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So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend it, or be rid on't.

      — Macbeth, Act III Scene 1

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Othello
[IV, 2]

Roderigo

2958

With nought but truth. I have wasted myself out of
my means. The jewels you have had from me to
deliver to Desdemona would half have corrupted a
votarist: you have told me she hath received them
and returned me expectations and comforts of sudden
respect and acquaintance, but I find none.

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Othello
[IV, 3]

Othello

3026

Get you to bed on the instant; I will be returned
forthwith: dismiss your attendant there: look it be done.

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