...invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! . . . O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! That we should with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!' Literature is amply stocked with characters...

...vegetables chosen by the drunkards here serve a similar purpose. 31. Cassio's words in Othello: "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" (II.iii.289-91). 32. Proverbial: "Boys, nor drunken men, do ever come by any harm" (Tilley, Dictionary...

...invisible spirit of mind, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil! . . . O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! . . . and transform . . . [themselves] into beasts!"50 A psychologist decided to test Shakespeare's...

...CASSIO I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains; that we should with joy, pleasance, revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts. lago asks Cassio why he seems clear-headed...

...Cassio losing his lieutenancy through drinking wine; And, in delirium and grief, he exclaims — "Oh, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" A young man in London went to the theatre one night To see the play of George Barnwell, and he got...

...delay. 7. Brightest Heaven, 153f. 6.3. 7 OTHELLO: STRUGGLE OF JEALOUSY [Of Cassio's liquor] O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. —Othello (2.3.291-92) But he that filches from me my good name Robs me ofthat which not enriches...

...Shakespeare, 1598-9, Much Ado About Nothing, II. iii. 18 29:102 [Cassio, on the power of wine] O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! William Shakespeare, 1603-4, Othello, II. iii. 283 29: 103 [Antonio, of Gonzalo] Fie, what a spendthrift...

...Cassio's complaint about the dangers of drink applies almost as well to speech in this play: "O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains!" (2. 3.285-87). 34. See Giorgio Agamben, Stanze: La parola e il fantasma nella cultura occidentale (Turin:...

...Bush's) term. The general agreed with Levin: "Oh, yes sir. I think the chart clearly shows that." Oh God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains. Cassie, Othello. 2, 3 Here are a few other examples of mouth going without brain adequately in charge....

...abnormally susceptible to the pernicious effects of his body's ingestion of alcohol (2.3.30ff): "O god, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brain" (281-3). Poison is Othello's choice for killing Desdemona, before lago persuades him to use...