 | 1839 - 366 pages
...unprincipled man, who seeing the weakest side has taken advantage, and after having ruined his victim, he'll " Whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune." If a man will assert that either the " eligible" or the " fashionable" marriage carries out the true... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...honesty, And knows all qualities with a learned spirit Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,...off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1982 - 1190 pages
...is from falconry. Made suspicious of Dcsdemona's virtue, Othello says that if she prove "wild," "Fid whistle her off and let her down the wind, / To prey at fortune." According to Samuel Johnson, if the falconer lets the hawk fly with the wind behind her, she will seldom... | |
 | Robert Browning - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 532 pages
...iii. 260—3: 'If I do prove her haggard, / Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, / I 'Id whistle her off, and let her down the wind / To prey at fortune.' 714—15 piped .. .finch: finches, canaries, and other songbirds were often played music in order to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2012 - 380 pages
...honesty. And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,* Though that her jesses* were my dear heart-strings,...off and let her down the wind To prey at fortune.* Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation* That chamberers* have, or for... | |
 | Michael E. Mooney - Drama - 1990 - 260 pages
...(3.3.180-182). "If I do prove her haggard, / Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, / lid whistle her off, and let her down the wind / To prey at fortune" he continues later, "plagued" with thoughts that, like "flies," "quicken" "even with blowing" (3.3.260-263,... | |
 | Marvin Rosenberg - Drama - 1992 - 340 pages
...first temptation, he seemed unmistakably the image of a jealous husband. At If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,...off, and let her down the wind to prey at fortune . . . ... I'd rather be a toad, And live upon the vapour of a dungeon, Than keep a corner of the thing... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1992 - 180 pages
...honesty, And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit, Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings,...whistle her off and let her down the wind To prey at fortune.92 Haply, for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have,... | |
 | Walter C. Kaiser, Moisés Silva - Religion - 1994 - 306 pages
...never seen before or that seem to have very unusual meanings. For example: // / do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings...her off and let her down the wind To prey at fortune (3.3-260-63) Even after we find out that haggard = "hawk" and that jesses = "fastenings," we may find... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...censured as not very likely to restrain them by their virtue. (VIII, 397) [219] [Ibid., 3.3.266f.: Othello I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind To prey at fortune.] The falconers always let fly the hawk against the wind; if she flies with the wind behind her she seldom... | |
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If I do prove her haggard, Though that her jesses were my dear heart-strings, I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune. 
