Desdemona
Is’t possible?
Othello
’Tis true: there’s magic in the web of it:
A sibyl, that had number’d in the world
The sun to course two hundred compasses,
In her prophetic fury sew’d the work;
The worms were hallow’d that did breed the silk;
And it was dyed in mummy which the skilful
Conserved of maidens’ hearts.
Desdemona
Indeed! is’t true?
Othello
Most veritable; therefore look to’t well.
Desdemona
Then would to God that I had never seen’t!
Othello
Ha! wherefore?
Desdemona
Why do you speak so startingly and rash?
Othello
Is’t lost? is’t gone? speak, is it out o’ the way?