Iago advises the unfortunate Cassio to "confess himself freely" to Desdemona--who will help to put him in his place again--and Cassio replies--"_betimes in the morning I will beseech the virtuous Desdemona to undertake for me_: I am desperate of _my fortunes, if they check me here_;"--and the Scene concludes with these words of Iago's-- "Two things are to be done,-- My wife must move for Cassio to her mistress; I'll set her on; Myself, the while, _to draw the Moor apart, And bring him jump when he may Cassio find Soliciting his wife; Ay, that's the way; Dull not device by coldness and delay_." "By the mass, 'tis morning," quoth Iago--and Act II. closes with the dawn of the Second Day at Cyprus. You don't deny that? TALBOYS. Nobody denies it--nobody ever denied it--nobody ever will deny it. NORTH. Act Third. Now for ACT III. TALBOYS. Our six eyes--and our six ears are all wide awake, sir. NORTH. It opens before the Castle--as the _same morning_ is pretty well advanced--and Cassio is ordering some Musicians to play "Good-morrow, General." TALBOYS. On the same morning? I am not so sure of that, sir. NORTH. Nobody denies it--nobody ever did deny it--nobody ever will deny it. TALBOYS. Not so fast, sir. NORTH. Why, you slow Coach! Cassio says to the Clown, who is with the Musicians, "There's a poor piece of gold for thee: if the Gentlewoman that attends the General's wife be stirring, tell her, there's one Cassio entreats her a little favour of speech;"--and as the Clown goes off, Iago enters--and says to Cassio-- "_You have not been a-bed, then?_ And Cassio answers-- Why, no; _the day had broke Before we parted_. I have made bold, Iago, To send in to your wife. My suit to her Is, that she will to virtuous Desdemona Procure me some access. _Iago._ I'll send her to you presently; And I'll devise a mean to draw the Moor Out of the way, that your converse and business May be more free." Emilia then enters, and tells Cassio that all will soon be well--"the General and his Wife are talking of it--and she speaks for you stoutly."-- TALBOYS. All this does not positively imply that the preceding night was the night of the Brawl. Cassio, though originally intending it, on reflection may have thought it too precipitate to apply to Desdemona the very next day; and there is nothing improbable in his having been with Iago till daybreak on some subsequent night. It is not quite clear, then, that the Third Act commences on the morning after Cassio's dismissal. NORTH. O rash and inconsiderate man! TALBOYS. Who is? NORTH.