I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me, out of thy honest truth, to play the woman

I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me, out of thy honest truth, to play the woman

The line "I did not think to shed a tear In all my miseries; but thou hast forc'd me, out of thy honest truth, to play the woman" is spoken by the character Emilia in William Shakespeare's play Othello. Emilia is the wife of Iago, one of the play's main antagonists, and she is also a close friend and confidante of Desdemona, the wife of the title character Othello.