ACT III SCENE III 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 case 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 any thing but your true servant.

DESDEMONA I know't; I thank you. You do love my lord: 10
You have known him long; and be you well assured
He shall in strangeness stand no further off
Than in a polite 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.