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Much Ado About Nothing · Much Ado About Nothing

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  Act one seene one before Leonato's house. Enter Leonato, Hero, Beatrice,
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  and others with a messenger. I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of
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  Aragon comes this night to Messina. He is very near by this. He
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  was not three leagues off when I left him. How many gentlemen have you
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  lost in this action? But few of any sort, and none of name.
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  A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I
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  find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio,
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  much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro. He
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  hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing in the figure of
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  a lamb the feats of a lion. He hath indeed better betred expectation than
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  you must expect of me to tell you how he hath an uncle here,
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  and Messina will be very much glad of it. I have already delivered him
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  letters, and there appears much joy in him, even so much that joy
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  could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness. Did he break
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  out into tears in great measure. A kind overflow of kindness. There are
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  no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it
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  to weep at joy than to joy at weeping? I pray you, is
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  Signor Montante returned from the wars? Or no? I know none of that
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  name, Lady. There was none such in the army of any sort.
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  What is he that you ask for, niece? My cousin means Signor Benedict
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  of Padua. Oh, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he was.
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  He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight,
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  and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid and challenged
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  him at the bird bolt. I pray you how many hath he killed and
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  eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed for? Indeed?
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  I promise to eat all of his killing. Faith, niece, you tax
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  Senor Benedict too much, But he'll be meet with you. I doubt it
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  not. He hath done good service, lady. In these wars you had
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  musty vittle, and he hath hoped to eat it. He is a very
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  valiant trencherman. He hath an excellent stomach and a good soldier too, lady,
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  and a good soldier to a lady. But what is he to a
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  lord, a lord to a lord, a man to a man stuffed with
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  all honorable virtues? It is so, indeed, he is no less than
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  a stuffed man. But for the stuffing, well, we are all mortal.
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  You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a kind
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  of merry war betwixt Senor Benedict and her. They never meet, but there's
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  a skirmish of wit between them, alas he gets nothing by that in our
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  last conflict, four of his five wits went halting off. And now is
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  the whole man governed with one. So that if he have wit enough to
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  keep himself warm, let him bear it for a difference between himself and his
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  horse, For it is all the wealth that he hath left to be known
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  a reasonable creature. Who is his companion? Now he hath every month a
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  new sworn brother. Is it possible? Very easily possible. He wears his
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  faith, But as the fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the
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  next block. I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
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  No, and he were I would burn my study. But I pray
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  you who is his companion? Is there no young square now who will make
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  a voyage with him to the devil. He is most in the company of
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  the right noble Claudio. Oh Lord, he will hang upon him like a
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  disease. He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs presently
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  mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he have caught the Benedict,
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  it will cost him a thousand pound airy be cured. I will hold friends
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  with you, lady, do good friend, you will never run mahadneyes No,
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  not till a hot January. Don Pedrow is approached, Don Pedro,
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  Don John Claudio, Bennedict, Balthazar and others. Good signor Leonato, you
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  are come to meet your trouble. The fashion of the world is to avoid
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  cost, and you encounter it. Never came in trouble to my house in
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  the likeness of your grace. For trouble being gone, comfort should remain.
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  But when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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  You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this is your daughter. Her
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  mother hath many times told me so. Were you in doubt, sir,
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  that you asked her, Senor Benedict, No, for then you are a
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  child. You have it full Bennedic. We may guess by this what you
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  are being a man. Truly the lady father's herself. Be happy, lady,
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  for you are like an honorable father. If Senor Leonardo be her father,
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  she would not have his head on her shoulders, for all Messina as
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  like him as she is. I wonder that you will still be talking,
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  Signor Benedick. Nobody marks you what, my dear lady, disdain are you
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  yet living? Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meat food
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  to feed it, as Senor Benedick, courtesy itself must convert to disdain.
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  If you come in her presence, then is courtesy a turn coat? But
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  it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted, And
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  I would I could find it in my heart that I had not a hard
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  heart, for truly I love none a dear happiness to women. They would
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  else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God in my cold
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  blood I am of your humor for that. I had rather hear my dog
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  bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. God, keep
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  your ladyship still in that mind, so some gentleman or other shall scape a
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  predestinate scratched face. Scratching could not make it worse. And with such a
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  face as yours were, well, you are a rare parrot teacher. A
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  bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours. I would buy
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  horse at the speed of your tongue, and so good a continuer. But
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  keep your way a God's name I have done. You always end with a
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  jade's trick. I know you of old. That is the sum of all.
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  Leonato, Signor Claudio and Signor Benedict, my dear friend Leonato hath invited
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  you all. I tell him we shall stay here at least a month,
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  and he heartily praise. Some occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear
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  he is no hypocrite, but praise from his heart. If you swear,
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  my Lord, you shall not be forsworn to don John. Let me bid
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  you welcome, my lord, be reconciled to the Prince your brother. I
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  owe you all duty. I thank you. I am not of many words,
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  but I thank you. Please at your greats lead on your hand Leonato,
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  we will go together all but Benedict and Claudio Benedict, does thou know
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  the daughter signor Leonatto? I noted her not, but I looked on her?
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  Is she not a modest young lady? Do you question me, as
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  an honest man should do for my simple true judgment? Or would you have
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  me speak after my custom as being a professed tyrant to their sex? No?
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  I pray THEE speak and sober judgment. Why a faith methinks she's too
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  low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too
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  little for a great praise. Only this commendation I can afford her that were
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  she other than she is, she were unhandsome and being no other. But
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  as she is, I do not like her. Thou thinkest I am in
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  sport? I pray THEE tell me truly, how thou likest her? Would
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  you buy her that you inquire after her? Can the world buy such a
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  jewel? Yea and a case to put it into? But speak you this
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  with a sad brow? Or do you play the flouting jack to tell us
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  Cupid is a good hair finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter. Come in what
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  key shall a man, take you to go in the song. In mine
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  eyes, she is the sweetest lady that I ever looked on. I can
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  see yet without spectacles, and I see no such matter. There's her cousin,
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  and she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in
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  beauty as the first of May at the last of December. But I hope
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  you have no intent to turn husband, have you? I would just bees
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  trust myself, though I have sworn the contrary, if hero would be my
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  wife'st come to this a faith? Hath not the world one man? But
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  he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of
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  three score again? Go to a faith, and thou wilt needs thrust thy
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  neck into a yoke, wear the print of it, and sigh away.
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  Sundays Look, Don Pedros returned to seek you? Re enter, Don Pedro?
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  What's secret? Hath held you here? That you followed not to Leonardo's?
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  I would your grace would constrain me to tell I charged thee on thy
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  allegiance you here, Count Claudio, I can be secret as a dumb man,
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  I would have you think so. But on my allegiance mark you this
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  on my allegiance. He is in love with who? Now that is your
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  grace's part. Mark how short his answer is with Hero Leonardo's short daughter.
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  If this were so, so, were it uttered like the old tale?
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  My Lord? It is not so, nor twas not so, But indeed
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  God forbid it should be so. If my passion changed not shortly, God
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  forbid it should be otherwise. Amen. If you love her, for the
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  lady is very well worthy, you speak this to fetch me and my lord,
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  by my truth, I speak my thought and in faith, my Lord,
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  I spoke mine, and by my when my two fates entruaths, my
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  Lord, I spoke mine that I love her, I feel that she is
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  worthy. I know that I neither feel how she should be loved, nor
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  know how she should be worthy. Is the opinion that fire cannot melt out
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  of me? I will die in it at the stake Thou wast ever an
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  obstinate, heretic in despite of beauty, and never could maintain his part.
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  But in the force of his will, that a woman conceived me. I
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  thank her that she brought me up. I likewise give her most humble thanks,
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  but that I will have a reach sheheet winded in my forehead, or
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  hang my bugle and an invisible baldric. All women shall pardon me, because
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  I will not do them the wrong to mistrust any I will do myself the
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  right to trust none. And the fine is for the which I may go.
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  The finer I will live, a bachelor, I shall see thee ere
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  I die, look pale with love, with anger, with sickness, or
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  hunger, My lord, not with love. Prove that ever I lose more
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  blood with love than I will get again with drinking. Pick out mine eyes
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  with the ballad maker's pen, and hang me up at the door of a
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  brothel house for a sign of blind cupid. Well, if ever thou dost
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  fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument. If I do
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  hang me in a bottle like a cat, and shoot at me, and
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  he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
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  Well as time shall try. In time, the savage bull doth bear
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  the yoke, the savage bull may. But if ever the sensible benedict bear
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  it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them in my forehead, and
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  let me be vilely painted and in such great letters as they write, here
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  is good horse to hire. Let them signify under my sign. Here you
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  may see Benedick the married man. If this should ever happen, thou wouldst
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  be horn mad. Nay, If Cupid hath nuts bent all his quiver in
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  venus, thou wilt quake for this shortly I look for an earthquake too.
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  Then well you will temporize with the hours in the meantime. Good signor Benedict,
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  repair to Leonato's command, me to him and tell him I will not
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  fail him at supper, For indeed he hath made great preparation. I have
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  almost matter enough in me for such an embassage. And so I commit you
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  to the tuition of God from my house if I had it the sixth of
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  July, your loving friend, Benedict, Nay, mark not, mark not.
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  The body of your discourse is sometimes guarded with fragments, and the guards
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  are but slightly basted on neither ere you flout old ends any further, examine
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  your conscience, and so I leave you exit, my liege, Your highness,
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  now may do me good. My love is thine to teach teach it?
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  But how and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn hard lesson
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  that may do thee good. Hath leonatto any son, my lord, no
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  child, but Hero, she's his only hear. Dost thou affect her?
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  Claudia, O, my lord, When you went onward on this ended action,
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  I looked upon her with a soldier's eye that liked but had a rougher
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  task in hand than to driving liking to the name of love. But now
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  I am returned, and that war thoughts have left their places, vacant in
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  their rooms, comes thronging, soft and delicate desires, all prompting me,
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  how fair young hero is, saying I like to ear I went to wars.
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  Thou wilt be like a lover presently and tire the hearer with a book
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  of words. If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it, and I
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  will break with her and with her father, And thou shalt have her wast
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  not to this In that thou beganst to twist so fine a story, How
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  sweetly you do, minister to love that no love's grief by his complexion.
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  But less my liking might too sudden scene, I would have salved it with
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  a longer treatise. What need the bridge much broader than the flood. The
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  fairest grant is the necessity. Look what will serve is fit tis once thou
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  lovest, and I will fit thee with the remedy I know we shall have
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  reveling to night. I will assume thy part in some disguise and tell fair
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  hero I am Claudio, And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart and take
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  her hearing prisoner with the force and strong encounter of my amorous tale. Then
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  after to her father I will break, And the conclusion is she shall be
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  thine in practice. Let us put it presently excillant scene too. A room
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  in Leonato's house. Enter Leonato and Antonio meeting. Oh no, brother,
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  where is my cousin? Your son hath he provided this music? He is
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  very busy about it. But brother, I can tell you strange news that
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  you dreamt not of. Are they good as the event stamps him? But
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  they have a good cup. They show well outwork. The Prince and Count
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  Claudia walking in a thick pleached alley in my orchard, were thus much overheard
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  by a man of mine. The Prince discovered the Claudio that he loved my
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  niece, your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance,
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  And if he found her accordant, he meant to take the present time
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  by the top and instantly break with you of it. Hath a fellow,
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  any wit that told you this, A good sharp fellow. I will send
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  for him and question him yourself. No, no, we will hold it
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  as a dream till it appear itself. But I will acquaint my daughter with
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  all that she may be the better prepared for an answer. If, peradventure
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  this be true, Go you and tell her of it. Several persons cross
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  the stage. Cousins, you know what you have to do. Oh,
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  I crie you, mercy friend, Go you with me, and I will
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  use your skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. Excellent
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  Scene three, another room in Leonardo's house. Enter Don John and Conrad.
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  What the good yea, my lord? Why you do not to measure sad
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  There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore the sadness is without
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  limit each tear. Reason, And when I have heard it, what blessings
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  brings it? If not a present, at least a patient sufferance? I
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  wonder that thou, being as thou sayest, thou art born under Saturn,
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  goest about to apply a moral medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide
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  what I am. I must be sad when I have cause, and smile
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  at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach, and wait for no
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  man's leisure, Sleep when I am drowsy, and tend to no man's business,
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  laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humor.
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  Yeah, you must not make full share of this till you may do it
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  without controlment. You have a flat stood out against your brother, and he
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  hath taken you newly into his grace, where it is impossible you should take
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  true root. But by the fair weather that you make yourself, it is
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  needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. I had rather be
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  a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace. And it better
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  fits my blood to be disdained of all the do fashion a carriage to rob
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  love from any In this though I cannot be said to be a flattering,
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  honest man, it must not be denied. But I am a plane dealing
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  villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog. Therefore,
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  I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
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  mouth, I would bite. If I had my liberty, I would do
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  my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and
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  seek not to alter me. Can you make no use of your discontent?
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  I make all use of it, for I use it only who comes here?
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  Enter Barracchio? What news, Baracchio? I came yonder from a great
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  supper. The Prince your brother is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can
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  give you intelligence of an intended marriage. Will it serve for any model to
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  build mischief on? What is he? For? A fool that betrothed himself
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  to unquietness? Mary? It is your brother's right hand who the most exquisite
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  Claudio, even he a proper squire? And who and who which way looks
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  he? Mary? On Hero the daughter and heir of Leonato, a very
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  forward march chick. And how came you to this? Being entertained for a
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  perfumer? As I was smoking a musty room, comes me the Prince in
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  Claudio hand in hand, in sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras
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  and there heard it agreed upon that the Prince should wool Hero for himself,
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  and having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio. Come, come,
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  let us thither. This may prove food to my displeasure. That young startup
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  hath all the glory of my overthrow. If I can cross him anyway,
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  I will bless myself every way. You are both sure and will assist me
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  to the death. My Lord, let us to the great supper. Their
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  cheer is greater than I am subdued. Would the cook were of my mind?
