LEONATO: I must leave you.DOGBERRY: One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeedcomprehended two aspicious persons, and we would havethem this morning examined before your worship.LEONATO: Take their examination yourself and bring itme: I am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.DOGBERRY: It shall be suffigance.LEONATO: Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.[Enter a Messenger.]Messenger: My lord, they stay for you to give yourdaughter to her husband.LEONATO: I’ll wait upon them: I am ready.[Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger.]DOGBERRY: Go, good partner, go, get you to FrancisSeacole; bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol:we are now to examination these men.<strong>Much</strong> <strong>Ado</strong> About <strong>Nothing</strong>, Act III, scene vDOGBERRY: We will spare for no wit, I warrant you;here’s that shall drive some of them to a non-come:only get the learned writer to set down our excommunicationand meet me at the gaol.[Exeunt.]VERGES: And we must do it wisely.48
ACT IV<strong>Much</strong> <strong>Ado</strong> About <strong>Nothing</strong>, Act IV, scene iyou, on your souls, to utter it.SCENE I: A church.[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS,CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants.]LEONATO: Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plainform of marriage, and you shall recount their particularduties afterwards.FRIAR FRANCIS: You come hither, my lord, to marrythis lady.CLAUDIO: No.LEONATO: To be married to her: friar, you come tomarry her.FRIAR FRANCIS: Lady, you come hither to be married tothis count.HERO: I do.FRIAR FRANCIS: If either of you know any inward impedimentwhy you should not be conjoined, chargeCLAUDIO: Know you any, Hero?HERO: None, my lord.FRIAR FRANCIS: Know you any, count?LEONATO: I dare make his answer, none.CLAUDIO: O, what men dare do! what men may do!what men daily do, not knowing what they do!BENEDICK: How now! interjections? Why, then, somebe of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!CLAUDIO: Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:Will you with free and unconstrained soulGive me this maid, your daughter?LEONATO: As freely, son, as God did give her me.CLAUDIO: And what have I to give you back, whose worthMay counterpoise this rich and precious gift?DON PEDRO: <strong>Nothing</strong>, unless you render her again.49
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