Nay, get thee gone. [Exit RODERIGO.] Two things ACT II are to be done : My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress; Myself the while to draw the Moor apart, And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Dull not device by coldness and delay. 370 [exit. Sc. III ACT III SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the Castle. Enter CASSIO and some Musicians. CAS. Masters, play here; I will content your pains; Enter the Clown. [Music. CLO. Why, Masters, have your instruments been in FIRST MUS. How, Sir, how! CLO. Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments? CLO. O, thereby hangs a tail. 9 FIRST MUS. Whereby hangs a tale, Sir? FIRST MUS. Well, Sir, we will not. CLO. If you have any music that may not be heard, to 't again; but, as they say, to hear music the General does not greatly care. FIRST MUS. We have none such, Sir. 18 CLO. Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away : go; vanish into air; away ! [Exeunt Musicians. CAS. Dost thou hear, my honest Friend? CLO. No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you. CAS. Pr'ythee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor ACT III piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends the General's wife be stirring, tell her there's one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech: wilt thou do this? CLO. She is stirring, Sir: if she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her. CAS. Do, good my Friend. [Exit Clown. Enter IAGO. In happy time, Iago. 30 IAGO. You have not been a-bed, then? CAS. Why, no; the day had broke Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago, To send in to your wife: my suit to her IAGO. I'll send her to you presently; And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor Out of the way, that your converse and business May be more free. CAS. I humbly thank you for 't. [Exit IAGO.] I never knew A Florentine more kind and honest. Enter EMILIA. 40 EMIL. Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry SCENE II. The Same. A Room in the Castle. Enter OTHELLO, IAGO, and Gentlemen. Отн. These letters give, Iago, to the pilot; IAGO. Well, my good Lord, I'll do 't. OTн. This fortification, Gentlemen, shall we see 't? GENT. We'll wait upon your Lordship. [exeunt. SCENE III. The Same. The Garden of the Castle. Enter DESDEMONA, Cassio, and EMILIA. DES. Be thou assur'd, good Cassio, I will do All my abilities in thy behalf. EMIL. Good Madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband, As if the case were his. DES. O, that's an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio, As friendly as you were. CAS. Bounteous Madam, Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio, He's never any thing but your true servant. DES. I know 't; I thank you. You do love my Lord: 10 ACT III Or breed itself so out of circumstance, With Cassio's suit: therefore be merry, Cassio; Than give thy cause away. Enter OTHELLO and IAGO. EMIL. Madam, here comes my Lord. CAS. Madam, I'll take my leave. 20 30 DES. Why, stay, and hear me speak. CAS. Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease, [Exit CASSIO. What dost thou say? DES. Well, do your discretion. DES. Why, your Lieutenant, Cassio. Good my Lord, If I have any grace or power to move you, His present reconciliation take; For if he be not one that truly loves you, That errs in ignorance, and not in cunning, I have no judgment in an honest face. I pr'ythee, call him back. 40 50 Отн. Went he hence now? ACT III Sc. III DES. Ay, sooth; so humbled, That he hath left part of his grief with me, To suffer with him. Good Love, call him back. OTH. Not now, sweet Desdemon; some other time. DES. But shall 't be shortly? Отн. The sooner, Sweet, for you. DES. Shall 't be to-night at supper? DES. To-morrow dinner, then? No, not to-night. I shall not dine at home; I meet the captains at the citadel. DES. Why, then to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn; 60 And yet his trespass, in our common reason (Save that, they say, the wars must make examples To incur a private check. When shall he come? What you would ask me, that I should deny, Or stand so mammering on. What! Michael Cassio, Hath ta'en your part; to have so much to do To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much DES. Why, this is not a boon; To your own person: nay, when I have a suit OTH. I will deny thee nothing; |