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The flash and outbreak of a fiery mind,
A savageness in unreclaimed blood.

      — Hamlet, Act II Scene 1

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KEYWORD: ere

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1

Othello
[I, 3]

Iago

669

O villainous! I have looked upon the world for four
times seven years; and since I could distinguish
betwixt a benefit and an injury, I never found man
that knew how to love himself. Ere I would say, I
would drown myself for the love of a guinea-hen, I
would change my humanity with a baboon.

2

Othello
[II, 3]

Iago

1214

Why, he drinks you, with facility, your Dane dead
drunk; he sweats not to overthrow your Almain; he
gives your Hollander a vomit, ere the next pottle
can be filled.

3

Othello
[III, 4]

Cassio

2391

I know not, sweet: I found it in my chamber.
I like the work well: ere it be demanded—
As like enough it will—I'ld have it copied:
Take it, and do't; and leave me for this time.

4

Othello
[V, 2]

Othello

3727

I kiss'd thee ere I kill'd thee: no way but this;
Killing myself, to die upon a kiss.

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