TALBOYS.
Emilia's "year or two" cannot mean one day—it implies weeks—or months. Desdemona then says,—
"Something, sure, of state,
Either from Venice, or some unhatch'd practice," &c.
Does not that look like long time at Cyprus? Unlike the language of one who had herself arrived at Cyprus from Venice but the day before. And in continuation, Desdemona's
"Nay, we must think, men are not gods;
Nor of them look for such observances
As fit the bridal."
And that thought brings sudden comfort to poor Desdemona, who says sweetly—
"Beshrew me much, Emilia,
I was (unhandsome warrior as I am,)
Arraigning his unkindness with my soul;
But now, I find, I had suborn'd the witness,
And he's indited falsely."
That is—why did I, a married woman some months old, forget that the honey-moon is gone, and that my Othello, hero as he is, is now—not a Bridegroom—but a husband? "Men are not gods."