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Before the castle. Enter DESDEMONA, EMILIA, and Clown
DESDEMONA
Do you know sirrah, where Lieutenant Cassio lies?
CLOWN
I dare not say he lies any where.
DESDEMONA
Why man?
CLOWN
He's a soldier, and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing.
DESDEMONA
Go to: where lodges he?
CLOWN
To tell you where he lodges, is to tell you where I lie.
DESDEMONA
Can any thing be made of this?
CLOWN
I know not where he lodges, and for me to devise a lodging, and say he lies
here, or he lies there, were to lie in mine own throat.
DESDEMONA
Can you inquire him out? And be edified by report?
CLOWN
I will catechise the world for him, that is, make questions, and by them
answer.
DESDEMONA
Seek him, bid him come hither: tell him, I have moved my lord on his behalf,
and hope all will be well.
CLOWN
To do this, is within the compass of man's wit, and therefore I will attempt
the doing it.
[Exit]
DESDEMONA
Where should I lose that handkerchief, Emilia?
EMILIA
I know not madam.
DESDEMONA
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,
Believe | me, I | had rath|er have lost | my
purse
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Full of | crusad|oes. And | but my nob|le Moor
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T T 2->
Is true | of mind,| and made | of no such
base||ness,
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As jeal|ous creat|ures are,| it were | enough
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To put | him to ill | thinking.
EMILIA
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Is he not | jealous?
DESDEMONA
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Who, he?| I think | the sun | where he | was born,
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Drew^all | such^hum|ors from | him.
EMILIA
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,
Look | where he comes.
DESDEMONA
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, , 2
I will | not leave | him now,| till Cas/sio be
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,
Called to | him. How | is it | with you,| my
lord?
[Enter OTHELLO]
OTHELLO
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2 ,
Well my good | lady.| Oh hard/ness to dis|semble!
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,
How do | you, Des|demo|na?
DESDEMONA
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Well,| my good lord.
OTHELLO
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,
Give me | your hand.
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, 2->
This hand | is moist | my la||dy.
DESDEMONA
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, 2->
It yet | hath felt | no age,| nor known | no
sor||row.
OTHELLO
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,
This arg|ues fruit|fulness,| and lib|eral heart:
T T .
T , ,
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Hot, hot, and moist.| This hand | of yours |
requires
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A sequest|er from lib|erty:| fasting,| and
prayer,
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Much^cast|iga|tion, ex|ercise | devout,
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For here's | a young,| and sweat|ing dev|il here
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That com|monly | rebels:| 'Tis a / good hand,
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A frank | one.
DESDEMONA
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T
You / may (in|deed) say so:
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For 'twas | that^hand | that gave | away | my heart.
OTHELLO
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T T
A lib|eral hand.| The hearts | of old, gave
hands:
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, . T T T
But our / new her|aldry | is hands, not hearts.
DESDEMONA
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T . T
I cannot | speak of this:
T ,
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Come,| now your |
promise.
OTHELLO
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What prom|ise, chuck? \\
DESDEMONA
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,
I have sent | to bid | Cassio | come* speak | with you.
OTHELLO
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I have a | salt and | sorry | rheum of|fends me:
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Lend me | thy hand|kerchief.
DESDEMONA
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Here, my | lord.
OTHELLO
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That which | I gave you.
DESDEMONA
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I have it | not a|bout me.
OTHELLO
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Not? \\
DESDEMONA
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No in|deed, my | lord. \\
OTHELLO
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That's | a fault:| | That hand|kerchief
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Did an | Egyp|tian to | my moth|er give:
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She was a | charmer,| and could al|most read
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The thoughts || of peo|ple. She | told her,| while she
| kept it,
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'Twould make | her am|iable,| and subdue | my
fath||er
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Entire|ly to | her love:| but if she | lost it,
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Or made | a gift | of it,| my fath|er's eye
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Should hold | her loathed,| and his | spirits |
should hunt
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After new | fancies.| She* dy|ing, gave | it me,
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And bid | me (when | my fate | would have | me
wived)
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Tx
To give it | her. I | did so;| and take heed on
it, ??
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Make it | a darl|ing, like | your prec|ious eye:
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2->
To lose it,| or give | it away,| were such |
perdi||tion
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As noth|ing else | could match.
DESDEMONA
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Is it pos|sible?
OTHELLO
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'Tis true:| there's mag|ic in | the web | of it:
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A sib|yl that | had num|bered^in | the world
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The sun | to course,| two* hund|red comp|asses,
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In her | prophet|ic fu|ry sewed | the work:
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The worms | were hal|lowed, that | did breed |
the silk,
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And it | was dyed | in mum|my, which | the
skill||ful
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Conserved | of maid|ens' hearts.
