...I have done the state some service, and they know't. No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am. Nothing extentuate. Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too...

...fragmentation. 28 This sense of self-construction and disintegration is presented in Othello's final speech: When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ... of one whose hand, Like the base Judean, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose...

...well with my own in the Church — without, in my case, the attendant heroism — I ask only that you "speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice." I know that among those, especially the young, who place the host upon a tempting tongue,...

...have done the state some service, and they know't — No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...as I am. Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous,...

...know what we are, but know not what we may be. Ophelia— Hamlet IV.v I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but...

...heart . . . And in this harsh world draw they breath in pain, To tell my story. (Hamlet V, ii, 360-363) When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...me as I am; nothing extenuate Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. Socratic sense. He seeks flattery;...

...not only in their elegiac content, but also in their epistolary form: I pray you, in your letters. When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...as I am. Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. (5.2.349-52) The Heroides are the exemplary letters concerning 'unlucky deeds'; Ovid's deserted...

.../ have done the state some service, and they know 't; No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then, must you speak Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well. The lines from Othello fell...

...and property. In his final speech, Othello offers the following account of this tragic entanglement: When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of...as I am. Nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous,...

...resolved to take his own life, he stops his groaning, and addresses the ambassadors of Venice thus: Speak of me as I am : nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice : then, must you speak Of one that loved, not wisely, but too well ; Of one not easily jealous,...