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| <h3>SCENE I. Venice. A street.</H3> | |
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| <i>Enter RODERIGO and IAGO</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Tush! never tell me; I take it much unkindly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>That thou, Iago, who hast had my purse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>As if the strings were thine, shouldst know of this.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>'Sblood, but you will not hear me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>If ever I did dream of such a matter, Abhor me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=6>Thou told'st me thou didst hold him in thy hate.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>Despise me, if I do not. Three great ones of the city,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>In personal suit to make me his lieutenant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Off-capp'd to him: and, by the faith of man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>I know my price, I am worth no worse a place:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>But he; as loving his own pride and purposes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>Evades them, with a bombast circumstance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Horribly stuff'd with epithets of war;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>And, in conclusion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=15>Nonsuits my mediators; for, 'Certes,' says he,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>'I have already chose my officer.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>And what was he?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>Forsooth, a great arithmetician,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>One Michael Cassio, a Florentine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>A fellow almost damn'd in a fair wife;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>That never set a squadron in the field,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Nor the division of a battle knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>More than a spinster; unless the bookish theoric,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>Wherein the toged consuls can propose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>As masterly as he: mere prattle, without practise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Is all his soldiership. But he, sir, had the election:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>And I, of whom his eyes had seen the proof</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>At Rhodes, at Cyprus and on other grounds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>Christian and heathen, must be be-lee'd and calm'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>By debitor and creditor: this counter-caster,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>He, in good time, must his lieutenant be,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>And I--God bless the mark!--his Moorship's ancient.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>By heaven, I rather would have been his hangman.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=34>Why, there's no remedy; 'tis the curse of service,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>Preferment goes by letter and affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>And not by old gradation, where each second</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>Stood heir to the first. Now, sir, be judge yourself,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>Whether I in any just term am affined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>To love the Moor.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>I would not follow him then.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>O, sir, content you;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>I follow him to serve my turn upon him:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>We cannot all be masters, nor all masters</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>Cannot be truly follow'd. You shall mark</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>Many a duteous and knee-crooking knave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>That, doting on his own obsequious bondage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Wears out his time, much like his master's ass,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>For nought but provender, and when he's old, cashier'd:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>Whip me such honest knaves. Others there are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>Who, trimm'd in forms and visages of duty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>Keep yet their hearts attending on themselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>And, throwing but shows of service on their lords,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Do well thrive by them and when they have lined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>their coats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Do themselves homage: these fellows have some soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>And such a one do I profess myself. For, sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>It is as sure as you are Roderigo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>Were I the Moor, I would not be Iago:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>In following him, I follow but myself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>But seeming so, for my peculiar end:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=62>For when my outward action doth demonstrate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>The native act and figure of my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>In compliment extern, 'tis not long after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>For daws to peck at: I am not what I am.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=67>What a full fortune does the thicklips owe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>If he can carry't thus!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>Call up her father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>Rouse him: make after him, poison his delight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>Proclaim him in the streets; incense her kinsmen,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>And, though he in a fertile climate dwell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Plague him with flies: though that his joy be joy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>Yet throw such changes of vexation on't,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>As it may lose some colour.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=76>Here is her father's house; I'll call aloud.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=77>Do, with like timorous accent and dire yell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>As when, by night and negligence, the fire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Is spied in populous cities.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>What, ho, Brabantio! Signior Brabantio, ho!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=81>Awake! what, ho, Brabantio! thieves! thieves! thieves!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>Look to your house, your daughter and your bags!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Thieves! thieves!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>BRABANTIO appears above, at a window</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84>What is the reason of this terrible summons?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>What is the matter there?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=86>Signior, is all your family within?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=87>Are your doors lock'd?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=88>Why, wherefore ask you this?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=89>'Zounds, sir, you're robb'd; for shame, put on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>your gown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>Your heart is burst, you have lost half your soul;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>Even now, now, very now, an old black ram</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>Is topping your white ewe. Arise, arise;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>Awake the snorting citizens with the bell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=95>Or else the devil will make a grandsire of you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Arise, I say.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=97> What, have you lost your wits?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=98>Most reverend signior, do you know my voice?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=99>Not I what are you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=100>My name is Roderigo.