I care not for thy sword. I’ll make thee known,
Though I lost twenty lives. – Help! help, ho! help!
The Moor hath kill’d my mistress! Murder! murder!
– William Shakespeare
Othello, Act 5, Scene 2. Emilia shows great courage after Othello’s murder of Desdemona, when Othello draws his sword to silence Emilia. Despite the danger to herself, she declares that she will bring Othello to justice by outing him and his crime. Even if he kills her twenty times she will speak the truth about him, she vows.