IAGO.
Those are the raised father and his friends:
You were best go in.
OTHELLO.
Not I; I must be found;
My parts, my title, and my perfect soul
Shall manifest me rightly. Is it they?
IAGO.
By Janus, I think no.
[Enter Cassio and certain Officers with torches.]
OTHELLO.
The servants of the duke and my lieutenant. —
The goodness of the night upon you, friends!
What is the news?
CASSIO.
The duke does greet you, general;
And he requires your haste-post-haste appearance
Even on the instant.
OTHELLO.
What is the matter, think you?
CASSIO.
Something from Cyprus, as I may divine:
It is a business of some heat: the galleys
Have sent a dozen sequent messengers
This very night at one another's heels;
And many of the consuls, rais'd and met,
Are at the duke's already: you have been hotly call'd for;
When, being not at your lodging to be found,
The senate hath sent about three several quests
To search you out.
OTHELLO.
'Tis well I am found by you.
I will but spend a word here in the house,
And go with you.
[Exit.]
