Two things are to be done, My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress. I’ll set her on; Myself the while to draw the Moor apart, And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Soliciting his wife. Ay, that’s the way. Dull not device by coldness and delay. 

 [Exit.]

 

 ACT III

 SCENE I. Cyprus. Before the Castle.

 Enter Cassio and some Musicians.

Cassio

Musicians

CASSIO. Masters, play here, I will content your pains, Something that’s brief; and bid “Good morrow, general.” 

 [Music.]

 Enter Clown.

Clown

CLOWN. Why, masters, have your instruments been in Naples, that they speak i’ the nose thus? 

FIRST MUSICIAN. How, sir, how? 

CLOWN. Are these, I pray you, wind instruments? 

FIRST MUSICIAN. Ay, marry, are they, sir. 

CLOWN. O, thereby hangs a tail. 

FIRST MUSICIAN. Whereby hangs a tale, sir? 

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. 

FIRST MUSICIAN. Well, sir, we will not. 

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