...brighten. I heard him more than once quote a line from Shakespeare's Othello: "Speak of me as I am ... of one whose hand, like the base Indian, threw a pearl away richer than all his tribe. . . ." One day I came down from the catfish-holding tank and found Billy standing under Esau's mulberry...

...intentional ; and this, too, in the mouth of a lady's woman ! Act v. last scene. Othello's speech : — - Of one, whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe, <fec. , Theobald's note from Warburton. Thus it is for no-poets to comment on the greatest of poets...

...wrought, 346 Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, 347 Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away 348 Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, 350 Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees 351 Their medicinable gum. Set you down this. And say...

...1780) and BECKWITH (J. £. GP, 1926, XXV, 239) compare Othello, V.ii.348-351, "of one whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their med'cinable gum." 6. deaths dateles night] MALONE (ed. 1780): Shakspeare generally uses . . . dateless...

...textually suspect but highly suggestive line at the end of Othello, when Othello refers to himself as "one whose hand, / Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away / Richer than all his tribe."94 With the mention of a very precious pearl, it seems hard to believe that some reference to...

...one that loved, not wisely, but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base...Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Set you down this : And say, besides, that in Aleppo once When a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian, and traduced...

...Then must you speak 340 Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose...Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, 345 Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drops tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum....

...malice. Then must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose...pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their med'cinable...

...Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe. (5. 2. 339-46) Othello aims to prove that he has regained his "speculative instrument" by offering...

...malice: then must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdu'd eyes, Albeit unused to the...