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your [110] daughter cover’d with a Barbary horse; you’ll have your nephews
neigh to you; you’ll have coursers for cousins, and gennets for germans.
BRABANTIO
What profane wretch art thou?
IAGO
I am one, sir, that come to tell you, your daughter, [115] and the Moor, are
now making the beast with two backs.
BRABANTIO
Thou art a villain.
IAGO
You are a senator.
BRABANTIO
This thou shalt answer, I know thee, Roderigo.
RODERIGO
Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, [120]
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, [125]
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 [130]
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, [135]
In an extravagant and wheeling stranger,