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I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea’s worth. But look what lights come yonder.

IAGO
These are the raised father and his friends,
You were best go in.

OTHELLO
Not I, I must be found: [30]
My parts, my title, and my perfect soul,
Shall manifest me rightly: is it they?

IAGO
By Janus I think no.

Enter Cassio, with Officers, and torches.

OTHELLO
The servants of the duke, and my lieutenant.

The goodness of the night upon you, friends! [35]
What is the news?

CASSIO
The duke does greet you, general,
And he requires your haste post-haste appearance,

Even on the instant.

OTHELLO
What’s the matter, think you?

CASSIO
Something from Cyprus, as I may divine;
It is a business of some heat, the galleys [40]
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers

This very night, at one another’s heels:
And many of the consuls, rais’d and met,