Get you to bed on the instant. I will bereturned forthwith. Dismiss your attendant there. Look ‘t be done.
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 4, Scene 3. A controlling and dominant Othello orders Desdemona to go to bed and get rid of her attendant Emilia. He wants Desdemona to be alone and helpless because he plans to kill her, which these lines foreshadow.