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  • Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,
    Hath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care
    Take hold on me; for my particular grief
    Is of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature
    That it engluts and swallows other sorrows,
    And it is still itself.

    1603-4 Brabanzio, learning of Desdemona's marriage. Othello, act 1, sc.3, l.55-8.