Shakespeare quote: What does this mean in contemporary English?

[kathij]

This has been driving me crazy for years, and it’s just started bugging me again: In Othello (Act IV, Scene I, lines 165-166) Bianca says to Cassio, “Come when you are next prepared for.”

What does this mean exactly, in particular the “next prepared for” part?

Thanks!

[Don_Roberto]

“Come when you are next prepared for” means ‘come when I am ready for you.’. Thus, it could be rendered as “Come when I am next prepared for you.”

[Fretful_Porpentine]

… Although, in this particular context, it probably means “never.” Bianca, remember, is pissed off at Cassio because she thinks he has another girlfirend on the side:

Let the devil and his dam haunt you! What did you mean by that same handkerchief you gave me even now? I was a fine fool to take it. I must take out the work? A likely piece of work, that you should find it in your chamber, and not know who left it there! This is some minx’s token … An [if] you’ll come to supper tonight, you may; an you will not, come when you are next prepared for.

I.e., if you have supper with this wench, it’ll be a cold day in hell before I’m ready to see you again.