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Jealousy destroys the marriage between an older black man and a younger white woman in 1500s Venice.

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Act I

Desdemona (cont.)
The rites for which I love him are bereft me,
And I a heavy interim shall support
By his dear absence. Let me go with him.
Othello
Vouch with me, heaven, I therefore beg it not,
To please the palate of my appetite,
Nor to comply with heat⁠—the young affects
In me defunct⁠—and proper satisfaction.
But to be free and bounteous to her mind:
And heaven defend your good souls, that you think
I will your serious and great business scant
For she is with me: no, when light-wing’d toys
Of feather’d Cupid seal with wanton dullness
My speculative and officed instruments,
That my disports corrupt and taint my business,
Let housewives make a skillet of my helm,
And all indign and base adversities
Make head against my estimation!
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