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| <H3>SCENE I. LEONATO'S garden.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=3>Proposing with the prince and Claudio:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=4>Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=7>And bid her steal into the pleached bower,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=9>Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=10>Made proud by princes, that advance their pride</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=12>To listen our purpose. This is thy office;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=14>I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=16>As we do trace this alley up and down,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>Our talk must only be of Benedick.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=18>When I do name him, let it be thy part</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=19>To praise him more than ever man did merit:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=20>My talk to thee must be how Benedick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>That only wounds by hearsay.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE, behind</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=24>Now begin;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>Close by the ground, to hear our conference.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=27>The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>And greedily devour the treacherous bait:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>So angle we for Beatrice; who even now</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>Is couched in the woodbine coverture.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>Fear you not my part of the dialogue.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=33>Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Approaching the bower</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=35>No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=36>I know her spirits are as coy and wild</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=37>As haggerds of the rock.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>But are you sure</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=39>That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=40>So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=41>And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=43>But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>To wish him wrestle with affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>And never to let Beatrice know of it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>Deserve as full as fortunate a bed</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=49>O god of love! I know he doth deserve</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>As much as may be yielded to a man:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>But Nature never framed a woman's heart</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=52>Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>Misprising what they look on, and her wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>Values itself so highly that to her</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=56>All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>Nor take no shape nor project of affection,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=58>She is so self-endeared.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=59>Sure, I think so;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>And therefore certainly it were not good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=61>She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=64>But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>If low, an agate very vilely cut;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=69>If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=70>If silent, why, a block moved with none.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>So turns she every man the wrong side out</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>And never gives to truth and virtue that</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=74>Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=75>No, not to be so odd and from all fashions</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=77>But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=78>She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=79>Out of myself, press me to death with wit.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=80>Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=82>It were a better death than die with mocks,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>Which is as bad as die with tickling.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=84>Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=85>No; rather I will go to Benedick</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>And counsel him to fight against his passion.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=87>And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=88>To stain my cousin with: one doth not know</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>How much an ill word may empoison liking.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=90>O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=91>She cannot be so much without true judgment--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=92>Having so swift and excellent a wit</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=93>As she is prized to have--as to refuse</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=94>So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=95>He is the only man of Italy.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=96>Always excepted my dear Claudio.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=97>I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=98>Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=99>For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=100>Goes foremost in report through Italy.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=101>Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=102>His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=103>When are you married, madam?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=104>Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=105>I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=106>Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=107>She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>HERO</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=108>If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=109>Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt HERO and URSULA</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=110>[Coming forward]</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=111>What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=112>Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=113>Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=114>No glory lives behind the back of such.</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=115>And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=116>Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=117>If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=118>To bind our loves up in a holy band;</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=119>For others say thou dost deserve, and I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=120>Believe it better than reportingly.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit</i></p> | |
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