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  Shall we go to prove what's to be done? We'll wait upon your
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  lordship, exiant and of Act one, Act two, Scene one, a
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  hall in Leonardo's house. Enter Leonatto, Antonio, Hero, Beatrice and others.
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  Was not Count John here at supper? I saw him, not how
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  tartly that gentleman looks. I never can see him, but I am heart
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  burned an hour after. He is of a very melancholy disposition. You were
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  an excellent man that were made just the midway between him and Benedict. The
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  one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other two like
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  my lady's eldest son. Evermore taddling than half Signor Benedict's tongue in Count John's
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  mouth, and half Count John's melancholy, and Senor Benedict's space. With a
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  good leg and a good foot uncle, and money enough in his purse,
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  such a man would win any woman in the world if he could get a
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  good will by my troth niece, Thou wilt never get thee a husband.
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  If thou be so shrewd of thy tongue he bath he's too cursed, too
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  cursed, is more than cursed. I shall lessen God's sending that way,
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  For it is said God sends a curse cow short horns, but to a
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  cow too cursed he sends none. So by being too cursed, God will
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  send you no horns, just if he sends me no husband. For the
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  which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord,
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  I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face. I'd
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  rather lie in the woolen. You may light on a husband that hath no
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  beard, What should I do with him? Dress him in my apparel and
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  make him my waiting gentlewoman. He that hath a beard is more than a
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  youth. And he that hath no beard is less than a man. And
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  he that is more than a youth is not for me. And he that
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  is less than a man, I am not for him. Therefore I will
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  even take sixpence in earnest of the bear ward and lead his apes into hell.
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  Well, then go you into hell, No, but to the gate,
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  and there will the devil meet me like an old cuckold with horns on
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  his head, and say, get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you
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  to heaven. Here's no place for you maids. So I deliver up my
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  apes and away to Saint. For the heavens. He shows me where the
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  bachelors sit, and there live we as merry as the day is long to
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  hero. Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled by your father.
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  Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make courtesy and say
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  father, as it please you. But yet for all that cousin, let
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  him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtesy and say father as
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  it please me. Well, niece, I hope to see you one day
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  fitted with a husband, not till God makes men of some other metal than
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  earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered? With a piece
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  of valiant dust to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward
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  marl. No, Uncle al nan Adam's sons are my brethren, and truly
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  I hold it a sin to match my kindred daughter. Remember what I told
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  you. If the Prince do solicit you in that kind you know your answer.
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  The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not
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  wooed in good time, if the prince be too him, tell him there
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  is measure in everything, and so dance out the answer for hear me,
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  hero. Wooing, wedding and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure,
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  and a sank pace. The first sweet is hot and hasty like a
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  Scotch jig, and full is fantastical. The wedding mannerly modest, as a
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  measure, full of state and ancient tree. And then comes repentance, and
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  with his bad legs, falls into the sank pace, faster and faster till
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  he sink into his grave. Cousin, you apprehend a passing shrewdely, I
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  have a good eye, Uncle, I can see a church by daylight.
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  The revelers are entering, Brother, make good room, enter Don Pedro,
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  Claudio Benedic Bofazar, Don, John Baraccio, Margaret Ursula, and others.
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  Masked lady, will you walk about with your friend? So you walk softly
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  and look sweetly and say nothing. I am yours for the walk, and
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  especially when I walk away with me and your company. I may say so
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  when I please, and when please you to say so when I like your
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  favor, for God defend the loot should be like the case. My visor
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  is phileman's roof within the house is Jove. Why then your visor should be
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  thatched. Speak low. If you speak loud takes her aside. Well,
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  I would you did like me? So would not I? For your own
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  sake? For I have many ill qualities. Which is one I say?
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  My prayer is aloud. I love you the better. The hearers may cry,
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  Amen, God match me with a good dancer. Amen, and God
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  keep him out of my sight. When the dance is done, Answer clerk,
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  no more words. The clerk is answered, I know you well enough.
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  You are, Senor Antonio. I am not I know you by the
• 25:02
  waggling of your head, nor to tell you true I counterfit him. You
• 25:06
  could never do him so ill well unless you were the very man. Here's
• 25:11
  his dry hand? Up and down you were? He? You were?
• 25:14
  He at a word? I am not. Come. Come? Do you
• 25:18
  think I do not know you? By your excellent wit? Can virtue hide
• 25:22
  it? So go to mom? You are he Grace's will appear, and
• 25:26
  there's an end. Will you not tell me who told you so? No?
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  You shall pardon me, Nor will you not tell me who you are?
• 25:33
  And not now that I was disdainful, and that I had my good
• 25:37
  wit? Out of the hundred merry tales. Well, this was Signor Benedict
• 25:42
  that said, so what's he? I'm sure you know him well enough?
• 25:48
  Not, I believe me. Did he never make you laugh? I pray
• 25:52
  you? What is he? Why? He is the Prince's jester, a
• 25:57
  very dull fool. Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but
• 26:03
  Libertine's delight in him. And the commendation is not in his wit, but
• 26:07
  in his villainy, for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
• 26:11
  they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in the
• 26:15
  fleet. I would he had boarded me. When I know the gentleman,
• 26:19
  I'll tell him what you say, do do? But he'll break a comparison
• 26:23
  or two on me, which, peradventure not marked or laughed at, strikes
• 26:27
  him into melancholy. And then there's a partridge wing saved for the fool will
• 26:33
  eat no supper that night. Music within. We must follow the leaders in
• 26:37
  every good thing. Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will
• 26:41
  leave them at the next turning dance. Then exiant all but Don John,
• 26:47
  Baraccio and Claudio. Sure, my brother is amorous on Hero and hath withdrawn
• 26:52
  her father to break with him about it. The ladies follow her, but
• 26:56
  one visor remains, and that is Claudio. I know him by his bearing?
• 27:03
  Are you not signor Benedick? You know me well? I am he
• 27:07
  Signor? You are very near my brother in his love. He is enamored
• 27:12
  on Hero. I pray you dissuade him from her. She is no equal
• 27:18
  for his birth. You may do the part of an honest man in it.
• 27:22
  How know you he loves her. I heard him swear his affection,
• 27:27
  so did I too, and he swore he would marry her to night.
• 27:32
  Come let us to the banquet, Exiot, Don John, and Barraccio.
• 27:37
  Thea's auntsaan name of Benedick. But hear these ill news with the ears of
• 27:41
  Claudio tis certain. So the Prince vus for himself. French is constant in
• 27:48
  all other things save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts
• 27:52
  in love use their own tongues. Let every I negotiate for itself and trust
• 27:56
  No agent for beauty is a witch against his charm's faith melted into blood.
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  This is an accident of hourly proof, which I mistrusted. Not farewell.
• 28:07
  Therefore, hero re enter Benedict, Count Claudio, ye the same. Come,
• 28:12
  will you go with me whither even to the next willow about your own
• 28:18
  business? Count, what fashion will you wear the garland of about your neck
• 28:22
  like a usurer's chain, or under your arms like a lieutenant's scarf. You
• 28:29
  must wear it one way. For the Prince hath got your hero. I
• 28:33
  wish him joy of her. Why that's spoken like an honest drovier. So
• 28:37
  they sell bullocks. But did you think the Prince would have served you?
• 28:41
  Thus? I pray you leave me. Ho now you strike like the blind
• 28:45
  man, twas the boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
• 28:51
  If it will not be I'll leave you exit alas poor hurt fowl.
• 28:57
  Now will he creep into but that my lady Beatrice should know me and not
• 29:03
  know me the Prince's fool. It may be I go under that title because
• 29:11
  I am merry yea, But so I am apt to do myself wrong.
• 29:15
  I am not so reputed. It is the base, the bitter disposition of
• 29:19
  Beatrice that puts the world into her person and so gives me out. Well,
• 29:26
  I'll be revenged as I may re enter. Don Pedro, now signor
• 29:30
  where's the count? Did you see him? Troth? My lord, I
• 29:34
  have played the part of lady fame. I found him here, as melancholy
• 29:38
  as a lodge and a warren. I told him, and I think I
• 29:42
  told him true, that your grace had got the good will of this young
• 29:45
  lady. And I offered him my company to a willow tree, either to
• 29:49
  make him a garland as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod,
• 29:53
  as being worthy to be whipped. To be whipped? What's his fault?
• 29:59
  The flat t friends gression of a schoolboy who, being overjoyed with finding
• 30:03
  a bird's nest, shows at his companion and he steals it. Wilt thou
• 30:07
  make a trust a transgression. The transgression is in the stealer. Yet it
• 30:15
  had not been amiss. The rod had been made, and the garland too.
• 30:18
  For the garland he might have worn himself, and the rod he might
• 30:22
  have bestowed on you, who, as I take it, have stolen his
• 30:27
  bird's nest. I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to
• 30:32
  the owner. If their singing answer your saying, by my faith, you
• 30:37
  say honestly, the lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you. The gentleman that
• 30:41
  danced with her told her, she is much wronged by you. Oh,
• 30:47
  she misused me past the endurance of a block an oak, But with one
• 30:52
  green leaf on it would have answered her. My very visor began to assume
• 30:57
  life and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been
• 31:03
  myself, that I was the Prince's jester, that I was duller than a
• 31:07
  great thaw, huddling jest upon jest, with such impossible conveyance upon me,
• 31:14
  that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting
• 31:17
  at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If her breath
• 31:23
  were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she
• 31:26
  would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she
• 31:32
  were endowed with all that Adam had left him before he transgressed, she would
• 31:37
  have made hercules have turned spit yea, and have cleft his club to make
• 31:41
  the fire too. Come talk not of her. You shall find her the
• 31:45
  infernal atay in good apparel. I would to God some scholar would conjure her,
• 31:51
  For certainly, while she is here, a man may live as quiet
• 31:55
  a hell as in a sanctuary, and people sin upon purpose because they would
• 31:59
  go there. So indeed, all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follow her.
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  Re Enter Claudio, Beatrice, Hero and Leonatto. Look here she comes.
• 32:12
  Will your grace command me any service to the world's end? I will
• 32:16
  go on the slightest errand now to the antipodes that you can devise to send
• 32:21
  me on. I will fetch you a toothpicker, now from the furthest inch
• 32:24
  of Asia. Bring you the length of Prester John's foot. Fetch you a
• 32:30
  hair off the great chams beard. Do you any embassage to the pigmies rather
• 32:36
  than hold three words conference with this harpy. You have no employment for me,
• 32:44
  none but to desire your good company. Ugh, God, sir,
• 32:47
  here's a dish I love not I cannot endure, my lady, tongue exit.
• 32:55
  Come, lady, Come, you have lost the heart of Signor.
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  Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I gave him
• 33:04
  use for it, a double heart for a single one Mary once before he
• 33:09
  won it of me with false dice. Therefore, your grace may well say
• 33:13
  I have lost it. You have put him down, Lady, you have
• 33:16
  put him down so I would not he should do to me, my lord,
• 33:21
  lest I should prove the mother of fools. I have brought Count Claudio,
• 33:24
  whom you sent me to seek. Why, how now, Count?
• 33:28
  Wherefore are you sad? Not sad? My lord? How then sick?
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  Neither? My lord? The count is neither sad nor sick, nor marry
• 33:37
  nor well. But civil Count Civil is an orange and something of that jealous
• 33:42
  complexion. If faith, lady, I think you're blazoned to be true,
• 33:46
  though I'll be sworn if he be so, his conceit is false. Here,
• 33:52
  Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and fair hero is won.
• 33:57
  I have broke with her father and his good will obtained name the day
• 34:01
  of marriage, and God give thee joy. Count take of me my daughter,
• 34:07
  and with her my fortunes. His grace hath made the match and all
• 34:10
  grace. Say amen to it. Speak count tis your cue silence is the
• 34:15
  perfectest herald of joy. I weer but a little happy. If I could
• 34:19
  say, how much, lady, as you are mine, I am yours.
• 34:23
  Give away myself for you, and dote upon the exchange. Speak,
• 34:28
  cousin, or if you cannot stop his mouth with a kiss, and let
• 34:31
  not him speak neither in faith, Lady, you have a merry heart.
• 34:37
  Yea, my lord, I thank it. Poor fool, it keeps on
• 34:39
  the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his ear that he
• 34:45
  is in her heart, and so she doth cousin, good Lord for a
• 34:49
  liance. Thus goes every one to the world, but I and I am
• 34:53
  sun burnt. I may sit in a corner and cry high ho for a
• 34:58
  husband, Lady, Beatrice, I will get you one. I would rather
• 35:02
  have one of your father's, getting hath your grace near a brother like you.
• 35:07
  Your father got excellent husbands if a maid could come by them, Will
• 35:10
  you have me, lady, No, my lord, unless I might have
• 35:15
  another for working days. Your grace is too costly to wear every day.
• 35:20
  But I beseech your grace pardon me. I was born to speak all mirth,
• 35:22
  and no matter your silence most defends me, and to be merry.
• 35:28
  Best become to you, For out of question, you were born in a
• 35:31
  merry hour. No sure, my lord, my mother cried, But then
• 35:37
  there was a star danced, and under that I was born. Cousins,
• 35:40
  God give you joy. Niece. Will you look to those things I told
• 35:45
  you of? I cry you, mercy, uncle, by your grace's pardon,
• 35:49
  exit by my truth. A pleasant spirited lady. There is little of
• 35:53
  the melancholy element in her, my lord. She is never sad, but
• 35:58
  when she sleeps, and not ever sad. Then, for I have heard
• 36:00
  my daughter say she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.
• 36:06
  She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband. Oh, by no means
• 36:10
  she mocks all lures out of suit. She were an excellent wife for Benedict,
• 36:15
  Oh lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,
• 36:19
  they would talk themselves mad. Count Claudio would mean you to go to church
• 36:24
  tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crouches to love have all his rights
• 36:28
  not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven night,
• 36:31
  and a time too brief too to have all things. Answer my mind.
