Othello: Act 4

Question 1

To kiss in private?

Answer 1

Iago to Othello

Question 2

Or to be naked with her friend in bed

An hour or more, not meaning any harm?

Answer 2

Iago to Othello

Question 3

Why then ’tis hers, my lord, and, being hers,

She may, I think, bestow ’t on any man

Answer 3

Iago to Othello

Question 4

Her honor is an essence that’s not seen,

They have it very oft that have it not.

Answer 4

Iago to Othello

Question 5

He hath, my lord, but be you well assured

No more than he’ll unswear.

Answer 5

Iago to Othello

Question 6

Work on, My medicine, work

Answer 6

Iago to Himself

Question 7

he foams at mouth and by and by

Breaks out to savage madness

Answer 7

IAgo to Cassio

Question 8

Do you withdraw yourself a little while, He will recover straight. When he is gone
I would on great occasion speak with you.

Answer 8

Iago to Cassio

Question 9

There’s millions now alive
That nightly lie in those unproper beds
Which they dare swear peculiar

Answer 9

Iago to Othello

Question 10

Oh, thou art wise! ‘Tis certain.

Answer 10

Othello to Iago

Question 11

Bade him anon return and here speak with me,

The which he promised. Do but encave yourself,

Answer 11

Iago to Cassio

Question 12

Now will I question Cassio of Bianca

Answer 12

Iago to Himself

Question 13

Look how he laughs already!

Answer 13

Othello to Himself

Question 14

Now he denies it faintly, and laughs it out.

Answer 14

Othello to Himself

Question 15

Now he importunes him

To tell it o’er. Go to, well said, well said.

Answer 15

Othello to Himself

Question 16

Do ye triumph, Roman? Do you triumph?

Answer 16

Othello to Himself

Question 17

They laugh that win!

Answer 17

Othello to Himself

Question 18

She is persuaded I will marry her, out of her own love and flattery, not out of my promise.

Answer 18

Cassio to Iago

Question 19

By heaven, that should be my handkerchief!

Answer 19

Othello to Himself

Question 20

How shall I murder him, Iago?

Answer 20

Othello to Iago

Question 21

Ay, let her rot and perish and be damned tonight, for she shall not live.

Answer 21

Othello to Iago

Question 22

I will chop her into messes!

Answer 22

Othello to Iago

Question 23

Get me some poison

Answer 23

Othello to Iago

Question 24

Do it not with poison. Strangle her in her bed, even the bed she hath contaminated.

Answer 24

Iago to Othello

Question 25

Good, good, the justice of it pleases! Very good!

Answer 25

Othello to Iago

Question 26

Cousin, there’s fall'n between him and my lord | An unkind breach, but you shall make all well.

Answer 26

Desdemona to Lodovico

Question 27

For, as I think, they do command him home, | Deputing Cassio in his government

Answer 27

Lodovico to Desdemona

Question 28

I am glad on ’t.

Answer 28

Desdemona to Othello

Question 29

My lord, this would not be believed in Venice, Though I should swear I saw ’t. 'Tis very much. Make her amends, she weeps.

Answer 29

Lodovico to Othello

Question 30

Is this the noble Moor whom our full senate | Call all in all sufficient?

Answer 30

Lodovico to Iago

Question 31

He is much changed.

Answer 31

Iago to Lodovico

Question 32

Are his wits safe? Is he not light of brain?

Answer 32

Lodovico to Iago

Question 33

I am sorry that I am deceived in him.

Answer 33

Lodovico to Iago

Question 34

If you think other Remove your thought, it doth abuse your bosom. If any wretch have put this in your head Let heaven requite it with the serpent’s curse For if she be not honest, chaste, and true There’s no man happy. The purest of their wives Is foul as slander.

Answer 34

Emilia to Othello

Question 35

She says enough, yet she’s a simple bawd That cannot say as much. 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.

Answer 35

Othello to Himself

Question 36

Come, swear it, damn thyself.

Answer 36

Othello to Desdemona

Question 37

If haply you my father do suspect An instrument of this your calling back, Lay not your blame on me.

Answer 37

Desdemona to Othello

Question 38

I should have found in some place of my soul A drop of Patience

Answer 38

Othello to Desdemona

Question 39

Oh, ay, as summer flies are in the shambles, That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed, Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweet That the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne'er been born!

