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| <H3>ACT I</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.1>I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.2>comes this night to Messina.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.3>He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.4>when I left him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.5>How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.6>But few of any sort, and none of name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.7>A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.8>home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.9>bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.10>Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.11>Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.12>promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.13>the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.14>bettered expectation than you must expect of me to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.15>tell you how.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.16>He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.17>glad of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.18>I have already delivered him letters, and there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.19>appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.20>not show itself modest enough without a badge of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.21>bitterness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.22>Did he break out into tears?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.23>In great measure.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.24>A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.25>truer than those that are so washed. How much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.26>better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.27>I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.28>wars or no?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.29>I know none of that name, lady: there was none such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.30>in the army of any sort.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.31>What is he that you ask for, niece?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.32>My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.33>O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.34>He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.35>Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.36>the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.37>him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.38>killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.39>he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.40>Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.41>but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.42>He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.43>You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.44>he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.45>excellent stomach.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.46>And a good soldier too, lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.47>And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.48>A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.49>honourable virtues.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.50>It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.51>but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.52>You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.53>kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.54>they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.55>between them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.56>Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.57>conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.58>now is the whole man governed with one: so that if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.59>he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.60>bear it for a difference between himself and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.61>horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.62>to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.63>companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.64>Is't possible?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.65>Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.66>the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.67>next block.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.68>I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.69>No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.70>you, who is his companion? Is there no young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.71>squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.72>He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.73>O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.74>is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.75>runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.76>he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.77>thousand pound ere a' be cured.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.78>I will hold friends with you, lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.79>Do, good friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.80>You will never run mad, niece.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.81>No, not till a hot January.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.82>Don Pedro is approached.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.83>Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.84>trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.85>cost, and you encounter it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.86>Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.87>your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.88>remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.89>and happiness takes his leave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.90>You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.91>is your daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.92>Her mother hath many times told me so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.93>Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.94>Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.95>You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.96>what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.97>herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.98>honourable father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.99>If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.100>have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.101>like him as she is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.102>I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.103>Benedick: nobody marks you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.104>What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.105>Is it possible disdain should die while she hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.106>such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.107>Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.108>in her presence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.109>Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.110>am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.111>would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.112>heart; for, truly, I love none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.113>A dear happiness to women: they would else have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.114>been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.115>and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.116>had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.117>swear he loves me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.118>God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.119>gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.120>scratched face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.121>Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.122>a face as yours were.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.123>Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.124>A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.125>I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.126>so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.127>name; I have done.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.128>You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.129>That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.130>and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.131>invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.132>the least a month; and he heartily prays some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.133>occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.134>hypocrite, but prays from his heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.135>If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>To DON JOHN</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.136>Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.137>the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.138>I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.139>you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.140>Please it your grace lead on?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.141>Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.142>Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.143>I noted her not; but I looked on her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.144>Is she not a modest young lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.145>Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.146>my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.147>after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.148>No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.149>Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.150>praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.151>for a great praise: only this commendation I can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.152>afford her, that were she other than she is, she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.153>were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.154>do not like her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.155>Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.156>truly how thou likest her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.157>Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.158>Can the world buy such a jewel?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.159>Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.160>with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.161>to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.162>rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.163>you, to go in the song?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.164>In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.165>looked on.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.166>I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.167>matter: there's her cousin, an she were not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.168>possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.169>as the first of May doth the last of December. But I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.170>hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.171>I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.172>contrary, if Hero would be my wife.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.173>Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.174>one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.175>Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.176>Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.177>into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.178>Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DON PEDRO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.179>What secret hath held you here, that you followed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.180>not to Leonato's?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.181>I would your grace would constrain me to tell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.182>I charge thee on thy allegiance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.183>You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.184>man; I would have you think so; but, on my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.185>allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.186>in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.187>Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.188>short daughter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.189>If this were so, so were it uttered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.190>Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.191>'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.192>so.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.193>If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.194>should be otherwise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.195>Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.196>You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.197>By my troth, I speak my thought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.198>And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.199>And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.200>That I love her, I feel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.201>That she is worthy, I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.202>That I neither feel how she should be loved nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.203>know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.204>fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.205>Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.206>of beauty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.207>And never could maintain his part but in the force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.208>of his will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.209>That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.210>brought me up, I likewise give her most humble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.211>thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.212>forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.213>all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.214>them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.215>right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.216>I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.217>I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.218>With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.219>not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.220>with love than I will get again with drinking, pick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.221>out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.222>up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.223>blind Cupid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.224>Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.225>wilt prove a notable argument.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.226>If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.227>at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.228>the shoulder, and called Adam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.229>Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.230>doth bear the yoke.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.231>The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.232>Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.233>them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.234>and in such great letters as they write 'Here is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.235>good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.236>'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.237>If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.238>Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.239>Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.240>I look for an earthquake too, then.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.241>Well, you temporize with the hours. In the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.242>meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.243>Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.244>not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.245>great preparation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.246>I have almost matter enough in me for such an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.247>embassage; and so I commit you--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.248>To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.249>The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.250>Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.251>discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.252>the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.253>you flout old ends any further, examine your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.254>conscience: and so I leave you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.255>My liege, your highness now may do me good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.256>My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.257>And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.258>Any hard lesson that may do thee good.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.259>Hath Leonato any son, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.260>No child but Hero; she's his only heir.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.261>Dost thou affect her, Claudio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.262>O, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.263>When you went onward on this ended action,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.264>I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.265>That liked, but had a rougher task in hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.266>Than to drive liking to the name of love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.267>But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.268>Have left their places vacant, in their rooms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.269>Come thronging soft and delicate desires,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.270>All prompting me how fair young Hero is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.271>Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.272>Thou wilt be like a lover presently</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.273>And tire the hearer with a book of words.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.274>If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.275>And I will break with her and with her father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.276>And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.277>That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.278>How sweetly you do minister to love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.279>That know love's grief by his complexion!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.280>But lest my liking might too sudden seem,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.281>I would have salved it with a longer treatise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.282>What need the bridge much broader than the flood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.283>The fairest grant is the necessity.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.284>Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.285>And I will fit thee with the remedy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.286>I know we shall have revelling to-night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.287>I will assume thy part in some disguise</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.288>And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.289>And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.290>And take her hearing prisoner with the force</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.291>And strong encounter of my amorous tale:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.292>Then after to her father will I break;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.293>And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.1.294>In practise let us put it presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.1>How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.2>hath he provided this music?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.3>He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.4>you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.5>Are they good?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.6>As the event stamps them: but they have a good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.7>cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.8>Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.9>orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.10>the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.11>niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.12>this night in a dance: and if he found her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.13>accordant, he meant to take the present time by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.14>top and instantly break with you of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.15>Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.16>A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.17>question him yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.18>No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.19>itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.20>that she may be the better prepared for an answer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.21>if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Attendants</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.22>Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.23>mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.2.24>skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.1>What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.2>of measure sad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.3>There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.4>therefore the sadness is without limit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.5>You should hear reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.6>And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.7>If not a present remedy, at least a patient</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.8>sufferance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.9>I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.10>born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.11>medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.12>what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.13>at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.14>for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.15>tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.16>claw no man in his humour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.17>Yea, but you must not make the full show of this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.18>till you may do it without controlment. You have of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.19>late stood out against your brother, and he hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.20>ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.21>impossible you should take true root but by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.22>fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.23>that you frame the season for your own harvest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.24>I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.25>his grace, and it better fits my blood to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.26>disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.27>love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.28>be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.29>but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.30>a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.31>have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.32>mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.33>my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.34>seek not to alter me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.35>Can you make no use of your discontent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.36>I make all use of it, for I use it only.