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АСТ III.

Caf. 2

SCENE I

Before Othello's Palace.

Enter Caffio with Muficians.

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ASTERS, play here, I will content your pains,

Something that's brief; and bid, Good-morrow, General. [Mufick plays, and enter Clown from the house.

Clown. Why, masters, have your inftruments been bat Naples, that they speak i'th' nose thus ?

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Muf. How, fir, how?

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Clown. Are thefe, I pray you, call'd wind inftruments ?
Muf. Ay, marry are they, fir.

Clown. O, thereby hangs a tail.
Muf. Whereby hangs a tale, fir?

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Clown. Marry, fir, by many a wind inftrument that I know. But, mafters, here's money for you: and the General fo likes your mufic, that he defires you, f of all loves, to make no more noise with it.

Muf. Well, fir, we will not.

Clown. If you have any mufic that may not be heard, to't again; but, as they fay, to hear mufic the General does not greatly care.

Muf. We have none fuch, fir.

Clown. Then put up your pipes in your bag, and hie away; go, vanish away.

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[Exeunt Muficians.

Caf. Doft thou hear, my honeft friend?

Clown. No, I hear not your honeft 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 ftirring, tell her there's one Caffio" entreats her a little favour of fpeech. Wilt thou do this?

Clown. She is ftirring, fir, if she will ftir hither. I fhall feem to notify unto her.

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[Exit.

So the qu's, T. H. W. J. and C; the reft, Doft bou bear me, mine bon ft

The 2d q. the three laft fo's, R. friend.

P. and H. omit more.

h The qu's omit up.

i and bie away, is H.'s emendation, followed by W; the rest read, for I'll

arvay.

m The fo's read, the General be flirring, &c.

n So all before R. he and the reft, except C. entreats of ber, &c.

• Do, good my friend, is omitted in

k So the ft q; the reft, Go, vanifh the fo's; R. and all after read, De, my

́into air, away.

good friend.

lago.

lago. You have not been abed then?

Caf. Why, no; the day had broke before we parted.

I have made bold, P lago, to fend in to your wife,

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My fuit to her is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona,
Procure me fome access.

Iago. I'll fend her to you presently;

And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor

Out of the way, that your converfe and business
May be more free.

Caf. I humbly thank you for 't.-I never knew
A Florentine more kind and honeft.

To him, enter Emilia.

Emil. Good-morrow, good lieutenant. I am forry
For your displeasure; 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

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[Exit.

He might not but refuse you. But he protests, he loves you; And needs no other fuitor but his likings,

To take the fafeft occafion by the front To bring you in again.

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think fit, or that it may be done,

Caf. Yet I beseech you,

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Give me advantage of fome brief discourse
With Desdemona alone.

Emil. Pray you, come in;

I will beftow you where you shall have time

To speak your bofom freely.

Caf. I am much bound to you.

[Exeunt.

SCENE II.

Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen.

Oth. These letters give, lago, to the pilot, And by him do my duties to the Senate;

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That done, I will be walking on the works;
Repair there to me.

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Iago. Well, my good lord, I'll do't.

Oth. This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see 't?
Gent. We wait upon your Lordship.

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[Exeunt.

b The fo's and R. read Defdemon.
The Ift q. omits this fpeech.
4 The qu's and C. ftate for fenate,

e P. and all after, except C. omit Well.

So the qu's; the rft f. Well wait, &c. the reft, We'll wait, &c.

SCENE

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SCENE III.

& An Apartment in the Palace,

Enter Desdemona, Caffio, and Æmilia.

Def. Be thou affur'd, good Cassie, I will do All my abilities in thy behalf.

Emil. Good madam, do. I know it grieves my husband As if the cafe were his.

Def. O that's an honeft fellow: * do not doubt, Caffio, But I will have my Lord and you again

As friendly as you were,

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Caf. Bounteous madam,

Whatever shall become of Michael Caffre,

He's never any thing but your true servant.

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Def. O fir, I thank you. You do love my Lord; You have known him long; and be " you well affur'd, He shall in ftrangeness ftand no farther off

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Than in a politic distance.

Caf. Ay but, lady,

That policy may either laft fo long,

# C, describes this scene, Before the not for Do not doubt, followed by the rest

cafle.

h The fo's, R. and C. read, I warrant for I know.

iSo the qu's and C; the reft, cause for cafe.

* So all before P. who reads Doubs

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