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Othello
hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
CASSIO. Prithee keep up thy quillets , thereâs a poor piece of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends the generalâs wife be stir ring , tell her thereâs [25] 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.
(Enter Iago.)
CASSIO. Do, good my friend.
(Exit Clown.)
    In happy time, Iago. [30]
IAGO. You haâ not been a-bed, then?
CA SSIO. Why no, the day had broke before we parted:
    I haâ made bold , Iago,
    To send in to your wife, ... my suit to her
    Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona [35]
    Procure me some access .
IAGO. Iâll send her to you presently,
    And Iâll devise a mean to draw the Moor
    Out of the way, that your converse and business
    May be more free.
CASSIO. I humbly thank you for it. (Exit Iago.) I never knew [40]
    A Florentine more kind and honest.
(Enter Emilia.)
EMIL IA. Good morrow, good lieutenant; I am sorry
    For your displeasure, but all will soon be well,
    The general and his wife are talking of it,
    And she speaks for you stoutly : the Moor replies, [45]
    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, [50]
    To bring you in again.
CASSIO. 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. Pray you, come in,
    I will bestow you where you shall have time [55]
    To speak your bosom freely.
CASSIO. I am much bound to you.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 2
The same.
Enter Othello, Iago, and other Gentlemen.
OTHELLO. 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, Iâll do ât.
OTHELLO. This fortification , gentlemen, shall we see ât? [5]
GENTLEMEN . We wait upon your lordship.
(Exeunt.)
Scene 3
The same.
Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia.
DESDEMONA. Be thou assurâd , good Cassio, I will do
    All my abilities in thy behalf .
EMILIA. Good madam, do, I know it grieves my husband,
    As if the case were his.
DESDEMON A. O, thatâs an honest fellow: ... do not doubt, Cassio, [5]
    But I will have my lord and you again
    As friendly as you were.
CASSIO. Bounteous madame,
    Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
    Heâs never anything but your true servant.
DESDEMONA. O sir, I thank you; you do love my lord, [10]
    You have known him long, and be you well assurâd,
    He shall in strangest stand no farther off
    Than in a politic distance.
CASSIO. Ay, but, lady,
    The policy may either last so long,
    Or feed upon such nice and watârish diet, [15]
    Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
    That I being absent, and my place supplied,
    My general will forget my love and service.
DESDEMONA . Do not doubt that: before Emilia here
    I give thee warrant of thy place; assure thee [20]
    If I do vow a friendship, Iâll perform it
    To the last article; my lord shall never rest,
    Iâll watch him tame , and talk him out of patience;
    His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift ,
    Iâll intermingle every thing he does [25]
    With Cassioâs suit; therefore be merry, Cassio,
    For thy solicitor shall rather die
    Than give thy cause away.
(Enter Othello and Iago.)
EMILIA. Madam, here comes my lord.
CASSIO. Madam, Iâll take my leave. [30]
DESDEMONA . Why, stay and hear me speak.
CASSIO. Madam, not now,
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