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.37>Who comes here?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BORACHIO</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.38>What news, Borachio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.39>I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.40>brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.41>can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.42>Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.43>What is he for a fool that betroths himself to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.44>unquietness?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.45>Marry, it is your brother's right hand.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.46>Who? the most exquisite Claudio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.47>Even he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.48>A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.49>he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.50>Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.51>A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.52>Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.53>musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.54>in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.55>arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.56>prince should woo Hero for himself, and having</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.57>obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.58>Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.59>my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.60>glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.61>bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.62>To the death, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.63>Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.64>greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.65>my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=1.3.66>We'll wait upon your lordship.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT II</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A hall in LEONATO'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.1>Was not Count John here at supper?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.2>I saw him not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.3>How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.4>him but I am heart-burned an hour after.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.5>He is of a very melancholy disposition.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.6>He were an excellent man that were made just in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.7>midway between him and Benedick: the one is too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.8>like an image and says nothing, and the other too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.9>like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.10>Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.11>mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.12>Benedick's face,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.13>With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.14>enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.15>in the world, if a' could get her good-will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.16>By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.17>husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.18>In faith, she's too curst.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.19>Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.20>sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.21>cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.22>So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.23>Just, if he send me no husband; for the which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.24>blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.25>evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.26>beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.27>You may light on a husband that hath no beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.28>What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.29>and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.30>beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.31>beard is less than a man: and he that is more than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.32>a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.33>man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.34>sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.35>apes into hell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.36>Well, then, go you into hell?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.37>No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.38>me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.39>say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.40>heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.41>I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.42>heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.43>there live we as merry as the day is long.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.44>[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.45>by your father.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.46>Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.47>and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.48>that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.49>make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.50>me.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.51>Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.52>Not till God make men of some other metal than</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.53>earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.54>overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.55>an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.56>No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.57>and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.58>Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.59>do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.60>The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.61>not wooed in good time: if the prince be too</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.62>important, tell him there is measure in every thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.63>and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.64>wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.65>a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.66>and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.67>fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.68>measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.69>repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.70>cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.71>Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.72>I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.73>The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>All put on their masks</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.74>Lady, will you walk about with your friend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.75>So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.76>I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.77>With me in your company?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.78>I may say so, when I please.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.79>And when please you to say so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.80>When I like your favour; for God defend the lute</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.81>should be like the case!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.82>My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.83>Why, then, your visor should be thatched.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.84>Speak low, if you speak love.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Drawing her aside</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.85>Well, I would you did like me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.86>So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.87>ill-qualities.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.88>Which is one?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.89>I say my prayers aloud.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.90>I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.91>God match me with a good dancer!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.92>Amen.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.93>And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.94>done! Answer, clerk.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.95>No more words: the clerk is answered.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.96>I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.97>At a word, I am not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.98>I know you by the waggling of your head.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.99>To tell you true, I counterfeit him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.100>You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.101>the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.102>are he, you are he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.103>At a word, I am not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.104>Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.105>excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.106>mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.107>end.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.108>Will you not tell me who told you so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.109>No, you shall pardon me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.110>Nor will you not tell me who you are?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.111>Not now.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.112>That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.113>out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.114>Signior Benedick that said so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.115>What's he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.116>I am sure you know him well enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.117>Not I, believe me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.118>Did he never make you laugh?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.119>I pray you, what is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.120>Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.121>only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.122>none but libertines delight in him; and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.123>commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.124>for he both pleases men and angers them, and then</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.125>they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.126>the fleet: I would he had boarded me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.127>When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.128>Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.129>which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.130>strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.131>partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.132>supper that night.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Music</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.133>We must follow the leaders.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.134>In every good thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.135>Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.136>the next turning.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.137>Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.138>withdrawn her father to break with him about it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.139>The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.140>And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.141>Are not you Signior Benedick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.142>You know me well; I am he.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.143>Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.144>he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.145>from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.146>do the part of an honest man in it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.147>How know you he loves her?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.148>I heard him swear his affection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.149>So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.150>Come, let us to the banquet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.151>Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.152>But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.153>'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.154>Friendship is constant in all other things</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.155>Save in the office and affairs of love:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.156>Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.157>Let every eye negotiate for itself</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.158>And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.159>Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.160>This is an accident of hourly proof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.161>Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter BENEDICK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.162>Count Claudio?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.163>Yea, the same.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.164>Come, will you go with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.165>Whither?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.166>Even to the next willow, about your own business,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.167>county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.168>about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.169>your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.170>it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.171>I wish him joy of her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.172>Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.173>sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.174>have served you thus?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.175>I pray you, leave me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.176>Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.177>boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.178>If it will not be, I'll leave you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.179>Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.180>But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.181>know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.182>under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.183>am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.184>is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.185>that puts the world into her person and so gives me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.186>out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter DON PEDRO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.187>Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.188>Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.189>I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.190>warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.191>that your grace had got the good will of this young</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.192>lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.193>either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.194>to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.195>To be whipped! What's his fault?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.196>The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.197>overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.198>companion, and he steals it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.199>Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.200>transgression is in the stealer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.201>Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.202>and the garland too; for the garland he might have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.203>worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.204>you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.205>I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.206>the owner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.207>If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.208>you say honestly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.209>The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.210>gentleman that danced with her told her she is much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.211>wronged by you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.212>O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.213>an oak but with one green leaf on it would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.214>answered her; my very visor began to assume life and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.215>scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.216>myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.217>duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.218>with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.219>like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.220>me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.221>if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.222>there were no living near her; she would infect to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.223>the north star. I would not marry her, though she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.224>were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.225>he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.226>turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.227>the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.228>her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.229>some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.230>she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.231>sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.232>would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.233>and perturbation follows her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.234>Look, here she comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.235>Will your grace command me any service to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.236>world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.237>to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.238>I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.239>furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.240>Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.241>Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.242>rather than hold three words' conference with this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.243>harpy. You have no employment for me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.244>None, but to desire your good company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.245>O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.246>endure my Lady Tongue.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.247>Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.248>Signior Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.249>Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.250>him use for it, a double heart for his single one:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.251>marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.252>therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.253>You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.254>So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.255>should prove the mother of fools. I have brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.256>Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.257>Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.258>Not sad, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.259>How then? sick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.260>Neither, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.261>The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.262>well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.263>something of that jealous complexion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.264>I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.265>though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.266>false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.267>fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.268>and his good will obtained: name the day of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.269>marriage, and God give thee joy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.270>Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.271>fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.272>grace say Amen to it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.273>Speak, count, 'tis your cue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.274>Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.275>but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.276>you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.277>you and dote upon the exchange.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.278>Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.279>with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.280>In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.281>Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.282>the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.283>ear that he is in her heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.284>And so she doth, cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech118><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.285>Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.286>world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.287>corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech119><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.288>Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech120><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.289>I would rather have one of your father's getting.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.290>Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.291>father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech121><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.292>Will you have me, lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech122><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.293>No, my lord, unless I might have another for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.294>working-days: your grace is too costly to wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.295>every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.296>was born to speak all mirth and no matter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech123><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.297>Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.298>becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.299>a merry hour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech124><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.300>No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.301>was a star danced, and under that was I born.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.302>Cousins, God give you joy!