...should'st be honest laga. \ should be wise ; for honesty's a fuol. And loses that it works for. Olh.. By the world, I think my wife be honest, and think she is not ; I think that thou art ju«t, and think thou art nut; I'll have some proof: Her name, that was as fresh As Dian's visage,...

...think my wife be honest, and think she is not : I think thou art just, and think thou art not : I 'll have some proof: her name, that was as fresh As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd and blaek As mine own faee. — If there be eords, or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffoeating streams,...

...Thou should'st be honest. logo. I should be wise ; for honesty's a fool, And loses that it works for. Oth. By the world, I think my wife be honest, and...or knives, Poison, or fire, or suffocating streams, I'll not endure it. — Would I were satisfied ! logo. I see, sir, you are eaten up with passion :...

...Thou shouldst be honest. lago. I should be wise; for honesty 'sa fool, And loses that it works for. Oth. By the world, I think my wife be honest, and...I think that thou art just, and think thou art not ; I ll have some proof : My name,c that was as fresh '' Forgive. The quarto defend. b 1AW St. The man...

...shouldst be honest. IAGO I should be wise; for honesty's a fool, And loses that it works for. OTHELLO By the world, I think my wife be honest, and think...and think thou art not: I'll have some proof. Her name,99 that was as fresh As Dian's visage, is now begrimed and black 390 As mine own face. If there...

...him to imagine himself as the soiling agent. 53. This process has already been elaborated in 3.3: "My name, that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd, and black / As mine own face" (ll. 392-94). Whether we accept Folio's "my" or Second Quarto's "her," the lines point toward the mutuality...

...reputed to be) — before including lago, too, in his uncertainty: By the world, I think my wife to be honest, and think she is not; I think that thou...just, and think thou art not: I'll have some proof. (385ff ) 'Villain', he has said, 'be sure thou prove my love a whore; / . . . give me the ocular proof;...

...is he to believe, Desdemona (that is, his own love for her) or lago (that is, his love for him)— "I think my wife be honest and think she is not; /...think that thou art just and think thou art not." How is he to choose between the woman and the man, that is, what position is he himself to assume in...

...of his colour, when bitterly reflecting on the infamy (itself a form of pollution) of cuckoldom: 'my name that was as fresh / As Dian's visage, is now begrim'd, and black / As mine own face' (3.3.391-3).79 More than the symbolic power of blackness on the Elizabethan stage, such language declares...

...d'Othello, Presses de TUniversite de Picardie, 1987, pp. 96-105. Othello too affirms, and then denies: I think my wife be honest, and think she is not, I think that thou art just, and think thou are not; Ill have some proof. 1n, iii, 390-2 But this statement comes before he obtains the 'proof....