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EMILIA She said so. I must needs report the truth.
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EMILIA Yes, she said that. I must go report what happened.
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OTHELLO She’s like a liar gone to burning hell.
'Twas I that killed her.
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OTHELLO She was lying even as she was going down to hell. I did kill
her.
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EMILIA Oh, the more angel she,
145And you the blacker devil!
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EMILIA Then she was even more an angel, and you’re an even
blacker devil!
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OTHELLO She turned to folly, and she was a whore.
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OTHELLO She cheated on me, and she was a whore.
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EMILIA Thou dost belie her, and thou art a devil.
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EMILIA You slander her, you devil.
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OTHELLO She was false as water.
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OTHELLO She was fickle and unfaithful, like water.
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EMILIA Thou art rash as
fire,
To say that she was false. Oh, she was heavenly true!
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EMILIA You’ve lost your mind to accuse her of cheating. She
was utterly true to you!
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OTHELLO
150Cassio did top her, ask thy husband else.
Oh, I were damned beneath all depth in hell,
But that I did proceed upon just grounds
To this extremity. Thy husband knew it all.
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OTHELLO Cassio had sex with her. Ask your husband if you doubt me. If I
didn’t have a good reason to do this, damn me to the very
bottom of hell. Your husband knew about everything.
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EMILIA My husband!
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EMILIA My husband!
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OTHELLO Thy husband.
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OTHELLO Your husband.
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EMILIA That she was false
to wedlock?
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EMILIA He said she was unfaithful?
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OTHELLO
155Ay, with Cassio. Had she been true,
If heaven would make me such another world
Of one entire and perfect chrysolite,
I’d not have sold her for it.
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OTHELLO Yes, with Cassio. If she’d been faithful to me, I never
would have given her up, not even if God himself offered me a jewel
as big as a planet in exchange for her.
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EMILIA My husband?
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EMILIA My husband.
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