Othello - Act 5, Scene 2 (Final Scene)

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    OTHELLO

    It is the cause, it is the cause, my soul. Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars! It is the cause.

    OTHELLO

    Yet I'll not shed her blood; nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow, and smooth as monumental alabaster.

    DESDEMONA

    Who's there? Othello?

    OTHELLO

    Ay, Desdemona.

    DESDEMONA

    Will you come to bed, my lord?

    OTHELLO

    Have you pray'd tonight, Desdemona?

    DESDEMONA

    Ay, my lord.

    OTHELLO

    If you bethink yourself of any crime unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace, solicit for it straight.

    DESDEMONA

    Alas, my lord, what do you mean by that?

    OTHELLO

    Well, do it, and be brief; I will walk by. I would not kill thy unprepared spirit.

    DESDEMONA

    Talk you of killing?

    OTHELLO

    Ay, I do.

    DESDEMONA

    Then heaven have mercy on me!

    OTHELLO

    Amen, with all my heart!

    DESDEMONA

    If you say so, I hope you will not kill me.

    OTHELLO

    Hum!

    DESDEMONA

    And yet I fear you; for you are fatal then when your eyes roll so.

    OTHELLO

    Think on thy sins.

    DESDEMONA

    They are loves I bear to you.

    OTHELLO

    Ay, and for that thou diest.

    DESDEMONA

    That death's unnatural that kills for loving. Alas, why gnaw you so your nether lip?

    OTHELLO

    Peace, and be still!

    DESDEMONA

    I will so. What's the matter?

    OTHELLO

    That handkerchief which I so loved and gave thee, thou gavest to Cassio.

    DESDEMONA

    No, by my life and soul! Send for the man, and ask him.

    OTHELLO

    Sweet soul, take heed, take heed of perjury; thou art on thy deathbed.