No Fear Shakespeare
Othello
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 2, Scene 3, Page 2
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CASSIO
Indeed she’s a most fresh and delicate creature.
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CASSIO
Yes, she’s young and tender.
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IAGO
What an eye she has! Methinks it sounds a parley to
provocation.
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IAGO
And such pretty eyes! Like an invitation.
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CASSIO
An inviting eye, and yet methinks right modest.
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CASSIO
Yes, she’s pretty. But she’s modest and
ladylike too.
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IAGO
And when she speaks, is it not an alarum to love?
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IAGO
And when she speaks, doesn’t her voice stir up
passion?
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CASSIO
She is indeed perfection.
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CASSIO
She’s a perfect woman, it’s true.
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IAGO
Well, happiness to their sheets! Come, lieutenant, I have a stoup
of wine, and here without are a brace of Cyprus gallants that would
fain have a measure to the health of black Othello.
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IAGO
Well, good luck to them tonight in bed! Come with us, lieutenant.
I’ve got a jug of wine, and these two Cyprus gentlemen
want to drink a toast to the black Othello.
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CASSIO
Not tonight, good Iago. I have very poor and unhappy brains for
drinking. I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom
of entertainment.
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CASSIO
Not tonight, Iago. I’m not much of a drinker. I wish
there was less social pressure to drink.
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IAGO
Oh, they are our friends. But one cup. I’ll drink for
you.
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IAGO
Oh, but these are our friends. Just one glass. I’ll do
most of the drinking for you.
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CASSIO
I have drunk but one cup tonight, and that was craftily qualified
too, and behold what innovation it makes here. I am unfortunate in
the infirmity, and dare not task my weakness with any more.
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CASSIO
I’ve already had a glass of wine tonight, watered down,
but look how drunk I am. I’m not a heavy drinker. I
wouldn’t dare drink much more than that.
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IAGO
What, man, ’tis a night of revels! The gallants desire
it.
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IAGO
What are you talking about, man? Tonight is for celebrating! The
gentlemen are waiting.
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CASSIO
Where are they?
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CASSIO
Where are they?
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IAGO
Here at the door. I pray you call them in.
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IAGO
By the door. Please invite them in.
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CASSIO
I’ll do ’t, but it dislikes me.
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CASSIO
I’ll do it, but I don’t like it.
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