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EMILIA And your reports have set the murder on.
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EMILIA And your lies caused this murder.
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OTHELLO
200Nay, stare not, masters, it is true, indeed.
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OTHELLO Don’t stand there gaping, everyone. It’s
true.
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GRATIANO 'Tis a strange truth.
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GRATIANO It may be true, but it’s unbelievable.
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MONTANO Oh, monstrous
act!
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MONTANO Oh, what a horrible deed!
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EMILIA Villainy, villainy, villainy!
I think upon ’t, I think I smell ’t, Oh,
villainy!
I thought so then, I’ll kill myself for grief.
205Oh, villainy, villainy!
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EMILIA Evil, evil, evil! I can smell it! I suspected it earlier.
I’ll kill myself out of grief! Oh, evil, evil!
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IAGO What, are you mad? I charge you, get you home.
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IAGO Are you crazy? I’m ordering you, go home.
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EMILIA Good gentlemen, let me have leave to speak.
'Tis proper I obey him, but not now.
Perchance, Iago, I will ne'er go home.
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EMILIA Good gentlemen, give me permission to speak. I know I ought to
obey my husband, but not now. Maybe I’ll never go home
again, Iago!
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OTHELLO
210Oh! Oh! Oh!
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OTHELLO Oh! Oh! Oh!
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EMILIA Nay, lay thee down and roar,
For thou hast killed the sweetest innocent
That e'er did lift up eye.
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EMILIA Yes, go ahead and moan, because you killed the sweetest, most
innocent woman who ever lived!
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OTHELLO Oh, she was
foul!—
I scarce did know you, uncle. There lies your niece,
Whose breath, indeed, these hands have newly stopped.
215I know this act shows horrible and grim.
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OTHELLO She was filthy! I barely knew you, Uncle
GratianoGratiano is Brabantio’s brother and Desdemona’s uncle. Gratiano . Here’s your niece lying here dead. I killed her with these hands. I know this looks horrible. |
GRATIANO Poor Desdemon! I am glad thy father’s dead,
Thy match was mortal to him, and pure grief
Shore his old thread in twain. Did he live now,
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GRATIANO Poor Desdemona! I’m glad your father isn’t
alive to see this. Your marriage made him die of grief before his
time. If he was alive now, this sight would hurt
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