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Enter CASSIO and some Musicians
| CASSIO
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Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.' |
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[Music] |
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[Enter Clown] |
| Clown |
Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,
that they speak i' the nose thus? |
| First Musician
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How, sir, how! |
| Clown |
Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?
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| First Musician
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Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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| Clown |
O, thereby hangs a tail.
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| First Musician
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Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
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| Clown |
Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.
But, masters, here's money for you: and the general
so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's
sake, to make no more noise with it. |
| First Musician
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Well, sir, we will not.
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| Clown |
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 Musician
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We have none such, sir.
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| Clown |
Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:
go; vanish into air; away! |
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[Exeunt Musicians] |
| CASSIO
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Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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| Clown |
No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.
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| CASSIO
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Prithee, 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 Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:
wilt thou do this? |
| Clown |
She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I
shall seem to notify unto her. |
| CASSIO
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Do, good my friend. |
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[Exit Clown] |
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[Enter IAGO] |
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In happy time, Iago. |
| IAGO |
You have not been a-bed, then?
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| CASSIO
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Why, no; the day had broke
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
To send in to your wife: my suit to her
Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona
Procure me some access. |
| 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. |
| CASSIO
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I humbly thank you for't.
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[Exit IAGO] |
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I never knew
A Florentine more kind and honest. |
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[Enter EMILIA] |
| EMILIA
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Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry
For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.
The general and his wife are talking of it;
And she speaks for you stoutly: 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 refuse you; but he protests he loves you
And needs no other suitor but his likings
To take the safest occasion by the front
To bring you in again. |
| CASSIO
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Yet, I beseech you,
If you think fit, or that it may be done,
Give me advantage of some brief discourse
With Desdemona alone. |
| EMILIA
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Pray you, come in;
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely. |
| CASSIO
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I am much bound to you.
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[Exeunt] |
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