This chapter's epigraph comes from a conversation between Enobarbus and Desdemona, in which the latter laments the fact that she has become so weak that she is no longer able to hunt. She also laments that she will never be as weak as the wolf, and that the wolf's love for her has made her a hunted creature. The wolf, she says, has no right to hunt because she has betrayed her people, and she will not be dead if she had not betrayed her own people. She tells her men to rest, and they will soon begin their assault on the manor