Act 2
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Enter OTHELLO,
DESDEMONA, CASSIO, and attendants
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OTHELLO, DESDEMONA,
CASSIO and attendants enter.
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OTHELLO Good Michael, look you to the guard tonight.
Let’s teach ourselves that honorable stop
Not to outsport discretion.
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OTHELLO Good Michael, keep a careful eye on the guards tonight.
Let’s exercise restraint and not let the party get too
wild.
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CASSIO Iago hath direction what to do,
5But notwithstanding with my personal eye
Will I look to ’t.
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CASSIO Iago has orders what to do. But I’ll see to it
personally anyway.
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OTHELLO Iago is most
honest.
Michael, good night. Tomorrow with your earliest
Let me have speech with you.—
Come, my dear love,
10The purchase made, the fruits are to ensue:
That profit’s yet to come ’tween me and you.
Good night.
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OTHELLO Iago’s a good man. Goodnight, Michael. Come talk to me
tomorrow as early as you can.—Come with me, my dear love.
Now that the wedding’s over, we can have the pleasure of
consummating our marriage. Good night, everyone.
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Exeunt OTHELLO,
DESDEMONA, and attendants
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OTHELLO and
DESDEMONA exit with their
attendants.
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Enter IAGO
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IAGO enters.
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CASSIO Welcome, Iago. We must to the watch.
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CASSIO Hello, Iago. It’s time for us to stand guard.
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IAGO Not this hour, lieutenant, ’tis not yet ten
o' the clock. Our general cast us thus early for the love
of his Desdemona—who let us not therefore blame. He hath
not yet made wanton the night with her, and she is sport for
Jove.
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IAGO Not yet, lieutenant. It’s not even ten
o'clock. The general got rid of us early tonight so he
could be with Desdemona.—I can’t blame him. He
hasn’t spent the night with her yet, and she’s
beautiful enough to be
Jove’sJove is the head of the gods in Roman mythology. Jove’s lover. |
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CASSIO
15She’s a most exquisite lady.
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CASSIO She’s an exquisitely beautiful lady.
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IAGO And, I’ll warrant her, full of game.
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IAGO And I bet she’s good in bed too.
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