God knows I loved my niece,

God knows I loved my niece,
And she is dead, slandered to death by villains,
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.
Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!

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Done to death by slanderous to...

Done to death by slanderous tongues
Was the Hero that here lies.

I will be hanged if some etern...

I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander.

That thou art blamed shall not...

That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,
For slander's mark was ever yet the fair;
The ornament of beauty is suspect,
A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air.
So thou be good, slander doth but approve
Thy worth the greater, being wooed of time;
For canker vice the sweetest buds doth love,
And thou present'st a pure unstained prime.

I am disgraced, impeached, and...

I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here;
Pierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear,
The which no balm can cure but his heart-blood
Which breathed this poison.

If I can do it
By aught...

If I can do it
By aught that I can speak in his dispraise,
She shall not long continue love to him.

Virtue itself scapes not calum...

Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes.

If thou dost marry, I'll give ...

If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be
thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape
calumny.

Praise her but for this her wi...

Praise her but for this her without-door form--
Which on my faith deserves high speech--and straight
The shrug, the hum or ha, these pretty brands
That calumny doth use--O, I am out,
That mercy does, for calumny will sear
Virtue itself--these shrugs, these hums and ha's,
When you have said she's goodly, come between
Ere you can say she's honest.

But that your royal pleasure m...

But that your royal pleasure must be done,
This act is as an ancient tale new told,
And in the last repeating troublesome,
Being urged at a time unreasonable.

Foul whisp'rings are abroad....

Foul whisp'rings are abroad.

(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip...

(Salerio:) . . . if my gossip Report be an honest woman of her
word.
(Solanio:) I would she were as lying a gossip in that as ever
knapped ginger or made her neighbors believe she wept for the
death of a third husband.

For 'tis the sport to have the...

For 'tis the sport to have the enginer
Hoist with his own petar, and 't shall go hard
But I will delve one yard below their mines
And blow them at the moon.

I have offended reputation,

I have offended reputation,
A most unnoble swerving.

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I see my reputation is at stak...

I see my reputation is at stake;
My fame is shrewdly gored.

O, I have lost my reputation! ...

O, I have lost my reputation! I have lost the immortal part of
myself, and what remains is bestial. My reputation, Iago, my
reputation!

My dear dear lord,
The ...

My dear dear lord,
The purest treasure mortal times afford
Is spotless reputation. That away,
Man are but gilded loam or painted clay.

Thy deathbed is no lesser than...

Thy deathbed is no lesser than thy land,
Wherein thou liest in reputation sick;
And thou, too careless patient as thou art,
Committ'st thy anointed body to the cure
Of those physicians that first wounded thee.

If you can't get rid of the sk...

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best
teach it to dance.

I will be gone,
That pi...

I will be gone,
That pitiful rumor may report my flight
To consolate thine ear.