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The same.


                                       Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia.



              DESDEMONA
               Be thou assur’d, good Cassio, I will do
               All my abilities in thy behalf.



              EMILIA
               Good madam, do, I know it grieves my husband,

               As if the case were his.


              DESDEMONA

               O, that’s an honest fellow:... do not doubt, Cassio, [5]
               But I will have my lord and you again
               As friendly as you were.



              CASSIO
                               Bounteous madame,
               Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,

               He’s never anything but your true servant.



              DESDEMONA
               O sir, I thank you; you do love my lord, [10]
               You have known him long, and be you well assur’d,
               He shall in strangest stand no farther off

               Than in a politic distance.



              CASSIO
                               Ay, but, lady,
               The policy may either last so long,
               Or feed upon such nice and wat’rish diet, [15]
               Or breed itself so out of circumstance,

               That I being absent, and my place supplied,
               My general will forget my love and service.



              DESDEMONA
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