Emilia

2.1

You shall not

write my praise

3.3

I am nothing but to

please his fantasy

3.4

They eat us hungerly, and when

they are full they belch us

4.2

I durst, my lord, to wager she is honest

lay down my soul at stake

4.2

I’ll be hanged if some eternal villain

[…] To get some office, have not devised this slander

4.2

Hath she forsook […] her father, and her country

and her friends, to be called whore?

4.2

The purest of their wives

Is foul as slander

4.3

And have not we affections, desires

for sport, and frailty, as men have?

4.3

Say that they slack their duties and

pour our treasures into foreign laps

4.3

Who would not make her husband

a cuckold to make him a monarch

4.3

the ills we do

their ills instruct us so

5.2

Thou has not half that power to do

me harm as I have to be hurt

5.2

Lay me by my

mistress’ side

5.2

So speaking as I

think, I die, I die

4.3

Let husbands know

their wives have sense like them

4.3

They are all but stomachs

and we are all but food;

4.3

I do think it is their husbands’

faults if wives do fall