Page 1545 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Wouldst thou do such a deed, for all the world?

EMILIA
Why, would not you?

DESDEMONA
No, by this heavenly light!

EMILIA
Nor I neither, by this heavenly light, [65]
I might do it as well in the dark.

DESDEMONA
Wouldst thou do such a thing for all the world?

EMILIA
The world is a huge thing, it is a great price,

For a small vice.

DESDEMONA
Good troth, I think thou wouldst not.

EMILIA
By my troth, I think I should, and undo ’t [70] when I had done it; marry, I
would not do such a thing for a joint-ring; or for measures of lawn, nor for

gowns, or petticoats, nor caps, nor any such exhibition; but, for the whole
world? ud’s pity, who would not make her husband a cuckold, to make him
[75] a monarch? I should venture purgatory for it.

DESDEMONA
Beshrew me, if I would do such a wrong,
For the whole world.

EMILIA
Why, the wrong is but a wrong i’ the world; and having the world for your

labour, ’tis a wrong in [80] your own world, and you might quickly make it
right.