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| <H3>SCENE II. The same.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>daughter of Leonato.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=8>Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>dishonesty shall appear in me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>Show me briefly how.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=11>I think I told your lordship a year since, how much</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>gentlewoman to Hero.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>I remember.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=17>What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=23>What proof shall I make of that?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=24>Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>other issue?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=28>Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>offer them instances; which shall bear no less</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=38>hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=42>absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>assurance and all the preparation overthrown.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=45>Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=46>it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>thy fee is a thousand ducats.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>BORACHIO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=48>Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>shall not shame me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>DON JOHN</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=50>I will presently go learn their day of marriage.</A><br> | |
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