Speaker 1: Act one seene one before Leonato's house. Enter Leonato, Hero, Beatrice,
Speaker 1: and others with a messenger.
Speaker 2: I learn in this letter that Don Pedro of Aragon
Speaker 2: comes this night to Messina.
Speaker 3: He is very near by this. He was not three
Speaker 3: leagues off when I left him.
Speaker 2: How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?
Speaker 3: But few of any sort, and none of name.
Speaker 2: A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home
Speaker 2: full numbers. I find here that Don Pedro hath bestowed
Speaker 2: much honor on a young Florentine called Claudio.
Speaker 3: Much deserved on his part, and equally remembered by Don Pedro.
Speaker 3: He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age,
Speaker 3: doing in the figure of a lamb the feats of
Speaker 3: a lion. He hath indeed better betred expectation than you
Speaker 3: must expect of me to tell you how he.
Speaker 2: Hath an uncle here, and Messina will be very much
Speaker 2: glad of it.
Speaker 3: I have already delivered him letters, and there appears much
Speaker 3: joy in him, even so much that joy could not
Speaker 3: show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness.
Speaker 2: Did he break out into tears.
Speaker 3: In great measure.
Speaker 2: A kind overflow of kindness. There are no faces truer
Speaker 2: than those that are so washed. How much better is
Speaker 2: it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?
Speaker 4: I pray you, is Signor Montante returned from the wars?
Speaker 4: Or no?
Speaker 3: I know none of that name, Lady. There was none
Speaker 3: such in the army of any sort.
Speaker 2: What is he that you ask for, niece?
Speaker 5: My cousin means Signor Benedict of Padua.
Speaker 3: Oh, he's returned, and as pleasant as ever he was.
Speaker 4: He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Speaker 4: Cupid at the flight, and my uncle's fool, reading the challenge,
Speaker 4: subscribed for Cupid and challenged him at the bird bolt.
Speaker 4: I pray you how many hath he killed and eaten
Speaker 4: in these wars? But how many hath he killed for? Indeed?
Speaker 4: I promise to eat all of his killing.
Speaker 2: Faith, niece, you tax Senor Benedict too much, But he'll
Speaker 2: be meet with you. I doubt it not.
Speaker 3: He hath done good service, lady.
Speaker 4: In these wars you had musty vittle, and he hath
Speaker 4: hoped to eat it. He is a very valiant trencherman.
Speaker 4: He hath an excellent stomach.
Speaker 3: And a good soldier too, lady, and.
Speaker 4: A good soldier to a lady. But what is he
Speaker 4: to a.
Speaker 3: Lord, a lord to a lord, a man to a
Speaker 3: man stuffed with all honorable virtues?
Speaker 4: It is so, indeed, he is no less than a
Speaker 4: stuffed man. But for the stuffing, well, we are all mortal.
Speaker 2: You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
Speaker 2: kind of merry war betwixt Senor Benedict and her. They
Speaker 2: never meet, but there's a skirmish of wit between.
Speaker 4: Them, alas he gets nothing by that in our last conflict,
Speaker 4: four of his five wits went halting off. And now
Speaker 4: is the whole man governed with one. So that if
Speaker 4: he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
Speaker 4: bear it for a difference between himself and his horse,
Speaker 4: For it is all the wealth that he hath left
Speaker 4: to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his companion?
Speaker 4: Now he hath every month a new sworn brother.
Speaker 3: Is it possible?
Speaker 4: Very easily possible. He wears his faith, But as the
Speaker 4: fashion of his hat, it ever changes with the next block.
Speaker 3: I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
Speaker 4: No, and he were I would burn my study. But
Speaker 4: I pray you who is his companion? Is there no
Speaker 4: young square now who will make a voyage with him
Speaker 4: to the devil.
Speaker 3: He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.
Speaker 4: Oh Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease.
Speaker 4: He is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
Speaker 4: runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio. If he
Speaker 4: have caught the Benedict, it will cost him a thousand
Speaker 4: pound airy be cured.
Speaker 3: I will hold friends with you, lady, do good friend.
Speaker 2: You will never run mahadneyes No.
Speaker 4: Not till a hot January.
Speaker 3: Don Pedrow is approached.
Speaker 1: Don Pedro, Don John Claudio, Bennedict, Balthazar and others.
Speaker 6: Good signor Leonato, you are come to meet your trouble.
Speaker 6: The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and
Speaker 6: you encounter it.
