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| <H3>SCENE II. LEONATO'S garden.</h3> | |
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| <i>Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting</i> | |
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| <A NAME=speech1><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=1>Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=2>my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech2><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=3>Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech3><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=4>In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=5>shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=6>deservest it.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech4><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=7>To have no man come over me! why, shall I always</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=8>keep below stairs?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech5><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=9>Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech6><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=10>And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=11>but hurt not.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech7><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=12>A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=13>woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=14>thee the bucklers.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech8><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=15>Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech9><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=16>If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=17>pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech10><b>MARGARET</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=18>Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech11><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=19>And therefore will come.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exit MARGARET</i></p> | |
| <p><i>Sings</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=20>The god of love,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=21>That sits above,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=22>And knows me, and knows me,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=23>How pitiful I deserve,--</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=24>I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=25>swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=26>a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=27>whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=28>blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=29>over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=30>cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=31>out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=32>rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=33>'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=34>endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=35>nor I cannot woo in festival terms.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter BEATRICE</i></p> | |
| <A NAME=36>Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech12><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=37>Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech13><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=38>O, stay but till then!</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech14><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=39>'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=40>I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=41>knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech15><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=42>Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech16><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=43>Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=44>foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=45>will depart unkissed.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech17><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=46>Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=47>so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=48>plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=49>I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=50>him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=51>which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech18><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=52>For them all together; which maintained so politic</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=53>a state of evil that they will not admit any good</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=54>part to intermingle with them. But for which of my</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=55>good parts did you first suffer love for me?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech19><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=56>Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=57>indeed, for I love thee against my will.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech20><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=58>In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=59>If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=60>yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech21><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=61>Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech22><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=62>It appears not in this confession: there's not one</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=63>wise man among twenty that will praise himself.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech23><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=64>An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=65>the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=66>in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=67>no longer in monument than the bell rings and the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=68>widow weeps.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech24><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=69>And how long is that, think you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech25><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=70>Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=71>rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=72>wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=73>impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=74>own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=75>praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=76>praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech26><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=77>Very ill.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech27><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=78>And how do you?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech28><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=79>Very ill too.</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech29><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=80>Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=81>you too, for here comes one in haste.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Enter URSULA</i></p> | |
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| <A NAME=speech30><b>URSULA</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=82>Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=83>coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=84>falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=85>abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=86>fed and gone. Will you come presently?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech31><b>BEATRICE</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=87>Will you go hear this news, signior?</A><br> | |
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| <A NAME=speech32><b>BENEDICK</b></a> | |
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| <A NAME=88>I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=89>buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with</A><br> | |
| <A NAME=90>thee to thy uncle's.</A><br> | |
| <p><i>Exeunt</i></p> | |
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