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Her will, recoiling to her better judgment,May fall to match you with her country formsAnd happily repent.Othello Act III, scene iOTHELLO: Fear not my government.IAGO: I once more take my leave.OTHELLO:Farewell, farewell:If more thou dost perceive, let me know more;Set on thy wife to observe: leave me, Iago:IAGO: [Going] My lord, I take my leave.OTHELLO: Why did I marry? This honest creature doubtlessSees and knows more, much more, than he unfolds.IAGO: [Returning] My lord, I would I might entreatyour honorTo scan this thing no further; leave it to time:Though it be fit that Cassio have his place,For sure, he fills it up with great ability,Yet, if you please to hold him off awhile,You shall by that perceive him and his means:Note, if your lady strain his entertainmentWith any strong or vehement importunity;Much will be seen in that. In the mean time,Let me be thought too busy in my fears—As worthy cause I have to fear I am—And hold her free, I do beseech your honor.[Exit.]OTHELLO: This fellow’s of exceeding honesty,And knows all qualities, with a learned spirit,Of human dealings. If I do prove her haggard,Though that her jesses were my dear heartstrings,I’ld whistle her off and let her down the wind,To pray at fortune. Haply, for I am blackAnd have not those soft parts of conversationThat chamberers have, or for I am declinedInto the vale of years,—yet that’s not much—She’s gone. I am abused; and my reliefMust be to loathe her. O curse of marriage,That we can call these delicate creatures ours,And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad,And live upon the vapor of a dungeon,Than keep a corner in the thing I loveFor others’ uses. Yet, ’tis the plague of great ones;Prerogatived are they less than the base;’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death:Even then this forked plague is fated to usWhen we do quicken. Desdemona comes:50
[Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA.]Othello Act III, scene iiiDESDEMONA: I am very sorry that you are not well.If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!I’ll not believe’t.DESDEMONA:How now, my dear Othello!Your dinner, and the generous islandersBy you invited, do attend your presence.OTHELLO: I am to blame.DESDEMONA:Are you not well?Why do you speak so faintly?OTHELLO: I have a pain upon my forehead here.DESDEMONA: ‘Faith, that’s with watching; ‘twill awayagain:Let me but bind it hard, within this hourIt will be well.[Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.]EMILIA: I am glad I have found this napkin:This was her first remembrance from the Moor:My wayward husband hath a hundred timesWoo’d me to steal it; but she so loves the token,For he conjured her she should ever keep it,That she reserves it evermore about herTo kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out,And give’t Iago: what he will do with itHeaven knows, not I;I nothing but to please his fantasy.[Re-enter Iago.]IAGO: How now! what do you here alone?EMILIA: Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.OTHELLO:Your napkin is too little:IAGO: A thing for me? it is a common thing—[He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops.]Let it alone. Come, I’ll go in with you.EMILIA: Ha!IAGO: To have a foolish wife.51
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[Re-enter DESDEMONA and EMILIA.]Othello Act III, scene iiiDESDEMONA: I am very sorry that you are not well.If she be false, O, then heaven mocks itself!I’ll not believe’t.DESDEMONA:How now, my dear Othello!Your dinner, and the generous islandersBy you invited, do attend your presence.OTHELLO: I am to blame.DESDEMONA:Are you not well?Why do you speak so faintly?OTHELLO: I have a pain upon my forehead here.DESDEMONA: ‘Faith, that’s with watching; ‘twill awayagain:Let me but bind it hard, within this hourIt will be well.[Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.]EMILIA: I am glad I have found this napkin:This was her first remembrance from the Moor:My wayward husband hath a hundred timesWoo’d me to steal it; but she so loves the token,For he conjured her she should ever keep it,That she reserves it evermore about herTo kiss and talk to. I’ll have the work ta’en out,<strong>An</strong>d give’t Iago: what he will do with itHeaven knows, not I;I nothing but to please his fantasy.[Re-enter Iago.]IAGO: How now! what do you here alone?EMILIA: Do not you chide; I have a thing for you.OTHELLO:Your napkin is too little:IAGO: A thing for me? it is a common thing—[He puts the handkerchief from him; and it drops.]Let it alone. Come, I’ll go in with you.EMILIA: Ha!IAGO: To have a foolish wife.51
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