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Let me not name it to you, you chaste stars!—
It is the cause. Yet I'll not shed her blood;
Nor scar that whiter skin of hers than snow,
And smooth as monumental alabaster.

[takes off his sword.

Yet she must die, else she'll betray more men.
Put out the light, and then put out the light.1
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore,

Should I repent me: but once put out thine,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat,
That can thy light relume: when I have pluck'd thy

rose,

I cannot give it vital growth again;

It needs must wither:-I'll smell it on the tree.

[kissing her.

O balmy breath, that dost almost persuade
Justice to break her sword!-one more, one more.
Be thus when thou art dead, and I will kill thee,
And love thee after :-one more, and this the last.
So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep,

But they are cruel tears: this
It strikes where it doth love.

sorrow's heavenly; She wakes.

Des. Who's there? Othello?
Oth.
Des. Will you come to bed, my

Ay, Desdemona.

lord?

Oth. Have you pray'd to-night, Desdemona r

1.6. the light of life.

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