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In happy time, Iago. [30]



              IAGO
               You ha’ not been a-bed, then?



              CASSIO
               Why no, the day had broke before we parted:
               I ha’ made bold, Iago,
               To send in to your wife,... my suit to her

               Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona [35]
               Procure me some access.



              IAGO
                               I’ll send her to you presently,
               And I’ll devise a mean to draw the Moor

               Out of the way, that your converse and business
               May be more free.



              CASSIO
               I humbly thank you for it. (Exit Iago) I never knew [40]
               A Florentine more kind and honest.


                                                        Enter Emilia.



              EMILIA
               Good morrow, good lieutenant; I am sorry

               For your displeasure, but all will soon be well,
               The general and his wife are talking of it,
               And she speaks for you stoutly: the Moor replies, [45]
               That he you hurt is of great fame in Cyprus,

               And great affinity, and that in wholesome wisdom
               He might not but refuse you; but he protests he loves you,
               And needs no other suitor but his likings
               To take the safest occasion by the front, [50]

               To bring you in again.



              CASSIO
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