1 I do beseech you, sir, trouble yourself no further.
OTHELLO
2 O, pardon me: 'twill do me good to walk.
LODOVICO
3 Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship.
DESDEMONA
4 Your honour is most welcome.
OTHELLO
5 Will you walk, sir? 6 O,--Desdemona,--
DESDEMONA
7 My lord?
OTHELLO
8 Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned 9 forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.
DESDEMONA
10 I will, my lord.
Exeunt OTHELLO, LODOVICO, and Attendants
EMILIA
11 How goes it now? he looks gentler than he did.
DESDEMONA
12 He says he will return incontinent: 13 He hath commanded me to go to bed, 14 And bade me to dismiss you.
EMILIA
15 Dismiss me!
DESDEMONA
16 It was his bidding: therefore, good Emilia,. 17 Give me my nightly wearing, and adieu: 18 We must not now displease him.
EMILIA
19 I would you had never seen him!
DESDEMONA
20 So would not I my love doth so approve him, 21 That even his stubbornness, his cheques, his frowns-- 22 Prithee, unpin me,--have grace and favour in them.
EMILIA
23 I have laid those sheets you bade me on the bed.
DESDEMONA
24 All's one. Good faith, how foolish are our minds! 25 If I do die before thee prithee, shroud me 26 In one of those same sheets.
EMILIA
27 Come, come you talk.
DESDEMONA
28 My mother had a maid call'd Barbara: 29 She was in love, and he she loved proved mad 30 And did forsake her: she had a song of 'willow;' 31 An old thing 'twas, but it express'd her fortune, 32 And she died singing it: that song to-night 33 Will not go from my mind; I have much to do, 34 But to go hang my head all at one side, 35 And sing it like poor Barbara. Prithee, dispatch.
EMILIA
36 Shall I go fetch your night-gown?
DESDEMONA
37 No, unpin me here. 38 This Lodovico is a proper man.
EMILIA
39 A very handsome man.
DESDEMONA
40 He speaks well.
EMILIA
41 I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot 42 to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip.
DESDEMONA
Singing 43 The poor soul sat sighing by a sycamore tree, 44 Sing all a green willow: 45 Her hand on her bosom, her head on her knee, 46 Sing willow, willow, willow: 47 The fresh streams ran by her, and murmur'd her moans; 48 Sing willow, willow, willow; 49 Her salt tears fell from her, and soften'd the stones; 50 Lay by these:-- Singing 51 Sing willow, willow, willow; 52 Prithee, hie thee; he'll come anon:-- Singing 53 Sing all a green willow must be my garland. 54 Let nobody blame him; his scorn I approve,- 55 Nay, that's not next.--Hark! who is't that knocks?
EMILIA
56 It's the wind.
DESDEMONA
Singing 57 I call'd my love false love; but what 58 said he then? 59 Sing willow, willow, willow: 60 If I court moe women, you'll couch with moe men! 61 So, get thee gone; good night Ate eyes do itch; 62 Doth that bode weeping?
EMILIA
63 'Tis neither here nor there.
DESDEMONA
64 I have heard it said so. O, these men, these men! 65 Dost thou in conscience think,--tell me, Emilia,-- 66 That there be women do abuse their husbands 67 In such gross kind?
EMILIA
68 There be some such, no question.
DESDEMONA
69 Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
EMILIA
70 Why, would not you?
DESDEMONA
71 No, by this heavenly light!
EMILIA
72 Nor I neither by this heavenly light; 73 I might do't as well i' the dark.
DESDEMONA
74 Wouldst thou do such a deed for all the world?
EMILIA
75 The world's a huge thing: it is a great price. 76 For a small vice.
DESDEMONA
77 In troth, I think thou wouldst not.
EMILIA
78 In troth, I think I should; and undo't when I had 79 done. Marry, I would not do such a thing for a 80 joint-ring, nor for measures of lawn, nor for 81 gowns, petticoats, nor caps, nor any petty 82 exhibition; but for the whole world,--why, who would 83 not make her husband a cuckold to make him a 84 monarch? I should venture purgatory for't.
DESDEMONA
85 Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong 86 For the whole world.
EMILIA
87 Why the wrong is but a wrong i' the world: and 88 having the world for your labour, tis a wrong in your 89 own world, and you might quickly make it right.
DESDEMONA
90 I do not think there is any such woman.
EMILIA
91 Yes, a dozen; and as many to the vantage as would 92 store the world they played for. 93 But I do think it is their husbands' faults 94 If wives do fall: say that they slack their duties, 95 And pour our treasures into foreign laps, 96 Or else break out in peevish jealousies, 97 Throwing restraint upon us; or say they strike us, 98 Or scant our former having in despite; 99 Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace, 100 Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know 101 Their wives have sense like them: they see and smell 102 And have their palates both for sweet and sour, 103 As husbands have. What is it that they do 104 When they change us for others? Is it sport? 105 I think it is: and doth affection breed it? 106 I think it doth: is't frailty that thus errs? 107 It is so too: and have not we affections, 108 Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? 109 Then let them use us well: else let them know, 110 The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.
DESDEMONA
111 Good night, good night: heaven me such uses send, 112 Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend!