Othello


    William Shakespeare
    Othello
    Herausgegeben von Dieter Hamblock
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Othello, the Moor of Venice

Act III
    Scene 1
    Before the Castle.
    Enter Cassio, with Musicians and the Clown.
    CASSIO. Masters, play here, I will content your pains,
    Â Â Â Â Something that’s brief, and bid “Good morrow, general.”
    (They play.)
    CLOWN. Why, masters, ha’ your instruments been at Naples , that they speak i’ the nose thus?
    FIRST MUSICIAN. How, sir, how? [5]
    CLOWN. Are these, I pray, call’d wind-instrument s ?
    FIRST MUSICIA N. Ay marry are they, sir.
    CLOWN. O, thereby hangs a tail.
    FIRST MUSICIAN. Whereby hangs a tale, sir?
    C LOWN. Marry, sir, by many a wind-instrument that I [10] know. But, masters, here’s money for you, and the general so likes your music, that he desires you, of all loves, to make no more noise with it.
    FIRST MUSICIAN. Well sir, we will not.
    CLOWN. If you have any music that may not be heard, [15] to ’t again, but, as they say, to hear music, the general does not greatly care.
    FIRST MUSICIAN. We ha’ none such, sir.
    CLOWN. Then put your pipes in your bag, for I’ll away; go, vanish away! [20]
    (Exeunt Musicians.)
    C ASSIO. Dost thou hear my honest friend?
    CLOWN. No, I