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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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2 |
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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3 |
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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4 |
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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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
127 |
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and
so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's
name; I have done.
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6 |
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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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
161 |
Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?
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8 |
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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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
186 |
I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
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10 |
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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11 |
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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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
353 |
I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in
his grace, and it better fits my blood to be
disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob
love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to
be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied
but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with
a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I
have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my
mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do
my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and
seek not to alter me.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
393 |
Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the
greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of
my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
411 |
With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money
enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman
in the world, if a' could get her good-will.
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15 |
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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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Balthasar |
487 |
Well, I would you did like me.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Margaret |
488 |
So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many
ill-qualities.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
522 |
Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;
only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
none but libertines delight in him; and the
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;
for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
the fleet: I would he had boarded me.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Borachio |
553 |
So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
578 |
Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they
sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would
have served you thus?
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