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CLAUDIO: Yea, the same.BENEDICK: Come, will you go with me?CLAUDIO: Whither?BENEDICK: Even to the next willow, about your ownbusiness, county. What fashion will you wear the garlandof? about your neck, like an usurer’s chain? orunder your arm, like a lieutenant’s scarf? You must wearit one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.CLAUDIO: I wish him joy of her.BENEDICK: Why, that’s spoken like an honest drovier:so they sell bullocks. But did you think the prince wouldhave served you thus?CLAUDIO: I pray you, leave me.BENEDICK: Ho! now you strike like the blind man: ’twasthe boy that stole your meat, and you’ll beat the post.CLAUDIO: If it will not be, I’ll leave you.[Exit.]Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene i20BENEDICK: Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep intosedges. But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, andnot know me! The prince’s fool! Ha? It may be I gounder that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I amapt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it is thebase, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice that putsthe world into her person and so gives me out. Well, I’llbe revenged as I may.[Re-enter DON PEDRO.]DON PEDRO: Now, signior, where’s the count? did yousee him?BENEDICK: Troth, my lord, I have played the part ofLady Fame. I found him here as melancholy as a lodgein a warren: I told him, and I think I told him true, thatyour grace had got the good will of this young lady;and I offered him my company to a willow-tree, eitherto make him a garland, as being forsaken, or to bindhim up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.DON PEDRO: To be whipped! What’s his fault?BENEDICK: The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who,being overjoyed with finding a birds’ nest, shows it hiscompanion, and he steals it.
DON PEDRO: Wilt thou make a trust a transgression?The transgression is in the stealer.BENEDICK: Yet it had not been amiss the rod had beenmade, and the garland too; for the garland he mighthave worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowedon you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds’ nest.DON PEDRO: I will but teach them to sing, and restorethem to the owner.BENEDICK: If their singing answer your saying, by myfaith, you say honestly.DON PEDRO: The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you:the gentleman that danced with her told her she is muchwronged by you.BENEDICK: O, she misused me past the endurance of ablock! an oak but with one green leaf on it would haveanswered her; my very visor began to assume life andscold with her. She told me, not thinking I had beenmyself, that I was the prince’s jester, that I was dullerthan a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with suchimpossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a manat a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaksponiards, and every word stabs: if her breath were asMuch Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene i21terrible as her terminations, there were no living nearher; she would infect to the north star. I would notmarry her, though she were endowed with all that Adambad left him before he transgressed: she would havemade Hercules have turned spit, yea, and have cleft hisclub to make the fire too. Come, talk not of her: youshall find her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I wouldto God some scholar would conjure her; for certainly,while she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as ina sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because theywould go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror andperturbation follows her.DON PEDRO: Look, here she comes.[Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO.]BENEDICK: Will your grace command me any service tothe world’s end? I will go on the slightest errand now tothe Antipodes that you can devise to send me on; I willfetch you a tooth-picker now from the furthest inch ofAsia, bring you the length of Prester John’s foot, fetchyou a hair off the great Cham’s beard, do you any embassageto the Pigmies, rather than hold three words’ conferencewith this harpy. You have no employment for me?DON PEDRO: None, but to desire your good company.
Page 1 and 2: An Electronic ClassicsSeries Public
Page 3 and 4: MUCH ADOABOUT NOTHINGWilliam Shakes
Page 5 and 6: BEATRICE: He set up his bills here
Page 7 and 8: BEATRICE: Is it possible disdain sh
Page 9 and 10: wear the print of it and sigh away
Page 13 and 14: CONRADE: You should hear reason.DON
Page 15 and 16: ACT IIMuch Ado About Nothing, Act I
Page 17 and 18: [All put on their masks.]Much Ado A
Page 19: [Music.]We must follow the leaders.
Page 23 and 24: BEATRICE: Yea, my lord; I thank it,
Page 25 and 26: DON JOHN: Any bar, any cross, any i
Page 27 and 28: or I’ll never cheapen her; fair,
Page 29 and 30: DON PEDRO: May be she doth but coun
Page 31 and 32: DON PEDRO: He doth indeed show some
Page 33 and 34: ACT IIISCENE I: LEONATO’S garden.
Page 35 and 36: Therefore let Benedick, like cover
Page 37 and 38: this foolery, as it appears he hath
Page 39 and 40: chamber-window entered, even the ni
Page 41 and 42: DOGBERRY: Truly, by your office, yo
Page 43 and 44: CONRADE: No; ’twas the vane on th
Page 45 and 46: HERO: Fie upon thee! art not ashame
Page 47 and 48: LEONATO: Brief, I pray you; for you
Page 49 and 50: ACT IVMuch Ado About Nothing, Act I
Page 51 and 52: BENEDICK: This looks not like a nup
Page 53 and 54: Hath drops too few to wash her clea
Page 55 and 56: More moving-delicate and full of li
Page 57 and 58: fight with mine enemy.BENEDICK: Is
Page 59 and 60: DOGBERRY: Yea, marry, that’s the
Page 61 and 62: And I of him will gather patience.B
Page 63 and 64: As I dare take a serpent by the ton
Page 65 and 66: DON PEDRO: I’ll tell thee how Bea
Page 67 and 68: CLAUDIO: I have drunk poison whiles
Page 69 and 70: [Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES.]LEONAT
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BEATRICE: In spite of your heart, I
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DON PEDRO: The former Hero! Hero th
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