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Messenger: He is most in the company of the rightnoble Claudio.BEATRICE: O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease:he is sooner caught than the pestilence, and thetaker runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio!if he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a thousandpound ere a’ be cured.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iLEONATO: Never came trouble to my house in the likenessof your grace: for trouble being gone, comfortshould remain; but when you depart from me, sorrowabides and happiness takes his leave.DON PEDRO: You embrace your charge too willingly. Ithink this is your daughter.LEONATO: Her mother hath many times told me so.Messenger: I will hold friends with you, lady.BEATRICE: Do, good friend.LEONATO: You will never run mad, niece.BEATRICE: No, not till a hot January.Messenger: Don Pedro is approached.[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, andBALTHASAR.]DON PEDRO: Good Signior Leonato, you are come tomeet your trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoidcost, and you encounter it.6BENEDICK: Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?LEONATO: Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.DON PEDRO: You have it full, Benedick: we may guessby this what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathersherself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an honorablefather.BENEDICK: If Signior Leonato be her father, she wouldnot have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, aslike him as she is.BEATRICE: I wonder that you will still be talking, SigniorBenedick: nobody marks you.BENEDICK: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
BEATRICE: Is it possible disdain should die while shehath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come inher presence.BENEDICK: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certainI am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and Iwould I could find in my heart that I had not a hardheart; for, truly, I love none.BEATRICE: A dear happiness to women: they would elsehave been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thankGod and my cold blood, I am of your humor for that: Ihad rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swearhe loves me.BENEDICK: God keep your ladyship still in that mind!so some gentleman or other shall ‘scape a predestinatescratched face.BEATRICE: Scratching could not make it worse, an ‘tweresuch a face as yours were.BENEDICK: Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iBENEDICK: I would my horse had the speed of yourtongue, and so good a continuer. But keep your way, i’God’s name; I have done.BEATRICE: You always end with a jade’s trick: I knowyou of old.DON PEDRO: That is the sum of all, Leonato. SigniorClaudio and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonatohath invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at theleast a month; and he heartily prays some occasion maydetain us longer. I dare swear he is no hypocrite, butprays from his heart.LEONATO: If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.[To DON JOHN.]Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled tothe prince your brother, I owe you all duty.DON JOHN: I thank you: I am not of many words, but Ithank you.BEATRICE: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast ofyours.7LEONATO: Please it your grace lead on?
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Page 33 and 34: ACT IIISCENE I: LEONATO’S garden.
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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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