril Regan
Though their injunction be to bar my doors, And let this tyrannous night take hold upon you, Yet have I ventur’d to come seek you out, And bring you where both fire and food is ready.
King Lear · Act III, Scene IV · very late
I had a son, Now outlaw’d from my blood; he sought my life But lately, very late
King Lear · Act III, Scene VI · 📍 [[Dover]]
I have o’erheard a plot of death upon him; There is a litter ready; lay him in’t And drive towards Dover, friend, where thou shalt meet Both welcome and protection.
King Lear · Act III, Scene VI · 📍 [[Dover]]
Gloucester Kent Fool King Lear
[Exeunt Kent, Gloucester and the Fool bearing off Lear.]
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII
Post speedily to my lord your husband, show him this letter: the army of France is landed.
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII
CORNWALL. Bind him, I say. [Servants bind him.]
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII · 📍 [[Dover]]
GLOUCESTER. Because I would not see thy cruel nails Pluck out his poor old eyes; nor thy fierce sister In his anointed flesh stick boarish fangs.
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII
[Gloucester is held down in his chair, while Cornwall plucks out one of his eyes and sets his foot on it.]
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII
Regan First Servant
REGAN. [To another servant.] Give me thy sword. A peasant stand up thus? [Snatches a sword, comes behind, and stabs him.] FIRST SERVANT. O, I am slain! My lord, you have one eye left
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII
Thou call’st on him that hates thee: it was he That made the overture of thy treasons to us;
King Lear · Act III, Scene VII · 📍 [[Dover]]
Go thrust him out at gates, and let him smell His way to Dover.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene I · 📍 [[Dover]]
There is a cliff, whose high and bending head Looks fearfully in the confined deep: Bring me but to the very brim of it, And I’ll repair the misery thou dost bear With something rich about me: from that place I shall no leading need.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene II
O, my good lord, the Duke of Cornwall’s dead; Slain by his servant, going to put out The other eye of Gloucester.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene II
But, O poor Gloucester! Lost he his other eye? MESSENGER. Both, both, my lord.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene II
Ay, my good lord. ’Twas he inform’d against him; And quit the house on purpose, that their punishment Might have the freer course.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene II
Gloucester, I live To thank thee for the love thou show’dst the King, And to revenge thine eyes.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene III · so suddenly
King of France Monsieur La Far
Something he left imperfect in the state, which since his coming forth is thought of, which imports to the kingdom so much fear and danger that his personal return was most required and necessary. KENT. Who hath he left behind him general? GENTLEMAN. The Mareschal of France, Monsieur La Far.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene III
Ay, sir; she took them, read them in my presence; And now and then an ample tear trill’d down Her delicate cheek. It seem’d she was a queen Over her passion; who, most rebel-like, Sought to be king o’er her.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene III · 📍 [[the town]]
Well, sir, the poor distressed Lear’s i’ the town; Who sometime, in his better tune, remembers What we are come about, and by no means Will yield to see his daughter. GENTLEMAN. Why, good sir? KENT. A sovereign shame so elbows him. His own unkindness, That stripp’d her from his benediction, turn’d her To foreign casualties, gave her dear rights To his dog-hearted daughters, these things sting His mind so venomously that burning shame Detains him from Cordelia.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VI
Gone, sir, farewell. [Gloucester leaps, and falls along] And yet I know not how conceit may rob The treasury of life when life itself Yields to the theft. Had he been where he thought, By this had thought been past. Alive or dead? Ho you, sir! friend! Hear you, sir? speak! Thus might he pass indeed: yet he revives.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VI
I do remember now: henceforth I’ll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself ‘Enough, enough,’ and die.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VI
[They fight, and Edgar knocks him down.] OSWALD. Slave, thou hast slain me. Villain, take my purse. If ever thou wilt thrive, bury my body; And give the letters which thou find’st about me To Edmund, Earl of Gloucester. Seek him out Upon the British party. O, untimely death! [Dies.]
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VI
‘Let our reciprocal vows be remembered. You have many opportunities to cut him off: if your will want not, time and place will be fruitfully offered. There is nothing done if he return the conqueror: then am I the prisoner, and his bed my gaol; from the loathed warmth whereof deliver me, and supply the place for your labour. ‘Your (wife, so I would say) affectionate servant, ‘Goneril.’ O indistinguish’d space of woman’s will! A plot upon her virtuous husband’s life, And the exchange my brother!
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VII
Methinks I should know you, and know this man; Yet I am doubtful: for I am mainly ignorant What place this is; and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia. CORDELIA. And so I am. I am.
King Lear · Act IV, Scene VII
Be comforted, good madam, the great rage, You see, is kill’d in him
King Lear · Act V, Scene I · The battle done
As for the mercy Which he intends to Lear and to Cordelia, The battle done, and they within our power, Shall never see his pardon
Othello · Act I, Scene I
But he, sir, had the election, And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof At Rhodes, at Cyprus, and on other grounds, Christian and heathen, must be belee’d and calm’d By debitor and creditor, this counter-caster, He, in good time, must his lieutenant be, And I, God bless the mark, his Moorship’s ancient.
