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BORACHIO: What Conrade!Watchman: [Aside] Peace! stir not.BORACHIO: Conrade, I say!CONRADE: Here, man; I am at thy elbow.BORACHIO: Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought therewould a scab follow.Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene iiiBORACHIO: Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possibleany villany should be so rich; for when rich villainshave need of poor ones, poor ones may make what pricethey will.CONRADE: I wonder at it.BORACHIO: That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thouknowest that the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or acloak, is nothing to a man.CONRADE: I will owe thee an answer for that: and nowforward with thy tale.BORACHIO: Stand thee close, then, under this penthouse,for it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,utter all to thee.Watchman: [Aside] Some treason, masters: yet standclose.BORACHIO: Therefore know I have earned of Don Johna thousand ducats.CONRADE: Is it possible that any villany should be sodear?CONRADE: Yes, it is apparel.BORACHIO: I mean, the fashion.CONRADE: Yes, the fashion is the fashion.BORACHIO: Tush! I may as well say the fool’s the fool.But seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashionis?Watchman: [Aside] I know that Deformed; a’ has beena vile thief this seven year; a’ goes up and down like agentleman: I remember his name.BORACHIO: Didst thou not hear somebody?42
CONRADE: No; ’twas the vane on the house.BORACHIO: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thiefthis fashion is? how giddily a’ turns about all the hotbloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? sometimesfashioning them like Pharaoh’s soldiers in the reekypainting, sometime like god Bel’s priests in the oldchurch-window, sometime like the shaven Hercules inthe smirched worm-eaten tapestry, where his codpieceseems as massy as his club?CONRADE: All this I see; and I see that the fashionwears out more apparel than the man. But art not thouthyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shiftedout of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?BORACHIO: Not so, neither: but know that I have tonightwooed Margaret, the Lady Hero’s gentlewoman,by the name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress’chamber-window, bids me a thousand times goodnight,—I tell this tale vilely:—I should first tell theehow the prince, Claudio and my master, planted andplaced and possessed by my master Don John, saw afaroff in the orchard this amiable encounter.CONRADE: And thought they Margaret was Hero?Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene iii43BORACHIO: Two of them did, the prince and Claudio;but the devil my master knew she was Margaret; andpartly by his oaths, which first possessed them, partlyby the dark night, which did deceive them, but chieflyby my villany, which did confirm any slander that DonJohn had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore hewould meet her, as he was appointed, next morning atthe temple, and there, before the whole congregation,shame her with what he saw o’er night and send herhome again without a husband.First Watchman: We charge you, in the prince’s name,stand!Second Watchman: Call up the right master constable.We have here recovered the most dangerous piece oflechery that ever was known in the commonwealth.First Watchman: And one Deformed is one of them: Iknow him; a’ wears a lock.CONRADE: Masters, masters,—Second Watchman: You’ll be made bring Deformed forth,I warrant you.CONRADE: Masters,—
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Page 3 and 4: MUCH ADOABOUT NOTHINGWilliam Shakes
Page 5 and 6: BEATRICE: He set up his bills here
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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 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: DOGBERRY: Truly, by your office, yo
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 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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