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you,
     If you think fit, or that it may be done,
     Give me advantage of 53 some brief discourse
     With Desdemon alone.
    EMILIA    Pray you come in:
     I will bestow you where you shall have time
     To speak your bosom 57 freely.
    CASSIO    I am much bound to you.
    [Exeunt]
Act 3 Scene 2
running scene 7 continues
    Enter Othello, Iago and Gentlemen
    OTHELLO    These letters give, Iago, to the pilot,
    Gives him letters
         And by him do my duties 2 to the senate:
     That done, I will be walking on the works 3 .
      Repair 4 there to me.
    IAGO    Well, my good lord, I’ll do’t.
    OTHELLO    This fortification, gentlemen, shall we see’t?
    GENTLEMEN    We’ll wait upon your lordship.
    Exeunt
Act 3 Scene 3
running scene 7 continues
    Enter Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia
    DESDEMONA    Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
     All my abilities in thy behalf.
    EMILIA    Good madam, do: I warrant 3 it grieves my husband
     As if the cause were his.
    DESDEMONA    O, that’s an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
     But I will have my lord and you again
     As friendly as you were.
    CASSIO    Bounteous madam,
     Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
     He’s never anything but your true servant.
    DESDEMONA    I know’t: I thank you. You do love my lord:
     You have known him long, and be you well assured
     He shall in strangeness 13 stand no further off
     Than in a politic 14 distance.
    CASSIO    Ay, but, lady,
     That policy may either last so long,
     Or feed upon such nice and waterish 17 diet,
     Or breed itself so out of circumstances 18 ,
     That I being absent and my place supplied 19 ,
     My general will forget my love and service.
    DESDEMONA    Do not doubt 21 that: before Emilia here
     I give thee warrant 22 of thy place. Assure thee,
     If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it
     To the last article: my lord shall never rest,
     I’ll watch him tame 25 and talk him out of patience;
     His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift 26 :
     I’ll intermingle everything he does
     With Cassio’s suit. Therefore be merry, Cassio,
     For thy solicitor 29 shall rather die
     Than give thy cause away 30 .
    Enter Othello and Iago
    EMILIA    Madam, here comes my lord.
    CASSIO    Madam, I’ll take my leave.
    DESDEMONA    Why, stay and hear me speak.
    CASSIO    Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,
     Unfit for mine own purposes.
    DESDEMONA    Well, do your discretion 36 .
    Exit Cassio
    IAGO    Ha? I like not that.
    OTHELLO    What dost thou say?
    IAGO    Nothing, my lord; or if — I know not what.
    OTHELLO    Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?
    IAGO    Cassio, my lord? No, sure, I cannot think it,
     That he would steal away so guilty-like,
     Seeing your coming.
    OTHELLO    I do believe ’twas he.
    DESDEMONA    How now, my lord?
     I have been talking with a suitor 46 here,
     A man that languishes in your displeasure.
    OTHELLO    Who is’t you mean?
    DESDEMONA    Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,
     If I have any grace 50 or power to move you,
     His present reconciliation take 51 ,
     For if he be not one that truly loves you,
     That errs in ignorance and not in cunning 53 ,
     I have no judgement in an honest face.
     I prithee call him back.
    OTHELLO    Went he hence now?
    DESDEMONA    Ay, sooth 57 ; so humbled
     That he hath left part of his grief with me
     To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.
    OTHELLO    Not now, sweet Desdemon: some other time.
    DESDEMONA    But shall’t be shortly?
    OTHELLO    The sooner, sweet, for you.
    DESDEMONA    Shall’t be tonight at supper?
    OTHELLO    No, not tonight.
    DESDEMONA