Speaker 2: Never came in trouble to my house in the likeness
Speaker 2: of your grace. For trouble being gone, comfort should remain.
Speaker 2: But when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness
Speaker 2: takes his leave.
Speaker 6: You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this is
Speaker 6: your daughter.
Speaker 2: Her mother hath many times told me so.
Speaker 7: Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her.
Speaker 2: Senor Benedict, No, for then you are a child.
Speaker 6: You have it full Bennedic. We may guess by this
Speaker 6: what you are being a man. Truly the lady father's herself.
Speaker 6: Be happy, lady, for you are like an honorable father.
Speaker 7: If Senor Leonardo be her father, she would not have
Speaker 7: his head on her shoulders, for all Messina as like
Speaker 7: him as she is.
Speaker 4: I wonder that you will still be talking, Signor Benedick.
Speaker 7: Nobody marks you what, my dear lady, disdain are you
Speaker 7: yet living?
Speaker 4: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such
Speaker 4: meat food to feed it, as Senor Benedick, courtesy itself
Speaker 4: must convert to disdain. If you come in her presence, then.
Speaker 7: Is courtesy a turn coat? But it is certain I
Speaker 7: am loved of all ladies, only you excepted, And I
Speaker 7: would I could find it in my heart that I
Speaker 7: had not a hard heart, for truly I love none.
Speaker 4: A dear happiness to women. They would else have been
Speaker 4: troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God in my
Speaker 4: cold blood I am of your humor for that. I
Speaker 4: had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than
Speaker 4: a man swear he loves me.
Speaker 7: God, keep your ladyship still in that mind, so some
Speaker 7: gentleman or other shall scape a predestinate scratched face.
Speaker 4: Scratching could not make it worse. And with such a
Speaker 4: face as yours were.
Speaker 7: Well, you are a rare parrot teacher.
Speaker 4: A bird of my tongue is better than a beast
Speaker 4: of yours.
Speaker 7: I would buy horse at the speed of your tongue,
Speaker 7: and so good a continuer. But keep your way a
Speaker 7: God's name I have done.
Speaker 4: You always end with a jade's trick. I know you
Speaker 4: of old.
Speaker 6: That is the sum of all. Leonato, Signor Claudio and
Speaker 6: Signor Benedict, my dear friend Leonato hath invited you all.
Speaker 6: I tell him we shall stay here at least a month,
Speaker 6: and he heartily praise. Some occasion may detain us longer.
Speaker 6: I dare swear he is no hypocrite, but praise from
Speaker 6: his heart.
Speaker 2: If you swear, my Lord, you shall not be.
Speaker 1: Forsworn to don John.
Speaker 2: Let me bid you welcome, my lord, be reconciled to
Speaker 2: the Prince your brother. I owe you all duty.
Speaker 8: I thank you.
Speaker 9: I am not of many words, but I thank you.
Speaker 6: Please at your greats lead on your hand Leonato, we
Speaker 6: will go together all but Benedict and Claudio.
Speaker 10: Benedict, does thou know the daughter signor Leonatto?
Speaker 7: I noted her not, but I looked on her?
Speaker 10: Is she not a modest young lady?
Speaker 7: Do you question me, as an honest man should do
Speaker 7: for my simple true judgment? Or would you have me
Speaker 7: speak after my custom as being a professed tyrant to
Speaker 7: their sex?
Speaker 10: No? I pray THEE speak and sober judgment.
Speaker 7: Why a faith methinks she's too low for a high praise,
Speaker 7: too brown for a fair praise, and too little for
Speaker 7: a great praise. Only this commendation I can afford her
Speaker 7: that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome
Speaker 7: and being no other. But as she is, I do
Speaker 7: not like her.
Speaker 10: Thou thinkest I am in sport? I pray THEE tell
Speaker 10: me truly, how thou likest her?
Speaker 7: Would you buy her that you inquire after her?
Speaker 10: Can the world buy such a jewel?
Speaker 7: Yea and a case to put it into? But speak
Speaker 7: you this with a sad brow? Or do you play
Speaker 7: the flouting jack to tell us Cupid is a good
Speaker 7: hair finder and Vulcan a rare carpenter. Come in what
Speaker 7: key shall a man, take you to go in the song.
Speaker 10: In mine eyes, she is the sweetest lady that I
Speaker 10: ever looked on.
Speaker 7: I can see yet without spectacles, and I see no
Speaker 7: such matter. There's her cousin, and she were not possessed
Speaker 7: with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as
Speaker 7: the first of May at the last of December. But
Speaker 7: I hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
Speaker 10: I would just bees trust myself, though I have sworn
Speaker 10: the contrary, if hero would be my.