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech125><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.303>Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech126><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.304>I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech127><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.305>By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech128><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.306>There's little of the melancholy element in her, my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.307>lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.308>not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.309>she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.310>herself with laughing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech129><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.311>She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech130><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.312>O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech131><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.313>She were an excellent wife for Benedict.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech132><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.314>O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.315>they would talk themselves mad.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech133><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.316>County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech134><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.317>To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.318>have all his rites.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech135><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.319>Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.320>seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.321>things answer my mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech136><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.322>Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.323>but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.324>dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.325>Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.326>Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.327>affection the one with the other. I would fain have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.328>it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.329>you three will but minister such assistance as I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.330>shall give you direction.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech137><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.331>My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.332>nights' watchings.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech138><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.333>And I, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech139><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.334>And you too, gentle Hero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech140><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.335>I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.336>cousin to a good husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech141><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.337>And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.338>I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.339>strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.340>will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.341>shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.342>two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.343>despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.344>shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.345>Cupid is no longer an archer: hi s glory shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.346>ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.1.347>and I will tell you my drift.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.1>It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.2>daughter of Leonato.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.3>Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.4>Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.5>medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.6>and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.7>evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.8>Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.9>dishonesty shall appear in me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.10>Show me briefly how.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.11>I think I told your lordship a year since, how much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.12>I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.13>gentlewoman to Hero.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.14>I remember.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.15>I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.16>appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.17>What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.18>The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.19>the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.20>he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.21>Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.22>up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.23>What proof shall I make of that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.24>Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.25>to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.26>other issue?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.27>Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.28>Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.29>the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.30>that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.31>prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.32>honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.33>reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.34>semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.35>thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.36>offer them instances; which shall bear no less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.37>likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.38>hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.39>Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.40>before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.41>will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.42>absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.43>of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.44>assurance and all the preparation overthrown.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.45>Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.46>it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.47>thy fee is a thousand ducats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.48>Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.49>shall not shame me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.2.50>I will presently go learn their day of marriage.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. LEONATO'S orchard.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BENEDICK</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.1>Boy!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter Boy</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.2>Signior?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.3>In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.4>to me in the orchard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>Boy</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.5>I am here already, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.6>I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit Boy</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.7>I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.8>another man is a fool when he dedicates his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.9>behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.10>such shallow follies in others, become the argument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.11>of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.12>is Claudio. I have known when there was no music</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.13>with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.14>rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.15>when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.16>good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.17>carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.18>speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.19>and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.20>words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.21>strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.22>these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.23>be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.24>I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.25>of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.26>is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.27>well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.28>graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.29>my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.30>or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.31>fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.32>near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.33>discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.34>be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.35>Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Withdraws</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.36>Come, shall we hear this music?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.37>Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.38>As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.39>See you where Benedick hath hid himself?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.40>O, very well, my lord: the music ended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.41>We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BALTHASAR with Music</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.42>Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.43>O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.44>To slander music any more than once.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.45>It is the witness still of excellency</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.46>To put a strange face on his own perfection.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.47>I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.48>Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.49>Since many a wooer doth commence his suit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.50>To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.51>Yet will he swear he loves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.52>Now, pray thee, come;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.53>Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.54>Do it in notes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.55> Note this before my notes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.56>There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.57>Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.58>Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Air</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.59>Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.60>not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.61>of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.62>all's done.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>The Song</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.63> Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.64>Men were deceivers ever,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.65>One foot in sea and one on shore,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.66>To one thing constant never:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.67>Then sigh not so, but let them go,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.68>And be you blithe and bonny,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.69>Converting all your sounds of woe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.70>Into Hey nonny, nonny.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.71>Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.72>Of dumps so dull and heavy;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.73>The fraud of men was ever so,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.74>Since summer first was leafy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.75>Then sigh not so, & c.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.76>By my troth, a good song.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.77>And an ill singer, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.78>Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.79>An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.80>they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.81>voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.82>night-raven, come what plague could have come after</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.83>it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.84>Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.85>get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.86>would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BALTHASAR</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.87>The best I can, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.88>Do so: farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit BALTHASAR</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.89>Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.90>to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.91>Signior Benedick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.92>O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.93>never think that lady would have loved any man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.94>No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.95>should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.96>all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.97>Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.98>By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.99>of it but that she loves him with an enraged</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.100>affection: it is past the infinite of thought.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.101>May be she doth but counterfeit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.102>Faith, like enough.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.103>O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.104>passion came so near the life of passion as she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.105>discovers it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.106>Why, what effects of passion shows she?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.107>Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.108>What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.109>my daughter tell you how.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.110>She did, indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.111>How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.112>thought her spirit had been invincible against all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.113>assaults of affection.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.114>I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.115>against Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.116>I should think this a gull, but that the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.117>white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.118>sure, hide himself in such reverence.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.119>He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.120>Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.121>No; and swears she never will: that's her torment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.122>'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.123>I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.124>with scorn, write to him that I love him?'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.125>This says she now when she is beginning to write to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.126>him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.127>there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.128>sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.129>Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.130>pretty jest your daughter told us of.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.131>O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.132>found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.133>That.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.134>O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.135>railed at herself, that she should be so immodest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.136>to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.137>measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.138>should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.139>love him, I should.'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.140>Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.141>beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.142>sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.143>She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.144>ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.145>is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.146>to herself: it is very true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.147>It were good that Benedick knew of it by some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.148>other, if she will not discover it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.149>To what end? He would make but a sport of it and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.150>torment the poor lady worse.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.151>An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.152>excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.153>she is virtuous.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.154>And she is exceeding wise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.155>In every thing but in loving Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.156>O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.157>a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.158>the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.159>cause, being her uncle and her guardian.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.160>I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.161>have daffed all other respects and made her half</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.162>myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.163>what a' will say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.164>Were it good, think you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.165>Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.166>will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.167>she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.168>her, rather than she will bate one breath of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.169>accustomed crossness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.170>She doth well: if she should make tender of her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.171>love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.172>man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.173>He is a very proper man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.174>He hath indeed a good outward happiness.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.175>Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.176>He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.177>And I take him to be valiant.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.178>As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.179>quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.180>avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.181>them with a most Christian-like fear.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.182>If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.183>if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.184>quarrel with fear and trembling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.185>And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.186>howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.187>he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.188>we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.189>Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.190>good counsel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.191>Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.192>Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.193>let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.194>could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.195>how much he is unworthy so good a lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.196>My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.197>If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.198>trust my expectation.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.199>Let there be the same net spread for her; and that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.200>must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.201>sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.202>another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.203>scene that I would see, which will be merely a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.204>dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.205>[Coming forward] This can be no trick: the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.206>conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.207>this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.208>seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.209>why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.210>they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.211>the love come from her; they say too that she will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.212>rather die than give any sign of affection. I did</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.213>never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.214>are they that hear their detractions and can put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.215>them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.216>truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.217>so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.218>me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.219>no great argument of her folly, for I will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.220>horribly in love with her. I may chance have some</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.221>odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.222>because I have railed so long against marriage: but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.223>doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.224>in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.225>Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.226>the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.227>No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.228>die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.229>were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.230>she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.231>her.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.232>Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.233>Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.234>I took no more pains for those thanks than you take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.235>pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.236>not have come.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.237>You take pleasure then in the message?