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A Hall in the Castle.

Enter Othello, Cassio, and Desdemona.

OTHELLO
Good Michael, look you to the guard to-night:
Let’s teach ourselves the honourable stop,
Not to outsport discretion.

CASSIO

Iago hath directed what to do:
But notwithstanding with my personal eye [5]
Will I look to it.

OTHELLO
Iago is most honest,
Michael, good night, to-morrow with your earliest,

Let me have speech with you; come, my dear love,
The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue,
The profit’s yet to come ’twixt me and you. [10]
Good night.

Exeunt Othello and Desdemona.

Enter Iago.

CASSIO
Welcome, Iago, we must to the watch.

IAGO
Not this hour, lieutenant, ’tis not yet ten o’ clock: our general cast us thus
early for the love of his Desdemona, who let us not therefore blame: he hath

[15] not yet made wanton the night with her; and she is sport for Jove.

CASSIO

She is a most exquisite lady.

IAGO