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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] |
Don Pedro |
288 |
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The fairest grant is the necessity.
Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
And I will fit thee with the remedy.
I know we shall have revelling to-night:
I will assume thy part in some disguise
And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
And take her hearing prisoner with the force
And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Then after to her father will I break;
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
In practise let us put it presently.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
396 |
We'll wait upon your lordship.
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4 |
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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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
529 |
When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
530 |
Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a
partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
supper that night.
[Music]
We must follow the leaders.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
582 |
Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the
boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Claudio |
584 |
If it will not be, I'll leave you.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
586 |
Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it
is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
that puts the world into her person and so gives me
out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.
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10 |
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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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Benedick |
819 |
I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.
[Exit Boy]
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his
behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
such shallow follies in others, become the argument
of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man
is Claudio. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he
rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known
when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a
good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,
carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to
speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man
and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his
words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not
be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but
I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster
of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman
is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in
my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,
or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;
fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not
near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good
discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and
Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Claudio |
856 |
O, very well, my lord: the music ended,
We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Don Pedro |
859 |
Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Leonato |
945 |
This says she now when she is beginning to write to
him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and
there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a
sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Don Pedro |
990 |
She doth well: if she should make tender of her
love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the
man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Margaret |
1086 |
I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1160 |
No; rather I will go to Benedick
And counsel him to fight against his passion.
And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin with: one doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1179 |
Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:
I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel
Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Claudio |
1201 |
I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll
vouchsafe me.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Second Watchman |
1482 |
You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.
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