"Yes, a dozen, and as many to th' vantage as would / store the world they played for. / But I do think it is their husbands' faults / If wives do fall. Say that they slack their duties / And pour our treasures into foreign laps, / Or else break out in peevish jealousies, / Throwing restraint upon us. Or say they strike us,
Or scant our former having in despite. / Why, we have galls, and though we have some grace, / Yet have we some revenge. Let husbands know / Their wives have sense like them. They see and smell
And have their palates both for sweet and sour, / As husbands have. What is it that they do / When they change us for others? Is it sport? / I think it is. And doth affection breed it? / I think it doth. Is ’t frailty that thus errs? / It is so too. And have not we affections, / Desires for sport, and frailty, as men have? / Then let them use us well, else let them know, / The ills we do, their ills instruct us so" (4.3. 95-115).
Desdemona and Emilia greatly disagree on what is proper for a wife to do in terms of cheating. Desdemona, no matter how angry and rude Othello has been, still does not want to harm Othello in anyway; she still loves him. When Emilia raises the question if Desdemona would ever consider cheating on her husband, she quickly replied no. Emilia however, mentions that she could easily cheat if the right circumstances were met: the world being at stake is what they discuss. Here, Emilia describes herself as more assertive when it comes to relationships, where as Desdemona is clearly passive. Emilia feels that wives should always make their presence known and that husbands should treat them like humans. Emilia believes that mean cheat out of lust and do it for fun. She then tells Desdemona that women also have very similar desires. Emilia says that men should either treat their wives well or suffer the consequences derived from a lesson learned from their husbands: cheating.
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