Page 1536 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

DESDEMONA

I do not know, I am sure I am none such. [125]

IAGO
Do not weep, do not weep: alas the day!

EMILIA
Has she forsook so many noble matches,
Her father, and her country, all her friends,

To be call’d whore? would it not make one weep?

DESDEMONA

It is my wretched fortune.

IAGO
Beshrew him for it! [130]
How comes this trick upon him?

DESDEMONA
Nay, heaven doth know.

EMILIA
I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,

Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devis’d this slander, I’ll be hang’d else. [135]

IAGO
Fie, there is no such man, it is impossible.

DESDEMONA
If any such there be, heaven pardon him!

EMILIA
A halter pardon him, and hell gnaw his bones!

Why should he call her whore? who keeps her company?
What place, what time, what form, what likelihood? [140]