Othello by William Shakespeare

   Are not you a strumpet 88 ?
    DESDEMONA    No, as I am a Christian:
     If to preserve this vessel 90 for my lord
     From any other foul unlawful touch
     Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.
    OTHELLO    What, not a whore?
    DESDEMONA    No, as I shall be saved.
    OTHELLO    Is’t possible?
    DESDEMONA    O, heaven forgive us!
    OTHELLO    I cry you mercy 97 , then:
     I took you for that cunning whore of Venice
     That married with Othello.— You, mistress,
    Calls
    Enter Emilia
         That have the office opposite 100 to Saint Peter
     And keeps the gate of hell 101 ! You, you, ay, you!
     We have done our course 102 : there’s money for your pains.
     I pray you turn the key and keep our counsel 103 .
    Exit
Gives money
    EMILIA    Alas, what does this gentleman conceive 104 ?
     How do you, madam? How do you, my good lady?
    DESDEMONA    Faith, half asleep 106 .
    EMILIA    Good madam, what’s the matter with my lord?
    DESDEMONA    With who?
    EMILIA    Why, with my lord, madam.
    DESDEMONA    Who is thy lord?
    EMILIA    He that is yours, sweet lady.
    DESDEMONA    I have none. Do not talk to me, Emilia:
     I cannot weep, nor answers have I none
     But what should go by water 114 . Prithee, tonight
     Lay on my bed my wedding sheets: remember,
     And call thy husband hither.
    EMILIA    Here’s a change indeed!
    Exit
    DESDEMONA    ’Tis meet 118 I should be used so, very meet.
      How have I been behaved, that he might stick
     The small’st opinion on my least misuse 119 ?
    Enter Iago and Emilia
    IAGO    What is your pleasure, madam?
     How is’t with you?
    DESDEMONA    I cannot tell. Those that do teach young babes
     Do it with gentle means and easy tasks:
     He might have chid me so, for, in good faith,
     I am a child to chiding 126 .
    IAGO    What’s the matter, lady?
    EMILIA    Alas, Iago, my lord hath so bewhored her 128 ,
     Thrown such despite 129 and heavy terms upon her,
     That true hearts cannot bear it.
    DESDEMONA    Am I that name, Iago?
    IAGO    What name, fair lady?
    DESDEMONA    Such as she said my lord did say I was.
    EMILIA    He called her whore: a beggar in his drink
     Could not have laid such terms upon his callet 135 .
    IAGO    Why did he so?
    DESDEMONA    I do not know: I am sure I am none such.
    Weeps
    IAGO    Do not weep, do not weep. Alas the day!
    EMILIA    Hath she forsook 139 so many noble matches?
     Her father? And her country? And her friends?
     To be called whore? Would it not make one weep?
    DESDEMONA    It is my wretched fortune.
    IAGO    Beshrew 143 him for’t!
     How comes this trick 144 upon him?
    DESDEMONA    Nay, heaven doth know.
    EMILIA    I will be hanged if some eternal villain,
     Some busy and insinuating rogue,
     Some cogging 148 , cozening slave, to get some office,
     Have not devised this slander: I will be hanged else.
    IAGO    Fie, there is no such man: it is impossible.
    DESDEMONA    If any such there be, heaven pardon him!
    EMILIA    A halter 152 pardon him! And hell gnaw his bones!
     Why should he call her whore? Who keeps her company?
     What place? What time? What form 154 ? What likelihood?
     The Moor’s abused by some most villainous knave,
     Some base notorious knave, some scurvy 156 fellow.
     O heavens, that such companions 157 thou’dst unfold,
     And put in every honest hand a whip
     To lash the rascals naked through the world
     Even from the east to th’west!
    IAGO    Speak within door 161 .
    EMILIA    O, fie upon them! Some such squire 162 he was
     That turned your wit the seamy side without 163
     And made you to suspect me with the Moor.
    IAGO    You are a fool: go to.
    DESDEMONA    Alas,