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.238>Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.239>point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.240>signior: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.241>Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.242>to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.243>no more pains for those thanks than you took pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.244>to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.245>that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.246>not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2.3.247>love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT III</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. LEONATO'S garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.1>Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.2>There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.3>Proposing with the prince and Claudio:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.4>Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.5>Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.6>Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.7>And bid her steal into the pleached bower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.8>Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.9>Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.10>Made proud by princes, that advance their pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.11>Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.12>To listen our purpose. This is thy office;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.13>Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.14>I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.15>Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.16>As we do trace this alley up and down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.17>Our talk must only be of Benedick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.18>When I do name him, let it be thy part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.19>To praise him more than ever man did merit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.20>My talk to thee must be how Benedick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.21>Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.22>Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.23>That only wounds by hearsay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE, behind</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.24>Now begin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.25>For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.26>Close by the ground, to hear our conference.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.27>The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.28>Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.29>And greedily devour the treacherous bait:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.30>So angle we for Beatrice; who even now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.31>Is couched in the woodbine coverture.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.32>Fear you not my part of the dialogue.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.33>Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.34>Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Approaching the bower</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.35>No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.36>I know her spirits are as coy and wild</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.37>As haggerds of the rock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.38>But are you sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.39>That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.40>So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.41>And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.42>They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.43>But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.44>To wish him wrestle with affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.45>And never to let Beatrice know of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.46>Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.47>Deserve as full as fortunate a bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.48>As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.49>O god of love! I know he doth deserve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.50>As much as may be yielded to a man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.51>But Nature never framed a woman's heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.52>Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.53>Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.54>Misprising what they look on, and her wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.55>Values itself so highly that to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.56>All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.57>Nor take no shape nor project of affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.58>She is so self-endeared.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.59>Sure, I think so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.60>And therefore certainly it were not good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.61>She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.62>Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.63>How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.64>But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.65>She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.66>If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.67>Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.68>If low, an agate very vilely cut;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.69>If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.70>If silent, why, a block moved with none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.71>So turns she every man the wrong side out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.72>And never gives to truth and virtue that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.73>Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.74>Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.75>No, not to be so odd and from all fashions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.76>As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.77>But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.78>She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.79>Out of myself, press me to death with wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.80>Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.81>Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.82>It were a better death than die with mocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.83>Which is as bad as die with tickling.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.84>Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.85>No; rather I will go to Benedick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.86>And counsel him to fight against his passion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.87>And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.88>To stain my cousin with: one doth not know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.89>How much an ill word may empoison liking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.90>O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.91>She cannot be so much without true judgment--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.92>Having so swift and excellent a wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.93>As she is prized to have--as to refuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.94>So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.95>He is the only man of Italy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.96>Always excepted my dear Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.97>I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.98>Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.99>For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.100>Goes foremost in report through Italy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.101>Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.102>His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.103>When are you married, madam?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.104>Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.105>I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.106>Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.107>She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.108>If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.109>Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt HERO and URSULA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.110>[Coming forward]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.111>What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.112>Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.113>Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.114>No glory lives behind the back of such.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.115>And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.116>Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.117>If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.118>To bind our loves up in a holy band;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.119>For others say thou dost deserve, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.1.120>Believe it better than reportingly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A room in LEONATO'S house</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.1>I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.2>then go I toward Arragon.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.3>I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.4>vouchsafe me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.5>Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.6>of your marriage as to show a child his new coat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.7>and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.8>with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.9>of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.10>mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.11>bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.12>him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.13>tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.14>tongue speaks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.15>Gallants, I am not as I have been.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.16>So say I methinks you are sadder.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.17>I hope he be in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.18>Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.19>him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.20>he wants money.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.21>I have the toothache.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.22>Draw it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.23>Hang it!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.24>You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.25>What! sigh for the toothache?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.26>Where is but a humour or a worm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.27>Well, every one can master a grief but he that has</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.28>it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.29>Yet say I, he is in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.30>There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.31>a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.32>a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.33>shape of two countries at once, as, a German from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.34>the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.35>the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.36>to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.37>fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.38>If he be not in love with some woman, there is no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.39>believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.40>mornings; what should that bode?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.41>Hath any man seen him at the barber's?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.42>No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.43>and the old ornament of his cheek hath already</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.44>stuffed tennis-balls.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.45>Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.46>Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.47>out by that?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.48>That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.49>The greatest note of it is his melancholy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.50>And when was he wont to wash his face?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.51>Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.52>what they say of him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.53>Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.54>a lute-string and now governed by stops.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.55>Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.56>conclude he is in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.57>Nay, but I know who loves him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.58>That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.59>Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.60>all, dies for him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.61>She shall be buried with her face upwards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.62>Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.63>signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.64>or nine wise words to speak to you, which these</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.65>hobby-horses must not hear.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.66>For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.67>'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.68>played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.69>bears will not bite one another when they meet.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON JOHN</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.70>My lord and brother, God save you!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.71>Good den, brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.72>If your leisure served, I would speak with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.73>In private?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.74>If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.75>what I would speak of concerns him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.76>What's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.77>[To CLAUDIO] Means your lordship to be married</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.78>to-morrow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.79>You know he does.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.80>I know not that, when he knows what I know.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.81>If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.82>You may think I love you not: let that appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.83>hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.84>manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.85>well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.86>your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.87>labour ill bestowed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.88>Why, what's the matter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.89>I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.90>shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.91>the lady is disloyal.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.92>Who, Hero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.93>Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.94>Disloyal?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.95>The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.96>could say she were worse: think you of a worse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.97>title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.98>further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.99>see her chamber-window entered, even the night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.100>before her wedding-day: if you love her then,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.101>to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.102>to change your mind.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.103>May this be so?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.104>I will not think it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.105>If you dare not trust that you see, confess not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.106>that you know: if you will follow me, I will show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.107>you enough; and when you have seen more and heard</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.108>more, proceed accordingly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.109>If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.110>her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.111>wed, there will I shame her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.112>And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.113>with thee to disgrace her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.114>I will disparage her no farther till you are my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.115>witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.116>let the issue show itself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.117>O day untowardly turned!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.118>O mischief strangely thwarting!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.119>O plague right well prevented! so will you say when</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.2.120>you have seen the sequel.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A street.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.1>Are you good men and true?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.2>Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.3>salvation, body and soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.4>Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.5>they should have any allegiance in them, being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.6>chosen for the prince's watch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.7>Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.8>First, who think you the most desertless man to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.9>constable?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.10>Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.11>write and read.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.12>Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.13>you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.14>the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>Second Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.15>Both which, master constable,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.16>You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.17>for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.18>no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.19>let that appear when there is no need of such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.20>vanity. You are thought here to be the most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.21>senseless and fit man for the constable of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.22>watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.23>charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.24>to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>Second Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.25>How if a' will not stand?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.26>Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.27>presently call the rest of the watch together and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.28>thank God you are rid of a knave.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.29>If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.30>of the prince's subjects.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.31>True, and they are to meddle with none but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.32>prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.33>the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.34>talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.35>We will rather sleep than talk: we know what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.36>belongs to a watch.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.37>Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.38>watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.39>offend: only, have a care that your bills be not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.40>stolen. Well, you are to call at all the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.41>ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.42>How if they will not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.43>Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.44>they make you not then the better answer, you may</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.45>say they are not the men you took them for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.46>Well, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.47>If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.48>of your office, to be no true man; and, for such</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.49>kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.50>why the more is for your honesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.51>If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.52>hands on him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.53>Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.54>that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.55>way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.56>show himself what he is and steal out of your company.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.57>You have been always called a merciful man, partner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.58>Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.59>a man who hath any honesty in him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.60>If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.61>to the nurse and bid her still it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.62>How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.63>Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.64>her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.65>lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.66>'Tis very true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.67>This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.68>to present the prince's own person: if you meet the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.69>prince in the night, you may stay him.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.70>Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.71>Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.72>the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.73>the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.74>to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.75>man against his will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.76>By'r lady, I think it be so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.77>Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.78>any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.79>fellows' counsels and your own; and good night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.80>Come, neighbour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.81>Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.82>upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.83>One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.84>about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.85>there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.86>Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.87>What Conrade!