Speaker 7: Wife'st come to this a faith? Hath not the world
Speaker 7: one man? But he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Speaker 7: Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?
Speaker 7: Go to a faith, and thou wilt needs thrust thy
Speaker 7: neck into a yoke, wear the print of it, and
Speaker 7: sigh away. Sundays Look, Don Pedros returned to seek you?
Speaker 1: Re enter, Don Pedro?
Speaker 6: What's secret? Hath held you here? That you followed not
Speaker 6: to Leonardo's?
Speaker 7: I would your grace would constrain me to tell I
Speaker 7: charged thee on thy allegiance you here, Count Claudio, I
Speaker 7: can be secret as a dumb man, I would have
Speaker 7: you think so. But on my allegiance mark you this
Speaker 7: on my allegiance. He is in love with who? Now
Speaker 7: that is your grace's part. Mark how short his answer
Speaker 7: is with Hero Leonardo's short daughter.
Speaker 10: If this were so, so, were it uttered.
Speaker 7: Like the old tale? My Lord? It is not so,
Speaker 7: nor twas not so, But indeed God forbid it should
Speaker 7: be so.
Speaker 10: If my passion changed not shortly, God forbid it should
Speaker 10: be otherwise.
Speaker 6: Amen. If you love her, for the lady is very
Speaker 6: well worthy.
Speaker 10: You speak this to fetch me and my lord, by
Speaker 10: my truth, I speak my thought and in faith, my Lord,
Speaker 10: I spoke mine, and.
Speaker 7: By my when my two fates entruaths, my Lord, I
Speaker 7: spoke mine.
Speaker 6: That I love her, I feel that she is worthy.
Speaker 7: I know that I neither feel how she should be loved,
Speaker 7: nor know how she should be worthy. Is the opinion
Speaker 7: that fire cannot melt out of me? I will die
Speaker 7: in it at the stake Thou.
Speaker 6: Wast ever an obstinate, heretic in despite of beauty, and.
Speaker 10: Never could maintain his part. But in the force of
Speaker 10: his will, that a.
Speaker 7: Woman conceived me. I thank her that she brought me up.
Speaker 7: I likewise give her most humble thanks, but that I
Speaker 7: will have a reach sheheet winded in my forehead, or
Speaker 7: hang my bugle and an invisible baldric. All women shall
Speaker 7: pardon me, because I will not do them the wrong
Speaker 7: to mistrust any I will do myself the right to
Speaker 7: trust none. And the fine is for the which I
Speaker 7: may go. The finer I will live, a bachelor.
Speaker 6: I shall see thee ere I die, look pale with love.
Speaker 7: With anger, with sickness, or hunger, My lord, not with love.
Speaker 7: Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than
Speaker 7: I will get again with drinking. Pick out mine eyes
Speaker 7: with the ballad maker's pen, and hang me up at
Speaker 7: the door of a brothel house for a sign of
Speaker 7: blind cupid.
Speaker 6: Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
Speaker 6: wilt prove a notable argument.
Speaker 7: If I do hang me in a bottle like a cat,
Speaker 7: and shoot at me, and he that hits me, let
Speaker 7: him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
Speaker 6: Well as time shall try. In time, the savage bull
Speaker 6: doth bear the yoke.
Speaker 7: The savage bull may. But if ever the sensible benedict
Speaker 7: bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set them
Speaker 7: in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted and
Speaker 7: in such great letters as they write, here is good
Speaker 7: horse to hire. Let them signify under my sign. Here
Speaker 7: you may see Benedick the married man.
Speaker 10: If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn mad.
Speaker 6: Nay, If Cupid hath nuts bent all his quiver in venus,
Speaker 6: thou wilt quake for this shortly I.
Speaker 7: Look for an earthquake too.
Speaker 6: Then well you will temporize with the hours in the meantime.
Speaker 6: Good signor Benedict, repair to Leonato's command, me to him
Speaker 6: and tell him I will not fail him at supper,
Speaker 6: For indeed he hath made great preparation.
Speaker 7: I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage.
Speaker 7: And so I commit you to.
Speaker 10: The tuition of God from my house if I had
Speaker 10: it the.
Speaker 6: Sixth of July, your loving friend, Benedict.
