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DESDEMONA

               I do not think there is any such woman.



              EMILIA
               Yes, a dozen, and as many to the vantage, as would
               store the world they played for. [85]
               But I do think it is their husbands’ faults

               If wives do fall: say, that they slack their duties,
               And pour our treasures into foreign laps;
               Or else break out in peevish jealousies,
               Throwing restraint upon us: or say they strike us, [90]

               Or scant our former having in despite,
               Why, we have galls: and though we have some grace,
               Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know,
               Their wives have sense like them: they see, and smell,

               And have their palates both for sweet, and sour, [95]
               As husbands have. What is it that they do,
               When they change us for others? Is it sport?
               I think it is: and doth affection breed it?

               I think it doth. Is ’t frailty that thus errs?
               It is so too. And have not we affections? [100]
               Desires for sport? and frailty, as men have?
               Then let them use us well: else let them know,

               The ills we do, their ills instruct us so.



              DESDEMONA
               Good night, good night: God me such usage send,
               Not to pick bad from bad, but by bad mend! [105]
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