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.88>[Aside] Peace! stir not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.89>Conrade, I say!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.90>Here, man; I am at thy elbow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.91>Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.92>scab follow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.93>I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.94>with thy tale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.95>Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.96>it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.97>utter all to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.98>[Aside] Some treason, masters: yet stand close.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.99>Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.100>Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.101>Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.102>villany should be so rich; for when rich villains</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.103>have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.104>price they will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.105>I wonder at it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.106>That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.107>the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.108>nothing to a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.109>Yes, it is apparel.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.110>I mean, the fashion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.111>Yes, the fashion is the fashion.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.112>Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.113>seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.114>is?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.115>[Aside] I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.116>thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.117>gentleman: I remember his name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.118>Didst thou not hear somebody?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.119>No; 'twas the vane on the house.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.120>Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.121>fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.122>bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.123>sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.124>in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.125>priests in the old church-window, sometime like the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.126>shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.127>where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.128>All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.129>out more apparel than the man. But art not thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.130>thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.131>shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.132>Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.133>wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.134>name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.135>chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.136>night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.137>tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.138>planted and placed and possessed by my master Don</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.139>John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.140>And thought they Margaret was Hero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.141>Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.142>devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.143>by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.144>the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.145>by my villany, which did confirm any slander that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.146>Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.147>he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.148>at the temple, and there, before the whole</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.149>congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.150>and send her home again without a husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.151>We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>Second Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.152>Call up the right master constable. We have here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.153>recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.154>ever was known in the commonwealth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.155>And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.156>wears a lock.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.157>Masters, masters,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>Second Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.158>You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.159>Masters,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.160>Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.161>We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.162>up of these men's bills.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.3.163>A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. HERO's apartment.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.1>Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.2>her to rise.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.3>I will, lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.4>And bid her come hither.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.5>Well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.6>Troth, I think your other rabato were better.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.7>No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.8>By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.9>cousin will say so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.10>My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.11>none but this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.12>I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.13>were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.14>fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.15>gown that they praise so.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.16>O, that exceeds, they say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.17>By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.18>yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.19>silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.20>and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.21>but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.22>fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.23>God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.24>exceeding heavy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.25>'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.26>Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.27>Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.28>marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.29>honourable without marriage? I think you would have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.30>me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.31>thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.32>nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.33>husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.34>and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.35>heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.36>Good morrow, coz.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.37>Good morrow, sweet Hero.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.38>Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.39>I am out of all other tune, methinks.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.40>Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.41>burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.42>Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.43>husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.44>lack no barns.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.45>O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.46>'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.47>ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.48>For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.49>For the letter that begins them all, H.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.50>Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.51>sailing by the star.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.52>What means the fool, trow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.53>Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.54>These gloves the count sent me; they are an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.55>excellent perfume.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.56>I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.57>A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.58>O, God help me! God help me! how long have you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.59>professed apprehension?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.60>Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.61>It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.62>cap. By my troth, I am sick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.63>Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.64>and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.65>There thou prickest her with a thistle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.66>Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.67>this Benedictus.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.68>Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.69>meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.70>that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.71>not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.72>not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.73>if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.74>are in love or that you will be in love or that you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.75>can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.76>now is he become a man: he swore he would never</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.77>marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.78>his meat without grudging: and how you may be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.79>converted I know not, but methinks you look with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.80>your eyes as other women do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.81>What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.82>Not a false gallop.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter URSULA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.83>Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.84>Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.85>town, are come to fetch you to church.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.4.86>Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE V. Another room in LEONATO'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.1>What would you with me, honest neighbour?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.2>Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.3>that decerns you nearly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.4>Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.5>Marry, this it is, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.6>Yes, in truth it is, sir.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.7>What is it, my good friends?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.8>Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.9>matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.10>blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.11>in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.12>Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.13>that is an old man and no honester than I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.14>Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.15>Neighbours, you are tedious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.16>It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.17>poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.18>if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.19>my heart to bestow it all of your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.20>All thy tediousness on me, ah?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.21>Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.22>I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.23>man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.24>am glad to hear it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.25>And so am I.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.26>I would fain know what you have to say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.27>Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.28>worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.29>knaves as any in Messina.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.30>A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.31>say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.32>us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.33>neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.34>ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.35>soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.36>broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.37>are not alike; alas, good neighbour!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.38>Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.39>Gifts that God gives.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.40>I must leave you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.41>One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.42>comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.43>have them this morning examined before your worship.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.44>Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.45>am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.46>It shall be suffigance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.47>Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.48>My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.49>her husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.50>I'll wait upon them: I am ready.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.51>Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.52>bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.53>are now to examination these men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.54>And we must do it wisely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.55>We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.56>that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.57>get the learned writer to set down our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3.5.58>excommunication and meet me at the gaol.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT IV</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. A church.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.1>Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.2>form of marriage, and you shall recount their</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.3>particular duties afterwards.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.4>You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.5>No.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.6>To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.7>Lady, you come hither to be married to this count.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.8>I do.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.9>If either of you know any inward impediment why you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.10>should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.11>to utter it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.12>Know you any, Hero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.13>None, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.14>Know you any, count?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.15>I dare make his answer, none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.16>O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.17>do, not knowing what they do!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.18>How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.19>laughing, as, ah, ha, he!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.20>Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.21>Will you with free and unconstrained soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.22>Give me this maid, your daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.23>As freely, son, as God did give her me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.24>And what have I to give you back, whose worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.25>May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.26>Nothing, unless you render her again.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.27>Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.28>There, Leonato, take her back again:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.29>Give not this rotten orange to your friend;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.30>She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.31>Behold how like a maid she blushes here!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.32>O, what authority and show of truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.33>Can cunning sin cover itself withal!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.34>Comes not that blood as modest evidence</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.35>To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.36>All you that see her, that she were a maid,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.37>By these exterior shows? But she is none:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.38>She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.39>Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.40>What do you mean, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.41>Not to be married,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.42>Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.43>Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.44>Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.45>And made defeat of her virginity,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.46>I know what you would say: if I have known her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.47>You will say she did embrace me as a husband,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.48>And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.49>No, Leonato,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.50>I never tempted her with word too large;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.51>But, as a brother to his sister, show'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.52>Bashful sincerity and comely love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.53>And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.54>Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.55>You seem to me as Dian in her orb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.56>As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.57>But you are more intemperate in your blood</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.58>Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.59>That rage in savage sensuality.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.60>Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.61>Sweet prince, why speak not you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.62>What should I speak?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.63>I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.64>To link my dear friend to a common stale.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.65>Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.66>Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.67>This looks not like a nuptial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.68>True! O God!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.69>Leonato, stand I here?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.70>Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.71>Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.72>All this is so: but what of this, my lord?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.73>Let me but move one question to your daughter;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.74>And, by that fatherly and kindly power</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.75>That you have in her, bid her answer truly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.76>I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.77>O, God defend me! how am I beset!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.78>What kind of catechising call you this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.79>To make you answer truly to your name.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.80>Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.81>With any just reproach?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.82>Marry, that can Hero;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.83>Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.84>What man was he talk'd with you yesternight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.85>Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.86>Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.87>I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.88>Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.89>I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.90>Myself, my brother and this grieved count</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.91>Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.92>Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.93>Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.94>Confess'd the vile encounters they have had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.95>A thousand times in secret.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.96>Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.97>Not to be spoke of;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.98>There is not chastity enough in language</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.99>Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.100>I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.101>O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.102>If half thy outward graces had been placed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.103>About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.104>But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.105>Thou pure impiety and impious purity!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.106>For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.107>And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.108>To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.109>And never shall it more be gracious.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.110>Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>HERO swoons</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.111>Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.112>Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.113>Smother her spirits up.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.114>How doth the lady?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.115> Dead, I think. Help, uncle!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.116>Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.117>O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.118>Death is the fairest cover for her shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.119>That may be wish'd for.