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OTHELLO

               Not now, sweet Desdemona, some other time.



              DESDEMONA
               But shall ’t be shortly?



              OTHELLO
                               The sooner, sweet, for you.



              DESDEMONA
               Shall ’t be to-night at supper?



              OTHELLO
                               No, not to-night.



              DESDEMONA
               To-morrow dinner then?



              OTHELLO

                               I shall not dine at home,
               I meet the captains, at the citadel. [60]



              DESDEMONA
               Why then to-morrow night, or Tuesday morn,
               On Tuesday noon, or night, or Wednesday morn:
               I prithee name the time, but let it not

               Exceed three days: i’ faith, he’s penitent,
               And yet his trespass, in our common reason, [65]
               (Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
               Out of their best) is not almost a fault

               To incur a private check: when shall he come?
               Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
               What you could ask me, that I should deny? [70]
               Or stand so mammering on? What? Michael Cassio

               That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time
               When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
               Hath ta’en your part, to have so much to do
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