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For your displeasure 43, 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 46in Cyprus

And great affinity 47, and that in wholesome wisdom

He might not but refuse you: but he protests he loves you

And needs no other suitor 49but his likings

To bring you in again.CASSIO Yet, I beseech you,

If you think fit, or that it may be done,

Give me advantage of 53some brief discourse

With Desdemon alone.EMILIA Pray you come in:

I will bestow you where you shall have time

To speak your bosom 57freely.CASSIO I am much bound to you. [Exeunt]

Act 3 Scene 2 running scene 7 continues

Enter Othello, Iago and Gentlemen OTHELLO These letters give, Iago, to the pilot, Gives him letters

And by him do my duties 2to the senate:

That done, I will be walking on the works 3.

Repair 4there to me.IAGO Well, my good lord, I’ll do’t.OTHELLO This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see’t?GENTLEMEN We’ll wait upon your lordship. Exeunt

Act 3 Scene 3 running scene 7 continues

Enter Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia DESDEMONA Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do

All my abilities in thy behalf.EMILIA Good madam, do: I warrant 3it grieves my husband

As if the cause were his.DESDEMONA O, that’s an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,

But I will have my lord and you again

As friendly as you were.CASSIO Bounteous madam,

Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,

He’s never anything but your true servant.DESDEMONA I know’t: I thank you. You do love my lord:

You have known him long, and be you well assured

He shall in strangeness 13stand no further off

Than in a politic 14distance.CASSIO Ay, but, lady,

That policy may either last so long,

Or feed upon such nice and waterish 17diet,

Or breed itself so out of circumstances 18,

That I being absent and my place supplied 19,

My general will forget my love and service.DESDEMONA Do not doubt 21that: before Emilia here

I give thee warrant 22of thy place. Assure thee,

If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it

To the last article: my lord shall never rest,

I’ll watch him tame 25and talk him out of patience;

His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift 26:

I’ll intermingle everything he does

With Cassio’s suit. Therefore be merry, Cassio,

For thy solicitor 29shall rather die

Than give thy cause away 30.

Enter Othello and Iago EMILIA Madam, here comes my lord.CASSIO Madam, I’ll take my leave.DESDEMONA Why, stay and hear me speak.CASSIO Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,

Unfit for mine own purposes.DESDEMONA Well, do your discretion 36. Exit Cassio

IAGO Ha? I like not that.OTHELLO What dost thou say?IAGO Nothing, my lord; or if — I know not what.OTHELLO Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?IAGO Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it,

That he would steal away so guilty-like,

Seeing your coming.OTHELLO I do believe ’twas he.DESDEMONA How now, my lord?

I have been talking with a suitor 46here,

A man that languishes in your displeasure.OTHELLO Who is’t you mean?DESDEMONA Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,

If I have any grace 50or power to move you,

His present reconciliation take 51,

For if he be not one that truly loves you,

That errs in ignorance and not in cunning 53,

I have no judgement in an honest face.

I prithee call him back.OTHELLO Went he hence now?DESDEMONA Ay, sooth 57; so humbled

That he hath left part of his grief with me

To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.OTHELLO Not now, sweet Desdemon: some other time.DESDEMONA But shall’t be shortly?OTHELLO The sooner, sweet, for you.DESDEMONA Shall’t be tonight at supper?OTHELLO No, not tonight.DESDEMONA Tomorrow dinner 65, then?OTHELLO I shall not dine at home:

I meet the captains at the citadel.DESDEMONA Why then, tomorrow night, on Tuesday morn,

On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:

I prithee name the time, but let it not

Exceed three days. In faith, he’s penitent:

And yet his trespass 72, in our common reason —

Save that they say the wars must make example

Out of her best 74— is not almost a fault

T’incur a private check 75. When shall he come?

Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul

What you would ask me that I should deny,

Or stand so mamm’ring 78on. What? Michael Cassio,

That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time —

When I have spoke of you dispraisingly —

Hath ta’en your part: to have so much to do

To brin 82g him in! Trust me, I could do much—OTHELLO Prithee, no more: let him come when he will:

I will deny thee nothing.DESDEMONA Why, this is not a boon 85:

’Tis as I should entreat you wear your gloves,

Or feed on nourishing dishes, or keep you warm,

Or sue to you to do a peculiar 88profit

To your own person: nay, when I have a suit

Wherein I mean to touch 90your love indeed,

It shall be full of poise 91and difficult weight,

And fearful to be granted.OTHELLO I will deny thee nothing:

Whereon 94, I do beseech thee, grant me this,

To leave me but a little to myself.DESDEMONA Shall I deny you? No. Farewell, my lord.OTHELLO Farewell, my Desdemona, I’ll come to thee straight 97.DESDEMONA Emilia, come.— Be as your fancies 98teach you:

Whate’er you be, I am obedient. Exeunt [Desdemona and Emilia]

OTHELLO Excellent wretch! Perdition 100catch my soul,

But I do love thee! And when I love thee not,

Chaos is come again.IAGO My noble lord—OTHELLO What dost thou say, Iago?IAGO Did Michael Cassio, when you wooed my lady,

Know of your love?OTHELLO He did, from first to last: why dost thou ask?IAGO But for a satisfaction of my thought,

No further harm.OTHELLO Why of thy thought, Iago?IAGO I did not think he had been acquainted with her.OTHELLO O, yes, and went between us very oft.IAGO Indeed?OTHELLO Indeed? Ay, indeed. Discern’st thou aught 114in that?

Is he not honest?IAGO Honest, my lord?OTHELLO Honest, ay, honest.IAGO My lord, for aught I know.OTHELLO What dost thou think?IAGO Think, my lord?OTHELLO ‘Think, my lord?’ Alas, thou echo’st me,

As if there were some monster in thy thought

Too hideous to be shown. Thou dost mean something.

I heard thee say even now, thou lik’st not that,

When Cassio left my wife: what didst not like?

And when I told thee he was of my counsel 126

Of my whole course of wooing, thou cried’st ‘Indeed?’

And didst contract and purse 128thy brow together

As if thou then hadst shut up in thy brain

Some horrible conceit 130: if thou dost love me,

Show me thy thought.IAGO My lord, you know I love you.OTHELLO I think thou dost,

And for 134I know thou’rt full of love and honesty,

And weigh’st thy words before thou giv’st them breath,

Therefore these stops 136of thine fright me the more,

For such things in a false 137disloyal knave

Are tricks of custom 138, but in a man that’s just

They’re close dilations 139, working from the heart

That passion cannot rule 140.IAGO For Michael Cassio,

I dare be sworn I think that he is honest.OTHELLO I think so too.IAGO Men should be what they seem,

Or those that be not, would they might seem none 145.OTHELLO Certain, men should be what they seem.IAGO Why then, I think Cassio’s an honest man.OTHELLO Nay, yet there’s more in this!

I prithee speak to me as to thy thinkings,