Page 1434 - Shakespeare - Vol. 3

Destruction light on me, if my bad blame
Light on the man! Come hither, gentle mistress:
Do you perceive in all this noble company,
Where most you owe obedience?

DESDEMONA
My noble father, [180]

I do perceive here a divided duty:
To you I am bound for life and education,
My life and education both do learn me

How to respect you, you are lord of all my duty,
I am hitherto your daughter: but here’s my husband: [185]
And so much duty as my mother show’d
To you, preferring you before her father,
So much I challenge, that I may profess,

Due to the Moor my lord.

BRABANTIO
God bu’y, I ha’ done:
Please it your grace, on to the state-affairs; [190]
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) [195]

I am glad at soul I have no other child,
For thy escape would teach me tyranny,
To hang clogs on ’em; 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 [200]
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 more mischief on. [205]
What cannot be preserv’d when fortune takes,