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,