Before the Castle
Enter CASSIO and som Musicians.
CASSIO: Masters, play here; I will content your pains;
Something that's brief; and bid 'Good morrow, general.'
Music
Enter Clown.
Clown: Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples,
that they speak i' the nose thus?
First Musician: How, sir, how!
Clown: Are these, I pray you, wind-instruments?
First Musician: Ay, marry, are they, sir.
Clown: O, thereby hangs a tail.
First Musician: Whereby hangs a tale, sir? 10
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.
First Musician: Well, sir, we will not.
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.
First Musician: We have none such, sir.
Clown: Then put up your pipes in your bag, for I'll away: 20
go, vanish into air; away!
Exeunt Musicians.
CASSIO: Dost thou hear, my honest friend?
Clown: No, I hear not your honest friend; I hear you
CASSIO: Prithee, keep up thy quillets. There's a poor piece
of gold for thee: if the gentlewoman attends
the general's wife be stirring, tell her there's
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 nofify unto her, 30
CASSIO: Do, good my friend.
Exit Clown.
Enter IAGO.
In happy time, Iago.
IAGO: You have not been a-bed, then?
CASSIO: Why, no; the day had broke
Before we parted. I have made bold, Iago,
To send it to your wife: my suit to her
Is, that she will virtuous Desdemona
Procure me some access.
IAGO: I'll send her to yor presently;
And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor 40
Out of the way, that yor converse and business
May be more free.
CASSIO: I humbly thank you for't.
Exit IAGO.
I never knew
A Florentine more kind and honest.
Enter EMILIA
EMILIA: Good morrow, goog 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, 50
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.
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; 60
I will bestow you where you shall have time
To speak your bosom freely.
CASSIO: I am much bound to you.
Exeunt
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