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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
41 |
Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
66 |
Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as
the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the
next block.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
153 |
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
for a great praise: only this commendation I can
afford her, that were she other than she is, she
were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I
do not like her.
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4 |
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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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
203 |
And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
229 |
Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
wilt prove a notable argument.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
416 |
In faith, she's too curst.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
444 |
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
me.'
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Claudio |
556 |
Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
615 |
If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,
you say honestly.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
674 |
I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;
though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is
false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and
fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,
and his good will obtained: name the day of
marriage, and God give thee joy!
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
690 |
In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Don Pedro |
897 |
Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Claudio |
922 |
Faith, like enough.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4] |
Margaret |
1502 |
I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair
were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare
fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's
gown that they praise so.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Dogberry |
1588 |
Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so
blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,
in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Dogberry |
1610 |
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they
say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help
us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,
neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men
ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest
soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever
broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men
are not alike; alas, good neighbour!
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Beatrice |
1947 |
In faith, I will go.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Claudio |
2128 |
Marry, beshrew my hand,
If it should give your age such cause of fear:
In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Claudio |
2229 |
I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's
head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most
curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find
a woodcock too?
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