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I do not ask admittance as a guest, Would'st thou not save a creature from destruction, Ev'n a dumb animal? unbar the door, And let me lay my body under shelter.

If thou'rt a man in nature as in voice, Thou canst not sit at peace beneath thy roof, And shut a stranger out to the rude night. I would, so circumstanced, have shelter'd thee.

He tries to move me with a soothing voice. (Aside.) (Aloud.) Thou art a knave; I will not let thee in.

Belike I am, yet do not fear my wiles: All men are honest in a night like this.

Then I will let thee in, whoe'er thou art:

I'm much beholden to thee.