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Enter CASSIO and MUSICIANS
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Enter CASSIO and MUSICIANS
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CASSIO Masters, play here, I will content your pains.
Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”
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CASSIO Masters, play here, I will content your pains.
Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”
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They play. Enter CLOWN
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They play. Enter CLOWN
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CLOWN Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?
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CLOWN Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?
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MUSICIAN How, sir? How?
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MUSICIAN How, sir? How?
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CLOWN 5 Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
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CLOWN Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
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MUSICIAN Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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MUSICIAN Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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CLOWN Oh, thereby hangs a tail.
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CLOWN Oh, thereby hangs a tail.
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MUSICIAN Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
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MUSICIAN 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.
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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.
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MUSICIAN 10 Well, sir, we will not.
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MUSICIAN 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.
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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.
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MUSICIAN We have none such, sir.
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MUSICIAN 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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CLOWN Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I’ll away. Go, vanish into air, away!
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Exeunt MUSICIANS
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Exeunt MUSICIANS
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CASSIO Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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CASSIO Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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CLOWN 15 No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
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CLOWN No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
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CASSIO 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?
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CASSIO 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?
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CLOWN She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.
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CLOWN She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.
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Exit CLOWN
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Exit CLOWN
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Enter IAGO
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Enter IAGO
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In happy time, Iago.
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In happy time, Iago.
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IAGO You have not been abed, then?
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IAGO You have not been abed, then?
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CASSIO Why, no. The day had broke
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
20 To send in to your wife. My suit to her
Is that she will to virtuous Desdemona
Procure me some access.
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CASSIO 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.
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IAGO I’ll send her to you presently,
And I’ll devise a mean to draw the Moor
25 Out of the way, that your converse and business
May be more free.
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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.
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CASSIO I humbly thank you for’t.
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CASSIO I humbly thank you for’t.
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Exit IAGO
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Exit IAGO
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I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.
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I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.
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Enter EMILIA
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Enter EMILIA
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EMILIA Good morrow, good Lieutenant. I am sorry
30 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
35 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.
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EMILIA 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.
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CASSIO Yet I beseech you,
If you think fit, or that it may be done,
40 Give me advantage of some brief discourse
With Desdemona alone.
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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.
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EMILIA Pray you come in.
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
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EMILIA Pray you come in.
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
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CASSIO I am much bound to you.
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CASSIO I am much bound to you.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter CASSIO and MUSICIANS
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Enter CASSIO and MUSICIANS
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CASSIO Masters, play here, I will content your pains.
Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”
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CASSIO Masters, play here, I will content your pains.
Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”
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They play. Enter CLOWN
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They play. Enter CLOWN
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CLOWN Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?
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CLOWN Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?
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MUSICIAN How, sir? How?
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MUSICIAN How, sir? How?
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CLOWN 5 Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
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CLOWN Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?
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MUSICIAN Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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MUSICIAN Ay, marry, are they, sir.
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CLOWN Oh, thereby hangs a tail.
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CLOWN Oh, thereby hangs a tail.
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MUSICIAN Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
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MUSICIAN 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.
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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.
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MUSICIAN 10 Well, sir, we will not.
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MUSICIAN 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.
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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.
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MUSICIAN We have none such, sir.
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MUSICIAN 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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CLOWN Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I’ll away. Go, vanish into air, away!
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Exeunt MUSICIANS
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Exeunt MUSICIANS
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CASSIO Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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CASSIO Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
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CLOWN 15 No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
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CLOWN No, I hear not your honest friend, I hear you.
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CASSIO 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?
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CASSIO 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?
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CLOWN She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.
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CLOWN She is stirring, sir. If she will stir hither, I shall seem to notify unto her.
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Exit CLOWN
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Exit CLOWN
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Enter IAGO
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Enter IAGO
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In happy time, Iago.
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In happy time, Iago.
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IAGO You have not been abed, then?
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IAGO You have not been abed, then?
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CASSIO Why, no. The day had broke
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
20 To send in to your wife. My suit to her
Is that she will to virtuous Desdemona
Procure me some access.
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CASSIO 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.
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IAGO I’ll send her to you presently,
And I’ll devise a mean to draw the Moor
25 Out of the way, that your converse and business
May be more free.
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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.
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CASSIO I humbly thank you for’t.
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CASSIO I humbly thank you for’t.
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Exit IAGO
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Exit IAGO
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I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.
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I never knew a Florentine more kind and honest.
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Enter EMILIA
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Enter EMILIA
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EMILIA Good morrow, good Lieutenant. I am sorry
30 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
35 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.
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EMILIA 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.
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CASSIO Yet I beseech you,
If you think fit, or that it may be done,
40 Give me advantage of some brief discourse
With Desdemona alone.
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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.
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EMILIA Pray you come in.
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
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EMILIA Pray you come in.
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
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CASSIO I am much bound to you.
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CASSIO I am much bound to you.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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