Othello by William Shakespeare
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RODERIGO. Sir, I will answer anything. But, I beseech you, If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,-- As partly I find it is,--that your fair daughter, At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night, Transported with no worse nor better guard But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor,-- If this be known to you, and your allowance, We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; But if you know not this, my manners tell me We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe That, from the sense of all civility, I thus would play and trifle with your reverence: Your daughter,--if you have not given her leave,-- I say again, hath made a gross revolt; Tying her duty, beauty, wit, and fortunes In an extravagant and wheeling stranger Of here and everywhere. Straight satisfy yourself: If she be in her chamber or your house Let loose on me the justice of the state For thus deluding you. BRABANTIO. Strike on the tinder, ho! Give me a taper!--Call up all my people!-- This accident is not unlike my dream: Belief of it oppresses me already.-- Light, I say! light! |
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