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Othello

Act IV, Scene 3

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
            ,        ,         ,      ,            2    ,
      How goes | it now?| He looks | gentler | than he did.
 
DESDEMONA
           ,         ,        ,       ,      ,
      He says | he will | return | incon|tinent,
           ,        ,       ,       ,       ,
      He hath | command|ed me | to go | to bed,
            ,     ,           ,     ,
      And bade | me to | dismiss | you.
 
EMILIA
                                              ,
                                        Dis|miss me?
 
DESDEMONA
       ,    2       ,          ,           ,     , 2
      It was his | bidding:| therefore | good E|milia,
        ,            ,        ,        ,       ,
      Give me | my night|ly wear|ing, and | adieu.
           ,         ,         ,           o
      We must | not now | displease | him.
 
EMILIA
       ,     ,                ,        ,
      Aye, would / you had | never | seen him.   (tetra with prev)
 
DESDEMONA
                  ,  ,        ,          ,          x
      So would / not I:| my love | doth so | approve him,
           ,    2      ,        ,           ,            ,
      That ev|en his stub|bornness,| his checks,| his frowns,
         ,        , ,                 ,          ,
      (Prithee | unpin / me) have | grace and | favor.
 
EMILIA
       2       ,             ,           ,        ,        ,
      I have laid | those^sheets | you bade | me on | the bed.
 
DESDEMONA
         T   T     T     ,            ,      3   3      ,
      All's one: good | Father,| how fool|ish are our minds?  ??
         ,       ,        ,     ,           ,
      If I | do die | before,| prithee | shroud me
          ,      2        ,       T
      In one | of those same | sheets.
 
EMILIA
                                        T     T          ,
                                      Come, come:| you talk.
 
DESDEMONA
          ,       ,    .   T     T    T     ,
      My moth|er had | a maid called Bar|bara,
       ,     2       ,          ,         T      T    T
      She was in | love: and | he she | loved proved mad,
           ,         ,          ,       2    ,          x
      And did | forsake | her. She | had a song | of willow,
       .  T    T      T     ,    2      ,           ,
      An old thing 'twas:| but it ex|pressed her | fortune,
                  ,    ,       ,          ,        ,
      And she / died sing|ing it.| That song | tonight,
            ,          ,         ,     2       ,        ,
      Will not | go* from | my mind:| I have much | to do,
                ,   ,         ,     T   .  T    T
      But to / go hang | my head | all at one side
            ,     .   T    T   T          ,     2     ,
      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]
       .    D    D     D    Dx        2   ,         __
      The poor soul | sat sighing | by a syca|more tree,
            ,        D    D       oo   oo
      Sing^all a | green wil|low:    |
            ,            ,            ,            __
      Her hand on | her bosom,| her head on | her knee,
            ,       .  ,       .  ,       oo
      Sing^willow,|   willow,|   willow.|
       .    D      D            ,            ,              ___
      The fresh streams | ran* by her,| and murmured | her moans
            ,       .  ,       .  ,       oo
      Sing^willow,|   willow,|   willow.
       .    D    D             ,             ,               __
      Her salt tears | fell* from her,| and softened | the stones,
 
[Singing]
            ,       .  ,       .  ,       oo
      Sing^willow,|   willow,|   willow.|     (Lay by these)
            ,       .  ,       .  ,       oo
      Sing^willow,|   willow,|   willow.      (Prithee hie thee: he'll come anon)
 
[Singing]
            ,        D    D        ,           ,
      Sing^all a | green wil|low must be | my garland.
           ,        ,               ,          ___
      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]
           ,               ,                 ,            __
      I called my | love^false love*:| but what said^|he then?
            ,       .  ,       .  ,       oo
      Sing^willow,|   willow,|   willow.
       . D   D            ,               ,                ___
      If I court | more* women,| you'll couch with | more* men.
          ,           ,           ,            ,         ,
      So get | thee gone,| good^night:| mine eyes | do itch:
             ,          ,       2
      Doth that | bode^weep|ing?
 
EMILIA
                                       ,         ,          ,
                                 'Tis neith|er here,| nor there.
 
DESDEMONA
       2       ,          ,        ,          ,           ,
      I have heard | it said | so. O | these men,| these men!
             ,        ,            ,       ,    2   , 2
      Dost thou | in con|science think |(tell me E|milia)
        ,       2      ,       ,     ,           ,
      That there be | women | do a|buse their | husbands
       .  T    T     T
      In such gross kind?
 
EMILIA
                               2     ,      ,          ,
                          There be some | such, no | question.
 
DESDEMONA
                ,         ,        ,         ,          ,
      Wouldst thou | do such | a deed | for all | the world?
 
EMILIA
       ,            T   T
      Why, would | not you?
 
DESDEMONA
                             T     2       x         ,
                            No,| by this heaven|ly light.
 
EMILIA
          ,    ,         ,         ,          ,
      Nor I | neither,| by this | heaven|ly light:
          ,      ,           ,      2      ,
      I might | do it | as well | in the dark.
 
DESDEMONA
                ,         ,        ,         ,          ,
      Wouldst thou | do such | a deed | for all | the world?
 
EMILIA
             ,          ,      ,
      The world's | a huge | thing:
                                                  ,     ,
                                    It | is a / great price.
                ,     ,
      For a / small vice.
 
DESDEMONA
                               ,         ,         2         ,
                          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
         ,         ,          2   ,      ,     ,
      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.
          ,        ,         ,          ,            ,
      But I | do think | it is | their hus|bands' faults
           ,          ,      ,      2         ,            ,
      If wives | do fall:| (say that they | slack their | duties,
            ,          ,         ,     ,         ,
      And pour | our treas|ures in|to for|eign laps,
           ,           ,        ,        ,       ,
      Or else | break^out | in peev|ish jeal|ousies,
        ,             ,          x         ,               x
      Throwing | restraint | upon us.| Or say | they strike us,
           ,          ,       ,       ,       ,
      Or scant | our form|er hav|ing in | despite)
           ,          ,            ,          ,           ,
      Why we | have galls:| and though | we have | some grace,
            ,         ,        ,          ,          ,
      Yet have | we some | revenge.| Let hus|bands know,
              ,            ,            ,          ,          ,
      Their wives | have sense | like^them:| they see,| and smell,
            ,           ,         ,          ,           ,
      And have | their pal|ates both | for sweet,| and sour,
          ,          ,          ,        ,          ,
      As hus|bands have.| What is | it that | they do,
             ,            ,       ,         ,        ,
      When they | change^us | for oth|ers? Is | it sport?
          ,         ,         ,       ,            x
      I think | it is:| and doth | affec|tion breed it?
          ,          ,      2     ,               ,    ,
      I think | it doth:| is it frail|ty that / thus errs?
          ,       ,          ,     ,    2    ,
      It is | so too.| And have | not we af|fections?
          ,           ,           ,             ,    ,
      Desires | for sport?| And frail|ty, as / men have?
            ,          ,         ,          ,           ,
      Then let | them use | us well:| else^let | them know,
            ,        ,           ,        ,          ,
      The ills | we do,| their ills | instruct | us so.
 
DESDEMONA
             ,            ,
      Good night,| good night:
                                ,        ,         ,       ,
                               Heaven | me such | uses | send,
       ,         T   T     T     ,          T  T     T
      Not to | pick bad, from | bad; but | by bad, mend.  (hex with prev)
 
[Exeunt]

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