• 36:36
  Come, you shake your head at so long a breathing, But I
• 36:39
  warrant the claudio that time shall not go dully by us. I will,
• 36:45
  in the interim, undertake one of Hercules's labors, which is to bring Signor
• 36:50
  Benedict and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection, the one with the
• 36:55
  other. I would fain have it a match, and I doubt not,
• 37:00
  but to fashion it if you three will minister such assistance as I shall give
• 37:05
  you direction. My Lord, I am for you, though it cost me
• 37:08
  ten knights's watchings. And I my Lord, and you too, gentle hero,
• 37:14
  I will do any modest office, my Lord, to help my cousin
• 37:16
  to a good husband. And Bennedicck is not the unhopefulest husband that I know.
• 37:22
  Thus far can I praise him. He is of noble strain, of
• 37:27
  approved valor and confirmed honesty. I will teach you how to humor your cousin
• 37:34
  that she shall fall in love with Benedick and I, with your too,
• 37:38
  helps will so practice on Benedict that in despite of his quick wit and his
• 37:45
  queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do
• 37:50
  this, Cupid is no longer an archer. His glory shall be ours,
• 37:55
  for we are the only love gods. Go in with me, and I
• 38:00
  will tell you my drift exiant scene too. Another room in Leonato's house.
• 38:08
  Enter Don John and Baraccio. It is so the Count Claudio shall marry the
• 38:15
  daughter of Leonardo. Ye, my lord, but I can cross it any
• 38:20
  bar any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me. I am sick
• 38:24
  and displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes withthwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.
• 38:30
  How canst thou cross this marriage? Not honestly, my Lord, but
• 38:35
  so covertly that no dishonesty shall appear in me? Show me briefly how I
• 38:40
  think I told your lordship a year since, how much I am in the
• 38:44
  favor of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to Hero. I remember, I can,
• 38:50
  at any unseasonable instant of the night, appoint her to look out at
• 38:53
  her lady's chamber window. What life is in that to be the death of
• 38:58
  this marriage, of that lies in you to temper. Go you to the
• 39:01
  Prince your brother spare not to tell him that he hath wronged his honor in
• 39:07
  marrying the renowned Claudio. Whose estimation do you mightily hold up to a contaminated
• 39:12
  stale such a one as Hero. What proof shall I make of that proof
• 39:16
  enough to misuse the Prince to vex Claudio, to undo Hero and cull Leonato.
• 39:22
  Look you for any other issue, only to despite them. I will
• 39:25
  endeavor anything. Go then find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro in
• 39:30
  the count Claudio alone. Tell them that you know that Hero loves me,
• 39:36
  intending kind of zeal both to the Prince and Claudio, as in love of
• 39:39
  your brother's honor, who hath made this match and his friend's reputation, who
• 39:45
  is thus like to be cozened with the semblance of a maid that you have
• 39:47
  discovered. Thus they will scarcely believe this without trial. Offer them instances which
• 39:53
  shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber window. Hear
• 39:58
  me call Margaret Hero here, Margaret term me Claudio, and bring them to
• 40:02
  see this the very night, for the intended wedding. For in the meantime
• 40:07
  I will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent, and there shall
• 40:12
  appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty, that jealousy shall be called assurance.
• 40:16
  In all the preparation overthrown, Grow this to what adverse issue it can,
• 40:22
  I will put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this, and
• 40:27
  thy fee is a thousand ducts. Be you constant in the accusation, and
• 40:30
  my cunning shall not shame me. I will presently go learn their day of
• 40:36
  marriage. Exit Scene three, Leonardo's garden. Enter Benedict boy, Enter a
• 40:45
  boy. Signor in my chamber window lies a book. Bring it hither to
• 40:50
  me in the orchard. I am here already, sir, I know that,
• 40:54
  but I would have thee Hence and here again exit boy. I do
• 41:00
  much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool,
• 41:05
  when he dedicates his behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
• 41:09
  such shallow follies and others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling
• 41:15
  in love. And such a man as Claudio I have known, when there
• 41:21
  was no music with him but the drum and the fife. And now had
• 41:25
  he rather hear the tabor and the pipe, I have known when he would
• 41:30
  have walked ten mile afoot to see a good armor. And now will he
• 41:35
  lie ten nights awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont
• 41:40
  to speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man and a soldier,
• 41:46
  And now was he turned orthography. His words are a very fantastical banquet,
• 41:52
  just so many strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
• 41:59
  these eyes I cannot tell, I think not. I will not be sworn.
• 42:04
  But love may transform me to an oyster. But I'll take my oath
• 42:08
  on it. Till he have made an oyster of me, he shall never
• 42:10
  make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well.
• 42:16
  Another is wise, yet I am well. Another virtuous, yet I
• 42:22
  am well. But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall
• 42:28
  not come in my grace rich. She shall be that's certain, wise,
• 42:35
  or all none virtuous, Or I'll never cheapen her fair, or I'll never
• 42:39
  look on her mild, or come not near me noble, or not I
• 42:46
  for an angel of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
• 42:53
  be of what color it? Please God, ha the Prince and Monsieur louve
• 43:02
  I will hide me in the arbor withdraws. Enter Don Pedro, Leonato and
• 43:08
  Claudio, followed by Balthazar and musicians. Come. Shall we hear this music?
• 43:15
  Yea, my lord, how still the evening is has hushed on purpose
• 43:20
  to grace harmony. See you where Benedict hath hid himself? Oh very well,
• 43:25
  my lord, the music ended? Will fitch the kit fox with a
• 43:29
  penniworth, Come, Balthazar, we'll hear that song again. Oh good,
• 43:34
  my lord, tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than
• 43:37
  once It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his
• 43:44
  own perfection. I pray thee sing, and let me woo no more?
• 43:47
  Because you talk of wooing, I will sing, since many a word doth
• 43:52
  commence his suit to her. He thinks not worthy, yet he woos?
• 43:55
  Yet will he swear he loves? Nay? Pray thee come, or if
• 44:00
  thou wilt hold longer argument, do it? In notes? Note this before
• 44:05
  my notes. There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. Why
• 44:07
  these are very crutchets, that he speaks notes, notes forsooth and nothing music.
• 44:15
  Oh, now, divine air. Now is his soul ravished? Is
• 44:23
  it not strange that sheep's guts should hail souls out of men's bodies? Well,
• 44:30
  a horn for my money? When all's done, bothas are sings.
• 44:35
  Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more? Men word deceivers, ever
• 44:45
  one foot in sea and one on shore to one thing constant never, Then
• 44:55
  sigh not so, but lead them and be you blithe than bonny, converting
• 45:07
  on your sounds of woe into hay on in no it? Sing no more?
• 45:20
  Did he sing no more of dumb, so dull and heavy The fraud
• 45:29
  of men was ever so, since Saler first was leavy. Then sigh not
• 45:38
  so, But let them go, and be you blithe than bonny, converting
• 45:50
  on your sounds of woe into hay ony on it by my troth a good
• 46:01
  song and an ill singer, my lord, ha no no faith thou sing'st
• 46:07
  well enough for a shift aside. And he had been a dog that should
• 46:10
  have howled, thus they would have hanged him. And I pray God his
• 46:15
  bad voice bowed no mischief. I had a leief of heard the night raven
• 46:20
  come? What playing could have come after it? Yea, marry dost thou
• 46:23
  hear, Balthazar, I pray thee get us some excellent music for to morrow
• 46:29
  night. We would have it at the lady Hero's chamber window. The best
• 46:32
  I can, my Lord do so. Farewell, exiant Balthazar, and musicians,
• 46:38
  come hither, Leonato, What was it you told me of to day
• 46:43
  that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signor Benedick. Oh I aside to
• 46:50
  don pedro stocon stocone the fowl sits. I did never think that lady would
• 46:54
  have loved any man, No, nor I neither, but most wonderful that
• 47:00
  she should so dote on Signor Benedict, whom she hath in all outward behaviors
• 47:04
  seemed ever to abhore aside is possible? Sits the wind in that corner by
• 47:12
  my troth my Lord, I cannot tell what to think of it, but
• 47:15
  that she loves him with an enraged affection. It is past the infinite of
• 47:20
  thought. Maybe she doth but counterfeit faith like enough, Oh God, counterfeit.
• 47:27
  There was never counterfeit of passion came so near the life of passion as
• 47:30
  she discovers it. Why what effects of passion show she? Aside? Face
• 47:36
  the hook? Well, this fish will bite. What affects my lord?
• 47:39
  She will sit you. You heard my daughter tell you how she did.
• 47:43
  Indeed how now I pray you you amaze me. I would have thought her
• 47:49
  spirit had been invincible against all assaults of affection. I would have sworn it
• 47:53
  had my lord, especially against Benedict. Aside, I should think this is
• 47:58
  a gull, but that the white bearded fellow speaks it knavery cannot sure hide
• 48:04
  itself in such reverence. Aside, he hath taken the infection, hold it
• 48:08
  up? Hath she made her affection known to Benedicck no, and swear she
• 48:14
  never will. That's her torment? Tis true? Indeed, so your daughter
• 48:17
  says, shall I says she that has so often counted him with scorn,
• 48:22
  Write to him that I love him? This says she, now when she
• 48:25
  is beginning to write to him, For she'll be up twenty times a night,
• 48:30
  and there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a sheet
• 48:32
  of paper. My daughter tells us all, now you talk of a sheet
• 48:36
  of paper, I remember, pretty jest your daughter told us of Oh.
• 48:39
  When she had read it and was reading it over, she found Benedict and
• 48:44
  Beatrice between the sheet that Oh. She tore the letter into a thousand halfpence,
• 48:49
  railed at herself that she should be so immodest to write to one that
• 48:52
  she knew what flowed her. I measure him, says she, by my
• 48:57
  own spirit, for I should flout him if he writ to me, yea,
• 49:00
  though I love him, I should Then down upon her knee, she
• 49:02
  falls, weeps, sobs, beats a heart, tears a hair, praise,
• 49:07
  curses. Oh, sweet Benaderic, God give me patience. She doth
• 49:12
  indeed, my daughter says so. And the ecstasy hath so much overborne her,
• 49:16
  that my daughter is sometimes a feared she will do a desperate outrage to
• 49:20
  herself. It is very true, it were good that Benedict knew of it
• 49:23
  by some other. If she will not discover it, to what end he
• 49:29
  would but make a sport of it, until meant the poor lady worse,
• 49:31
  and he should it were an alms to hang him. She's an excellent sweet
• 49:37
  lady, and out of all suspicion, she is virtuous, and she is
• 49:42
  exceedingly wise. In everything, but in loving benedickt oh, my lord,
• 49:47
  wisdom and blood combating in so tender a body. We have ten proofs to
• 49:52
  one that blood hath the victory. I am sorry for her as I have
• 49:55
  just cause, being her uncle and her guardian, I would she had bestowed
• 50:00
  this dotage on me. I would have daffed all other respects and made her
• 50:06
  half myself. I pray you tell Bennedeck of it, and hear what he
• 50:10
  will say, were it good? Thank you? He think surely she will
• 50:15
  die, for she says she will die if he love her not, and
• 50:17
  she will die ere she may have love known, and she will die if
• 50:22
  he woo her, rather than she will bate one breath of her accustomed crossness.
• 50:25
  She doth well if she should make tender of her love, tis very
• 50:30
  possible he'll scorn it. For the man, as you know all, hath
• 50:36
  a contemptible spirit. He is a very proper man. He hath indeed a
• 50:39
  good outward happiness for God, and in my mind, very wise. He
• 50:45
  doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit. And I take him to
• 50:51
  be valiant as hector, I assure you, and in the managing of quarrels.
• 50:55
  You may say he is wise, for either he avoids them with great
• 51:00
  discretion or undertakes them with a most christian like fear. If he do fear
• 51:06
  God, I must necessarily keep peace. If he break the peace, he
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  ought to enter into a quarrel with fear and trembling, And so will he
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  do. For the man doth fear God, howsoever it seems not in him,
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  by some large jests, he will make well. I am sorry for
• 51:25
  your niece. Shall we go seek Bennedicck and tell him of her love?
• 51:30
  Never tell him, my lord? Let her wear it out with good counsel.
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  Nay, that's impossible. She may wear her heart out first. Well,
• 51:37
  we will hear further of it by your daughter. Let it cool the
• 51:43
  while. I love Bennedicck well, and wish he would modestly examine himself to
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  see how much he is unworthy. So good a lady, my lord,
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  will you walk? Dinner is ready aside? If he do not do it
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  on her. Upon this I will never trust my expect aside. Let there
• 52:01
  be the same net spread for her, And that must your daughter and her
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  gentlewoman carry. The sport will be when they hold one an opinion of another's
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  dotage, and no such matter. That's the scene I would see, which
• 52:16
  will be merely a dumb show. Let us send her to call him in
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  to dinner. Exitant, Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato advancing from the arbor.
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  This can be no trick. The conference was sadly born. They have
• 52:35
  the truth of this from a hero. They seem to pity the lady.
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  It seems her affections have their full bent. Love me, why it must
• 52:46
  be requited? I hear how I am censured. They say, I will
• 52:52
  bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her. They say too,
• 52:58
  that she will rather die than give any any sign of affection. I
• 53:02
  did never think to marry. I must not seem proud. Happy are they
• 53:07
  that hear their distractions and can put them to mending. They say, the
• 53:12
  lady is fair, tis the truth I can bear them witness, and virtuous
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  tis so I cannot reprove it. And wise but for loving me by my
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  troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument of
• 53:25
  her folly, For I will be horribly in love with her. I may
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  chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me because I have
• 53:42
  railed so long against marriage. But doth not the appetite alter A man loves
• 53:49
  the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips
• 53:53
  and sentences in these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career
• 54:00
  of his humor. No, the world must be peopled. When I said
• 54:07
  I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
• 54:10
  were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day, she's a fair lady.
