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‘Make her to love the loathliest, basest wretch,

Deform’d in body, and of moonstruck mind,

A hideous brute and vicious, born to fetch

Anger from dogs and cursing from the blind.

And let her passion for the monster be

As shameless and detestable as he

Is most extreme and vile of humankind.’

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Which said, when he agreed, she spake no more,