DESDEMONA
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Indeed?| Is it true?
OTHELLO
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Most ver/itable,| therefore | look to | it well.
DESDEMONA
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Then would | to Heaven,| that I | had nev|er seen it?
OTHELLO
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Ha?| wherefore? \\
DESDEMONA
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Why do | you speak | so start|ingly,| and rash?
OTHELLO
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Is it lost?| Is it gone?| Speak,| is it out | of
the way?
DESDEMONA
,
Bless us.
OTHELLO
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Say you? (mono with prev)
DESDEMONA
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It is / not lost:| but what | and if | it were?
OTHELLO
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How? \\
DESDEMONA
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I say | it is / not lost.
OTHELLO
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Fetch it,| let me | see it. (tri with
prev)
DESDEMONA
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T T T
Why so | I can:| but I | will not now:
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This is | a trick | to put | me from | my suit,
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Pray you | let* Cas|sio be | received | again.
OTHELLO
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Fetch me | the hand|kerchief,
, ,
My mind |
misgives.
DESDEMONA
Come, come: You'll never meet a more sufficient man.
OTHELLO
, ,
The hand|kerchief.
DESDEMONA
,
, ,
A man | that all | his time
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Hath found|ed his / good for|tunes on | your
love;
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Shared dang/ers with | you.
OTHELLO
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The | handker|chief.
DESDEMONA
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In sooth,| you are | to blame.
OTHELLO
, oo
Away.|
[Exit]
EMILIA
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,
Is not | this man | jealous?
DESDEMONA
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I nere saw | this before.
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Sure, there's | some wond|er in | this
hand|kerchief:
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I am most | unhap|py in | the loss | of it.
EMILIA
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'Tis not | a year | or two | shows us | a man:
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They are | all but | stomachs,| and we all | but
food,
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To eat | us hung|rily,| and when | they are full
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They belch | us. Look | you, Cas/sio and my
| husband.
[Enter CASSIO and IAGO]
IAGO
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x
There is | no oth|er way:| 'tis she | must do it:
, ,
2 , , x
And lo | the hap|piness: go,| and im|portune her.
DESDEMONA
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How now |(good Cas|sio) what's | the news | with
you?
CASSIO
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Madam, my | former | suit. I | do be|seech you,
, ,
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That by | your vir|tuous means,| I may | again
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Exist,| and be | a mem|ber of | his love,
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Whom^I,| with all | the of|fice of | my heart
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Entire|ly hon|or, I | would not | be delayed.
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If my | offense,| be of | such mort|al kind,
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That nor | my serv|ice past,| nor pres|ent sorrows,
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Nor pur|posed mer|it in | futur|ity,
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Can rans|om me | into | his love | again,
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But to / know so,| must be | my ben|efit:
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So shall | I clothe | me in | a forced | content,
,
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And shut | myself | up in | some oth|er course
, ,
To for|tune's alms.
DESDEMONA
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, ,
Alas |(thrice gentle Cas|sio) ????
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, , ,
My ad|voca|tion is / not now | in tune;
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My lord,| is not | my lord;| nor should I | know
him,
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Were he in | favor,| as in | humor | altered.
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So help | me eve|ry spir|it sanc|tified,
,
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As I | have spok|en for | you all | my best,
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And stood | within | the blank | of his |
displeas||ure
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For my / free speech.| You must a|while be |
patient:
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What I | can do,| I will:| and more | I will
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Than for | myself,| I dare.| Let that suf|fice
you.
IAGO
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Is my | lord^ang|ry?
EMILIA
, , ,
He | went hence | but now:
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, ,
, ,
And cert|ainly | in strange | unqui|etness.
IAGO
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Can he be | angry?| I have | seen the | cannon
, ,
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When it | hath blown | his ranks | into | the
air,
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And like | the dev|il from | his ve|ry arm
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Puffed his | own broth/er: and | is he | angry?
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Something | of mo|ment then:| I will go | meet
him,
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2 ,
There's mat|ter in | it indeed,| if he be |
angry.
[Exit IAGO]
DESDEMONA
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I prith|ee do | so. Some|thing sure | of state,
,
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Either | from Ven|ice, or some / unhatched | practice
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Made de|monstrable | here in | Cyprus,| to him,
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Hath pud|dled his / clear spirit:| and in such |
cases,
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Men's natures wrangle with inferior things,
????
