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Ay, but not yet to die.

OTHELLO
Yes, presently:
Therefore confess thee freely of thy sin,
For to deny each article with oath [55]
Cannot remove, nor choke the strong conceit,

That I do groan withal: thou art to die.

DESDEMONA
Then Lord have mercy on me!

OTHELLO
I say, amen.

DESDEMONA
And have you mercy too! I never did
Offend you in my life,... never lov’d Cassio, [60]

But with such general warranty of heaven,
As I might love: I never gave him token.

OTHELLO
By heaven, I saw my handkerchief in his hand:
O perjur’d woman, thou dost stone thy heart,
And makest me call what I intend to do [65]

A murder, which I thought a sacrifice;
I saw the handkerchief.

DESDEMONA
He found it then,
I never gave it him, send for him hither,

And let him confess a truth.

OTHELLO
He has confess’d.

DESDEMONA