That thrust might really have hurt me if I didn't have
this armor on under my cloak. Now let's see what
you've got on.
Draws, and wounds RODERIGO
CASSIOdraws his sword and stabs
Roderigo.
RODERIGO
Oh, I am
slain!
RODERIGO
Oh, I'm dead!
IAGO from behind wounds
CASSIO in the legs, exits
From behind, IAGO stabs
CASSIO in the leg and then exits.
CASSIO
I am maimed for ever. Help, ho! Murder! Murder!
CASSIO
I'll be crippled forever! Help! Murder! murder!
Enter OTHELLO
OTHELLO enters.
OTHELLO
The voice of Cassio. Iago keeps his word.
OTHELLO
That's Cassio's voice. Iago has kept his
word.
RODERIGO
Oh, villain that I am!
RODERIGO
Oh, what a villain I am!
OTHELLO
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It is even so.
OTHELLO
That's the truth.
CASSIO
Oh, help, ho! Light! A surgeon!
CASSIO
Help me! Get some light! Get me a surgeon!
OTHELLO
'Tis he. Oh, brave Iago, honest and just,
That hast such noble sense of thy friend's
wrong!
OTHELLO
It's him! Brave Iago, how honest and trustworthy you
are! You even went as far as murder to help your friend in his
misfortune. You teach me how I should act.
