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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
32 |
What is he that you ask for, niece?
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
35 |
He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
51 |
It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:
but for the stuffing,—well, we are all mortal.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
57 |
Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
bear it for a difference between himself and his
horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
88 |
Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
and happiness takes his leave.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
96 |
Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.
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7 |
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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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
101 |
If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not
have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as
like him as she is.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
111 |
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart; for, truly, I love none.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
115 |
A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.
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11 |
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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12 |
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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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
200 |
Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.
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14 |
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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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
223 |
With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
blind Cupid.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
243 |
Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
245 |
I look for an earthquake too, then.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
246 |
Well, you temporize with the hours. In the
meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to
Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will
not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made
great preparation.
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19 |
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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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Antonio |
318 |
A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and
question him yourself.
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