Othello · Act I, Scene III · 📍 [[Cyprus]]
The Turk with a most mighty preparation makes for Cyprus. Othello, the fortitude of the place is best known to you. And though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition.
Othello · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Cyprus]]
Othello Turkish fleet
upon certain tidings now arrived, importing the mere perdition of the Turkish fleet
Othello · Act II, Scene II · 📍 [[Cyprus]] · from this present hour of five till the bell have told eleven
For besides these beneficial news, it is the celebration of his nuptial. So much was his pleasure should be proclaimed. All offices are open, and there is full liberty of feasting from this present hour of five till the bell have told eleven.
Othello · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Cyprus]] · tonight
Dost thou prate, rogue? [Striking Roderigo.] MONTANO. Nay, good lieutenant; I pray you, sir, hold your hand. CASSIO. Let me go, sir, Or I’ll knock you o’er the mazard. MONTANO. Come, come, you’re drunk. CASSIO. Drunk? [They fight.]
Othello · Act II, Scene III · 📍 [[Cyprus]]
And then for her To win the Moor, were’t to renounce his baptism, All seals and symbols of redeemed sin, His soul is so enfetter’d to her love That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function.
Othello · Act III, Scene I
Emilia Cassio Desdemona Othello
The general and his wife are talking of it, And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you And needs no other suitor but his likings To take the safest occasion by the front To bring you in again.
Othello · Act III, Scene III · today
I know not that: but such a handkerchief (I am sure it was your wife’s) did I today See Cassio wipe his beard with. OTHELLO. If it be that,— IAGO. If it be that, or any that was hers, It speaks against her with the other proofs. OTHELLO. O, that the slave had forty thousand lives! One is too poor, too weak for my revenge! Now do I see ’tis true.
Othello · Act III, Scene III · Within these three days
Within these three days let me hear thee say That Cassio’s not alive. IAGO. My friend is dead. ’Tis done at your request. But let her live. OTHELLO. Damn her, lewd minx! O, damn her, damn her! Come, go with me apart, I will withdraw To furnish me with some swift means of death For the fair devil. Now art thou my lieutenant.
Othello · Act III, Scene IV
OTHELLO. That is a fault. That handkerchief Did an Egyptian to my mother give. She was a charmer, and could almost read The thoughts of people. She told her, while she kept it, ’Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love. But if she lost it, Or made a gift of it, my father’s eye Should hold her loathed, and his spirits should hunt After new fancies: she, dying, gave it me, And bid me, when my fate would have me wive, To give it her. I did so; and take heed on’t, Make it a darling like your precious eye. To lose’t or give’t away were such perdition As nothing else could match.
Othello · Act III, Scene IV
OTHELLO. Fetch me the handkerchief! My mind misgives. DESDEMONA. Come, come. You’ll never meet a more sufficient man. OTHELLO. The handkerchief! DESDEMONA. I pray, talk me of Cassio. OTHELLO. The handkerchief! DESDEMONA. A man that all his time Hath founded his good fortunes on your love, Shar’d dangers with you,— OTHELLO. The handkerchief! DESDEMONA. In sooth, you are to blame. OTHELLO. Away!
Othello · Act III, Scene IV
CASSIO. Pardon me, Bianca. I have this while with leaden thoughts been press’d, But I shall in a more continuate time Strike off this score of absence. Sweet Bianca, [Giving her Desdemona’s handkerchief.] Take me this work out. BIANCA. O Cassio, whence came this? This is some token from a newer friend. To the felt absence now I feel a cause. Is’t come to this? Well, well. CASSIO. Go to, woman! Throw your vile guesses in the devil’s teeth, From whence you have them. You are jealous now That this is from some mistress, some remembrance. No, in good troth, Bianca. BIANCA. Why, whose is it? CASSIO. I know not neither. I found it in my chamber. I like the work well. Ere it be demanded, As like enough it will, I’d have it copied. Take it, and do ’t, and leave me for this time.
Othello · Act IV, Scene II · 📍 [[Mauritania]]
There is especial commission come from Venice to depute Cassio in Othello’s place. RODERIGO. Is that true? Why then Othello and Desdemona return again to Venice. IAGO. O, no; he goes into Mauritania, and takes away with him the fair Desdemona
Othello · Act V, Scene I
RODERIGO. I know his gait; ’tis he. Villain, thou diest! [Rushes out, and makes a pass at Cassio.] CASSIO. That thrust had been mine enemy indeed, But that my coat is better than thou know’st. I will make proof of thine. [Draws, and wounds Roderigo.] RODERIGO. O, I am slain!
Othello · Act V, Scene I
OTHELLO. ’Tis he. O brave Iago, honest and just, That hast such noble sense of thy friend’s wrong! Thou teachest me,—minion, your dear lies dead, And your unbless’d fate hies. Strumpet, I come! Forth of my heart those charms, thine eyes, are blotted; Thy bed, lust-stain’d, shall with lust’s blood be spotted. [Exit.]
Othello · Act V, Scene II
[Stabs himself.] LODOVICO. O bloody period! GRATIANO. All that’s spoke is marr’d. OTHELLO. I kiss’d thee ere I kill’d thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss. [Falling upon Desdemona.]