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ACT III IT

Scene I IT

Before the Castle.

Enter Cassio, with Musicians and the Clown.

CASSIO
Masters, play here, I will content your pains,
Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general”.

They play.

CLOWN

Why, masters, ha’ your instruments been at Naples, that they speak i’ the
nose thus?

FIRST MUSICIAN
How, sir, how? [5]

CLOWN
Are these, I pray, call’d wind-instruments?

FIRST MUSICIAN
Ay marry are they, sir.

CLOWN
O, thereby hangs a tail.

FIRST MUSICIAN
Whereby hangs a tale, sir?

CLOWN