Shakespeare's "Othello", Act III, scene 3, lines 294 to 384.......Emilia's "I am glad I have found this napkin" to Othello's "Nay, stay, thou shouldst be honest".
go here to see Laurence Olivier do this same bit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDXG04pIH_0
Ian McKellen ... Iago
Willard White ... Othello
Zoë Wanamaker ... Emilia
Othello (2006 film)
from Leo Africanus' A Geographical History of Africa (Trans. John Pory. 1600):
The commendable actions and vertues of the Africans
The Arabians which inhabite in Barbarie or vpon the coast of the Mediterran sea, are greatly addicted vnto the studie of good artes and sciences: and those things which concerne their law and religion are esteemed by them in the first place.....Likewise they are most strong and valiant people, especially those which dwell vpon the mountaines. They keepe their couenant most faithfully; insomuch that they had rather die than breake promise. No nation in the world is so subiect vnto iealousie; for they will rather leese their lives, then put vp any disgrace in the behalfe of their women....
As doubtful thoughts, and rash-embraced despair,
And shuddering fear, and green-eyed jealousy!
--"The Merchant of Venice" (3.2.115-16)
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