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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
17 |
He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much
glad of it.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
44 |
You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:
he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an
excellent stomach.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
70 |
No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray
you, who is his companion? Is there no young
squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
97 |
You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an
honourable father.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
123 |
Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such
a face as yours were.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
149 |
Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for
my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak
after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
170 |
I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such
matter: there's her cousin, an she were not
possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
177 |
Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away
Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
210 |
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
of beauty.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
214 |
That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she
brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my
forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,
all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do
them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the
right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which
I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
245 |
I look for an earthquake too, then.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
251 |
I have almost matter enough in me for such an
embassage; and so I commit you—
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Leonato |
320 |
No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear
itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,
that she may be the better prepared for an answer,
if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.
[Enter Attendants]
Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your
skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
369 |
I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your
brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I
can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
401 |
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see
him but I am heart-burned an hour after.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
404 |
He were an excellent man that were made just in the
midway between him and Benedick: the one is too
like an image and says nothing, and the other too
like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
435 |
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
450 |
Not till God make men of some other metal than
earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make
an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;
and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Ursula |
506 |
Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
547 |
Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him
from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
do the part of an honest man in it.
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