Caf. Good night, honeft Iago. [Exit CASSIO Iago. And what's he then, that says,-I play the villain ? When this advice is free, I give, and honest, Probal to thinking, and (indeed) the course In any honeft fuit; fhe's fram'd as fruitful As the free elements. And then for her To win the Moor,—were't to renounce his baptism, His foul is fo enfetter'd to her love, That fhe may make, unmake, do what she list, With his weak function. How am I then a villain, They do fuggeft at first with heavenly shows, As I do now: For, while this honeft fool And out of her own goodness make the net, Enter RODERIGO. Rod. I do follow here in the chace, not like a hound that hunts, but one that fills up the cry. My money is almost spent; I have been to-night exceedingly well cudgell'd; cudgell'd; and, I think, the iffue will be-I fhall have fo much experience for my pains: and fo, with no money at all, and a little more wit, return to Venice. Iago. How poor are they, that have not patience !What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? Thou know'ft, we work by wit, and not by witchcraft ; Does't not go well? Caffio hath beaten thee, Away, I fay; thou shalt know more hereafter: Nay, get thee gone. [Exit Rod.] Two things are to be done, My wife must move for Caffio to her mistress; I'll fet her on; Myfelf, the while, to draw the Moor apart, [Exit. ACT ACT III. SCENE I. Before the Caffle. Enter CASSIO, and fome Musicians. Caf. Masters, play here, I will content your pains, Something that's brief; and bid-good-morrow, general. [Mufick. Enter Clown. Clo. Why, mafters, have your inftruments been at Na ples, that they speak i'the nose thus ? 1. Muf. How, fir, how! Clo. Are these, I pray you, call'd wind inftruments ? 1. Mus. Ay, marry, are they, fir. Clo. O, thereby hangs a tail. 1. Muf. Whereby hangs a tale, fir? Clo. Marry, fir, by many a wind inftrument that I know. But, masters, here's money for you: and the general fo likes your musick, that he defires you, of all loves, to make no more noife with it. 1. Muf. Well, fir, we will not. Clo. If you have any musick that may not be heard, to't again but, as they fay, to hear mufick, the general does not greatly care. 1. Muf. We have none fuch, fir. Clo. Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away: Go; vanish into air; away. [Exeunt Muficians. Caf. Doft thou hear, my honest friend? Clo. No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you. Caf. Pr'ythee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends the general's wife, be stirring, tell her, there's one Caffio entreats her a little favour of speech: Wilt thou do this? Clo. She is ftirring, fir; if she will ftir hither, I fhall feem to notify unto her. [Exit. Enter IAGO. Caf. Do, good my friend.-In happy time, Iago. Why, no; the day had broke Caf. Iago. I'll fend her to you presently; And I'll devife a mean to draw the Moor Out of the way, that your converse and business Caf. I humbly thank you for't. I never knew Enter EMILIA. [Exit. Emil. Good morrow, good lieutenant: I am forry For your difpleafure; but all will foon be well. The general, and his wife, are talking of it; And the speaks for you ftoutly: The Moor replies, That he, you hurt, is of great fame in Cyprus, And great affinity; and that, in wholesome wisdom, He might not but refufe you: but, he protests, he loves you; And And needs no other fuitor, but his likings, To bring you in again. Caf. Yet, I beseech you,If you think fit, or that it may be done,Give me advantage of fome brief discourse With Desdemona alone. Emil. I will bestow you where you fhall have time Caf. Pray you, come in ; I am much bound to you. [Exeunt. SCENE II, A Room in the Caftle. Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen. Oth. These letters give, Iago, to the pilot; And, by him, do my duties to the state: That done, I will be walking on the works, Repair there to me. Iago. Well, my good lord, I'll do't. Oth. This fortification, gentlemen,-shall we fee't? Gent. We'll wait upon your lordship. [Exeunt. E 2 SCENE |