GENTLEMEN.
We’ll wait upon your lordship.
[Exeunt.]
SCENE III. Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle.
Enter Desdemona, Cassio and Emilia.
DESDEMONA.
Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do
All my abilities in thy behalf.
EMILIA.
Good madam, do. I warrant it grieves my husband
As if the cause were his.
DESDEMONA.
O, that’s an honest fellow. Do not doubt, Cassio,
But I will have my lord and you again
As friendly as you were.
CASSIO.
Bounteous madam,
Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,
He’s never anything but your true servant.
DESDEMONA.
I know’t. I thank you. You do love my lord.
You have known him long; and be you well assur’d
He shall in strangeness stand no farther off
Than in a politic distance.
CASSIO.
Ay, but, lady,
That policy may either last so long,
Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,
Or breed itself so out of circumstance,
That, I being absent, and my place supplied,
My general will forget my love and service.