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  I do spy some marks of love in her. Enter Beatrice, against
• 54:27
  my will, I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. Fair
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  Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. I took no more pains for
• 54:36
  those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful,
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  I would not have come. You take pleasure, then in the message,
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  yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point and
• 54:46
  choke a doll withal you have no stomach signor fare you well exit ha against
• 54:54
  my will, I am sent to bid you come into dinner. There's a
• 55:00
  double meaning in that I took no more pains for those thanks than you took
• 55:06
  pains to thank me. That's as much as to say. Any pains that
• 55:10
  I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do not take
• 55:17
  pity of her, I am a villain. If I do not love her,
• 55:22
  I am a jew. I will go get her picture. Exit end
• 55:30
  of Act two, Act three, Scene one, Leonardo's garden. Enter Hero,
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  Margaret and Ursula. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There
• 55:44
  shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice proposing with the prince, and Claudio whisper her
• 55:47
  ear and tell her. I and Ursula walk in the orchard, and our
• 55:51
  whole discourse is all of her. Say that thou overheard's dust and bid her
• 55:55
  steal into the pleached bower where honeysuckles ripened by the sun. Forbid the son
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  to enter, like favorites made proud by princes that advance their pride against the
• 56:04
  power that bread it. There will she hide her to listen to our propose.
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  This is thy office, Bear thee well in it, and leave us
• 56:10
  alone. I'll make her come. I warrant you presently exit now, Ursula.
• 56:17
  When Beatrice stuff come as we do, trace this alley up and down.
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  Our talk must be only of Benedict. When I do name him,
• 56:24
  let it be thy part to praise him more than ever man did merit.
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  My talk to thee must be how Benneddick is sick in love with Beatrice.
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  Of this matter as little Cupid's crafty arrow made that only wounds by hearsay,
• 56:37
  Enter Beatrice behind. Now begin, for look where Beatrice, like a lap
• 56:42
  wing, runs close by the ground to hear our conference. The pleasant angling
• 56:46
  is to see the fish cut with her golden oars the silver stream, and
• 56:51
  greedily devour the treacherous bait. So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
• 56:57
  is couched in the wood wine cobrature. Fear you not my part of the
• 57:00
  dialog. Then we go near her, that her ear lose nothing of the
• 57:04
  full sweet bait that we lay for it. They advance to the bower.
• 57:08
  No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful. I know her spirits
• 57:12
  are as coy and wild as haggards of the rock. But are you sure
• 57:15
  that Benedict loves Beatrice so entirely? So says the Prince, and my new
• 57:20
  troth at lord. And did they bid you tell her of it? Madam?
• 57:23
  They did entreat me to acquaint her of it. But I persuaded them,
• 57:27
  if they loved Benedict, to wish him wrestle with affection, and never
• 57:30
  to let Beatrice know of it. Why did you so dot? Not the
• 57:35
  gentleman deserve as full as fortune in a bed, as ever Beatrice shall couch
• 57:38
  upon, Oh, God of love, I know he doth deserve as much
• 57:43
  as may be yielded to a man. But nature never framed a woman's heart
• 57:47
  of proudest stuff than that of Beatrice. Disdain and scorn rides sparkling in her
• 57:52
  eyes, misprising what they look on, and her wit values itself so highly
• 57:57
  that to her all matter el seems weak. She cannot love, nor take
• 58:00
  no shape nor project of affection. She is so self endeared. Sure I
• 58:06
  think so, And therefore certainly it were not good. She knew his love,
• 58:09
  lest she make sport at it? Why you speak truth? I never
• 58:14
  yet saw man, how wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
• 58:17
  But she would spell him backward. If their face, she would swear
• 58:22
  the gentleman should be her sister. If black, why nature drawing of an
• 58:24
  antic made a foul blot, if tall a lance ill headed, if low
• 58:30
  an egg gate very vilely cut. If speaking, why a vein blown with
• 58:35
  all winds? If silent, why a block moved with none? So turns
• 58:38
  she every man the wrong side out, and never gives to truth and virtue
• 58:43
  that which simpleness in merit purchaseth. Sure, sure such carping is not commendable,
• 58:49
  No, not to be so odd, and from all fashions as Beatrice's
• 58:52
  cannot be commendable. But who dared tell her? So? If I should
• 58:57
  speak, she would mock me into air. Oh, she would laugh me
• 59:00
  out of myself, press me to death with wit. Therefore, let Benedict,
• 59:05
  like covered fire, consume away in size waste inwardly, it were a
• 59:09
  better death than die with mocks, which is as bad as die with tickling.
• 59:13
  Yet tell her of it, hear what she will say. No,
• 59:16
  Rather, I will go to Benedict and counsel him to fight against his passion.
• 59:21
  And truly ou devise some honest slanders to stay my cousin with one.
• 59:25
  Doth not know how much an ill word may im poison liking. Oh,
• 59:29
  do not your cousin such a wrong? She cannot be so much without true
• 59:32
  judgment, having so swift and excellent a wit as she is prized to have,
• 59:37
  as to refuse so rare a gentleman. As Signor Benedict, he is
• 59:42
  the only man of Italy always accepted. My dear Claudia, I pray you
• 59:45
  be not angry with me, Madam, speaking my fancy. Senor Benedict for
• 59:51
  shape, for bearing argument and valor goes foremost in report through Italy. Indeed
• 59:55
  he hath an excellent good name. His excellence did earn it where he had
• 1:00:00
  it. When are you married, madam? Why every day tomorrow? Come
• 1:00:06
  go in. I'll show thee summertias and have thy counsel, which is the
• 1:00:08
  best to furnish me Tomorrow she is limed, I warrant you we have caught
• 1:00:13
  her, Madam. If it proves so, then loving goes by haaps,
• 1:00:16
  some cubid kills with arrows, some with traps, exant hero and ursula advancing
• 1:00:22
  what fire is in mine ears? Can this be true? Stand I condemned
• 1:00:28
  for pride and scorn, so much contempt, farewell and maiden pride, adieu.
• 1:00:35
  No glory lives behind the back of such and Benedict. Love on.
• 1:00:39
  I will requite thee, taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. If
• 1:00:45
  thou dost love, my kindness shall incite THEE to bind our loves up in
• 1:00:50
  a holy band. For others say thou dost deserve, And I believe it
• 1:00:55
  better than reportingly, exit too a room in Leonato's house. Enter Don Pedro,
• 1:01:04
  Claudio, Benedict, and Leonato. I do, but stay till your
• 1:01:08
  marriage be consummate, and then I go toward Arragon. I'll bring you thither,
• 1:01:13
  my lord, if you'll vouchsafe me. Nay, that would be as
• 1:01:16
  great as soil in the new gloss of your marriage, as to show a
• 1:01:21
  child his new coat and forbid him to wear it. I will only be
• 1:01:24
  bold with Benedict for his company. For from the crown of his head to
• 1:01:30
  the soul of his foot, he is all mirth. He hath twice or
• 1:01:34
  thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not shoot at him.
• 1:01:39
  He hath the heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the
• 1:01:43
  clapper. For what his heart thinks, his tongue speaks gallants. I am
• 1:01:49
  not as I have been, so say I methinks you are saddern I hope
• 1:01:53
  you be in love. Hang him truant there's no true drop of blood in
• 1:01:59
  him to be truly touched with love. If he be sad he wants money,
• 1:02:05
  I have the toothache, draw it, hang it. You must hang
• 1:02:08
  it first and draw it afterwards. What sigh for the toothache? Where is
• 1:02:15
  but a humor or a worm? Well? Everyone can master of grief,
• 1:02:20
  but he that has it yet say I he is in love. There is
• 1:02:23
  no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be a fancy that he hath
• 1:02:28
  too strange disguises as to be a Dutchman to day, a Frenchman tomorrow,
• 1:02:34
  or in the shape of two countries at once, as a German from the
• 1:02:37
  waist downward all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward. No doublet
• 1:02:44
  unless he have a fancy to this foolery as it appears he hath. He
• 1:02:49
  is no fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is if
• 1:02:52
  he be not in love with some woman. There is no believing old signs.
• 1:02:57
  It brushes his hat in mornings that boat hath any man seen him at
• 1:03:01
  the barber's No, but the baba's man hath been seen with him? And
• 1:03:06
  the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis balls. Indeed, he
• 1:03:10
  looks younger than he did by the loss of a beard, Nay, rubs
• 1:03:14
  himself with civet. Can you smell him out by that? That's as much
• 1:03:19
  as to say the sweet Heath's in love. The greatest note of it is
• 1:03:22
  his melancholy. And when was he one to wash his face yea, or
• 1:03:27
  to paint himself for the witch? I hear what they say of him,
• 1:03:30
  Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept into lutestring and new
• 1:03:35
  governed by stops. Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him. Conclude,
• 1:03:40
  conclude he is in love? Nay, But I know who loves him?
• 1:03:46
  That I would know too. I warrant one that knows him not yes,
• 1:03:52
  and his ill conditions, and despite of all dies for him, she
• 1:03:57
  shall be buried with her face upwards. Yet is this no charm for the
• 1:04:01
  toothache old segnor walk aside with me? I have studied eight or nine wise
• 1:04:06
  words to speak to you, which these hobby horses must not hear. Exeant,
• 1:04:12
  Benedict, and Leonato. For my life to break with him about Beatrice
• 1:04:16
  tis even so Hero and Margaret hope by this played their part with Beatrice,
• 1:04:21
  and then the two hearts will not bite one another when they meet. Enter
• 1:04:26
  Don John, my lord and brother, God save you, good den brother,
• 1:04:31
  if your leisure served, I would speak with you in private, if
• 1:04:35
  it please you. Yet, Count Claudio may hear, for what I would
• 1:04:40
  speak of concerns him. What's the matter? To Claudio means your lordship to
• 1:04:46
  be married tomorrow? You know he does? I know not that when he
• 1:04:53
  knows what I know. If there be any impediment, I pray you discover
• 1:04:57
  it. You may think I love you. You not let that appear hereafter,
• 1:05:01
  and aim better at me by that I now will manifest. For my
• 1:05:06
  brother, I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart,
• 1:05:11
  hath hoped to affect your ensuing marriage. Surely suit ill spent and labor ill
• 1:05:17
  bestowed. Why what's the matter? I came hither to tell you? And
• 1:05:24
  circumstances shortened, for she has been too long a talking of the lady is
• 1:05:31
  disloyal? Who hero? Even she Leonarto's hero, your hero, every man's
• 1:05:41
  hero, disloyal? The words too good to paint out her wickedness. I
• 1:05:46
  could say she were worse. Think you of a worse title than I will
• 1:05:50
  fit her to it? Wonder not till further warrant go but with me Tonight
• 1:05:56
  you shall see her chamber window entered even the night before her wedding day.
• 1:06:02
  If you love her, then tomorrow wed her. But it would be better
• 1:06:06
  fit your honor to change your mind. May this be so? I will
• 1:06:12
  not think it if you dare not trust that you see, confess not that
• 1:06:16
  you know. If you will follow me, I will show you enough.
• 1:06:21
  And when you have seen more and heard more, proceed accordingly. If I
• 1:06:28
  see anything tonight, why I should not marry her tomorrow in the congregation where
• 1:06:31
  I shall wed, there will I shame her? And as I wood for
• 1:06:35
  THEE to obtain her, I will join with THEE to disgrace her. I
• 1:06:41
  will disparage her no farther till you are my witnesses. Bear it coldly,
• 1:06:45
  but till midnight, and let the issue show itself, Oh day untowardly turned,
• 1:06:53
  nor misty strangely thwarting, Oh plague right well prevented. So will you
• 1:06:59
  say, And you have seen the sequel exeant scene three, A street enter
• 1:07:06
  dog Mary and verges with the watch are you good men and true yea or
• 1:07:12
  else it to a pity. But they should suffer salvation body and soul.
• 1:07:15
  Nay, that were a punishment too good for them. If they should have
• 1:07:18
  any allegiance in them being chosen for the Prince's watch, well give them their
• 1:07:23
  charge. Neighbor dog Betty first, who think you the most desertless man to
• 1:07:28
  be constable? Here? Ojcake, sir, or George Secul, so they
• 1:07:32
  can write and read? Come hither, neighbor Secall. God hath blessed you
• 1:07:36
  with a good name to be a well favored man as a gift of fortune.
• 1:07:41
  But to write and read comes by nature, both which Master Constable you
• 1:07:45
  have. I knew it would be your answer. Well for your favor,
• 1:07:47
  sir, why give God thanks and make no boast of it. And for
• 1:07:50
  your writing and reading, let that appear when there is no need of such
• 1:07:55
  vanity. You are thought here to be the most senseless and fit man to
• 1:07:59
  be the constable of the war. Therefore bear you the lantern. This is
• 1:08:01
  your charge. You shall comprehend all vagram men. You are to bid any
• 1:08:06
  man stand in the Prince's name. How if it will not stand, why
• 1:08:11
  then take no note of him, But let him go, and presently call
• 1:08:15
  the rest of the watch together, And thank god you are rid of a
• 1:08:16
  nave. If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none
• 1:08:19
  of the Prince's subjects true, And they are to meddle with none but the
• 1:08:25
  Prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in the streets, for for
• 1:08:30
  the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable, and not to be
• 1:08:32
  endured. We will rather sleep than talk. We know what belongs to a
• 1:08:38
  watch. Why you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman, For I
• 1:08:42
  cannot see how sleeping should offend. Only have a care that your bills be
• 1:08:45
  not stolen. But you are to call at all the ale houses and bid
• 1:08:50
  those that are drunk to get them to bed. How if they will not,
• 1:08:55
  why then let them alone to their sober If they make you not,
• 1:08:59
  then the better answer you may say, they are not the man you took
• 1:09:00
  them for. Well, sir, if you meet a thief, you may
• 1:09:04
  suspect him, by virtue of your office, to be no true man.
