 Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous: Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear, or doubt of her...  The Stranger in France: Or, A Tour from Devonshire to Paris - Page 225by Sir John Carr - 1803 - 261 pagesFull view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 652 pages
...folio reads merely, " Is to be resolv'd," with much loss of force and meaning. Matching thy inference. Tis not to make me jealous, To say — my wife is...company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well8; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 380 pages
...in abhorrence or contempt. Exsufflicate may thus signify contemptible. Matching thy inference. 'T is not to make me jealous, To say my wife is fair, feeds...company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances ; Where virtue is, these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 582 pages
...turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'T is not to make me jealous. To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company; nsi 2 Is free of speech ; sings, plays, and dances well : Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 594 pages
...my sold To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make nujealous, To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company; Is free of speed) ; sings, plays, and dances well : Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1844 - 554 pages
...the business of my soul To s .ieh exsufflicate and blown surmises , Matching thy inference. "I' is not to make me jealous , To say — my wife is fair...Where virtue is , these are more virtuous : Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear , or doubt of her revolt ; For she had eyes , and... | |
 | Health - 1937 - 684 pages
...Shakespearean characters are much given to dancing. " ' 'Tis not to make me jealous,' said Othello, 'to say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, is free of speech, sings, plays and dances well' " (iii 3, 183). "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven ... a time... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1976 - 328 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul 180 To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair,...Where virtue is, these are more virtuous. Nor from mine own weak merits will I draw The smallest fear or doubt of her revolt, For she had eyes, and chose... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...shall turn the business of my soul To such exsufflicate and blown surmises, Matching thy inference. 'Tis not to make me jealous To say my wife is fair, loves company, Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well: Where virtue is, these are more virtuous.... | |
 | Daphne Patai - Brazilian fiction - 1983 - 268 pages
...narrative that Barroso uses as an epigraph. Desdemona is characterized by Othello as being a woman who is "fair, feeds well, loves company,/ Is free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well" (act 3, sc. 3). Maria Corina is of the same type. The very attractiveness of such women, their love... | |
 | Kent Cartwright - Literary Criticism - 2010 - 301 pages
...Othello, for example, defends Desdemona s behavior before lago attacks it: "Tis not to make me jealious / To say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company, / Is free of speech" ( 183-85). If Othello sounds prematurely defensive here, he sounds so because we hear him from far... | |
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