THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Ser Lieutenant, the changing of the guard awaits your orders.
CASSIO (reeling):
Allons-y!!
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Whatever...?
IAGO:
That's the way every evening
he gets his liquid courage...
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Othello'll know it...
CASSIO:
The changing guard awaits me!
RODERIGO:
Ha-ha!
RANKERS:
Ha-ha!
CASSIO:
Who's laughing?
RODERIGO:
Can't you deny it?
CASSIO:
I will make you cry it, you scoundrel!!
RODERIGO:
What, Ser Lush-tenant?!
CASSIO (drawing steel):
You traitor! There's no way out of this!!
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Hold that hand, Lieutenant,
no bloodshed, I beg you...
CASSIO:
Whoever gets in between us will get knocked out...
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Says this young man, wasted...
CASSIO:
I, wasted!!??
IAGO (to Roderigo):
Run up all the way to the tower,
and ring the alarm bell with all of your power!
RODERIGO:
Right!
IAGO:
Spread all this dread 'round like wildfire...
make it sound like an enemy storming!
(Thrusting himself into the swordfight)
Dear comrades! Please stop at once this confrontation!!
WOMEN:
Run!
IAGO:
Gasp! Our former governor's bleeding!
And tension is mounting!
(Restraining Cassio):
Stop this!
RANKERS:
Stop this!
WOMEN:
They'll both be dead...
IAGO+RANKERS:
Stop this!
IAGO:
Say, isn't there anyone who can restrain him?
The storm-bells are ringing... we'll knock out or chain him!!
RANKERS:
To weapons! To weapons! A storming, a storming, a storming, a storming!
To weapons! To weapons! A storming, a storming, a storming, a storming!
(They knock Cassio out. At the same time, a rumpled Othello and Desdemona arrive on the scene)
Ser Lieutenant, the changing of the guard awaits your orders.
CASSIO (reeling):
Allons-y!!
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Whatever...?
IAGO:
That's the way every evening
he gets his liquid courage...
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Othello'll know it...
CASSIO:
The changing guard awaits me!
RODERIGO:
Ha-ha!
RANKERS:
Ha-ha!
CASSIO:
Who's laughing?
RODERIGO:
Can't you deny it?
CASSIO:
I will make you cry it, you scoundrel!!
RODERIGO:
What, Ser Lush-tenant?!
CASSIO (drawing steel):
You traitor! There's no way out of this!!
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Hold that hand, Lieutenant,
no bloodshed, I beg you...
CASSIO:
Whoever gets in between us will get knocked out...
THE FORMER GOVERNOR:
Says this young man, wasted...
CASSIO:
I, wasted!!??
IAGO (to Roderigo):
Run up all the way to the tower,
and ring the alarm bell with all of your power!
RODERIGO:
Right!
IAGO:
Spread all this dread 'round like wildfire...
make it sound like an enemy storming!
(Thrusting himself into the swordfight)
Dear comrades! Please stop at once this confrontation!!
WOMEN:
Run!
IAGO:
Gasp! Our former governor's bleeding!
And tension is mounting!
(Restraining Cassio):
Stop this!
RANKERS:
Stop this!
WOMEN:
They'll both be dead...
IAGO+RANKERS:
Stop this!
IAGO:
Say, isn't there anyone who can restrain him?
The storm-bells are ringing... we'll knock out or chain him!!
RANKERS:
To weapons! To weapons! A storming, a storming, a storming, a storming!
To weapons! To weapons! A storming, a storming, a storming, a storming!
(They knock Cassio out. At the same time, a rumpled Othello and Desdemona arrive on the scene)