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DON PEDRO: Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.[Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO.]CLAUDIO: Benedick, didst thou note the daughter ofSignior Leonato?BENEDICK: I noted her not; but I looked on her.CLAUDIO: Is she not a modest young lady?Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iBENEDICK: Would you buy her, that you inquire afterher?CLAUDIO: Can the world buy such a jewel?BENEDICK: Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak youthis with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a rarecarpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take you, togo in the song?BENEDICK: Do you question me, as an honest man shoulddo, for my simple true judgment; or would you have mespeak after my custom, as being a professed tyrant totheir sex?CLAUDIO: No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.BENEDICK: Why, i’ faith, methinks she’s too low for ahigh praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little fora great praise: only this commendation I can afford her,that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome;and being no other but as she is, I do not like her.CLAUDIO: Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tellme truly how thou likest her.8CLAUDIO: In mine eye she is the sweetest lady thatever I looked on.BENEDICK: I can see yet without spectacles and I seeno such matter: there’s her cousin, an she were notpossessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty asthe first of May doth the last of December. But I hopeyou have no intent to turn husband, have you?CLAUDIO: I would scarce trust myself, though I hadsworn the contrary, if Hero would be my wife.BENEDICK: Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not theworld one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again? Go to,i’ faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke,
wear the print of it and sigh away Sundays. Look DonPedro is returned to seek you.Much Ado About Nothing, Act I, scene iDON PEDRO: Amen, if you love her; for the lady is verywell worthy.[Re-enter DON PEDRO.]DON PEDRO: What secret hath held you here, that youfollowed not to Leonato’s?BENEDICK: I would your grace would constrain me totell.DON PEDRO: I charge thee on thy allegiance.BENEDICK: You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as adumb man; I would have you think so; but, on my allegiance,mark you this, on my allegiance. He is in love.With who? now that is your grace’s part. Mark how shorthis answer is;—With Hero, Leonato’s short daughter.CLAUDIO: If this were so, so were it uttered.BENEDICK: Like the old tale, my lord: ‘it is not so, nor’twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be so.’CLAUDIO: If my passion change not shortly, God forbidit should be otherwise.9CLAUDIO: You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.DON PEDRO: By my troth, I speak my thought.CLAUDIO: And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.BENEDICK: And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord,I spoke mine.CLAUDIO: That I love her, I feel.DON PEDRO: That she is worthy, I know.BENEDICK: That I neither feel how she should be lovednor know how she should be worthy, is the opinion thatfire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.DON PEDRO: Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in thedespite of beauty.CLAUDIO: And never could maintain his part but in theforce of his will.BENEDICK: That a woman conceived me, I thank her;
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And I of him will gather patience.B
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