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               Impudent strumpet!



              DESDEMONA
                               By heaven, you do me wrong.



              OTHELLO
               Are not you a strumpet?



              DESDEMONA
                               No, as I am a Christian:
               If to preserve this vessel for my lord [85]

               From any hated foul unlawful touch,
               Be not to be a strumpet, I am none.



              OTHELLO
               What, not a whore?



              DESDEMONA
                               No, as I shall be sav’d.


                                                        Enter Emilia.



              OTHELLO
               Is ’t possible?




              DESDEMONA
               O heaven, forgiveness.



              OTHELLO
                               I cry you mercy, [90]
               I took you for that cunning whore of Venice,
               That married with Othello: you, mistress,

               That have the office opposite to Saint Peter,
               And keeps the gates in hell, ay, you, you, you!
               We ha’ done our course; there’s money for your pains, [95]
               I pray you turn the key, and keep our counsel.
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