[79] АСТ III. Caf. 2 SCENE I Before Othello's Palace. Enter Caffio with Muficians. MASTE ASTERS, play here, I will content your pains, Something that's brief; and bid, Good-morrow, General. [Mufick plays, and enter Clown from the house. Clown. Why, masters, have your inftruments been bat Naples, that they speak i'th' nose thus ? с Muf. How, fir, how? d e Clown. Are thefe, I pray you, call'd wind inftruments ? Clown. O, thereby hangs a tail. Clown. Marry, fir, by many a wind inftrument that I know. But, mafters, here's money for you: and the General fo likes your mufic, that he defires you, f of all loves, to make no more noise with it. Muf. Well, fir, we will not. Clown. If you have any mufic that may not be heard, to't again; but, as they fay, to hear mufic the General does not greatly care. Muf. We have none fuch, fir. Clown. Then put up your pipes in your bag, and hie away; go, vanish away. k 1 [Exeunt Muficians. Caf. Doft thou hear, my honeft friend? Clown. No, I hear not your honeft friend; I hear you. Caf. Pr'ythee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece of gold for thee. If the gentlewoman that attends " the General's wife be ftirring, tell her there's one Caffio" entreats her a little favour of fpeech. Wilt thou do this? Clown. She is ftirring, fir, if she will ftir hither. I fhall feem to notify unto her. [Exit. So the qu's, T. H. W. J. and C; the reft, Doft bou bear me, mine bon ft The 2d q. the three laft fo's, R. friend. P. and H. omit more. h The qu's omit up. i and bie away, is H.'s emendation, followed by W; the rest read, for I'll arvay. m The fo's read, the General be flirring, &c. n So all before R. he and the reft, except C. entreats of ber, &c. • Do, good my friend, is omitted in k So the ft q; the reft, Go, vanifh the fo's; R. and all after read, De, my ́into air, away. good friend. lago. lago. You have not been abed then? Caf. Why, no; the day had broke before we parted. I have made bold, P lago, to fend in to your wife, My fuit to her is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona, Iago. I'll fend her to you presently; And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor Out of the way, that your converfe and business Caf. I humbly thank you for 't.-I never knew To him, enter Emilia. Emil. Good-morrow, good lieutenant. I am forry And great affinity; and that in wholesome wisdom x [Exit. He might not but refuse you. But he protests, he loves you; And needs no other fuitor but his likings, To take the fafeft occafion by the front To bring you in again. If think fit, or that it may be done, Caf. Yet I beseech you, you Give me advantage of fome brief discourse Emil. Pray you, come in; I will beftow you where you shall have time To speak your bofom freely. Caf. I am much bound to you. [Exeunt. SCENE II. Enter Othello, Iago, and Gentlemen. Oth. These letters give, lago, to the pilot, And by him do my duties to the Senate; d That done, I will be walking on the works; Iago. Well, my good lord, I'll do't. Oth. This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see 't? f [Exeunt. b The fo's and R. read Defdemon. e P. and all after, except C. omit Well. So the qu's; the rft f. Well wait, &c. the reft, We'll wait, &c. SCENE SCENE III. & An Apartment in the Palace, Enter Desdemona, Caffio, and Æmilia. Def. Be thou affur'd, good Cassie, I will do All my abilities in thy behalf. Emil. Good madam, do. I know it grieves my husband As if the cafe were his. Def. O that's an honeft fellow: * do not doubt, Caffio, But I will have my Lord and you again As friendly as you were, 1 Caf. Bounteous madam, Whatever shall become of Michael Caffre, He's never any thing but your true servant. m Def. O fir, I thank you. You do love my Lord; You have known him long; and be " you well affur'd, He shall in ftrangeness ftand no farther off Than in a politic distance. Caf. Ay but, lady, That policy may either laft fo long, # C, describes this scene, Before the not for Do not doubt, followed by the rest cafle. h The fo's, R. and C. read, I warrant for I know. iSo the qu's and C; the reft, cause for cafe. * So all before P. who reads Doubs |