I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain,
Some busy and insinuating rogue,
Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office,
Have not devised this slander; I’ll be hang’d else.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 4, Scene 2. Emilia bets her life that some villain dreamed up the slander on Desdemona’s reputation that she was a whore who cheated on Othello. Ironically everything she says turns out to be true. While she doesn’t know it yet, her husband Iago is the villain who has fed this lie to Othello. She will also die at Iago’s hand, so foreshadowing her death with her own words.