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| <H3>SCENE I. Before the castle.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter CASSIO and some Musicians</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Masters, play here; I will content your pains;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter Clown</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>that they speak i' the nose thus?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>First Musician</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=5>How, sir, how!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>First Musician</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>Ay, marry, are they, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>O, thereby hangs a tail.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>First Musician</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Whereby hangs a tale, sir?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Marry. sir, by many a wind-instrument that I know.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>But, masters, here's money for you: and the general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>so likes your music, that he desires you, for love's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>sake, to make no more noise with it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>First Musician</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>Well, sir, we will not.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>If you have any music that may not be heard, to't</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>again: but, as they say to hear music the general</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>does not greatly care.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>First Musician</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>We have none such, sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>go; vanish into air; away!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Musicians</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=21>Dost thou hear, my honest friend?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=22>No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman that attends</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>wilt thou do this?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>Clown</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>She is stirring, sir: if she will stir hither, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>shall seem to notify unto her.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=30>Do, good my friend.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Clown</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter IAGO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=31>In happy time, Iago.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=32>You have not been a-bed, then?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>Why, no; the day had broke</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>To send in to your wife: my suit to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Procure me some access.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>I'll send her to you presently;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>Out of the way, that your converse and business</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>May be more free.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>I humbly thank you for't.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit IAGO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=43>I never knew</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>A Florentine more kind and honest.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter EMILIA</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>Good morrow, good Lieutenant: I am sorry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>For your displeasure; but all will sure be well.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>The general and his wife are talking of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And needs no other suitor but his likings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>To take the safest occasion by the front</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>To bring you in again.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=55>Yet, I beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>If you think fit, or that it may be done,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Give me advantage of some brief discourse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>With Desdemona alone.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>EMILIA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Pray you, come in;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>I will bestow you where you shall have time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>To speak your bosom freely.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>CASSIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>I am much bound to you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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