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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
175 |
I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the
contrary, if Hero would be my wife.
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2 |
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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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
442 |
[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.
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4 |
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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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
607 |
Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
transgression is in the stealer.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Claudio |
1017 |
If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never
trust my expectation.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Don John |
1305 |
If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
that you know: if you will follow me, I will show
you enough; and when you have seen more and heard
more, proceed accordingly.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Friar Francis |
1805 |
Hear me a little; for I have only been
Silent so long and given way unto
This course of fortune [—]
By noting of the lady I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,
To burn the errors that these princes hold
Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;
Trust not my reading nor my observations,
Which with experimental seal doth warrant
The tenor of my book; trust not my age,
My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
Under some biting error.
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