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OTHELLO

               Why, what art thou?



              DESDEMONA
               Your wife, my lord, your true and loyal wife. [35]



              OTHELLO
               Come, swear it, damn thyself,
               Lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves

               Should fear to seize thee, therefore be double-damn’d,
               Swear thou art honest.



              DESDEMONA
                               Heaven doth truly know it.



              OTHELLO
               Heaven truly knows, that thou art false as hell. [40]



              DESDEMONA
               To whom, my lord? with whom? how am I false?



              OTHELLO
               O Desdemona, away! away! away!



              DESDEMONA
               Alas the heavy day, why do you weep?

               Am I the occasion of those tears, my lord?
               If haply you my father do suspect [45]
               An instrument of this your calling back,
               Lay not your blame on me; if you have lost him,

               Why, I have lost him too.



              OTHELLO
                               Had it pleas’d heaven
               To try me with affliction, had he rain’d
               All kinds of sores and shames on my bare head, [50]
               Steep’d me in poverty, to the very lips,
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