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 DESDEMONA
25 Will you come to bed, my lord?
DESDEMONA
Will you come to bed, my lord?
 OTHELLO
  Have you prayed tonight, Desdemon?
OTHELLO
Have you said your prayers tonight, Desdemona?
 DESDEMONA
  Ay, my lord.
DESDEMONA
Yes, my lord.
 OTHELLO
  If you bethink yourself of any crime
  Unreconciled as yet to heaven and grace,
30 Solicit for it straight.
OTHELLO
If you can think of any crime you haven't confessed, then pray for forgiveness right away.
 DESDEMONA
  Alack, my lord, what do you mean by that?
DESDEMONA
Oh, my lord, what do you mean by that?
 OTHELLO
  Well, do it, and be brief. I will walk by.
  I would not kill thy unpreparèd spirit.
  No, heavens forfend, I would not kill thy soul!
OTHELLO
Well, hurry up and confess. Be quick about it. I'll wait over here. I don't want to kill you before you've readied your soul. No, I don't want to send your soul to hell when I kill you.
 DESDEMONA
35 Talk you of killing?
DESDEMONA
You're talking about killing?
 OTHELLO
                  Ay, I do.
OTHELLO
Yes, I am.
 DESDEMONA
                                  Then heaven
  Have mercy on me!
DESDEMONA
Then heaven have mercy on me.
 OTHELLO
  Amen, with all my heart.
OTHELLO
Amen to that, from the bottom of my heart.
 DESDEMONA
  If you say, I hope you will not kill me.
DESDEMONA
If you really feel that way, then I hope you won't kill me.
 OTHELLO
  Humh!
OTHELLO
Hmmph!
 DESDEMONA
40 And yet I fear you, for you're fatal then
  When your eyes roll so. Why I should fear I know not,
  Since guiltiness I know not. But yet I feel I fear.
DESDEMONA
You're scaring me. You terrify me when you have that look in your eyes. I don't know why I should be afraid, since I haven't done anything wrong. But I'm still afraid.
 OTHELLO
  Think on thy sins.
OTHELLO
Think of your sins.

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