English subtitles for clip: File:20090512 James Earl Jones - Othello (I. iii) at the White House (trimmed).ogv

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Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors,

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My very noble and approved good masters,

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That I have taken away this good man’s daughter,

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It is most true; true, I’ve married her:

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The very head and front of my offending

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Hath this extent, no more. Rude am I in my speech,

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And little bless’d with the soft phrase of peace:

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For since these arms of mine had seven years’ pith,

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Till now some nine moons wasted, they have used

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Their dearest action in the tented field,

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And little of this great world can I speak,

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More than pertains to feats of broil and battle,

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And therefore little shall I grace my cause

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In speaking for myself. Yet, by your gracious patience,

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I will a round unvarnish’d tale deliver

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Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms,

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What conjuration and what mighty magic,

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For such proceeding I am charged withal.

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Her father loved me; oft invited me;

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Still question’d me the story of my life,

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From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,

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I have passed.

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I ran it through, even from my boyish days,

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To the very moment he bade me tell it;

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Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances,

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Of moving accidents by flood and field

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Of hair-breadth scapes in the imminent deadly breach,

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Of being taken by the insolent foe

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And sold to slavery, of my redemption thence

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And portance of my travels’ history:

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Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle,

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Rough quarries, rocks and hills whose heads touch heaven

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It was my hint to speak,—such was the process;

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And of the Cannibals that each other eat,

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The Anthropophagi, men whose heads

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Do grow beneath their shoulders.

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This to hear

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Would Desdemona seriously incline:

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But still the house-affairs would draw her thence:

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Which ever as she could with haste dispatch,

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She’ld come again, and with a greedy ear

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Devour up my discourse: which I observing,

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Took once a pliant hour, and found good means

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To draw from her a prayer of earnest heart

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That I would all my pilgrimage dilate,

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Whereof by parcels she had something heard,

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But not intentively: I did consent,

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And often did beguile her of her tears,

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When I did speak of some distressful stroke

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My youth suffer’d. My story being done,

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She gave me for my pains a world of tears:

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She swore, in faith, ’twas strange, ’twas passing strange,

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’Twas pitiful, ’twas wondrous pitiful:

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She wish’d she had not heard it, yet she wish’d

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That heaven had made for her such a man: she thank’d me,

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And bade me, if I had friend that loved her,

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I should but teach him how to tell my story.

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And that would woo her. Upon this hint I spoke:

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She loved me for the dangers I have pass’d,

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And I loved her that she did pity them.

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This only is the witchcraft I have used.