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DON JOHN: Grow this to what adverse issue it can, Iwill put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this,and thy fee is a thousand ducats.BORACHIO: Be you constant in the accusation, and mycunning shall not shame me.DON JOHN: I will presently go learn their day of marriage.[Exeunt.]SCENE III: LEONATO’S orchard.[Enter BENEDICK.]BENEDICK: Boy![Enter Boy.]Boy: Signior?BENEDICK: In my chamber-window lies a book: bring ithither to me in the orchard.Boy: I am here already, sir.Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene iii26BENEDICK: I know that; but I would have thee hence,and here again.[Exit Boy.]I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much anotherman is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors tolove, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow folliesin others, become the argument of his own scorn byfailing in love: and such a man is Claudio. I have knownwhen there was no music with him but the drum andthe fife; and now had he rather hear the tabor and thepipe: I have known when he would have walked tenmile a-foot to see a good armor; and now will he lie tennights awake, carving the fashion of a new doublet. Hewas wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like anhonest man and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography;his words are a very fantastical banquet, just somany strange dishes. May I be so converted and seewith these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not besworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but I’lltake my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me,he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair,yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; anothervirtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in onewoman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Richshe shall be, that’s certain; wise, or I’ll none; virtuous,
or I’ll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never look on her;mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel;of good discourse, an excellent musician, and her hairshall be of what color it please God. Ha! the prince andMonsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbor.[Withdraws.][Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO.]DON PEDRO: Come, shall we hear this music?CLAUDIO: Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,As hush’d on purpose to grace harmony!DON PEDRO: See you where Benedick hath hid himself?CLAUDIO: O, very well, my lord: the music ended,We’ll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.[Enter BALTHASAR with Music.]DON PEDRO: Come, Balthasar, we’ll hear that song again.BALTHASAR: O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voiceTo slander music any more than once.Much Ado About Nothing, Act II, scene iiiDON PEDRO: It is the witness still of excellencyTo put a strange face on his own perfection.I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.BALTHASAR: Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;Since many a wooer doth commence his suitTo her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,Yet will he swear he loves.DON PEDRO:Now, pray thee, come;Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,Do it in notes.BALTHASAR: Note this before my notes;There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.DON PEDRO: Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.[Air.]BENEDICK: Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is itnot strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out ofmen’s bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all’s done.[The Song.]27
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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 and 20: [Music.]We must follow the leaders.
Page 21 and 22: DON PEDRO: Wilt thou make a trust a
Page 23 and 24: BEATRICE: Yea, my lord; I thank it,
Page 25: DON JOHN: Any bar, any cross, any i
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
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Page 53 and 54: Hath drops too few to wash her clea
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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
Page 71 and 72: BEATRICE: In spite of your heart, I
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