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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
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[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]
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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
49 |
A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all
honourable virtues.
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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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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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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
79 |
I will hold friends with you, lady.
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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
130 |
You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
163 |
Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this
with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,
to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take
you, to go in the song?
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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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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
188 |
You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb
man; I would have you think so; but, on my
allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is
in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.
Mark how short his answer is;—With Hero, Leonato's
short daughter.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
222 |
I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
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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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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
255 |
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
you flout old ends any further, examine your
conscience: and so I leave you.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
268 |
O, my lord,
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love:
But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
278 |
Thou wilt be like a lover presently
And tire the hearer with a book of words.
If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
And I will break with her and with her father,
And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
284 |
How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
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