Page 1444 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3
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If that the Turkish fleet
Be not enshelter’d, and embay’d, they are drown’d,
It is impossible they bear it out.
Enter a third Gentleman.
THIRD GENTLEMAN
News, lords, your wars are done: [20]
The desperate tempest hath so bang’d the Turk,
That their designment halts: another ship, of Venice,
Hath seen a grievous wrack and sufferance
On most part of the fleet.
MONTANO
How, is this true?
THIRD GENTLEMAN
The ship is here put in, [25]
A Veronesa; Michael Cassio,
Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello,
Is come ashore: the Moor himself at sea,
And is in full commission here for Cyprus.
MONTANO
I am glad on ’t, ’tis a worthy governor. [30]
THIRD GENTLEMAN
But this same Cassio, though he speak of comfort,
Touching the Turkish loss, yet he looks sadly,
And prays the Moor be safe, for they were parted,
With foul and violent tempest.
MONTANO
Pray heaven he be:
For I have serv’d him, and the man commands [35]
Like a full soldier: let’s to the seaside, ho!
As well to see the vessel that’s come in,
