...and moving finger at Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; 55 But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life,...discarded thence, Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads 60 To knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin!...

...but, alas, to make me The fixed figure for the time of scorn To point his slow and moving finger at ! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; But there,...it as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in!1 Whether it was a beloved's actual unworthiness or the machinations of an lago that could lead...

...vertu sublime! Suffering defeats Shakespeare's Othello. It brutalises him and discomposes his language: But there, where I have garner'd up my heart, Where...as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in! De Vigny's Othello masters his suffering, and alchemises it into eloquence: Mais 1'asile adore 1 ,...

...(iv.2.49) if only he could have been protected from the final degradation of losing his peace of mind, 'there where I have garner'd up my heart, Where either...as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in ! (iv.2.57) lago in one of his ugly passages describes to Roderigo what will be Desdemona's course...

...unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well. 65 But there, where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life,...discarded thence! Or keep it as a cistern for foul toads 70 To knot and gender in! — Turn thy complexion there. Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin....

...heart, Where either I must live or bear no life, The foundation from the which my current runs, 60 Or else dries up — to be discarded thence! Or keep...Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin, Ay, there, look grim as hell! DESDEM. I hope my noble lord esteems me honest....

...iii. 349-50) It is not words that shakes me thus — pish! — noses, ears, and lips. (IV.i./ji-i) The fountain from the which my current runs, Or else...as a cistern for foul toads To knot and gender in! (IV.ii.6o-3) Goats and monkeys! (IV.i.2(k>) 'Catching occasions to ease the mind by ambiguities' is...

...unmoving finger at! Yet could I bear that too, well, very well; 55 But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life,...current runs Or else dries up - to be discarded thence words he is pronouncing, he sounds as though he were toying with the notion of an impossible flight...

...with Cassio, Othello reflects on his quandary with murderous rage. But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life,...Turn thy complexion there, Patience, thou young and rose-lipped cherubin, Ay, here look grim as hell. [ivii 57-64] What is Othello thinking about? The...

...should have found in some place of my soul A drop of patience. . . . But there where I have garnered up my heart, Where either I must live or bear no life,...runs Or else dries up — to be discarded thence! (4.2.49-62) Eventually recovering enough of his accustomed self-control to undertake a familiar campaign...