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OTHELLO Roderigo killed? And Cassio killed!
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OTHELLO Roderigo’s been killed? And Cassio’s
killed?
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EMILIA No, Cassio is not killed.
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EMILIA No, Cassio wasn’t killed.
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OTHELLO Not Cassio killed! Then murder’s out of tune,
And sweet revenge grows harsh.
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OTHELLO Cassio’s not dead? Then the wrong man is dead, and
sweet revenge has gone wrong.
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DESDEMONA
130Oh, falsely, falsely murdered!
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DESDEMONA Oh, I’ve been murdered unfairly!
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EMILIA Alas, what cry is that?
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EMILIA Oh Lord, who’s that crying?
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OTHELLO That? What?
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OTHELLO That? What?
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EMILIA Out and alas, that was my lady’s voice.
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EMILIA Oh, no, that was my lady’s voice.
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Opens the bedcurtains
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EMILIA opens the
bedcurtains.
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Help! Help, ho, help! O lady, speak again!
135Sweet Desdemona! O sweet mistress, speak!
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Help! Help! Oh, lady, speak again.
Sweet Desdemona! Oh sweet mistress, speak!
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DESDEMONA A guiltless death I die.
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DESDEMONA I’m dying an innocent woman.
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EMILIA Oh, who hath done
this deed?
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EMILIA Oh, who did this thing?
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DESDEMONA Nobody. I myself. Farewell.
Commend me to my kind lord. Oh, farewell!
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DESDEMONA No one. I did it myself. Give my love to my kind husband. Oh,
goodbye!
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Dies
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DESDEMONA dies.
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OTHELLO Why, how should she be murdered?
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OTHELLO Why, how could she have been murdered?
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EMILIA Alas,
who knows?
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EMILIA My God, who knows?
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OTHELLO
140You heard her say herself it was not I.
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OTHELLO You heard her say it wasn’t me.
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