No Fear Shakespeare: Othello: Act 3 Scene 1

Act 3 Scene 1

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Enter CASSIO and MUSICIANS	CASSIO enters with MUSICIANS.
CASSIO Masters, play here, I will content your pains. Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”	CASSIO Musicians, start playing here. I’ll pay you for your trouble. Play something short that will put the general in a good mood.
They play. Enter CLOWN	The MUSICIANS play. The CLOWN enters.
CLOWN Why masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i' th' nose thus?	CLOWN Your instruments all have a nasal twang. Have they been to Naples Naples was considered a likely place to contract syphilis, which eats away at the bridge of the nose. Naples?
MUSICIAN How, sir? How?	MUSICIAN Excuse me?
CLOWN 5Are these, I pray you, wind instruments?	CLOWN Are these wind instruments?
MUSICIAN Ay, marry, are they, sir.	MUSICIAN Yes, they are.
CLOWN Oh, thereby hangs a tail.	CLOWN Oh, there’s the problem.
MUSICIAN Whereby hangs a tale, sir?	MUSICIAN What’s the problem?
CLOWN Marry sir, by many a wind instrument that I know. But, masters, here’s money for you, and the general so likes your music that he desires you, for love’s sake, to make no more noise with it.	CLOWN Anyone full of hot air is a problem. But here’s some money. The general likes your music a lot, but he asks you to stop playing now.
MUSICIAN 10Well, sir, we will not.	MUSICIAN Well, we’ll stop, then.

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