 | William Shakespeare - 1843 - 646 pages
...short straps of leather tied about the foot of a hawk, by which she was held on the fist. 5 I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind, To prey at fortune.] The falconers, Johnson observes, always let fly the hawk against the wind ; if she flies with the wind... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1976 - 328 pages
...horns. 285 napkin, handkerchief. SD Not in Q, F. I'd whistle her off, and let her down the wind 260 To prey at fortune. Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years... | |
 | Jane Adamson - Drama - 1980 - 316 pages
...worse than it seems from lago's account. The savage, punishing bitterness against Desdemona (Td whistle her off, and let her down the wind/ To prey at fortune') accompanies - is indeed the only way he can allow himself to articulate - a savage, bitter fear of... | |
 | Mark Twain - Fiction - 1982 - 1190 pages
...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
...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
...dealings. 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.* Haply, for I am black And have not those soft parts of conversation* That chamberers* have, or for I am declined 270 Into the vale of... | |
 | 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
...into Anger. "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!" A long Pause, as to ruminate. "Haply, for I am black, And have not those soft Parts of Conversation... | |
 | Walter C. Kaiser, Moisés Silva - Religion - 1994 - 306 pages
...For example: // / 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 (3.3-260-63) Even after we find out that haggard = "hawk" and that jesses = "fastenings," we may find... | |
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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. 
