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ACT ISCENE I: Before LEONATO’S house.[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger.]LEONATO: I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragoncomes this night to Messina.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iLEONATO: He hath an uncle here in Messina will bevery much glad of it.Messenger: I have already delivered him letters, andthere appears much joy in him; even so much that joycould not show itself modest enough without a badgeof bitterness.LEONATO: Did he break out into tears?Messenger: He is very near by this: he was not threeleagues off when I left him.LEONATO: How many gentlemen have you lost in thisaction?Messenger: But few of any sort, and none of name.LEONATO: A victory is twice itself when the achiever bringshome full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath bestowedmuch honor on a young Florentine called Claudio.Messenger: Much deserved on his part and equally rememberedby Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyondthe promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectationthan you must expect of me to tell you how.4Messenger: In great measure.LEONATO: A kind overflow of kindness: there are nofaces truer than those that are so washed. How muchbetter is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!BEATRICE: I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returnedfrom the wars or no?Messenger: I know none of that name, lady: there wasnone such in the army of any sort.LEONATO: What is he that you ask for, niece?HERO: My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.Messenger: O, he’s returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.
BEATRICE: He set up his bills here in Messina and challengedCupid at the flight; and my uncle’s fool, readingthe challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged himat the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he killedand eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed?for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.LEONATO: Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick toomuch; but he’ll be meet with you, I doubt it not.Messenger: He hath done good service, lady, in thesewars.BEATRICE: You had musty victual, and he hath holp toeat it: he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath anexcellent stomach.Messenger: And a good soldier too, lady.BEATRICE: And a good soldier to a lady: but what is heto a lord?Messenger: A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffedwith all honorable virtues.BEATRICE: It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffedman: but for the stuffing,—well, we are all mortal.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene i5LEONATO: You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There isa kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit betweenthem.BEATRICE: Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our lastconflict four of his five wits went halting off, and nowis the whole man governed with one: so that if he havewit enough to keep himself warm, let him bear it for adifference between himself and his horse; for it is allthe wealth that he hath left, to be known a reasonablecreature. Who is his companion now? He hath everymonth a new sworn brother.Messenger: Is’t possible?BEATRICE: Very easily possible: he wears his faith butas the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the nextblock.Messenger: I see, lady, the gentleman is not in yourbooks.BEATRICE: No; an he were, I would burn my study. But,I pray you, who is his companion? Is there no youngsquarer now that will make a voyage with him to thedevil?
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Page 33 and 34: ACT IIISCENE I: LEONATO’S garden.
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Page 45 and 46: HERO: Fie upon thee! art not ashame
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More moving-delicate and full of li
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fight with mine enemy.BENEDICK: Is
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DOGBERRY: Yea, marry, that’s the
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And I of him will gather patience.B
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As I dare take a serpent by the ton
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DON PEDRO: I’ll tell thee how Bea
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CLAUDIO: I have drunk poison whiles
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[Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES.]LEONAT
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BEATRICE: In spite of your heart, I
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