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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