• 1:09:08
  And for such kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,
• 1:09:11
  why the more is for your honesty. If we know him to be
• 1:09:14
  a thief. Shall we not lay hands on him? Truly? By your
• 1:09:16
  office you may, but I think they the touch pitch will be defiled.
• 1:09:20
  The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is
• 1:09:24
  to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
• 1:09:28
  You have always been called a merciful man, partner. Truly, I would
• 1:09:31
  not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any
• 1:09:35
  honesty in him. If you hear a child cry in the night, you
• 1:09:39
  must call to the nurse and bid us do it. How if the nurse
• 1:09:42
  be asleep and will not hear us, why then depart in peace and let
• 1:09:45
  the child wake her with crying. For the you that will not hear her
• 1:09:48
  lamb when it bas will never answer a calf when he bleats. Tis very
• 1:09:53
  true. This is the end of the charge. You constable are to present
• 1:09:57
  the prince's own person. If you meet the Prince in the night, may
• 1:10:00
  stay him, neighbor, lady that I think I cannot five shillings to one
• 1:10:04
  on with any man that knows the statutes. He may stay him, marry
• 1:10:09
  not without the prince be willing. For indeed, the watch out to offend
• 1:10:12
  no man. And it is an offense to say a man against his will
• 1:10:15
  by lady. I think it'd be so ha ha, Well masters, good
• 1:10:19
  night, and there be any matter of weight chances call up me. Keep
• 1:10:23
  your fellow's counsels and your own, and good night, come neighbor. Hm,
• 1:10:29
  well, masters, we hear our charge. Hey, let's go sit
• 1:10:32
  here upon the church bench till two for you all to bird one word more,
• 1:10:40
  honest neighbors. I pray you watch about Signor Leonardo's door, for the
• 1:10:44
  wedding being there tomorrow. There is a great coil. Tonight, Adieu be
• 1:10:47
  vigetant. I beseech you exityant Dogberry and verges enter Baraccio and Conrad, what
• 1:10:56
  Conrad aside? Peace Stiller, Conrad, I say, here, man,
• 1:11:01
  I am at the elbow mass, and my elbow ititched. I thought there
• 1:11:05
  would a scab follow. Oh wellod an answer for that, and now forward
• 1:11:10
  with ditail Stanley close then under this penthouse for at drizzle's rain, and I
• 1:11:15
  will, like a true drunkard, utter all to thee aside some trees.
• 1:11:23
  Therefore no I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats. Is it possible
• 1:11:28
  that any villain, they should be so dear. Thou shouldst rather ask if
• 1:11:31
  it were possible, any villainy should be so rich. For when rich villains
• 1:11:35
  have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
• 1:11:40
  I wonder at it? That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that the
• 1:11:45
  fashion of a doublet or a hat or a cloak is nothing to a man?
• 1:11:47
  Yes it is, I mean the fashion. Yes, the fashion is
• 1:11:53
  the fashion tush. I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
• 1:11:58
  seest thou not what a defornt deep this fashion is? Aside, there has
• 1:12:04
  been a final faith this seven years that goes up and down like that,
• 1:12:09
  gentleman. I remember, didst thou not hear somebody? No, twas the
• 1:12:14
  vein on the house. Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed
• 1:12:17
  thief this fashion is? How giddily he turns about all the hot bloods between
• 1:12:23
  fourteen and five and thirty, sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers in the Riccy
• 1:12:28
  painting, sometime like god Bell's priests in the old church window, sometime like
• 1:12:32
  the shaven Hercules and the smirched, worm eaten tapestry, where his cod piece
• 1:12:38
  seems as massy as his club. All this I see, and I see
• 1:12:42
  that the fashion wears how more than the man. But art thou not thyself
• 1:12:46
  giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted out thy tale into telling
• 1:12:50
  me of the fashion. Not so neither. But know that I have tonight
• 1:12:56
  wooed Margaret, the lady Hero's gentlewoman by the name of Hero. She leans
• 1:13:00
  me out at her mistress chamber window, bids me a thousand times good night.
• 1:13:05
  I tell this tale vilely. I should first tell thee how the Prince,
• 1:13:10
  Claudio and my master planted and placed and possessed by my master. Don
• 1:13:15
  John saw afar offrom the orchard this amiable encounter and thought stain Margaret was hearing
• 1:13:20
  two of them, did the Prince and Claudio, But the devil my master
• 1:13:25
  knew she was Margaret, and partly by his oaths which first possessed them,
• 1:13:29
  partly by the dark Knight, which did deceive them, but chiefly by my
• 1:13:32
  villainy, which did confirm any slander that Don John had made away. Went
• 1:13:38
  Claudio, enraged, swore he would meet her as he was appointed next morning
• 1:13:43
  at the temple, and there before the whole congregation, shame her with what
• 1:13:47
  he saw, or knight, and send her home again without a husband.
• 1:13:51
  We tired you in the Prince's name. Stand call up the right master Constable.
• 1:13:57
  We have here recovered the most dangerous piece of lettery that was ever known
• 1:14:01
  in the Commonwealth. And one deformed is one of them. I know him.
• 1:14:05
  W's lock. Masters, Masters, you will be made bring deformed for
• 1:14:11
  it. I warrant you, masters, never speak, we charge you,
• 1:14:15
  let us obey you to go with us. We are like to prove a
• 1:14:17
  goodly commodity being taken up of these men's bills, a commodity in question.
• 1:14:21
  I warrant you come. We'll obey you. Exitent scene for a room in
• 1:14:29
  Leonardo's house. Inter hero Margaret and Ursula. Good Ursula, wake my cousin
• 1:14:34
  Beatrice and desire her to rise. I will, lady and bid her come
• 1:14:39
  hither well. Exit Troth. I think your other Roboto were better. No
• 1:14:45
  pratty, good Meg, I'll wear this by my Troth's not so good,
• 1:14:48
  and I warrant your cousin will say so. My cousin's a fool, and
• 1:14:53
  thou art another. I'll wear none but this. I like the new tire
• 1:14:57
  within excellently, if the hair were a thought, and your gown's a most
• 1:15:01
  rare fashion, If faith I saw the Duchess of Milan's gown, that they
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  pray so oh, that exceeds they say, by my troths. But a
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  night gown in respect of yours, cloth of gold and cuts and laced with
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  silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, sides, leeves, and skirts
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  around underborn with a blush tinsel. But for a fine, quaint, graceful
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  and excellent fashion, yours is worth ten aunt, God, give me joy
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  to wear it, for my heart is exceeding heavy. Twill be heavier soon
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  by the weight of a man shy upon thee, not not ashamed of what,
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  lady of speaking honorably? Is not marriage honorable in a beggar? Is
• 1:15:43
  not your lord honorable without marriage? I think you would have me say,
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  saving your reverence a husband and bad thinking do not rest true speaking. I'll
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  offend nobody. Is there any harm in the heavier for a husband, none,
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  I think, And it be the right husband and the right wife.
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  Otherwise tis light and not heavy. Ask my lady Beatrice else here she comes,
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  enter Beatrice, good morrow, Couz good morrow, sweet hero, Why
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  how now do you speak in the sick tune? I am out of all
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  other tune. Methinks, Oh claps into light, O love that goes without
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  a burden? Do you sing it? And I'll dance it? Ye,
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  light of love with your heels. Then if your husband have stables enough,
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  you'll see he shall lack no barns. Oh illegitimate construction. I scorn that
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  with my heels. Tis almost five o'clock, cousin, tis time you were
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  ready by my truth. I am exceedingly ill high ho for a hawk,
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  a horse, or a husband for the letter that begins them all? H
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  Well, an you be not turned to turk? There's no more sailing by
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  the star. What means the fool trow nothing? I but God send everyone
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  their heart's desire. These gloves the count sent me. They are an excellent
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  perfume. I am stuffed, cousin. I cannot smell a maid and stuffed.
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  There's goodly catching of cold. Oh God help me, God help me.
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  How long have you professed apprehension? Ever since you left it? Doth
• 1:17:25
  not my wit become me? Rarely? It is not seen enough. You
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  should wear it in your cap by my troth, I am sick. I
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  get you some of this distilled carduce, Benedictus, and lay it to your
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  heart. It is the only thing for a qualm. There thou prickst he
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  with a thistle, Benedictus, Why, Benedictus, you have some moral in
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  this, Benedictus. Moral No, by my troth, I have no moral
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  meaning. I meant plain homely thistle. You may think, perchance that I
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  think you are in love. Nay, by your lady, I'm not such
• 1:17:59
  a fool to think I list, nor I list not to think what I
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  can, nor indeed I cannot think if I would think my heart out of
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  thinking that you are in love, or that you will be in love,
• 1:18:08
  or that you can be in love. Yet benedict was such another, and
• 1:18:13
  now is he become a man. He swore he would never marry, and
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  yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats his meat without grudging.
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  And how you may be converted, I know not, But methinks you
• 1:18:25
  look with your eyes as other women do. What pace is this that thy
• 1:18:29
  tongue keeps? Not a false gallop? Re enter ursula, madam, withdraw
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  the Prince, the count signor benedict John, John, and all the gallants
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  of the town are come to fetch you to church. Help me to dress
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  good, cousin good, make good Ursula Exiant. Scene five, another room
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  in Leonato's house. Enter Leonato and Dogberry and Verges. What would you with
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  me, honest neighbor Mary, Sir, I would have some confidence with you
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  that discerns you nearly brief. I pray you for you. See, it
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  is a busy time with me, Mary. This it is, sir,
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  Yes, in truth it is, sir. What is it? My good
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  friends, good man Vergis, Sir speaks a little off the matter. An
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  old man, Sir, and his wits air not so blunt as God help
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  I would desire they were, But in faith honest is the skin between his
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  brows. Yes, I thank God. I am as honest as any man
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  living that is an old man, and no honest do than I. Comparisons
• 1:19:28
  are odorous palabras. Neighbor Vergis, Neighbors, you are tedious. It pleases
• 1:19:34
  your worship to say so. But we are the poor Duke's officers. But
• 1:19:38
  truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king,
• 1:19:42
  I could find it in my heart to bestow all of it upon your
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  worship, all thy tediousness on me ha yea, and twere a thousand pounds
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  more than tis. For I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of
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  any man in the city. And though I be but a poor man,
• 1:19:57
  I am glad to hear it, and so am I. I would fain
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  know what you have to say, Mary, Sir, I watch tonight accepting
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  your worship's presence had taken a couple of them, as added knaves, as
• 1:20:08
  any a messina a good old man, Sir, he will be talking,
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  as they say when the age is in, the wit is out, God
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  help us. It is a world to see what said. If faith neighbor
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  verges, well, God's a good man, and two men ride of a
• 1:20:19
  horse, one must ride behind an honest soul. If faith, sir,
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  by my trophy is has ever broke bread. But God is to be worshiped.
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  All men are not alike alas good neighbor. Indeed, neighbor he comes
• 1:20:30
  too short of you gifts that God gives. I must leave you one word,
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  sir, our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two auspicious persons,
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  and we would have them this morning examined before your worship. Take their examination
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  yourself and bring it to me. I am now in great haste, as
• 1:20:47
  may appear unto you. It shall be suffrageance. Drink some wine. Here
• 1:20:51
  you go very well, Enter a messenger, my lord. They stay for
• 1:20:57
  you to give your daughter to her husband. I'll wait them. I am
• 1:21:00
  ready excitant. Leonato and messenger, go good partner, Go get you to
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  Francis Siccoal. Bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the jail. We
• 1:21:09
  are now to examination these men, and we must do it wisely. We
• 1:21:14
  will spare for no wit. I warrant you here's that shall drive some of
• 1:21:17
  them to a non com only get the learned writer to set down our excommunication
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  and meet me at the jail Exciant. End of Act three, Act four,
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  Scene one, the inside of a church. Enter Don Pedro, Don
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  John, Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedict, Hero, Beatrice,
• 1:21:43
  et cetera. Come, Friar Francis, be brief only to the plain form
• 1:21:47
  of marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards. You come hither,
• 1:21:51
  my lord, to marry this lady. No, to be married to
• 1:21:56
  her. Friar, you come to marry her lady, You come hither to
• 1:22:00
  be married to this count? I do if either of you know any inward
• 1:22:06
  impediment, why you should not be conjoined? I charge you on your souls
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  to utter it. Know you any hero? None, my Lord, know
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  you any count? I dare make his answer none? Oh what man dare
• 1:22:20
  do? What man may do? What man daily do? Not knowing what
• 1:22:24
  they do? How now interjections, why then some be of laughing? As
• 1:22:30
  ha ha he Stanley, by friar father, by your leave, will you,
• 1:22:34
  with free and unconstrained soul, give me this maid, your daughter,
• 1:22:39
  as freely son as God did give her me? And what if I to
• 1:22:43
  give you back? Whose worth may counterpoise his rich and precious gift? Nothing
• 1:22:47
  unless you render her again? Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness,
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  Dear Leonato, take her back again, Give not this rotten orange to your
• 1:22:57
  friend. She'd put the sign and semblance of her honor the hold hell like
• 1:23:01
  a maid. She blushes here. Oh what authority and show of truth can
• 1:23:04
  cunning sin cover itself withal comes? Not that blood as modest evidence to witness
• 1:23:10
  simple virtue? Would you not swear all you that see her that she were
• 1:23:15
  a maid by these exterior shows. But she is none. She knows the
• 1:23:19
  heat of a luxurious bed. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. What
• 1:23:24
  do you mean, my lord, not to be married? Not in it
• 1:23:28
  my soul to an approved wanton dear, my lord, if you, in
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  your own proof, have vanquished the resistance of her youth and made defeat of
• 1:23:34
  her virginity, I know what you would say if I have known her,
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  you will say she'd embrace me as a husband, and so extenuate the forehand.
