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© HELBLING LANGUAGES 2021 Othello – Act 3 Scene 3 Extract 1 – Page 1

Othello

by William Shakespeare

Act 3 Scene 3 : I LIKE NOT THAT

DESDEMONA

Do not doubt that; before Emilia here

I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,

If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it

To the last article: my lord shall never rest;

5 I’ll watch him tame and talk him out of patience;

His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;

I’ll intermingle every thing he does

With Cassio’s suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;

For thy solicitor shall rather die

10 Than give thy cause away.

EMILIA

Madam, here comes my lord.

CASSIO

Madam, I’ll take my leave.


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DESDEMONA

Why, stay, and hear me speak.

CASSIO

Madam, not now: I am very ill at ease,

15 Unfit for mine own purposes.

DESDEMONA

Well, do your discretion.

(Exit CASSIO)

(Enter OTHELLO and IAGO)

IAGO

Ha! I like not that.

OTHELLO

What dost thou say?

IAGO

Nothing, my lord: or if--I know not what.

OTHELLO

20 Was not that Cassio parted from my wife?


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IAGO

Cassio, my lord! No, sure, I cannot think it,

That he would steal away so guilty-like,

Seeing you coming.

OTHELLO

I do believe ’twas he.

DESDEMONA

25 How now, my lord!

I have been talking with a suitor here,

A man that languishes in your displeasure.

OTHELLO

Who is’t you mean?


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DESDEMONA

Why, your lieutenant, Cassio. Good my lord,

30 If I have any grace or power to move you,

His present reconciliation take;

For if he be not one that truly loves you,

That errs in ignorance and not in cunning,

I have no judgment in an honest face:

35 I prithee, call him back.

OTHELLO

Went he hence now?

DESDEMONA

Ay, sooth; so humbled

That he hath left part of his grief with me,

To suffer with him. Good love, call him back.

OTHELLO

40 Not now, sweet Desdemona; some other time.


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DESDEMONA

But shall’t be shortly?

OTHELLO

The sooner, sweet, for you.

DESDEMONA

Shall’t be to-night at supper?

OTHELLO

No, not to-night.

DESDEMONA

45 To-morrow dinner, then?

OTHELLO

I shall not dine at home;

I meet the captains at the citadel.

DESDEMONA

Why, then, to-morrow night; or Tuesday morn;

On Tuesday noon, or night; on Wednesday morn:


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50 I prithee, name the time, but let it not

Exceed three days: in faith, he’s penitent;

And yet his trespass, in our common reason--

Save that, they say, the wars must make examples

Out of their best--is not almost a fault

55 To incur a private cheque. When shall he come?

Tell me, Othello: I wonder in my soul,

What you would ask me, that I should deny,

Or stand so mamm’ring on. What! Michael Cassio,

That came a-wooing with you, and so many a time,

60 When I have spoke of you dispraisingly,

Hath ta’en your part; to have so much to do

To bring him in! Trust me, I could do much,--

OTHELLO

Prithee, no more: let him come when he will;

I will deny thee nothing.

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