Act 5
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DESDEMONA And have you mercy too! I never did
Offend you in my life, never loved Cassio
But with such general warranty of heaven
As I might love. I never gave him token.
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DESDEMONA And you have mercy on me too! I never did anything wrong to you in
my life. I never loved Cassio, except with the pure love that I feel
for humankind. I never gave him any token of romantic love.
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OTHELLO
70By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in ’s hand.
O perjured woman, thou dost stone my heart,
And mak’st me call what I intend to do
A murder, which I thought a sacrifice!
I saw the handkerchief.
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OTHELLO I saw him holding the handkerchief! You liar, you’re
turning my heart to stone, and making me call what I’ll
do murder, when I had been thinking of it as a sacrifice! I saw the
handkerchief.
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DESDEMONA He found it then,
75I never gave it him. Send for him hither,
Let him confess a truth.
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DESDEMONA He found it somewhere, then. I never gave it to him. Tell him to
come here. He’ll tell the truth.
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OTHELLO He hath
confessed.
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OTHELLO He’s already done so.
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DESDEMONA What, my lord?
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DESDEMONA What, my lord?
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OTHELLO That he hath usèd thee.
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OTHELLO That he had sex with you.
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DESDEMONA How? Unlawfully?
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DESDEMONA What? Had sex with me?
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OTHELLO Ay.
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OTHELLO Yes.
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DESDEMONA
80He will not say so.
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DESDEMONA He wouldn’t say that.
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OTHELLO No, his mouth is stopped. Honest Iago
Hath ta'en order for ’t.
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OTHELLO No. He won’t say anything anymore. Honest
Iago’s arranged that.
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DESDEMONA Oh! My fear interprets. What, is he dead?
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DESDEMONA Oh, I’m scared. What, is he dead?
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OTHELLO Had all his hairs been lives
85My great revenge had stomach for them all.
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OTHELLO If he had as many lives as he’s got hairs on his head,
I would’ve killed them all in revenge.
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