Speaker 7: Nay, mark not, mark not. The body of your discourse
Speaker 7: is sometimes guarded with fragments, and the guards are but
Speaker 7: slightly basted on neither ere you flout old ends any further,
Speaker 7: examine your conscience, and so I leave.
Speaker 10: You exit, my liege, Your highness, now may do me good.
Speaker 6: My love is thine to teach teach it? But how
Speaker 6: and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn
Speaker 6: hard lesson that may do thee good.
Speaker 10: Hath leonatto any son, my lord.
Speaker 6: No child, but Hero, she's his only hear. Dost thou
Speaker 6: affect her?
Speaker 10: Claudia, O, my lord, When you went onward on this
Speaker 10: ended action, I looked upon her with a soldier's eye
Speaker 10: that liked but had a rougher task in hand than
Speaker 10: to driving liking to the name of love. But now
Speaker 10: I am returned, and that war thoughts have left their places,
Speaker 10: vacant in their rooms, comes thronging, soft and delicate desires,
Speaker 10: all prompting me, how fair young hero is, saying I
Speaker 10: like to ear I went to wars.
Speaker 6: Thou wilt be like a lover presently and tire the
Speaker 6: hearer with a book of words. If thou dost love
Speaker 6: fair Hero, cherish it, and I will break with her
Speaker 6: and with her father, And thou shalt have her wast
Speaker 6: not to this In that thou beganst to twist so
Speaker 6: fine a story.
Speaker 10: How sweetly you do, minister to love that no love's
Speaker 10: grief by his complexion. But less my liking might too
Speaker 10: sudden scene, I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
Speaker 6: What need the bridge much broader than the flood. The
Speaker 6: fairest grant is the necessity. Look what will serve is
Speaker 6: fit tis once thou lovest, and I will fit thee
Speaker 6: with the remedy I know we shall have reveling to night.
Speaker 6: I will assume thy part in some disguise and tell
Speaker 6: fair hero I am Claudio, And in her bosom I'll
Speaker 6: unclasp my heart and take her hearing prisoner with the
Speaker 6: force and strong encounter of my amorous tale. Then after
Speaker 6: to her father I will break, And the conclusion is
Speaker 6: she shall be thine in practice. Let us put it presently.
Speaker 1: Excillant scene too. A room in Leonato's house. Enter Leonato
Speaker 1: and Antonio meeting.
Speaker 2: Oh no, brother, where is my cousin? Your son hath
Speaker 2: he provided this music?
Speaker 11: He is very busy about it. But brother, I can
Speaker 11: tell you strange news that you dreamt not of.
Speaker 2: Are they good.
Speaker 11: As the event stamps him? But they have a good cup.
Speaker 11: They show well outwork. The Prince and Count Claudia walking
Speaker 11: in a thick pleached alley in my orchard, were thus
Speaker 11: much overheard by a man of mine. The Prince discovered
Speaker 11: the Claudio that he loved my niece, your daughter, and
Speaker 11: meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, And
Speaker 11: if he found her accordant, he meant to take the
Speaker 11: present time by the top and instantly break with you
Speaker 11: of it.
Speaker 2: Hath a fellow, any wit that told you this.
Speaker 11: A good sharp fellow. I will send for him and
Speaker 11: question him yourself.
Speaker 2: No, no, we will hold it as a dream till
Speaker 2: it appear itself. But I will acquaint my daughter with
Speaker 2: all that she may be the better prepared for an answer. If,
Speaker 2: peradventure this be true, Go you and tell her of it.
Speaker 1: Several persons cross the stage.
Speaker 2: Cousins, you know what you have to do. Oh, I
Speaker 2: crie you, mercy friend, Go you with me, and I
Speaker 2: will use your skill. Good cousin, have a care this
Speaker 2: busy time.
Speaker 1: Excellent Scene three, another room in Leonardo's house. Enter Don
Speaker 1: John and Conrad.
Speaker 12: What the good yea, my lord? Why you do not
Speaker 12: to measure sad.
Speaker 9: There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore
Speaker 9: the sadness is without limit each tear.
Speaker 12: Reason, And when I.
Speaker 9: Have heard it, what blessings brings it?
Speaker 12: If not a present, at least a patient sufferance?
Speaker 9: I wonder that thou, being as thou sayest, thou art
Speaker 9: born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine
Speaker 9: to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am.
Speaker 9: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile
Speaker 9: at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach, and
Speaker 9: wait for no man's leisure, Sleep when I am drowsy,
Speaker 9: and tend to no man's business, laugh when I am merry,
Speaker 9: and claw no man in his humor.
