Shakespeare, William · published 1622 · first performed or written 1604 [c.1603-1604] (Annals) tragedy · King's Men · Blackfriars unassigned nearest T33 Fathers, daughters and marriage negotiat · 481 words · other edition — not in the analysis
Marked words are the most distinguishing words of the nearest topic T33: daughter, marriage, father, love, davus, matter, son, chremes, wife, mother.
My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty: To you I am bound for life and education; My life and education both do learn me How to respect you, you are Lord of all my duty, I am hitherto your daughter, But here's my husband: And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father. So much I challenge, that I may profess, to the Moor my Lord, God bye, I ha' done: Please it your Grace, on to the State affairs; I had rather to adopt a child then get it; Come hither Moor: I here do give thee that, with all my heart I would keep from thee: for your sake jewel, I am glad at soul. I have no other child, For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on 'em, I have done my Lord. Let me speak like yourself, and lay a sentence Which as a greese or step may help these lovers Into your favour. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended, By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended, , To mourn a mischief that is past and gone, Is the next way to draw more mischief on; What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief, He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. So let the Turk, of Cypress us beguile, We lose it not so long as we can smile; He bears the sentence well that nothing bears, But the free comfort, which from thence he hears: But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow, That to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow. These sentences to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equivocal: But words are words, I never yet did hear, That the bruised heart was pierced through the ear: Beseech you now, to the affairs of the state. The Turk with most mighty preparation makes for Cypres: Othello, the fortitude of the place, is best known to you, and though we have there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects, throws a more safer voice on you: you must therefore be content to slubber the gloss of your new fortunes, with this more stubborn and boisterous expedition. The tyrant custom most great Senators, Hath made the flinty and steel Cooch of war, My thrice driven bed of down: I do agnize A natural and prompt alacrity, I find in hardness, and would undertake This present wars against the Ottamites, Most humbly therefore, bending to your State, I crave fit disposition for my wife, Due reverence of place and exhibition, Which such accommodation? and besort A leuels with her breeding. If you please, bebees at her fathers. I'll not have it so. Nor I.
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Original spelling (EEBO-TCP, unregularized)
My noble father, I doe perceiue here a deuided duty: To you I am bound for lfe and education; My life and education both do learne me How to respect you, you are Lord of all my duty, I am hitherto your daughter, But heere's my husband: And so much duty as my mother shewed To you, preferring you before her father. So much I challenge, that I may profess, Moore my Lord, God bu'y, I ha done: Please it your Grace, on to the State affaires; I had rather to adopt a child then get it; Come hither Moore: I here doe giue thee that, with all my heart I would keepe from thee: for your sake Ieell, I am glad at soule. I haue no other child, For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on em, I haue done my Lord. Let me speake like your selfe, and lay a sentence Which as a greese or step may helpe these louers Into your fauour. When remedies are past, the griefes are ended, By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended▪ To mourne a mischeife that is past and gone, Is the next way to draw more mischiefe on; What cannot be preseru'd when fortune takes, Patience her iniury a mockery makes. The rob'd that smiles, steales something from the thiefe, He robs himselfe, that spends a bootelesse griefe. So let the Turke, of Cypres vs beguile, We lose it not so long as we can smile; He beares the sentence well that nothing beares, But the free comfort, which from thence he heares: But he beares both the sentence and the sorrow, That to pay griefe, must of poore patience borrow. These sentences to sugar, or to gall, Being strong on both sides, are equiuocall: But words are words, I neuer yet did heare, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the are: Beseech you now, to the affaires of the state. The Turke with most mighty preparation makes for Cipre: Othell, the fortitude of the place, is best knowne to you, and tho we haue there a substitute of most allowed sufficiency, yet opinion, a soueraigne mistresse of effects, throwes a more safer voyce on you: you must therefore bee content to slubber the gloss of your new fornes, with this more stubborne and boisterous expedition. The tyrant custome most great Senators, Hath made the flinty and steele Cooch of warre, My thrice driuen bed of downe: I doe agize A naturall and prompt alacrity, I finde in hardnesse, and would vndertake This present warres against the Ottamites, Most humbly therefore, bending to your State, I craue fit disposition for my wife, Due reuerence of place and exhibition, Which such accomodation? and besort A leuels with her breeding. If you please, bee' at her fathers. Ile not haue it so. Nor I.