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=101>The worser welcome:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=102>I have charged thee not to haunt about my doors:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>In honest plainness thou hast heard me say</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=104>My daughter is not for thee; and now, in madness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>Being full of supper and distempering draughts,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Upon malicious bravery, dost thou come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=107>To start my quiet.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=108>Sir, sir, sir,--</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=109> But thou must needs be sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=110>My spirit and my place have in them power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>To make this bitter to thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=112>Patience, good sir.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=113>What tell'st thou me of robbing? this is Venice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>My house is not a grange.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=115>Most grave Brabantio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>In simple and pure soul I come to you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=117>'Zounds, sir, you are one of those that will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>serve God, if the devil bid you. Because we come to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>do you service and you think we are ruffians, you'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>have your daughter covered with a Barbary horse;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=121>you'll have your nephews neigh to you; you'll have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=122>coursers for cousins and gennets for germans.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=123>What profane wretch art thou?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=124>I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=125>and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech33><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=126>Thou art a villain.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech34><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=127>You are--a senator.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech35><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=128>This thou shalt answer; I know thee, Roderigo.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=129>Sir, I will answer any thing. But, I beseech you,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=130>If't be your pleasure and most wise consent,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=131>As partly I find it is, that your fair daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=132>At this odd-even and dull watch o' the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=133>Transported, with no worse nor better guard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=134>But with a knave of common hire, a gondolier,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=135>To the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=136>If this be known to you and your allowance,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=137>We then have done you bold and saucy wrongs;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=138>But if you know not this, my manners tell me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=139>We have your wrong rebuke. Do not believe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=140>That, from the sense of all civility,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=141>I thus would play and trifle with your reverence:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=142>Your daughter, if you have not given her leave,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=143>I say again, hath made a gross revolt;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=144>Tying her duty, beauty, wit and fortunes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=145>In an extravagant and wheeling stranger</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=146>Of here and every where. Straight satisfy yourself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=147>If she be in her chamber or your house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=148>Let loose on me the justice of the state</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=149>For thus deluding you.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech37><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=150>Strike on the tinder, ho!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=151>Give me a taper! call up all my people!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=152>This accident is not unlike my dream:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=153>Belief of it oppresses me already.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=154>Light, I say! light!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit above</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>IAGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=155>Farewell; for I must leave you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=156>It seems not meet, nor wholesome to my place,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=157>To be produced--as, if I stay, I shall--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=158>Against the Moor: for, I do know, the state,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=159>However this may gall him with some cheque,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=160>Cannot with safety cast him, for he's embark'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=161>With such loud reason to the Cyprus wars,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=162>Which even now stand in act, that, for their souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=163>Another of his fathom they have none,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=164>To lead their business: in which regard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=165>Though I do hate him as I do hell-pains.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=166>Yet, for necessity of present life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=167>I must show out a flag and sign of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=168>Which is indeed but sign. That you shall surely find him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=169>Lead to the Sagittary the raised search;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=170>And there will I be with him. So, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter, below, BRABANTIO, and Servants with torches</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=171>It is too true an evil: gone she is;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=172>And what's to come of my despised time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=173>Is nought but bitterness. Now, Roderigo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=174>Where didst thou see her? O unhappy girl!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=175>With the Moor, say'st thou? Who would be a father!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=176>How didst thou know 'twas she? O she deceives me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=177>Past thought! What said she to you? Get more tapers:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=178>Raise all my kindred. Are they married, think you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=179>Truly, I think they are.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=180>O heaven! How got she out? O treason of the blood!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=181>Fathers, from hence trust not your daughters' minds</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=182>By what you see them act. Is there not charms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=183>By which the property of youth and maidhood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=184>May be abused? Have you not read, Roderigo,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=185>Of some such thing?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=186>Yes, sir, I have indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=187>Call up my brother. O, would you had had her!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=188>Some one way, some another. Do you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=189>Where we may apprehend her and the Moor?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>RODERIGO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=190>I think I can discover him, if you please,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=191>To get good guard and go along with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BRABANTIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=192>Pray you, lead on. At every house I'll call;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=193>I may command at most. Get weapons, ho!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=194>And raise some special officers of night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=195>On, good Roderigo: I'll deserve your pains.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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