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  Sin No, Leonato, I never tempted her with word too large,
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  but as a brother to his sister, showed bashful sincerity and comely love,
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  and seemed I ever otherwise to you, out on thee seeming, I will
• 1:23:57
  write against it. You seem to me as Diana in her orb as chaste,
• 1:24:00
  as is the bud ere it be blown. But you are more in
• 1:24:03
  temperate in your blood than venus, all those permbaned animals at rage in savage
• 1:24:09
  sensuality? Is my lord? Well that he does speak so wide, sweet
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  prince? Why speak not you? What should I speak? I stand dishonored
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  that have gone about to link my dear friend to a common stale. Are
• 1:24:25
  these things spoken? Or do I but dream sir? They are spoken?
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  And these things are true? This looks not like a nupshial true, Oh
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  God, Leonardo, stand I hear? Is this the prince? Is this?
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  The Prince's brother? Is this face? Heroes? Our eyes, our
• 1:24:44
  own all? This is so? But what of this? My lord?
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  Let me but move one question to your daughter, and by that fatherly,
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  unkindly power that you have in her bitter answer truly, I charge thee do
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  so as thou art, by child? Oh God, how am I beset?
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  What kind of catechising call you this? To make you answer truly to
• 1:25:05
  your name? Is it not Hero who can blot that name with any just
• 1:25:11
  reproach Mary? That can Hero? Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue?
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  What man was he talked to you yesternight out at your window betwixt twelve and
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  one? Now, if you're a maid? Answer to this? I talked
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  with no man at that, Oh my lord, why then you are no
• 1:25:28
  maiden? Leonardo? I am sorry. You must hear upon my honor,
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  myself, my brother, and this grieved count did see her hear her at
• 1:25:41
  that hour last night? Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window, who
• 1:25:45
  hath indeed like a most liberal villain, confessed the vile encounters they have had
• 1:25:53
  a thousand times in secret cy cy. They are not to be named,
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  my lord, not to be spoke of. There is not chastity enough in
• 1:26:04
  language without offense to utter them. Thus, pretty lady, I am sorry
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  for thy much misgovernment, O Hero, What a hero hadst thou been if
• 1:26:15
  half thy outward graces had been placed about thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart.
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  But fare thee well, most foul, most fair, farewell by pure
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  and piety and impious purity for thee. I'll lock up all the gates of
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  love, and on my eyelids shall conjecture hang to turn all beauty to thoughts
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  of harm, And never shall it more be gracious? Hath no man's dagger
• 1:26:38
  here a point for me? Hero swooned, Why how now, cousin,
• 1:26:44
  wherefore sink you down? Come? Let us go? These things come thus
• 1:26:48
  to light smother her spirits up Exiyot, Don Pedro, Don John and Claudio?
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  How doth the lady dead? I think? Help uncle Hero? Why
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  Hero? Uncle Senor Benedict friar Oh fate take not away thy heavy hand.
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  Death is the fairest cover for her shame that may be wished for. How
• 1:27:11
  now, cousin, Hero have comfort? Lady, dost thou look up yea?
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  Wherefore should she not? Wherefore why does not every earthly thing cry shame
• 1:27:21
  upon her? Could she here deny the story that is printed in her blood?
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  Do not live, Hero, Do not open thine eyes? For did
• 1:27:30
  I think thou wouldst not die quickly? Thought I thy spirit were stronger than
• 1:27:33
  my shames? Myself would on the rear of reproaches strike at thy life?
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  Grieved I I had but one chied aye for that at frugal nature's frame,
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  Oh, one too much by thee? Why had I won? Why ever
• 1:27:47
  wast thou lovely in mine eyes? Why had I not, with charitable hand,
• 1:27:53
  took up a beggar's issue at my gait, who smirched thus admired with
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  infamy? I might have said, No part of it is mine. Shame
• 1:28:00
  derives itself from unknown loins, but mine and mine. I loved and mine,
• 1:28:05
  I praised and mine that I was proud on mine so much that I
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  myself was to myself not mine, valuing of her? Why she, Oh,
• 1:28:15
  she has fallen into a pit of bink, that the wide sea hath
• 1:28:18
  drops too few to wash her clean again, and saw too little which may
• 1:28:23
  season give to her foul tainted flesh. Sir, sir, be patient for
• 1:28:29
  my part. I am so attired in wonder. I know not what to
• 1:28:31
  say. Oh, on my soul. My cousin is belied, lady,
• 1:28:35
  were you her bedfellow last night? No, truly not, although until last
• 1:28:41
  night I have this twelvemonth than her bedfellow confirmed. Confirmed. Oh, that
• 1:28:45
  is stronger made which was before barred up with the ribs of iron. Would
• 1:28:49
  the two princes Lie and Claudial Lie, who loved her so that speaking of
• 1:28:55
  her foulness, washed it with tears. Hence from her let her die.
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  Hear me a little, for I have only been silent so long, and
• 1:29:02
  given way unto this course of fortune. By noting of the lady, I
• 1:29:08
  have marked a thousand blushing apparitions to start into her face, a thousand innocent
• 1:29:15
  shames in angel whiteness, bear away those blushes, And in her eye there
• 1:29:20
  hath appeared a fire to burn the errors that these princes hold against her maiden
• 1:29:27
  truth, Call me a fool Trust not my reading nor my observations, which,
• 1:29:33
  with experimental seal doth warrant the tenure of my book. Trust not my
• 1:29:40
  age, my reverence, calling, nor divinity. If this sweet lady lie
• 1:29:46
  not guiltless here under some biting error, Friar, it cannot be thou seest
• 1:29:54
  that all the grace that she loved is that she will not add to her
• 1:29:57
  damnation of sin, of perjury denies it. Why seekest thou then to cover
• 1:30:01
  with excuse that which appears in proper nakedness? Lady? What man is he
• 1:30:06
  you are accused of? They know that, do accuse me? I know
• 1:30:11
  none. If I know more of any man alive than that which maiden modesty
• 1:30:15
  doth warrant. Let all my sins lack mercy, Oh, my father,
• 1:30:20
  prove you that any man with me conversed at ours unmeet, or that I
• 1:30:24
  yester night maintained the change of words with any creature, Refuse me, hate
• 1:30:29
  me, torture me to death. There is some strange misprison in the princes.
• 1:30:33
  Two of them have the very bent of honor, And if their wisdoms
• 1:30:38
  be misled in this, the practice of it lives in John the bastard,
• 1:30:42
  whose spirits, toil and frame of villanies. I know not if they speak,
• 1:30:45
  but truth of her. These hands shall tear her if they wrong her
• 1:30:49
  honor. The proudest of them shall well hear of it. Time hath not
• 1:30:54
  yet so dried this butt of mine, nor age so eat up my invention,
• 1:30:58
  nor fortune made such havoc of my means, nor my bad life.
• 1:31:01
  Refit me so much of my friends. But they shall find awaked in such
• 1:31:05
  a kind both strength of limb and policy of mind, ability and means,
• 1:31:11
  and a choice of friends, to quit me of them thoroughly. Pouse a
• 1:31:14
  while, and let my counsel sway you. In this case, your daughter
• 1:31:18
  here the princes left for dead, Let her a while be secretly kept in,
• 1:31:25
  and publish it that she is dead. Indeed, maintain a mourning ostentation,
• 1:31:31
  And on your family's old monument hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rights
• 1:31:38
  that appertain unto a burial. What shall become of this? What will this
• 1:31:43
  do? Marry this well carried? Shall on her behalf change slander to remorse?
• 1:31:50
  That is some good, But not for that dream I on this strange
• 1:31:55
  course, but on this travail, look for greater birth. She dying,
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  as it must be so maintained upon the instant that she was accused, shall
• 1:32:06
  be lamented, pitied, and excused of every hearer. For it so falls
• 1:32:15
  out that what we have we prize not to the worth whiles we enjoy it,
• 1:32:19
  But being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value. Then
• 1:32:25
  we find the virtue that possession would not show us whilst it is ours.
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  So will it fare with Claudio when he shall hear she died upon his words,
• 1:32:38
  the idea of her life shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination,
• 1:32:44
  and every lovely organ of her life shall come apparelled in more precious habit,
• 1:32:50
  more moving, delicate, and full of life, into the eye and prospect
• 1:32:56
  of his soul than when she lived. Indeed, then shall he mourn if
• 1:33:02
  ever love had interest in his liver, and wish he had not so accused
• 1:33:08
  her. No, though he thought his accusation true, Let this be so,
• 1:33:15
  and doubt not. But success will fashion the event in better shape than
• 1:33:18
  I can lay it down in likelihood. But if all aim but this be
• 1:33:24
  leveled false, the supposition of the lady's death will quench the wonder of her
• 1:33:30
  infamy. And if it sort not well, you may conceal her as best
• 1:33:35
  befits her wounded reputation in some reclusive and religious life, out of all eyes,
• 1:33:43
  tongues, minds, and injuries, Senor Leonatto, let the Friar advise
• 1:33:48
  you. And though you know my inwardness and love is very much unto the
• 1:33:51
  Prince and Claudio, Yet by mine, honor, I will deal in this
• 1:33:56
  as secretly and justly as your soul should. With your being, that I
• 1:34:00
  flow in grief, the smallest twine may lead me tis well consented presently away
• 1:34:08
  for to strange sores. Strangely they strain the cure. Come, lady,
• 1:34:15
  die to live? This wedding day perhaps is but prolonged. Have patience and
• 1:34:23
  endure, exitant, Friar Hero and Leonatto, Lady Beatrice, have you wept
• 1:34:30
  all this while? Yea, and I will weep a while longer. I
• 1:34:34
  will not desire that you have no reason. I do it freely. Surely
• 1:34:40
  I do believe your fair cousin is wronged. Ah, how much might the
• 1:34:45
  man deserve of me that would right her? Is there any way to show
• 1:34:47
  such friendship? A very even way? But no such friend may a man
• 1:34:54
  do it? It is a man's office, but not yours. I do
• 1:34:59
  love nothing in the world so well as you. Is not that strange,
• 1:35:04
  as strange as the thing I know. Not it were possible for me to
• 1:35:09
  say I loved nothing so well as you. But believe me not. And
• 1:35:13
  yet I lie not. I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I
• 1:35:16
  am sorry for my cousin. By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me,
• 1:35:23
  do not swear by it and eat it. I will swear by it
• 1:35:27
  that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I
• 1:35:29
  love not you. You will not eat your word with no sauce that can
• 1:35:33
  be devised to it. I protest I love THEE. Why then, God
• 1:35:40
  forgive me what offense? Sweet Beatrice, you have stayed me in a happy
• 1:35:45
  hour. I was about to protest I loved you, and do it with
• 1:35:50
  all thy heart. I love you with so much of my heart that none
• 1:35:54
  is left to protest. Come bid me do anything for THEE. Kill Claudio,
• 1:36:00
  ha, not for the wide world. You kill me to deny it.
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  Farewell Tarry, sweet Beatrice. I am gone, though I am here.
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  There is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me
• 1:36:15
  go. Beatrice in faith, I will go, will be friends first.
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  You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine? Enemy is Claudio
• 1:36:25
  thine enemy? Is he not approved in the height of villain, that hath
• 1:36:29
  slandered, scorn, dishonored my kinswoman, Oh that I were a man?
• 1:36:33
  What bear her in hand until they come to take hands? And then with
• 1:36:36
  public accusation, uncovered, slander, unmitigated rancor, O God, that I
• 1:36:43
  were a man, I would eat his heart in the market place, hear
• 1:36:45
  me Beatrice talk with a man out at a window, a proper saying nay.
• 1:36:50
  But Beatrice, sweet hero, she is wronged, she is slandered,
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  She is undone, a be it princes and county is surely a princely testimony,
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  a good count confect, a sweet gallant. Surely, Oh that I
• 1:37:04
  were a man for his sake, or that I had any friend would be
• 1:37:09
  a man for my sake. But manhood is melted into curses, valor into
• 1:37:14
  compliment, and manna only turned into tongue and trim one's too. He is
• 1:37:18
  now as valiant as Hercules. That only tells a lion swears it. I
• 1:37:24
  cannot be a man with wishing therefore I will die a woman with grieving tarry,
• 1:37:29
  good Beatrice. By this hand I love thee. Use it for my
• 1:37:33
  love some other way than swearing by it. Thank you in your soul.
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  The Count Claudio hath wronged hero yea, as sure as I have a thought
• 1:37:44
  or a soul enough, I am engaged. I will challenge him. I
• 1:37:51
  will kiss your hand, and so leave you. By this hand, Claudio
• 1:37:58
  shall render me a dear as you hear of me, so think of me.
• 1:38:06
  Go comfort your cousin. I must say she is dead, and so
• 1:38:13
  farewell. Exiant scene to a prison, enter Dogberry, Verges and sexton in
• 1:38:21
  gowns and the watch with Conrad and Barraccio. Is our whole assembly appeared?
• 1:38:29
  Or a stool and a cushion for the sexton? Which be the malefactors?
• 1:38:32
  Mary? That am I and my partner? Nay, that's certain. We
• 1:38:36
  have the exhibition to examine. But which are the offenders that are to be
• 1:38:40
  examined? Let them come before Master Constable. Yay, Mary, Let them
• 1:38:45
  come before me. What is your name, friend, Barracchio, pray,
• 1:38:49
  write down Barraccio yours, Sirrah, I'm a gentleman, sir my name is
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  Conrad. Write down, Master, gentleman Conrad, do you serve God?
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  Yea, Sir, we hope. Write down that they hope they serve God,
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  and write God first, for God defend. But God should go before
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  such villains. Masters. It has proved already that you are a little better
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  than false knaves, and it will go near to be thought. So shortly,
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  how answer you for yourselves? Marry, sir, we say we are
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  none. A marvelous witty fellow, I assure you, but I will go
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  about with him. Come you hither, Sarah, a word in your ear.
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  Sir, I say to you it is thought you are false knaves.