,
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Though great | ones are | their ob|ject. 'Tis |
eene^so.
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For let | our fing|er ache,| and it | indues
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2
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Our oth|er health|ful mem|bers, even | to that
sense
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Of pain.| Nay, we | must think | men are | not*
gods, ??
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Nor of | them look | for such | observ|ances
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As fits the bridal. Beshrew me much, Emilia,
????
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I was |(unhand|some war|rior, as | I am)
,
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Arraign|ing his | unkind|ness with | my soul;
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But now | I find,| I had su|borned the | witness,
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And he's | indict|ed false|ly.
EMILIA
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Pray | heaven it
be
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State mat/ters, as | you think,| and no | concep||tion,
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, ,
Nor | no jeal|ous toy,| concern|ing you.
DESDEMONA
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Alas | the day,| I nev|er gave | him cause.
EMILIA
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But jeal|ous souls | will not | be ans|wered so;
,
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They are | not ev|er jeal|ous for | the cause,
,
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, 2->
But jeal|ous, for | they're jeal|ous. It is | a monst||er
,
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Begot | upon | itself,| born on | itself.
DESDEMONA
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Heaven | keep that | monster | from O|thello's
||
mind.
EMILIA
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La/dy, a|men. \\
DESDEMONA
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2
T T . T
I will go | seek him.| Cassio,| walk here about:
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If I | do find | him fit,| I'll move | your suit,
, 2
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And seek | to effect | it to | my ut|termost.
CASSIO
,
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oo
I hum|bly thank | your lad|yship.|
[Exeunt DESDEMONA and EMILIA. Enter BIANCA]
BIANCA
,
, ,
Save you |(friend Cas/sio).
CASSIO
, 2 ,
What make | you from home?
x ,
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How is it | with you,| my most | fair Bi|anca?
, ,
, ,
2 ,
Indeed |(sweet love)/ I was | coming | to your
house.
BIANCA
, , 2
, ,
, 2
And I | was go|ing to your | lodging,| Cassio.
T T . T
, Tx T . T
What? Keep a week | away?| Seven days, and
nights?
, ,
, , ,
Eight^score | eight^hours?| and lov|ers' ab|sent
hours,
,
2 , , T
T T
More ted|ious than | the dial,| eight score times?
, , 2
Oh wea|ry reck|oning.
CASSIO
, , , ->
Pard|on me,| Bian||ca:
, 2 , , ,
,
I | have this while | with lead|en thoughts |
been pressed,
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,
But I | shall, in | a more | contin|uate time
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->
Strike^off | this score | of ab|sence. Sweet
| Bian||ca
, 2
, 2
Take | me this work | out.
[Gives her DESDEMONA's handkerchief]
BIANCA
, 2 ,
,
Oh Cas|sio, whence | came* this?
,
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, ,
This is | some tok|en from | a new|er friend,
, ,
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To the / felt ab|sence: now | I feel | a cause:
2 ,
, ,
Is it come | to this?| Well* well.
CASSIO
, ,
Go to,| woman:
,
, ,
, ,
Throw your | vile gues/ses in | the dev|il's
teeth,
,
, , ,
,
From whence | you have | them. You | are jeal|ous
now,
,
2 , , ,
,
That this | is from some | mistress,| some
re|membrance;
, 2 ,
,
No, in good | troth Bi|anca.
BIANCA
, ,
Why, whose | is it?
CASSIO
,
,
I know | not^neith|er: \\
,
, ,
I found | it in | my
cham|ber, \\
, ,
, , 2
,
I like | the work | well; ere^|it be de|manded
, , , 2 x
,
(As like | enough | it will)| I would have it
| copied:
x
, ,
, ,
Take it, and | do it,| and leave | me for | this time.
??
BIANCA
,
,
Leave you?| Wherefore? \\
CASSIO
, ,
,
, o
I do | attend | here on | the gene|ral,
,
, ,
, ,
And think | it no | addi|tion, nor | my wish
, , ,
To have | him see | me wom|aned.
BIANCA
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Why,| I pray || you?
CASSIO
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,
Not | that I love | you not.
BIANCA
, 2 ,
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But that you | do not | love me. (tri
with prev)
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I pray | you bring | me on | the way | a little,
, , ,
, ,
And say,| if I | shall see | you soon | at night?
CASSIO
, 2 , ,
, ,
'Tis but a | little | way that | I can | bring you,
, ,
, ,
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For I | attend | here: but | I'll see | you soon.
BIANCA
, , , ,
,
'Tis ve|ry good:| I must | be cir|cumstanced.
[Exeunt]