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.120>How now, cousin Hero!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.121>Have comfort, lady.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.122>Dost thou look up?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.123>Yea, wherefore should she not?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.124>Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.125>Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.126>The story that is printed in her blood?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.127>Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.128>For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.129>Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.130>Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.131>Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.132>Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.133>O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.134>Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.135>Why had I not with charitable hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.136>Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.137>Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.138>I might have said 'No part of it is mine;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.139>This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.140>But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.141>And mine that I was proud on, mine so much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.142>That I myself was to myself not mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.143>Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.144>Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.145>Hath drops too few to wash her clean again</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.146>And salt too little which may season give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.147>To her foul-tainted flesh!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.148>Sir, sir, be patient.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.149>For my part, I am so attired in wonder,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.150>I know not what to say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.151>O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.152>Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.153>No, truly not; although, until last night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.154>I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.155>Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.156>Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.157>Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.158>Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.159>Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.160>Hear me a little;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.161>For I have only been silent so long</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.162>And given way unto this course of fortune.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.163>...</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.164>By noting of the lady I have mark'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.165>A thousand blushing apparitions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.166>To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.167>In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.168>And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.169>To burn the errors that these princes hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.170>Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.171>Trust not my reading nor my observations,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.172>Which with experimental seal doth warrant</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.173>The tenor of my book; trust not my age,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.174>My reverence, calling, nor divinity,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.175>If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.176>Under some biting error.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.177>Friar, it cannot be.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.178>Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.179>Is that she will not add to her damnation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.180>A sin of perjury; she not denies it:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.181>Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.182>That which appears in proper nakedness?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.183>Lady, what man is he you are accused of?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.184>They know that do accuse me; I know none:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.185>If I know more of any man alive</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.186>Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.187>Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.188>Prove you that any man with me conversed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.189>At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.190>Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.191>Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.192>There is some strange misprision in the princes.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.193>Two of them have the very bent of honour;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.194>And if their wisdoms be misled in this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.195>The practise of it lives in John the bastard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.196>Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.197>I know not. If they speak but truth of her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.198>These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.199>The proudest of them shall well hear of it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.200>Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.201>Nor age so eat up my invention,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.202>Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.203>Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.204>But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.205>Both strength of limb and policy of mind,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.206>Ability in means and choice of friends,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.207>To quit me of them throughly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.208>Pause awhile,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.209>And let my counsel sway you in this case.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.210>Your daughter here the princes left for dead:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.211>Let her awhile be secretly kept in,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.212>And publish it that she is dead indeed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.213>Maintain a mourning ostentation</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.214>And on your family's old monument</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.215>Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.216>That appertain unto a burial.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.217>What shall become of this? what will this do?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.218>Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.219>Change slander to remorse; that is some good:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.220>But not for that dream I on this strange course,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.221>But on this travail look for greater birth.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.222>She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.223>Upon the instant that she was accused,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.224>Shall be lamented, pitied and excused</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.225>Of every hearer: for it so falls out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.226>That what we have we prize not to the worth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.227>Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.228>Why, then we rack the value, then we find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.229>The virtue that possession would not show us</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.230>Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.231>When he shall hear she died upon his words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.232>The idea of her life shall sweetly creep</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.233>Into his study of imagination,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.234>And every lovely organ of her life</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.235>Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.236>More moving-delicate and full of life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.237>Into the eye and prospect of his soul,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.238>Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.239>If ever love had interest in his liver,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.240>And wish he had not so accused her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.241>No, though he thought his accusation true.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.242>Let this be so, and doubt not but success</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.243>Will fashion the event in better shape</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.244>Than I can lay it down in likelihood.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.245>But if all aim but this be levell'd false,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.246>The supposition of the lady's death</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.247>Will quench the wonder of her infamy:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.248>And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.249>As best befits her wounded reputation,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.250>In some reclusive and religious life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.251>Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.252>Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.253>And though you know my inwardness and love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.254>Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.255>Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.256>As secretly and justly as your soul</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.257>Should with your body.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.258>Being that I flow in grief,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.259>The smallest twine may lead me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.260>'Tis well consented: presently away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.261>For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.262>Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.263>Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.264>Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.265>Yea, and I will weep a while longer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.266>I will not desire that.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.267>You have no reason; I do it freely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.268>Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.269>Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.270>Is there any way to show such friendship?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.271>A very even way, but no such friend.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.272>May a man do it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.273>It is a man's office, but not yours.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.274>I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.275>not that strange?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.276>As strange as the thing I know not. It were as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.277>possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.278>you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.279>confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.280>By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.281>Do not swear, and eat it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.282>I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.283>him eat it that says I love not you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.284>Will you not eat your word?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.285>With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.286>I love thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.287>Why, then, God forgive me!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.288>What offence, sweet Beatrice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.289>You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.290>protest I loved you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.291>And do it with all thy heart.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.292>I love you with so much of my heart that none is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.293>left to protest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.294>Come, bid me do any thing for thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.295>Kill Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.296>Ha! not for the wide world.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.297>You kill me to deny it. Farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.298>Tarry, sweet Beatrice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.299>I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.300>you: nay, I pray you, let me go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.301>Beatrice,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.302>In faith, I will go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.303>We'll be friends first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.304>You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.305>Is Claudio thine enemy?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.306>Is he not approved in the height a villain, that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.307>hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.308>that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.309>come to take hands; and then, with public</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.310>accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.311>--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.312>in the market-place.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.313>Hear me, Beatrice,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.314>Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.315>Nay, but, Beatrice,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.316>Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.317>Beat--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.318>Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.319>a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.320>surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.321>had any friend would be a man for my sake! But</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.322>manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.323>compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.324>trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.325>that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.326>man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.327>Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.328>Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech115><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.329>Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech116><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.330>Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech117><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.331>Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.332>kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.333>Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.334>hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.1.335>cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. A prison.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.1>Is our whole dissembly appeared?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.2>O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.3>Which be the malefactors?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.4>Marry, that am I and my partner.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.5>Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.6>But which are the offenders that are to be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.7>examined? let them come before master constable.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.8>Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.9>name, friend?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.10>Borachio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.11>Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.12>I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.13>Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.14>you serve God?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.15>Yea, sir, we hope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.16>Write down, that they hope they serve God: and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.17>write God first; for God defend but God should go</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.18>before such villains! Masters, it is proved already</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.19>that you are little better than false knaves; and it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.20>will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.21>you for yourselves?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.22>Marry, sir, we say we are none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.23>A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.24>will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.25>word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.26>you are false knaves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.27>Sir, I say to you we are none.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.28>Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.29>tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.30>Master constable, you go not the way to examine:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.31>you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.32>Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.33>come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.34>name, accuse these men.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.35>This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.36>brother, was a villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.37>Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.38>perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.39>Master constable,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.40>Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.41>I promise thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.42>What heard you him say else?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>Second Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.43>Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.44>Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.45>Flat burglary as ever was committed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.46>Yea, by mass, that it is.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.47>What else, fellow?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>First Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.48>And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.49>disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.50>O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.51>redemption for this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.52>What else?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>Watchman</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.53>This is all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>Sexton</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.54>And this is more, masters, than you can deny.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.55>Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.56>Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.57>refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.58>Master constable, let these men be bound, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.59>brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.60>him their examination.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.61>Come, let them be opinioned.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.62>Let them be in the hands--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.63>Off, coxcomb!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.64>God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.65>down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.66>Thou naughty varlet!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>CONRADE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.67>Away! you are an ass, you are an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.68>Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.69>suspect my years? O that he were here to write me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.70>down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.71>ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.72>that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.73>piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.74>I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.75>and, which is more, a householder, and, which is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.76>more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.77>Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.78>rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.79>had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.80>thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4.2.81>I had been writ down an ass!</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote><p> | |
| <H3>ACT V</h3> | |