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  Sir, I say to you we are none. Well stand aside for God.
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  They are both in a tale. Have you write down that they are
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  none? Master Constable, you go not the way to examine. You must
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  call forth the watch that are their accusers. Yay, Mary, that's the
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  eftist way. Let the watch come forth, Masters, I charge you in
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  the Prince's name, accuse these men. This man said, Sir that Don
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  Jong, the Prince's brother, was a villain. Write down, Prince John
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  a villain? Why this is flat perjury? Call the Prince's brother, villain,
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  Master Constable, pray thee, fellow peace, I do not like thy.
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  Look, I promise thee. What heard you him say? Else?
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  Mary, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the
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  lady Hero wrongfully flat burglary as ever was committed. What else, Fellow,
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  and that Count Claudio did mean upon his words to disgrace Hero before the whole
• 1:40:24
  assembly and not to marry her. Oh, villain, thou shalt be condemned
• 1:40:29
  into everlasting redemption for this? What else? This is all? And this
• 1:40:34
  is more masters than you can deny. Prince John, is this morning secretly
• 1:40:39
  stolen away? Hero was in this manner, accused in this manner, refused,
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  and upon grief of this, suddenly died. Master Constable, Let these
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  men be bound in bratto Leonado's. I will go before and show him their
• 1:40:53
  examination. Exit. Come, let them be opinioned. Let them be in
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  the hands of Coxir. God's my life. Where's the sexton? Let him
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  write down the Prince's officer, Coxcomb. Come bind them. Thou naughty bollot
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  Away, you are an ass. You are an ass. Dost thou not
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  suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect my years. Oh that he were
• 1:41:16
  here to write me down an ass. But masters, remember that I am
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  an ass, though it be not written down. Yet, forget not that
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  I am an ass. No thou villain, Thou art full of piety,
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  as shall be proved upon thee by good witness. I am a wise fellow,
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  And which is more an officer, and which is more a householder,
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  and which is more as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina.
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  And one that knows the law go to. And a rich fellow enough
• 1:41:44
  go to. And a fellow that hath had losses, and one that hath
• 1:41:46
  two gowns and everything handsome about him, bring him away. Oh that I
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  had been written down an ass Exian. And of Act four, Act five,
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  seene one, before Leonato's house, Enter Leonato and Antonio. If you
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  go on thus, you will kill yourself. It is not wisdom thus to
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  second grief against yourself. I praythee see side. Counsel which falls into mine
• 1:42:15
  ears as profitestless as water in the siev. Give not me counsel, nor
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  let no comforter delight mine ear. But such a one whose wrongs do suit
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  with mine, bring me a father that so loved his child, whose joy
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  of her is so overwhelmed like mine. And bid him speak to me of
• 1:42:31
  patience, measure his woe the length and breadth of mine, and let it
• 1:42:35
  answer every strain for strain, as thus for thus, and such a grief
• 1:42:40
  for such in every lineament, branch, shape, and form. If such
• 1:42:44
  a one will smile and stroke his beard, bid sorrow, wag cry hem
• 1:42:47
  when he should groan, patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk with candle
• 1:42:54
  wasters. Bring him yet to me, and I of him will gather patients.
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  But there is no such man. For brother men can counsel and speak
• 1:43:02
  comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel. But tasting it, their
• 1:43:05
  counsel turns to passion, which before would give perceptual medicine, to rage,
• 1:43:10
  fetter, strong madness in a sulken thread, charm ache with air, and
• 1:43:14
  agony with words. No no tis all men's office to speak patience to those
• 1:43:18
  that ring under the load of sorrow. But no man's virtue nor sufficiency to
• 1:43:24
  be so moral when he shall endure the like himself. Therefore, give me
• 1:43:28
  no counsel. My griefs cry louder than advertisement. Therein do men from children,
• 1:43:33
  nothing differ. I pray thee peace. I will be flesh and blood.
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  For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently. However
• 1:43:42
  they have writ this style of God's and made a push at chance and sufferance
• 1:43:46
  it. Then not all the harm upon yourself. Make those that do a
• 1:43:49
  thing you suffer too. There thou speakest reason, nay, I will do
• 1:43:56
  so. My soul doth tell me. Hero is belied, and that shall
• 1:44:00
  Audio. No, so shall the Prince and all of them that thus dishonor
• 1:44:02
  her. Here comes to Prince and Claudio hastily enter Don Pedro and Claudio good
• 1:44:10
  Den, good Den, Good day to both of you. Hear you,
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  my lords. We have some haste Leonatto, some haste, my lord?
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  Well fare you well, my lord? Are you so hasty? Now?
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  Well? All is one? Nay, do not quarrel with us, good
• 1:44:25
  old man, if he could right himself with quarreling, some of us would
• 1:44:29
  lie low who wrongs him? Marry Thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler,
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  Thou nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword. I fear thee,
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  not marry beshrew my hand if it should give your aise such cause of fear
• 1:44:43
  in faith, my hand been nothing to my sword. Toush touch man,
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  never flear and jest at me. I speak not like a daughter, nor
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  a fool, as under privilege of age to brag what I have done being
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  young, or what would do were I not old, No claudio to thy
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  head. Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child and me that I am forced
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  to lay my reverence by and with gray hairs and brews of many days,
• 1:45:08
  a due challenge, thee to trial of a man. I say, thou
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  hast belied mine innocent child. Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
• 1:45:15
  and she lied buried with her ancestors, oh in a tomb where never
• 1:45:19
  scandals slept. Say this of hers, framed by thy villainy, my villainy,
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  thine, claudial thine. I say you say not, right, old
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  man, my lord, my lord, I'll prove it on his body,
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  if he dare, despite his nice fence and his active practice, his may
• 1:45:38
  of youth and bloom of lustihood a way I will not have to do with
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  you. Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child if thou
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  kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man, he shall kill two
• 1:45:50
  of us and men indeed, but that's no matter. Let him kill one
• 1:45:56
  first when being where me, let you man me Come follow me, boy,
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  Come, sir boy, Come follow me, sir boy, I'll whip
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  you from your pointing bench. Nay, as I'm a gentleman, I will
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  brother content yourself. God knows I love mindies and she is dead. Slander
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  to death by villains that dare as well as answer a man, indeed,
• 1:46:21
  as I dare take a serpent by the tongue boys, apes, braggets,
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  jack's milk SOPs, Brother Anthony, hold your content, what man I know
• 1:46:33
  them, yeay, and what they weigh even to the utmost scruple scambling,
• 1:46:40
  out facing fashion monging boys that lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
• 1:46:46
  go antickly, show outward hideousness and speak of half a dozen dangerous words.
• 1:46:51
  How they might hurt their enemies if they durst. And this is all,
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  but Brother Anthony, come tis no man, Do not you meddle.
• 1:47:00
  Let me deal in this gentlemen, both we will not wake your patience.
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  My heart is sorry for your daughter's death. But on my honor she was
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  charged with nothing but what was true and very full of proof. My Lord,
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  my lord, I will not hear you no, come brother away,
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  I will be heard and shall or some of us will smart for it.
• 1:47:29
  Exitant Leonato and Antonio enter Benedict. See see here comes the man we went
• 1:47:35
  to seek. Now signor what news? Good day, my lord? Welcome
• 1:47:41
  signor you are almost come to part. Almost afraid we had like to have
• 1:47:45
  had out two noses snapped off with two old men without teeth Leonato and his
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  brother. What think'st thou had we fought? I doubt we should have been
• 1:47:55
  too young for them in a false squirrel. There is no true valor.
• 1:48:00
  I came to seek you both. We have been up and down to seek
• 1:48:02
  THEE, for we are high proof, melancholy, and would fain of it
• 1:48:06
  beaten away? Wilt thou use thy wit? It is in my scabbard.
• 1:48:11
  Shall I draw it? Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side? Never
• 1:48:15
  any did so, though very many have been beside their wit. I will
• 1:48:19
  bid THEE draw as we do. The minstrels traw to pleasure us. As
• 1:48:24
  I am an honest man. He looks pale. Art Thou sick or angry?
• 1:48:29
  What courage man? What thou care killed a cat? Thou wast metal
• 1:48:32
  enough in thee to kill care? Sir, I shall meet your wit in
• 1:48:36
  the career, and you charge it against me. I pray you choose another
• 1:48:41
  subject, and nay, then give him another staff. This last was broke
• 1:48:45
  cross by this light. He changes more and more. I think ye be
• 1:48:50
  angry. Indeed, if he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
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  Shall I speak a word in your ear? God bless me from a
• 1:48:58
  challenge aside to Claudio. You are a villain. I jest not. I
• 1:49:04
  will make it good how you dare, with what you dare, and when
• 1:49:08
  you dare, do me right, or I will protest your cowardice. You
• 1:49:12
  have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you.
• 1:49:16
  Let me hear from you well, I will meet you so I may have
• 1:49:20
  good cheer. What a feast? A feast? I faith I thank him
• 1:49:26
  He hath bid me to a calf's head and a cap on the witch.
• 1:49:29
  If I do not carve most curiously, say my nice not? Shall I
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  not find a woodcock too? Sir? Your wit ambles well it goes easily.
• 1:49:39
  I'll tell thee how Beatrice praise thy wit. The other day I said
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  thou hadst a fine wit. True, she says a fine little one.
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  No said I A great wit. Right said she a great gross one.
• 1:49:57
  Nay said I A good wit, just said she. It hurts nobody,
• 1:50:02
  Nay said I. The gentleman is wise certain, said she a wise gentle
• 1:50:09
  man. Nay said I. He hath the tongues that I believe, said
• 1:50:14
  she, For he swore a thing to me on Monday night which he forswore
• 1:50:18
  on Tuesday morning. There is a double tongue. There's two tongues. Thus
• 1:50:26
  did she an hour to gather transshape thy particular virtues. Yet at last she
• 1:50:31
  concluded with a sigh, thou wast the properest man in Italy. For the
• 1:50:36
  witch. She wept heartily and said she cared not yea that she did.
• 1:50:43
  But yet for all that, and if she did not hate him deadly,
• 1:50:46
  she would love him dearly. The old man's daughter told us all all all,
• 1:50:54
  and moreover, God saw him when he was hid in the garden.
• 1:50:57
  But when shall we set the savage bulls horns on the sensible Benedict's head.
• 1:51:02
  Yea in text underneath here dwells Benedict the married man. Fare you well,
• 1:51:08
  boy, you know my mind. I will leave you now to your gossip
• 1:51:13
  like humor. You break jests as braggarts do their blades, which God be
• 1:51:17
  thanked hurt not my lord for your many courtesies, I thank you. I
• 1:51:25
  must discontinue your company. Your brother the bastard is fled from Messina. You
• 1:51:30
  have among you killed a sweet and innocent lady for my lord Lackbeard. There
• 1:51:35
  he and I shall meet until then peace be with him. Exit. He
• 1:51:42
  is in earnest, in most profound, earnest. And I'll warrant you for
• 1:51:45
  the love of Beatrice, and hath challenged thee most sincerely. What a pretty
• 1:51:51
  thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his
• 1:51:57
  wit. He is in a giant to an ape. But then is an
• 1:52:00
  ape adopted to such men? But soft you let me be, pluck up
• 1:52:04
  my heart and be sad? Did he not say my brother was fled?
• 1:52:11
  Enter Dogberry verges and the watch with Conrad and Barraccio. Come you, sir.
• 1:52:16
  If justice cannot tame you, she shall near weigh more reasons in her
• 1:52:19
  balance. Nay, and you'll be a cursing hypocrite once you must be looked
• 1:52:24
  to. How now two of my brother's men bound boraccio one? How can
• 1:52:30
  after their offense? My lord officers? What offense have these men done?
• 1:52:34
  Uh? Marry sir? They have committed false report? Moreover, they have
• 1:52:39
  spoken untruth. Secondarily they are slanders six them. Lastly they have belied a
• 1:52:44
  lady. Thirdly they have verified unjust things, and two conclude they are lying
• 1:52:48
  knaves. First I ask thee what they have done? Thirdly I ask THEE
• 1:52:57
  what's their offense? Sixth and lastly why they are committed? And to conclude
• 1:53:03
  what you lay to their charge? Rightly reasoned and in his own diversion?
• 1:53:09
  And by my troth, there's one meaning well suited. Who have you offended?
• 1:53:13
  Masters? That you are thus bound to your answer? This learned constable
• 1:53:17
  is too cunning to be understood? What's your offense? Sweet prince? Let
• 1:53:24
  me go no further to mine answer? Do you hear me? And let
• 1:53:27
  this count kill me? I have deceived even your very eyes what your wisdoms
• 1:53:32
  could not discover. These shallow fools have brought to light, who in the
• 1:53:38
  night overheard me confessing to this man, How Don John, your brother incensed
• 1:53:42
  me to slander the lady Hero. How you were brought into the orchard and
• 1:53:46
  saw me court Margaret in Hero's garments. How you disgraced her when you should
• 1:53:50
  marry her. My villainy, they have upon record, which I had rather
• 1:53:56
  seal with my death than repeat over to my shame. The lady is dead
• 1:54:00
  upon mine and my master's false accusation, And briefly I desire nothing but the
• 1:54:06
  reward of a villain runs not this speech like iron through your blood. I
• 1:54:14
  have drunk poison whilst he uttered it. But did my brother set thee on
• 1:54:17
  to this yea and paid me richly for the practice of it. He is
• 1:54:23
  composed and framed of treachery and fled. He is upon this villainy, sweet
• 1:54:29
  Hero. Now that image doth appear in the rest semblance that I loved it.
• 1:54:32
  First, come bring away the plaintiffs. By this time our sexton hath
• 1:54:36
  reformed Signor Leonardo of the matter. And masters do not forget to specify when
• 1:54:42
  time and place shall serve that I am an ass Here Here comes Master,
• 1:54:45
  Signor Leonardo, and the sexton. Two re enter Leonardo Antonio and the sexton
• 1:54:53
  which is the villain? Let me see his eyes, that when I note
• 1:54:56
  another man like him, I may avoid him. Which of these is he?
