Othello by William Shakespeare
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So much I challenge that I may profess
Due to the Moor, my lord. BRABANTIO. God be with you!--I have done.-- Please it your grace, on to the state affairs: I had rather to adopt a child than get it.-- Come hither, Moor: I here do give thee that with all my heart Which, but thou hast already, with all my heart I would keep from thee.--For your sake, jewel, I am glad at soul I have no other child; For thy escape would teach me tyranny, To hang clogs on them.--I have done, my lord. DUKE. Let me speak like yourself; and lay a sentence Which, as a grise or step, may help these lovers Into your favour. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something from the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief. BRABANTIO. So let the Turk of Cyprus us beguile; |
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