Othello: Act 2

Question 1

If that the Turkish fleet

Be not ensheltered and embayed, they are drowned

Answer 1

Montano to Gentlemen

Question 2

The ship is here put in,
A Veronesa. Michael Cassio,
Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come on shore.

Answer 2

Gentlemen to Othello

Question 3

They do discharge their shot of courtesy.

Our friends at least.

Answer 3

Second gentlemen to Cassio

Question 4

He hath achieved a maid

That paragons description and wild fame,

Answer 4

Cassio To Montano

Question 5

Tis one Iago, ancient to the general.

Answer 5

Gentleman to Cassio

Question 6

Their mortal natures, letting go safely by

The divine Desdemona.

Answer 6

Cassio to Gentlemen

Question 7

She that I spake of, our great captain’s captain,

Left in the conduct of the bold Iago,

Answer 7

Cassio to Montano

Question 8

I thank you, valiant Cassio.

What tidings can you tell me of my lord?

Answer 8

Desdemona to Cassio

Question 9

Good ancient, you are welcome.—Welcome, mistress.
Let it not gall your patience, good Iago,
That I extend my manners. ‘Tis my breeding
That gives me this bold show of courtesy.

Answer 9

Cassio to Iago

Question 10

Sir, would she give you so much of her lips
As of her tongue she oft bestows on me,
You’ll have enough.

Answer 10

Iago to Cassio

Question 11

Oh, most lame and impotent conclusion! Do not learn of him, Emilia, though he be thy husband.

Answer 11

Desdemona o Emilia

Question 12

How say you, Cassio? Is he not a most profane and liberal counselor?

Answer 12

Desdemona to Cassio

Question 13

He speaks home, madam. You may relish him more in the soldier than in the scholar.

Answer 13

Cassio to Desdemona

Question 14

Ay, well said, whisper! With as little a web as this will I ensnare as great a fly as Cassio.

Answer 14

Iago to Himself

Question 15

If such tricks as these strip you out of your lieutenantry, it had been better you had not kissed your three fingers so oft,

Answer 15

Iago to Himself

Question 16

The Moor! I know his trumpet.

Answer 16

Iago to Cassio

Question 17

If after every tempest come such calms,

May the winds blow till they have wakened death,

Answer 17

Othello to Desdemona

Question 18

If it were now to die,

‘Twere now to be most happy

Answer 18

Othello to Desdemona

Question 19

Oh, you are well tuned now,
But I’ll set down the pegs that make this music,
As honest as I am.

Answer 19

Iago to Himself

Question 20

Desdemona is directly in love with him.

Answer 20

Iago to Roderigo

Question 21

Her eye must be fed, and what delight shall she have to look on the devil?

Answer 21

Iago to Cassio

Question 22

there should be a game to inflame it and to give satiety a fresh appetite,

Answer 22

Iago to Roderigo

Question 23

Very nature will instruct her in it and compel her to some second choice

Answer 23

Iago to Roderigo

Question 24

who stands so eminent in the degree of this fortune as Cassio does

Answer 24

Iago to Roderigo

Question 25

Besides, the knave is handsome, young, and hath all those requisites in him that folly and green minds look after

Answer 25

Iago to Roderigo

Question 26

Blessed fig’s-end! The wine she drinks is made of grapes. If she had been blessed, she would never have loved the Moor.

Answer 26

IAgo to Roderigo

Question 27

Yes, that I did, but that was but courtesy

Answer 27

Roderigo to Iago

Question 28

I have brought you from Venice. Watch you tonight for the command, I’ll lay ’t upon you. Cassio knows you not. I’ll not be far from you

Answer 28

Iago to Roderigo

Question 29

he’s rash and very sudden in choler, and haply may strike at you

Answer 29

Iago to Roderigo

Question 30

I will do this, if you can bring it to any opportunity.

Answer 30

Roderigo to Iago

Question 31

That Cassio loves her, I do well believe ’t.

Answer 31

Iago to Roderigo

Question 32

The Moor, howbeit that I endure him not, Is of a constant, loving, noble nature, And I dare think he’ll prove to Desdemona A most dear husband

Answer 32

Iago to Roderigo

Question 33

``` Now, I do love her too, Not out of absolute lust—though peradventure I stand accountant for as great a sin— But partly led to diet my revenge, For that I do suspect the lusty Moor Hath leaped into my seat. ```

Answer 33

Iago to Roderigo

Question 34

Or, failing so, yet that I put the Moor At least into a jealousy so strong That judgment cannot cure.

Answer 34

Iago to Roderigo

Question 35

Abuse him to the Moor in the right garb

Answer 35

Iago to Cassio

Question 36

Make the Moor thank me, love me, and reward me | For making him egregiously an ass

Answer 36

IAgo to Roderigo

Question 37

Let’s teach ourselves that honorable stop

Answer 37

Othello to Cassio

Question 38

Our general cast us thus early for the love

Answer 38

Iago to Cassio

Question 39

Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup of wine

Answer 39

Iago to Cassio

Question 40

I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking

Answer 40

Cassio Iago

Question 41

I am unfortunate in the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more.

Answer 41

Cassio Iago

Question 42

You see this fellow that is gone before, He is a soldier fit to stand by Caesar And give direction. And do but see his vice,

Answer 42

Iago to Montano

Question 43

'Tis pity of him. | I fear the trust Othello puts him in

Answer 43

Iago to Montano

Question 44

I do love Cassio well, and would do much | To cure him of this evil

Answer 44

Iago to Montano

Question 45

I bleed still, | I am hurt to the death. He dies!

Answer 45

Montano to Othello

Question 46

Honest Iago, that looks dead with grieving, | Speak, who began this?

Answer 46

Othello to Iago

Question 47

I had rather have this tongue cut from my mouth Than it should do offence to Michael Cassio. Yet I persuade myself to speak the truth Shall nothing wrong him. This it is, general:

Answer 47

Iago to Othello

Question 48

I know, Iago, Thy honesty and love doth mince this matter, Making it light to Cassio. Cassio, I love thee But never more be officer of mine.—

Answer 48

Othello to Iago

Question 49

Reputation, reputation, reputation! Oh, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my reputation!

Answer 49

Cassio to Iago

Question 50

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition, oft got without merit and lost without deserving.

Answer 50

Iago to Cassio

Question 51

Our general’s wife is now the general.

Answer 51

Iago to Cassio

Question 52

Confess yourself freely to her, importune her help to put you in your place again. She is of so free, so kind, so apt, so blessed a disposition, she holds it a vice in her goodness not to do more than she is requested.

Answer 52

Iago to Cassio

Question 53

How am I then a villian

Answer 53

IAgo to himself

Question 54

And she for him pleads strongly to the Moor, 265I’ll pour this pestilence into his ear:That she repeals him for her body’s lust. And by how much she strives to do him good She shall undo her credit with the Moor.

Answer 54

Iago to Himself

Question 55

so, with no money at all and a little more wit, return again to Venice.

Answer 55

Roderigo to Iago

Question 56

assio hath beaten thee. | And thou, by that small hurt, hath cashiered Cassio

Answer 56

Iago to Roderigo