mss HM 60413, folio 80 recto
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Title: Commonplace book
Date: approximately 1570-approximately 1625
Repository: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Call number and opening: mssHM 60413, fol. 80r
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The Huntington Library has graciously contributed the above images from their collections. Visitors may link to or download these images for personal research or non-commercial publication. As a matter of good scholarly practice and for the benefit of future researchers, we ask that researchers using reproductions of our materials give appropriate credit when quoting from or reproducing an item in the Huntington collections. Images should be captioned with information about the original source, and quotations should be footnoted. For more information about The Huntington's reproduction policy and citation guidelines, please visit their webpages.
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Title: Commonplace book
Date: approximately 1570-approximately 1625
Repository: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Call number and opening: mssHM 60413, fol. 80r
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Othello the Moore of Venice/
O Sir content yow,
I follow him to serve my turne vpon him,
wee cannot be all masteres, nor all masters,
Cannot be truely followed, yow shall marke;
many a dutious & kne-chrookeinge knaue;
that dotinge on his owne obsequious bondage,
weares out his tyme much like his masters Asse
for nought but prouender, & when hees old ch casheird
Whipp me thus such honest knaues:
Others ther arr, who trimd in formes,
& vissages of dutye; keep yet ther hartes,
attendinge on themselves and throwinge
but shewes of service on their Lordes,
do well thriue by’em;
And when they have lin’d their coates,
do them selues homage;
those fellowes have some soul;
and such ano one doe I professe my selfe/
When Remedyes arr past, the greifes arr ended,
by seeming the worst, which late on hopes depended,
to mourne a mischeife that is past & gone;
is the next way to draw more myscheife on,
what cannot be preserued, when fortune takes,
Patience ^her an inurye a mokerye makes
the Robb’d that smyles, steales somethinge from ^ the theife
he robs himself, that spendes a bootlesse greife/
Last updated February 3, 2020
