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Another room In the castle. Enter OTHELLO, LODOVICO, DESDEMONA, EMILIA
and Attendants
LODOVICO
I do beseech you sir, trouble yourself no further.
OTHELLO
Oh pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.
LODOVICO
Madam, good night: I humbly thank your ladyship.
DESDEMONA
Your honor is most welcome.
OTHELLO
Will you walk, sir?
Oh Desdemona.
DESDEMONA
My lord.
OTHELLO
Get you to bed on the instant, I will be returned forthwith: dismiss your
attendant there: look it be done.
DESDEMONA
I will my lord.
[Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants]
EMILIA
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How goes | it now?| He looks | gentler | than he
did.
DESDEMONA
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He says | he will | return | incon|tinent,
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He hath | command|ed me | to go | to bed,
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And bade | me to | dismiss | you.
EMILIA
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Dis|miss me?
DESDEMONA
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It was his | bidding:| therefore | good E|milia,
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Give me | my night|ly wear|ing, and | adieu.
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We must | not now | displease | him.
EMILIA
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Aye, would / you had | never | seen him.
(tetra with prev)
DESDEMONA
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So would / not I:| my love | doth so | approve
him,
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That ev|en his stub|bornness,| his checks,| his frowns,
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(Prithee | unpin / me) have | grace and | favor.
EMILIA
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I have laid | those^sheets | you bade | me on |
the bed.
DESDEMONA
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All's one: good | Father,| how fool|ish are our
minds? ??
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If I | do die | before,| prithee | shroud me
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In one | of those same | sheets.
EMILIA
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Come, come:| you talk.
DESDEMONA
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My moth|er had | a maid called Bar|bara,
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She was in | love: and | he she | loved proved
mad,
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And did | forsake | her. She | had a song | of
willow,
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An old thing 'twas:| but it ex|pressed her | fortune,
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And she / died sing|ing it.| That song | tonight,
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Will not | go* from | my mind:| I have much | to
do,
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But to / go hang | my head | all at one side
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And sing | it like poor Bar|bara: prith|ee
dispatch.
EMILIA
Shall I go fetch your night-gown?
DESDEMONA
No, unpin me here,
This Lodovico is a proper man.
EMILIA
A very handsome man.
DESDEMONA
He speaks well.
EMILIA
I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch
of his nether lip.
DESDEMONA [Singing]
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The poor soul | sat sighing | by a syca|more tree,
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Sing^all a | green wil|low: |
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Her hand on | her bosom,| her head on | her knee,
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Sing^willow,| willow,| willow.|
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The fresh streams | ran* by her,| and murmured |
her moans
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Sing^willow,| willow,| willow.
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Her salt tears | fell* from her,| and softened |
the stones,
[Singing]
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oo
Sing^willow,| willow,| willow.|
(Lay by these)
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Sing^willow,| willow,| willow.
(Prithee hie thee: he'll come anon)
[Singing]
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Sing^all a | green wil|low must be | my garland.
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Let nobo|dy blame him,| his scorn I | approve.
(Nay that's not next. Hark, who is it that
knocks?)
EMILIA
It's the wind.
DESDEMONA [Singing]
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I called my | love^false love*:| but what said^|he then?
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Sing^willow,| willow,| willow.
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If I court | more* women,| you'll couch with |
more* men.
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So get | thee gone,| good^night:| mine eyes | do
itch:
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Doth that | bode^weep|ing?
EMILIA
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'Tis neith|er here,| nor there.
DESDEMONA
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I have heard | it said | so. O | these men,|
these men!
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Dost thou | in con|science think |(tell me
E|milia)
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That there be | women | do a|buse their |
husbands
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In such gross kind?
EMILIA
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There be some | such, no | question.
DESDEMONA
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Wouldst thou | do such | a deed | for all | the
world?
EMILIA
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Why, would | not you?
DESDEMONA
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No,| by this heaven|ly light.
EMILIA
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Nor I | neither,| by this | heaven|ly light:
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I might | do it | as well | in the dark.
DESDEMONA
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Wouldst thou | do such | a deed | for all | the
world?
EMILIA
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The world's | a huge | thing:
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It | is a / great
price.
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For a / small vice.
DESDEMONA
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In troth,| I think | thou wouldst not.
EMILIA
In troth I think I should, and undo it when I had done. Marry, I would not
do such a thing for a joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for gowns,
petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty exhibition. But for the whole
world: why, who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him a monarch?
I should venture purgatory for it.
DESDEMONA
Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong
For the whole world.
EMILIA
Why, the wrong is but a wrong in the world; and having the world for your
labor, tis a wrong in your own world, and you might quickly make it right.
DESDEMONA
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I do | not think | there is an|y such | woman.
EMILIA
Yes, a dozen: and as many to the vantage, as would store the world they
played for.
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But I | do think | it is | their hus|bands'
faults
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If wives | do fall:| (say that they | slack their
| duties,
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And pour | our treas|ures in|to for|eign laps,
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Or else | break^out | in peev|ish jeal|ousies,
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Throwing | restraint | upon us.| Or say | they
strike us,
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Or scant | our form|er hav|ing in | despite)
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Why we | have galls:| and though | we have | some
grace,
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Yet have | we some | revenge.| Let hus|bands know,
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Their wives | have sense | like^them:| they see,| and
smell,
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And have | their pal|ates both | for sweet,| and
sour,
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As hus|bands have.| What is | it that | they do,
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When they | change^us | for oth|ers? Is | it
sport?
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I think | it is:| and doth | affec|tion breed it?
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I think | it doth:| is it frail|ty that / thus errs?
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It is | so too.| And have | not we af|fections?
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Desires | for sport?| And frail|ty, as / men
have?
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Then let | them use | us well:| else^let | them
know,
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The ills | we do,| their ills | instruct | us so.
DESDEMONA
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Good night,| good night:
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Heaven | me such | uses | send,
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Not to | pick bad, from | bad; but | by bad, mend. (hex with prev)
[Exeunt]