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Nothing can or shall content my soul
Till I am evened with him, wife for wife,
Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor
At least into a jealousy so strong
That judgment cannot cure.

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William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Iago, in Othello, act 2, sc. 1, l. 301-2.

Imagining Othello has slept with his wife, Emilia.

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