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DON JOHN: Who? the most exquisite Claudio?BORACHIO: Even he.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iiiDON JOHN: Let us to the great supper: their cheer isthe greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were ofmy mind! Shall we go prove what’s to be done?DON JOHN: A proper squire! And who, and who? whichway looks he?BORACHIO: Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir ofLeonato.BORACHIO: We’ll wait upon your lordship.[Exeunt.]DON JOHN: A very forward March-chick! How came youto this?BORACHIO: Being entertained for a perfumer, as I wassmoking a musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio,hand in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind thearras; and there heard it agreed upon that the princeshould woo Hero for himself, and having obtained her,give her to Count Claudio.DON JOHN: Come, come, let us thither: this may provefood to my displeasure. That young start-up hath allthe glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, Ibless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assistme?CONRADE: To the death, my lord.14
ACT IIMuch Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene iwoman in the world, if a’ could get her good-will.SCENE I: A hall in LEONATO’S house.[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others.]LEONATO: Was not Count John here at supper?ANTONIO: I saw him not.BEATRICE: How tartly that gentleman looks! I nevercan see him but I am heart-burned an hour after.LEONATO: By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get theea husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.ANTONIO: In faith, she’s too curst.BEATRICE: Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessenGod’s sending that way; for it is said, ‘God sends a curstcow short horns;’ but to a cow too curst he sends none.LEONATO: So, by being too curst, God will send you nohorns.HERO: He is of a very melancholy disposition.BEATRICE: He were an excellent man that were madejust in the midway between him and Benedick: the oneis too like an image and says nothing, and the othertoo like my lady’s eldest son, evermore tattling.LEONATO: Then half Signior Benedick’s tongue in CountJohn’s mouth, and half Count John’s melancholy inSignior Benedick’s face,—BEATRICE: With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, andmoney enough in his purse, such a man would win any15BEATRICE: Just, if he send me no husband; for thewhich blessing I am at him upon my knees every morningand evening. Lord, I could not endure a husbandwith a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.LEONATO: You may light on a husband that hath nobeard.BEATRICE: What should I do with him? dress him in myapparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He thathath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath nobeard is less than a man: and he that is more than ayouth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I
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Page 33 and 34: ACT IIISCENE I: LEONATO’S garden.
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