Answer 39

Othello to Desdemona

Question 40

What committed? | Committed?

Answer 40

Othello to Desdemona

Question 41

What committed? | Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,

Answer 41

Othello to Desdemona

Question 42

Are you not a strumpet?

Answer 42

Othello to Desdemona

Question 43

No, as I am a Christian.

Answer 43

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 44

We have done our course. There’s money for your pains.

Answer 44

Othello to Emilia

Question 45

Faith, half asleep.

Answer 45

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 46

what’s the matter with my lord?

Answer 46

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 47

Who is thy lord?

Answer 47

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 48

Here’s a change indeed!

Answer 48

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 49

How have I been behaved that he might stick | The small’st opinion on my least misuse?

Answer 49

Desdemona to Herself

Question 50

I am a child to chiding.

Answer 50

Desdemona to Iago

Question 51

How comes this trick upon him?

Answer 51

Iago to Desdemona

Question 52

Nay, heaven doth know.

Answer 52

Desdemona to Iago

Question 53

I will be hanged, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devised this slander. I will be hanged else!

Answer 53

Emilia To Iago

Question 54

If any such there be, heaven pardon him!

Answer 54

Desdemona to Iago

Question 55

A halter pardon him and hell gnaw his bones!

Answer 55

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 56

The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave, | Some base notorious knave, some scurvy fellow.

Answer 56

Emilia to Iago

Question 57

Speak within door.

Answer 57

Iago to Emilia

Question 58

What shall I do to win my lord again?

Answer 58

Desdemona to Iago

Question 59

If e'er my will did trespass 'gainst his love, | Either in discourse of thought or actual deed,

Answer 59

Desdemona to Iago

Question 60

And his unkindness may defeat my life, | But never taint my love

Answer 60

Desdemona to Iago

Question 61

I do not find that thou deal’st justly with me.

Answer 61

Roderigo to Iago

Question 62

I will indeed no longer endure it

Answer 62

Roderigo to Iago

Question 63

You charge me most unjustly.

Answer 63

Iago to Roderigo

Question 64

The jewels you have had from me to deliver Desdemona would half have corrupted a votaress.

Answer 64

Roderigo to Iago

Question 65

If she will return me my jewels I will give over my suit and repent my unlawful solicitation

Answer 65

Roderigo to Iago

Question 66

Why, now I see there’s mettle in thee

Answer 66

Iago to Roderigo

Question 67

if thou hast that in thee indeed, which I have greater reason to believe now than ever—I mean purpose, courage and valor—this night show it.

Answer 67

Iago to Roderigo

Question 68

Sir, there is especial commission come from Venice to depute Cassio in Othello’s place.

Answer 68

Iago to Roderigo

Question 69

Oh, no, he goes into Mauritania and taketh away with him the fair Desdemona, unless his abode be lingered here by some accident—wherein none can be so determinate as the removing of Cassio.

Answer 69

Iago to Roderigo

Question 70

Why, by making him uncapable of Othello’s place: knocking out his brains.

Answer 70

Iago to Roderigo

Question 71

’twill do me good to walk.

Answer 71

Othello to Lodovico

Question 72

Get you to bed on th' instant, I will be returned | Forthwith. Dismiss your attendant there, look ’t be done.

Answer 72

Othello to Desdemona

Question 73

So would not I. My love doth so approve him That even his stubbornness, his checks, his frowns— Prithee, unpin me—have grace and favor.

Answer 73

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 74

If I do die before thee, prithee, shroud me | In one of these same sheets.

Answer 74

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 75

Dost thou in conscience think—tell me, Emilia— That there be women do abuse their husbands In such gross kind?

Answer 75

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 76

Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?

Answer 76

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 77

 No, by this heavenly light!

Answer 77

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 78

Nor I neither, by this heavenly light. | I might do ’t as well i' th' dark.

Answer 78

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 79

It is a great price for a small vice.

Answer 79

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 80

In troth, I think I should, and undo ’t when I had done.

Answer 80

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 81

who would not make her husband a cuckold to make him a monarch

Answer 81

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 82

Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong | For the whole world.

Answer 82

Desdemona to Emilia

Question 83

Let husbands know | Their wives have sense like them.

Answer 83

Emilia to Desdemona

Question 84

And have not we affections, Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? Then let them use us well, else let them know, The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.

Answer 84

Emilia to desdemona