1 It is impossible to bear it out.
2 I would do much To atone them, for the love I bear to Cassio.
3 Some good man bear him carefully from hence, I'll fetch the general's surgeon.
4 Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhor'd her, Thrown such despite and heavy terms upon her, As true hearts cannot bear.
5 Of thirty sail, and now they do re-stem Their backward course, bearing with frank appearance Their purposes toward Cyprus.
6 I am glad of it, for now I shall have reason To show the love and duty that I bear you With franker spirit: therefore, as I am bound, Receive it from me.
7 So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile, We lose it not so long as we can smile; He bears the sentence well, that nothing bears But the free comfort which from thence he hears; But he bears both the sentence and the sorrow That, to pay grief, must of poor patience borrow.
8 For do but stand upon the foaming shore, The chidden billow seems to pelt the clouds, The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main, Seems to cast water on the burning Bear, And quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole; I never did like molestation view On the enchafed flood.
9 When we consider The importancy of Cyprus to the Turk; And let ourselves again but understand That, as it more concerns the Turk than Rhodes, So may he with more facile question bear it, For that it stands not in such warlike brace, But altogether lacks the abilities That Rhodes is dress'd in.