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As gifts to Desdemona:
               It must not be; if Cassio do remain,
               He has a daily beauty in his life,
               That makes me ugly: and besides, the Moor [20]

               May unfold me to him; there stand I in peril:
               No, he must die, be ’t so, I hear him coming.


                                                       Enter Cassio.



              RODERIGO
               I know his gait, ’tis he, villain, thou diest!
                                                                                   Makes a pass at Cassio.



              CASSIO
               That thrust had been my enemy indeed,

               But that my coat is better than thou think’st; [25]
               I will make proof of thine.
                                                                           Draws, and wounds Roderigo.



              RODERIGO
                               O, I am slain!

                                            Iago from behind wounds Cassio in the leg, and exit.



              CASSIO
               I am maim’d for ever, light, ho, murder, murder!
                                                                                                           Falls.


                                                       Enter Othello.



              OTHELLO
               The voice of Cassio, Iago keeps his word.



              RODERIGO
               O villain that I am!



              OTHELLO

                               Hark, ’tis even so.
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