| <h3>SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.1>If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.2>And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.3>Against yourself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.4> I pray thee, cease thy counsel,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.5>Which falls into mine ears as profitless</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.6>As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.7>Nor let no comforter delight mine ear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.8>But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.9>Bring me a father that so loved his child,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.10>Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.11>And bid him speak of patience;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.12>Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.13>And let it answer every strain for strain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.14>As thus for thus and such a grief for such,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.15>In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.16>If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.17>Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.18>Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.19>With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.20>And I of him will gather patience.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.21>But there is no such man: for, brother, men</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.22>Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.23>Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.24>Their counsel turns to passion, which before</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.25>Would give preceptial medicine to rage,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.26>Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.27>Charm ache with air and agony with words:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.28>No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.29>To those that wring under the load of sorrow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.30>But no man's virtue nor sufficiency</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.31>To be so moral when he shall endure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.32>The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.33>My griefs cry louder than advertisement.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.34>Therein do men from children nothing differ.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.35>I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.36>For there was never yet philosopher</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.37>That could endure the toothache patiently,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.38>However they have writ the style of gods</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.39>And made a push at chance and sufferance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.40>Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.41>Make those that do offend you suffer too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.42>There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.43>My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.44>And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.45>And all of them that thus dishonour her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.46>Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.47>Good den, good den.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.48>Good day to both of you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.49>Hear you. my lords,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.50>We have some haste, Leonato.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.51>Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.52>Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.53>Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.54>If he could right himself with quarreling,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.55>Some of us would lie low.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.56>Who wrongs him?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.57>Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.58>Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.59>I fear thee not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.60> Marry, beshrew my hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.61>If it should give your age such cause of fear:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.62>In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.63>Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.64>I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.65>As under privilege of age to brag</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.66>What I have done being young, or what would do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.67>Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.68>Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.69>That I am forced to lay my reverence by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.70>And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.71>Do challenge thee to trial of a man.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.72>I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.73>Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.74>And she lies buried with her ancestors;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.75>O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.76>Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.77>My villany?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.78> Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.79>You say not right, old man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.80>My lord, my lord,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.81>I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.82>Despite his nice fence and his active practise,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.83>His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.84>Away! I will not have to do with you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.85>Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.86>If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.87>He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.88>But that's no matter; let him kill one first;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.89>Win me and wear me; let him answer me.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.90>Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.91>Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.92>Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.93>Brother,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.94>Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.95>And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.96>That dare as well answer a man indeed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.97>As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.98>Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.99>Brother Antony,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.100>Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.101>And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.102>Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.103>That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.104>Go anticly, show outward hideousness,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.105>And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.106>How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.107>And this is all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.108>But, brother Antony,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.109>Come, 'tis no matter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.110>Do not you meddle; let me deal in this.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.111>Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.112>My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.113>But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.114>But what was true and very full of proof.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.115>My lord, my lord,--</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.116>I will not hear you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.117>No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.118>And shall, or some of us will smart for it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.119>See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BENEDICK</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.120>Now, signior, what news?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.121>Good day, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.122>Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.123>almost a fray.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.124>We had like to have had our two noses snapped off</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.125>with two old men without teeth.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.126>Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.127>we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.128>In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.129>to seek you both.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.130>We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.131>high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.132>away. Wilt thou use thy wit?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.133>It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.134>Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.135>Never any did so, though very many have been beside</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.136>their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.137>minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.138>As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.139>sick, or angry?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.140>What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.141>thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.142>Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.143>charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.144>Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.145>broke cross.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.146>By this light, he changes more and more: I think</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.147>he be angry indeed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.148>If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.149>Shall I speak a word in your ear?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.150>God bless me from a challenge!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.151>[Aside to CLAUDIO] You are a villain; I jest not:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.152>I will make it good how you dare, with what you</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.153>dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.154>protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.155>lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.156>hear from you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.157>Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.158>What, a feast, a feast?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.159>I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.160>head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.161>curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.162>a woodcock too?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech60><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.163>Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech61><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.164>I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.165>other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.166>said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.167>great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.168>'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.169>hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.170>is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.171>'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.172>believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.173>Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.174>there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.175>did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.176>virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.177>wast the properest man in Italy.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech62><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.178>For the which she wept heartily and said she cared</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.179>not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech63><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.180>Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.181>did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.182>the old man's daughter told us all.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech64><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.183>All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.184>hid in the garden.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech65><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.185>But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.186>the sensible Benedick's head?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech66><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.187>Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.188>married man'?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech67><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.189>Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.190>you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.191>as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.192>hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.193>you: I must discontinue your company: your brother</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.194>the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.195>you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.196>Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.197>then, peace be with him.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech68><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.198>He is in earnest.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech69><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.199>In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.200>the love of Beatrice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech70><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.201>And hath challenged thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech71><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.202>Most sincerely.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech72><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.203>What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.204>doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech73><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.205>He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.206>doctor to such a man.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech74><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.207>But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.208>be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech75><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.209>Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.210>shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.211>an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech76><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.212>How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.213>one!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech77><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.214>Hearken after their offence, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech78><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.215>Officers, what offence have these men done?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech79><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.216>Marry, sir, they have committed false report;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.217>moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.218>they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.219>belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.220>things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech80><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.221>First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.222>ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.223>they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.224>to their charge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech81><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.225>Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.226>my troth, there's one meaning well suited.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech82><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.227>Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.228>bound to your answer? this learned constable is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.229>too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech83><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.230>Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.231>do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.232>deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.233>could not discover, these shallow fools have brought</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.234>to light: who in the night overheard me confessing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.235>to this man how Don John your brother incensed me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.236>to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.237>the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.238>garments, how you disgraced her, when you should</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.239>marry her: my villany they have upon record; which</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.240>I had rather seal with my death than repeat over</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.241>to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.242>master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.243>nothing but the reward of a villain.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech84><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.244>Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech85><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.245>I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech86><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.246>But did my brother set thee on to this?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech87><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.247>Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech88><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.248>He is composed and framed of treachery:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.249>And fled he is upon this villany.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech89><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.250>Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.251>In the rare semblance that I loved it first.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech90><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.252>Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.253>sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.254>and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.255>and place shall serve, that I am an ass.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech91><b>VERGES</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.256>Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.257>Sexton too.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech92><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.258>Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.259>That, when I note another man like him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.260>I may avoid him: which of these is he?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech93><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.261>If you would know your wronger, look on me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech94><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.262>Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.263>Mine innocent child?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech95><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.264>Yea, even I alone.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech96><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.265>No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.266>Here stand a pair of honourable men;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.267>A third is fled, that had a hand in it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.268>I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.269>Record it with your high and worthy deeds:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.270>'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech97><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.271>I know not how to pray your patience;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.272>Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.273>Impose me to what penance your invention</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.274>Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.275>But in mistaking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech98><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.276> By my soul, nor I:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.277>And yet, to satisfy this good old man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.278>I would bend under any heavy weight</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.279>That he'll enjoin me to.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech99><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.280>I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.281>That were impossible: but, I pray you both,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.282>Possess the people in Messina here</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.283>How innocent she died; and if your love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.284>Can labour ought in sad invention,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.285>Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.286>And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.287>To-morrow morning come you to my house,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.288>And since you could not be my son-in-law,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.289>Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.290>Almost the copy of my child that's dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.291>And she alone is heir to both of us:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.292>Give her the right you should have given her cousin,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.293>And so dies my revenge.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech100><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.294>O noble sir,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.295>Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.296>I do embrace your offer; and dispose</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.297>For henceforth of poor Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech101><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.298>To-morrow then I will expect your coming;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.299>To-night I take my leave. This naughty man</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.300>Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.301>Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.302>Hired to it by your brother.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech102><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.303>No, by my soul, she was not,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.304>Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.305>But always hath been just and virtuous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.306>In any thing that I do know by her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech103><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.307>Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.308>black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.309>me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.310>punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.311>one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.312>a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.313>name, the which he hath used so long and never paid</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.314>that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.315>for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech104><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.316>I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech105><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.317>Your worship speaks like a most thankful and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.318>reverend youth; and I praise God for you.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech106><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.319>There's for thy pains.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech107><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.320>God save the foundation!