"I do know, the State Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embarked With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars, Which even now stand in act, that for their souls Another of his fathom have they not To lead this business." It was therefore necessary that the marriage should be declared, if Desdemona was to accompany her husband to Cyprus. And the elopement from her father _to_ her husband did take place just in time. TALBOYS. Is that what people call plausible? SEWARD. All the difficulties of Time are thus removed in a moment. In a blaze of light we see LONG TIME AT VENICE--SHORT TIME AT CYPRUS. BULLER. LONG TIME AT VENICE--SHORT TIME AT CYPRUS. That's the Ticket. You Scotsmen are not wholly without Insight; but for seeing into the heart of the bole--or of the stone-- TALBOYS. Give me a Devonshire Cider-swiller or a Cornish Miner. NORTH. What! Can't we discuss a Great Question in the Drama without these unseemly personal and national broils. For shame, Talboys. TALBOYS. You Scotsmen indeed! "Nay, but he prated, And spoke such scurvy and provoking terms Against YOUR HONOUR." NORTH. My dear Seward, let's hear how you support your Theory. SEWARD. A great deal of weight, my dear Mr North, is to be attached to the calm tone--the husbandlike and matronlike demeanour of Othello and Desdemona when confronted with the Senate. That scene certainly impresses one with the conviction that they had been man and wife for a considerable period of time. NORTH. Very good, Seward--very good. SEWARD. I do indeed think, sir, that the bride and bridegroom show much more composure throughout the whole of that Scene, than is very reconcileable with the idea that this was their nuptial night. Othello's "natural and prompt alacrity" in undertaking the wars was scarcely complimentary to his virgin Spouse upon this supposition; and Desdemona's cool distinguishings between the paternal and marital claims on her duty seem also somewhat too matronly for the occasion. NORTH.