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DESDEMONA:And loyal wife.Othello Act IV, scene iiYour wife, my lord; your trueOTHELLO: Come, swear it, damn thyselfLest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselvesShould fear to seize thee: therefore be double damn’d:Swear thou art honest.DESDEMONA:Heaven doth truly know it.OTHELLO: Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell.DESDEMONA: To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?OTHELLO: O Desdemona! away! away! away!DESDEMONA: Alas the heavy day! Why do you weep?Am I the motive of these tears, my lord?If haply you my father do suspectAn instrument of this your calling back,Lay not your blame on me: If you have lost him,Why, I have lost him too.Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes,I should have found in some place of my soulA drop of patience: but, alas, to make meA fixed figure for the time of scornTo point his slow unmoving finger at!Yet could I bear that too; well, very well:But there, where I have garner’d up my heart,Where either I must live, or bear no life;The fountain from the which my current runs,Or else dries up; to be discarded thence!Or keep it as a cistern for foul toadsTo knot and gender in! Turn thy complexion there,Patience, thou young and rose-lipp’d cherubin,—Ay, there, look grim as hell!DESDEMONA: I hope my noble lord esteems me honest.OTHELLO: O, ay; as summer flies are in the shambles,That quicken even with blowing. O thou weed,Who art so lovely fair and smell’st so sweetThat the sense aches at thee, would thou hadst ne’erbeen born!OTHELLO:Had it pleased heavenTo try me with affliction; had they rain’dAll kinds of sores and shames on my bare head.Steep’d me in poverty to the very lips,74DESDEMONA: Alas, what ignorant sin have I committed?OTHELLO: Was this fair paper, this most goodly book,Made to write ‘whore’ upon? What committed!
Committed! O thou public commoner!I should make very forges of my cheeks,That would to cinders burn up modesty,Did I but speak thy deeds. What committed!Heaven stops the nose at it and the moon winks,The bawdy wind that kisses all it meetsIs hush’d within the hollow mine of earth,And will not hear it. What committed!Impudent strumpet!Othello Act IV, scene iiOTHELLO:I cry you mercy, then:I took you for that cunning whore of VeniceThat married with Othello.[Raising his voice]You, mistress,That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,And keep the gate of hell!DESDEMONA:By heaven, you do me wrong.[Re-enter EMILIA.]OTHELLO: Are you not a strumpet?DESDEMONA:No, as I am a Christian:If to preserve this vessel for my lordFrom any other foul unlawful touchBe not to be a strumpet, I am none.OTHELLO: What, not a whore?You, you, ay, you!We have done our course; there’s money for your pains:I pray you, turn the key and keep our counsel.[Exit.]EMILIA: Alas, what does this gentleman conceive?How do you, madam? how do you, my good lady?DESDEMONA:OTHELLO: Is’t possible?No, as I shall be saved.DESDEMONA: ‘Faith, half asleep.EMILIA: Good madam, what’s the matter with my lord?DESDEMONA:O, heaven forgive us!DESDEMONA: With who?75
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