Page 1480 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

OTHELLO

Not now, sweet Desdemona, some other time.

DESDEMONA
But shall ’t be shortly?

OTHELLO
The sooner, sweet, for you.

DESDEMONA
Shall ’t be to-night at supper?

OTHELLO
No, not to-night.

DESDEMONA
To-morrow dinner then?

OTHELLO

I shall not dine at home,
I meet the captains, at the citadel. [60]

DESDEMONA
Why then to-morrow night, or Tuesday morn,
On Tuesday noon, or night, or Wednesday morn:
I prithee name the time, but let it not

Exceed three days: i’ faith, he’s penitent,
And yet his trespass, in our common reason, [65]
(Save that, they say, the wars must make examples
Out of their best) is not almost a fault

To incur a private check: when shall he come?
Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,
What you could ask me, that I should deny? [70]
Or stand so mammering on? What? Michael Cassio

That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time
When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,
Hath ta’en your part, to have so much to do