• 1:55:00
  If you would know your wronger, look on me, art, thou
• 1:55:02
  the slave that with thy breast has killed mine innocent child. Yea even I
• 1:55:08
  alone, No, not soul villain, thou beliest thyself. Here stand a
• 1:55:13
  pair of honorable men. A third is fled, that had a hand in
• 1:55:15
  it. I thank you, princess, for my daughter's death. Record it
• 1:55:19
  with your high and worthy deed. Twas bravely done. If you bethink you
• 1:55:24
  of it. I know not how to pray your patience, Yet I must
• 1:55:27
  speak. Choose your revenge yourself. Impose me to what penance or invention can
• 1:55:31
  lay upon my sin? Yet sinned I not but a mistaking by my soul,
• 1:55:39
  nor I and yet to satisfy this good old man, I would bin
• 1:55:44
  under any heavy weight that he'll enjoin me too. I cannot bid you bid
• 1:55:48
  my daughter live, That were impossible. But I pray you both possess the
• 1:55:54
  people in Messina here how innocent she died, and if your love can labor
• 1:55:58
  art in sad invention, hang her an epitaph upon her tomb and sing it
• 1:56:02
  to her bones. Sing it tonight tomorrow morning, come you to my house.
• 1:56:06
  And since you could not be my son in law, be it my
• 1:56:09
  nephew. My brother. Hath a daughter almost a copy of my child that's
• 1:56:13
  dead, and she alone is heir to both of us. Give her the
• 1:56:16
  right you should have given her cousin, and so dies my revenge. Oh
• 1:56:20
  noble sir, you are of the kindest dotting tears from me. I do
• 1:56:25
  embrace your offer and dispose for henceforth of poor Claudio. Tomorrow. Then I
• 1:56:30
  will expect your coming to night. I take my leave. This naughty man
• 1:56:33
  shall face to face be brought to Margaret, who I believe was packed and
• 1:56:38
  all this wrong, hired to it by your brother. No, by my
• 1:56:42
  soul she was not, nor knew not what she did when she spoke to
• 1:56:45
  me, But always hath been just and virtuous in anything that I do know
• 1:56:50
  by her. Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and black,
• 1:56:54
  this plaintiff here, the offender did call me ass I beseech you.
• 1:56:58
  Let it be remembered in this punt. And also the watch heard them talk
• 1:57:01
  of one deformed. They say he wears a key in his ear at a
• 1:57:05
  lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's name, which he hath
• 1:57:09
  used so long and never paid that now men grow hard hearted and will lend
• 1:57:13
  nothing for God's sake. Pray you examine him upon that point. I thank
• 1:57:16
  THEE for thy care and honest pains. Your worship speaks like a most thankful
• 1:57:20
  and reverend youth, and I praise God for you. There's for thy pains.
• 1:57:25
  God save the foundation. Go. I discharge THEE by prisoner, and
• 1:57:29
  I thank THEE. I leave an errant knave with your worship, which I
• 1:57:31
  beseech your worship to correct yourself with the example of others. God keep your
• 1:57:35
  worship. I wish your worship well. God restore you to health. I
• 1:57:40
  humbly give you leave to depart, and if a merry meeting may be wished,
• 1:57:43
  God prohibit it. Come neighbor, Exiant Dogberry and verges until tomorrow morning.
• 1:57:48
  Lords, farewell, we will not fail. Tonight. I'll loan with
• 1:57:53
  Hero Exiant, Don Pedro and Claudio to the watch bring you these calls on.
• 1:58:00
  We'll talk with Margaret how our acquaintance grew with this lude. Fellow exeant
• 1:58:06
  scene too Leonardo's garden. Enter Bennedict and Margaret meeting, pray thee, sweet
• 1:58:13
  mistress, Margaret, deserve well at my hands by helping me to the speech
• 1:58:16
  of Beatrice. Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty
• 1:58:21
  in so high a style, Margaret, that no man living shall come over
• 1:58:27
  it? For in most commonly truth, thou deservest it to have no man
• 1:58:30
  come over me. Why shall I always keep below stairs? Hm? Thy
• 1:58:36
  wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth. It catches, and yours as
• 1:58:42
  blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit but hurt not. Oh, a
• 1:58:46
  most manly wit, Margaret, It will not hurt a woman. And so
• 1:58:51
  I pray THEE call Beatrice, I give THEE the bucklers, give us the
• 1:58:57
  swords. We have bucklers of our own. If you use them, Margaret,
• 1:59:01
  you must put in the pikes with a vice, and they are dangerous
• 1:59:04
  weapons for maids. Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I
• 1:59:10
  think hath legs, and therefore will come exit Margaret, m m m.
• 1:59:18
  The goha had of love that see it's all all, and know who's me?
• 1:59:33
  And know who's me, how pitifool I deserve, I mean in singing,
• 1:59:46
  but in loving Leander, the good swimmer Troyl is the first employer of
• 1:59:53
  pandurs. And a whole book full of those quondam carpet mongers whose names yet
• 1:59:59
  run smooth in the even road of a blank verse. Why they were never
• 2:00:02
  so truly turned over and over as my poor self in love Mary. I
• 2:00:11
  cannot show it in rhyme I have tried. I can find out no rhyme
• 2:00:16
  to lady but baby, an innocent rhyme for scorn horn, a hard rhyme
• 2:00:27
  for school fool, a babbling rhyme very ominous endings. No, I was
• 2:00:34
  not born under a rhyming planet. Nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
• 2:00:41
  Enter Beatrice, Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee yea signor
• 2:00:46
  and depart when you bid me? Oh? Stay, but till then then
• 2:00:50
  is spoken? Fare you well? Now? And yet ere I go.
• 2:00:56
  Let me go with that I came for, which is with no what hath
• 2:01:00
  passed between you and claudio, only foul words, And thereupon I will kiss
• 2:01:05
  thee Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath,
• 2:01:11
  and foul breath is noisome. Therefore I will depart unkissed. Thou hast
• 2:01:16
  frighted the word out of his right sense, so forcible as thy wit.
• 2:01:21
  But I must tell THEE plainly. Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either I
• 2:01:27
  must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. And
• 2:01:30
  I pray THEE now tell me for which of my bad parts didst thou first
• 2:01:38
  fall in love with me? For them altogether, which maintain so politic a
• 2:01:42
  state of evil that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.
• 2:01:47
  But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love? For
• 2:01:50
  me? Suffer love a good epithet, I do suffer love, indeed,
• 2:01:57
  for I love THEE against my will of your heart. I think alas poor
• 2:02:02
  heart, if you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for
• 2:02:05
  yours, for I will never love that which my friend hates. Thou and
• 2:02:13
  I are too wise to woo peaceably. It appears not in this confession there's
• 2:02:18
  not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself. An old and old
• 2:02:24
  instance Beatrice that lived in the time of good neighbors. If a man do
• 2:02:29
  not erect in this age his own toomb ere he dies, he shall live
• 2:02:32
  no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps. And how
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  long is that? Thank you question? Why an hour in clamor and a
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  quarter in room? Therefore is it most expedient for the wise? If don
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  worm his conscience find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of
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  his own virtues, as I am to myself so much for praising myself,
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  who I myself will bear witness is praise worthy. And now tell me how
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  doth your cousin very ill? And how do you very ill? Too?
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  Serve God, love me and mend there? Will I leave you too?
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  For here comes one in haste inter ursula, madam, you must come to
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  your uncle yonders old coil at home. It is proved, my lady,
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  Hero hath been falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio mightily abused. And Don
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  John is the author of all who is fled and gone. Will you come
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  presently? Will you go hear this news? Signor I will live in thy
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  heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes. And
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  moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncles. Exiant Scene three.
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  The inside of a church, Enter Don Pedro Claudio and attendants with music and
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  papers. Is this the monument of Leonardo? It is, my lord reads
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  from a scrawl done to death by slanderous tongues. Was the hero that lies
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  here? Death in Gerdon of her wrongs gives her fame which never dies.
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  So the life that died with shame lives in death with glorious fame. Hang
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  thou there upon the tomb, praising her. When I am dumb. Now,
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  music sound, and sing your solemn hymn, hardened Goddess of the night.
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  Those that slew thy virgin Knight from the witch with songs of woe round
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  about her tomb they go midnight, assist on moan, Help us to sigh
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  and groan heavily heavily, graves, yawn, and yield your dead till death
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  be uttered heavily heavily now until thy bones good night, yearly, will I
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  do this right? Good morrow? Masters? Put your torches out. The
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  wolves have prayed, and look the gentle day before the wheels of phoebus round
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  about dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray. Thanks to you all,
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  and leave us fare you well, good morrow, mastas each his several way,
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  come, let us hence and put on other weeds. And then to
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  Leonato's we will go, and Hiaman now with luckier issue speeds than this for
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  whom we rendered up this woe exiant scene for a room in Leonato's house.
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  Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedict, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula, Friar Francis,
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  and Hero. Did I not tell you she was innocent? So are
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  the Prince and Claudio, who accused her upon the error that you heard,
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  debated it. But Margaret was in some fault for this, as it appears
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  in the true courts of all the question, Well, I'm glad they all
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  things sought so well, and so am I, being else by faith and
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  forced to call young Claudio to a reckoning for it. Well, daughter,
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  and you, gentlewoman, all withdraw into a chamber by yourselves, and when
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  I sent for you, come hither masked. The Prince and Claudio promised by
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  this hour to visit me. Exit, ladies. You know your office brother,
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  you must be father to your brother's daughter and give her to young Claudio,
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  which I do with confirmed countenance, Uh, friar, I must entreat
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  your pains. I think to do what signor to bind me or undo me?
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  One of them? Signor Leonato, truth, it is good signor your
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  niece regards me with an eye of favor. That I my daughter lent her
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  'tis most true, and I do, with an eye of love requite her
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  the sight whereof I think you had from me, from Claudio and the Prince.
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  But what's your will is enigmatical. But for my will, my will
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  is your good will. May stand with ours this day to be conjoined in
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  the state of honorable marriage, in which, good Friar, I shall desire
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  your help. My heart is with your liking and my help. Here comes
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  the Prince and Claudio. Enter Don Pedro and Claudio with attendant, Good morrow
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  to this fair assembly. Good morrow, Prince, Good morrow, Claudio,
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  we here attend you. Are you yet determined to day to marry with my
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  brother's daughter? I'll hold my mind. Was she an Ethiop? Call her
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  fourth brother? Here's the priority? Exit Antonio, Good morrow, Benedict.
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  Why what's the matter that you have such a February face, so full of
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  frost, of storm and cloudiness. I think he thinks upon the savage bull
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  tush, fear not, man, We'll tip thy horns with gold, and
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  all your ropishall rejoice at thee as once your oper did it, lusty Jove,
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  when he would play the noble beast in love bull Jove, Sir had
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  an amiable low, and some such strange bull leaped your father's cow and got
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  a calf in that same noble feat much like to you, for you have
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  just his bleat. For this I owe you. Here comes other reckonings.
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  Re enter Antonio with the ladies masked. Which is the lady I must seize
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  upon? Why then she's mine? Sweet? Let me see your face.
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  No that you shall not till you take her hand before this friar and swear
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  to marry her. Give me your hand before this holy friar. I am
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  your husband, if you like of me. And when I lived, I
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  was your other wife, unmasking, and when you loved you were my other
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  husband. Another hero. Nothing certainer. One hero died defiled, but I
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  do live, and surely as I live, I am a maid before hero
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  hero that is dead. She died, my lord, but while her slander
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  lived all this amazement. Can I qualify when after that the holy rites are
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  ended. I'll tell you largely a fair hero's death. Meanwhile, let wonder
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  seem familiar. And to the chapel let us presently the softened fair friar,
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  which is Beatrice unmasking, I answer to that name? What is your will?
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  Do not you love me? Why? No? No more than reason?
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  Why? Then your uncle and the Prince and Claudia have been deceived,
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  For they swore you did. Do not you love me? Troth? No
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  no more than reason? Why than my cousin, Margaret and Ursula are well
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  deceived. For they did swear that you did. They swore that you were
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  almost sick for me. They swore that you were well nigh dead for me.
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  Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me? No truly,
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  but in friendly recompense, come cousin, I am sure you love the
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  gentleman. And all this one ponted that he loves her, For he is
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  a paper written in his hand, a halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
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  fashioned to Beatrice. And here's another writt in my cousin's hand, stolen
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  from her pocket, containing her affection. Unto Benedict, come miracle, here
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  is our own hands against our hearts come, I will have THEE. But
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  by this light I take THEE for pity. I would not deny you,
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  but by this good day I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save
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  your life, for I was told you are in a consumption peace. I
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  will stop your mouth kisses her. I'll tell THEE what prince. A college
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  of whitcrackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care
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  for a satire or an epigram. No, if man will be beaten with
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  brains, I shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I
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  do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world
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  can say against it, and therefore never flout at me for what I have
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  said against it. For man is a giddy thing. And this is my
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  conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to have beaten THEE.
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  But in that thou art like to be my kinsman, live unbruised,
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  and love my cousin. I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,
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  that I might have cudgeled THEE out of thy single life, to make THEE
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  a double dealer, which out of question, thou wilt be if my cousin
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  do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee. Come, Come, we are friends.
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  Let's have a dance ere we are married. Though we may lighten our
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  own hearts and our wives heals, we'll have dancing afterward. First of my
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  word, Therefore, play music, Prince, thou art sad, Get thee
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  a wife, Get thee a wife. There is no staff more reverent than
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  one tipped with horn. Enter messenger, my lord, your brother John is
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  pain in flight and brought with armed men back to Messina. Think not on
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  him till tomorrow. I'll devise thee brave punishments for him. Strike up pipers,
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  dance egxiant. End of Act five