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech108><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.321>Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech109><b>DOGBERRY</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.322>I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.323>beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.324>example of others. God keep your worship! I wish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.325>your worship well; God restore you to health! I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.326>humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.327>meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech110><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.328>Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech111><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.329>Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech112><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.330>We will not fail.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech113><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.331> To-night I'll mourn with Hero.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech114><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.332>[To the Watch] Bring you these fellows on. We'll</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.333>talk with Margaret,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.1.334>How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt, severally</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE II. LEONATO'S garden.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.1>Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.2>my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.3>Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.4>In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.5>shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.6>deservest it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.7>To have no man come over me! why, shall I always</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.8>keep below stairs?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.9>Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.10>And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.11>but hurt not.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.12>A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.13>woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.14>thee the bucklers.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.15>Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.16>If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.17>pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.18>Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.19>And therefore will come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MARGARET</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.20>The god of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.21>That sits above,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.22>And knows me, and knows me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.23>How pitiful I deserve,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.24>I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.25>swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.26>a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.27>whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.28>blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.29>over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.30>cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.31>out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.32>rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.33>'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.34>endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.35>nor I cannot woo in festival terms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.36>Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.37>Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.38>O, stay but till then!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.39>'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.40>I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.41>knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.42>Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.43>Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.44>foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.45>will depart unkissed.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.46>Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.47>so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.48>plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.49>I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.50>him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.51>which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.52>For them all together; which maintained so politic</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.53>a state of evil that they will not admit any good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.54>part to intermingle with them. But for which of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.55>good parts did you first suffer love for me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.56>Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.57>indeed, for I love thee against my will.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.58>In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.59>If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.60>yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.61>Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.62>It appears not in this confession: there's not one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.63>wise man among twenty that will praise himself.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.64>An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.65>the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.66>in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.67>no longer in monument than the bell rings and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.68>widow weeps.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.69>And how long is that, think you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.70>Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.71>rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.72>wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.73>impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.74>own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.75>praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.76>praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.77>Very ill.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.78>And how do you?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.79>Very ill too.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.80>Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.81>you too, for here comes one in haste.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter URSULA</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.82>Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.83>coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.84>falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.85>abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.86>fed and gone. Will you come presently?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.87>Will you go hear this news, signior?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.88>I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.89>buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.2.90>thee to thy uncle's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE III. A church.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four with tapers</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.1>Is this the monument of Leonato?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>Lord</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.2>It is, my lord.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.3>[Reading out of a scroll]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.4>Done to death by slanderous tongues</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.5>Was the Hero that here lies:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.6>Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.7>Gives her fame which never dies.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.8>So the life that died with shame</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.9>Lives in death with glorious fame.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.10>Hang thou there upon the tomb,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.11>Praising her when I am dumb.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.12>Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.13>SONG.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.14>Pardon, goddess of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.15>Those that slew thy virgin knight;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.16>For the which, with songs of woe,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.17>Round about her tomb they go.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.18>Midnight, assist our moan;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.19>Help us to sigh and groan,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.20>Heavily, heavily:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.21>Graves, yawn and yield your dead,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.22>Till death be uttered,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.23>Heavily, heavily.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.24> Now, unto thy bones good night!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.25>Yearly will I do this rite.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.26>Good morrow, masters; put your torches out:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.27>The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.28>Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.29>Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.30>Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.31> Good morrow, masters: each his several way.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.32>Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.33>And then to Leonato's we will go.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.34>And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.3.35>Than this for whom we render'd up this woe.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <h3>SCENE IV. A room in LEONATO'S house.</h3> | |
| <p><blockquote> | |
| <i>Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO</i> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech1><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.1>Did I not tell you she was innocent?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech2><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.2>So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.3>Upon the error that you heard debated:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.4>But Margaret was in some fault for this,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.5>Although against her will, as it appears</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.6>In the true course of all the question.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech3><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.7>Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech4><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.8>And so am I, being else by faith enforced</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.9>To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech5><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.10>Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.11>Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.12>And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt Ladies</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.13>The prince and Claudio promised by this hour</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.14>To visit me. You know your office, brother:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.15>You must be father to your brother's daughter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.16>And give her to young Claudio.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech6><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.17>Which I will do with confirm'd countenance.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech7><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.18>Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech8><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.19>To do what, signior?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech9><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.20>To bind me, or undo me; one of them.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.21>Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.22>Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech10><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.23>That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech11><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.24>And I do with an eye of love requite her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech12><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.25>The sight whereof I think you had from me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.26>From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech13><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.27>Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.28>But, for my will, my will is your good will</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.29>May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.30>In the state of honourable marriage:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.31>In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech14><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.32>My heart is with your liking.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech15><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.33>And my help.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.34>Here comes the prince and Claudio.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech16><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.35>Good morrow to this fair assembly.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech17><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.36>Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.37>We here attend you. Are you yet determined</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.38>To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech18><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.39>I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech19><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.40>Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit ANTONIO</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech20><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.41>Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.42>That you have such a February face,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.43>So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech21><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.44>I think he thinks upon the savage bull.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.45>Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.46>And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.47>As once Europa did at lusty Jove,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.48>When he would play the noble beast in love.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech22><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.49>Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.50>And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.51>And got a calf in that same noble feat</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.52>Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech23><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.53>For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.54>Which is the lady I must seize upon?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech24><b>ANTONIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.55>This same is she, and I do give you her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech25><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.56>Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech26><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.57>No, that you shall not, till you take her hand</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.58>Before this friar and swear to marry her.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech27><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.59>Give me your hand: before this holy friar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.60>I am your husband, if you like of me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech28><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.61>And when I lived, I was your other wife:</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Unmasking</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.62>And when you loved, you were my other husband.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech29><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.63>Another Hero!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech30><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.64> Nothing certainer:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.65>One Hero died defiled, but I do live,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.66>And surely as I live, I am a maid.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech31><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.67>The former Hero! Hero that is dead!</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech32><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.68>She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech33><b>FRIAR FRANCIS</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.69>All this amazement can I qualify:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.70>When after that the holy rites are ended,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.71>I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.72>Meantime let wonder seem familiar,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.73>And to the chapel let us presently.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech34><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.74>Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech35><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.75>[Unmasking] I answer to that name. What is your will?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech36><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.76>Do not you love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech37><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.77>Why, no; no more than reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech38><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.78>Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.79>Have been deceived; they swore you did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech39><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.80>Do not you love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech40><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.81>Troth, no; no more than reason.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech41><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.82>Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.83>Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech42><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.84>They swore that you were almost sick for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech43><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.85>They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech44><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.86>'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech45><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.87>No, truly, but in friendly recompense.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech46><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.88>Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech47><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.89>And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.90>For here's a paper written in his hand,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.91>A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.92>Fashion'd to Beatrice.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech48><b>HERO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.93>And here's another</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.94>Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.95>Containing her affection unto Benedick.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech49><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.96>A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.97>Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.98>thee for pity.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech50><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.99>I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.100>upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.101>for I was told you were in a consumption.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech51><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.102>Peace! I will stop your mouth.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Kissing her</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech52><b>DON PEDRO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.103>How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech53><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.104>I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.105>wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.106>thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.107>if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.108>nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.109>purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.110>purpose that the world can say against it; and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.111>therefore never flout at me for what I have said</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.112>against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.113>conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.114>have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.115>kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech54><b>CLAUDIO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.116>I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.117>that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.118>life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.119>question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.120>exceedingly narrowly to thee.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech55><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.121>Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.122>we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.123>and our wives' heels.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech56><b>LEONATO</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.124>We'll have dancing afterward.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech57><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.125>First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.126>thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.127>there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter a Messenger</i></p> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech58><b>Messenger</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.128>My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.129>And brought with armed men back to Messina.</A><br> | |
| </blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=speech59><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
| <blockquote> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.130>Think not on him till to-morrow:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.131>I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5.4.132>Strike up, pipers.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Dance</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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