Speaker 12: Yeah, you must not make full share of this till
Speaker 12: you may do it without controlment. You have a flat
Speaker 12: stood out against your brother, and he hath taken you
Speaker 12: newly into his grace, where it is impossible you should
Speaker 12: take true root. But by the fair weather that you
Speaker 12: make yourself, it is needful that you frame the season
Speaker 12: for your own harvest.
Speaker 9: I had rather be a canker in a hedge than
Speaker 9: a rose in his grace. And it better fits my
Speaker 9: blood to be disdained of all the do fashion a
Speaker 9: carriage to rob love from any In this though I
Speaker 9: cannot be said to be a flattering, honest man, it
Speaker 9: must not be denied. But I am a plane dealing villain.
Speaker 9: I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog. Therefore,
Speaker 9: I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If
Speaker 9: I had my mouth, I would bite. If I had
Speaker 9: my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime,
Speaker 9: let me be that I am, and seek not to
Speaker 9: alter me.
Speaker 12: Can you make no use of your discontent?
Speaker 9: I make all use of it, for I use it
Speaker 9: only who comes here?
Speaker 1: Enter Barracchio?
Speaker 8: What news, Baracchio?
Speaker 13: I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince your
Speaker 13: brother is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give
Speaker 13: you intelligence of an intended marriage.
Speaker 9: Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?
Speaker 8: What is he?
Speaker 5: For?
Speaker 9: A fool that betrothed himself to unquietness?
Speaker 13: Mary? It is your brother's right hand.
Speaker 9: Who the most exquisite Claudio, even he a proper squire?
Speaker 9: And who and who which way looks he?
Speaker 2: Mary?
Speaker 13: On Hero the daughter and heir of Leonato, a.
Speaker 9: Very forward march chick. And how came you to this?
Speaker 13: Being entertained for a perfumer? As I was smoking a
Speaker 13: musty room, comes me the Prince in Claudio hand in hand,
Speaker 13: in sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras and
Speaker 13: there heard it agreed upon that the Prince should wool
Speaker 13: Hero for himself, and having obtained her, give her to
Speaker 13: Count Claudio.
Speaker 9: Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to
Speaker 9: my displeasure. That young startup hath all the glory of
Speaker 9: my overthrow. If I can cross him anyway, I will
Speaker 9: bless myself every way. You are both sure and.
Speaker 14: Will assist me to the death.
Speaker 12: My Lord, let us.
Speaker 9: To the great supper. Their cheer is greater than I
Speaker 9: am subdued. Would the cook were of my mind? Shall
Speaker 9: we go to prove what's to be done?
Speaker 13: We'll wait upon your lordship.
Speaker 1: Exiant and of Act one, Act two, Scene one, a
Speaker 1: hall in Leonardo's house. Enter Leonatto, Antonio, Hero, Beatrice and others.
Speaker 2: Was not Count John here at supper?
Speaker 4: I saw him, not how tartly that gentleman looks. I
Speaker 4: never can see him, but I am heart burned an
Speaker 4: hour after.
Speaker 5: He is of a very melancholy disposition.
Speaker 4: You were an excellent man that were made just the
Speaker 4: midway between him and Benedict. The one is too like
Speaker 4: an image and says nothing, and the other two like
Speaker 4: my lady's eldest son.
Speaker 2: Evermore taddling than half Signor Benedict's tongue in Count John's mouth,
Speaker 2: and half Count John's melancholy, and Senor Benedict's space.
Speaker 4: With a good leg and a good foot uncle, and
Speaker 4: money enough in his purse, such a man would win
Speaker 4: any woman in the world if he could get a
Speaker 4: good will by.
Speaker 2: My troth niece, Thou wilt never get thee a husband.
Speaker 2: If thou be so shrewd of thy tongue he.
Speaker 4: Bath he's too cursed, too cursed, is more than cursed.
Speaker 4: I shall lessen God's sending that way, For it is
Speaker 4: said God sends a curse cow short horns, but to
Speaker 4: a cow too cursed he sends none.
Speaker 2: So by being too cursed, God will send you no.
Speaker 4: Horns, just if he sends me no husband. For the
Speaker 4: which blessing I am at him upon my knees every
Speaker 4: morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband
Speaker 4: with a beard on his face. I'd rather lie in
Speaker 4: the woolen.
Speaker 2: You may light on a husband that hath no beard.
Speaker 4: What should I do with him? Dress him in my
Speaker 4: apparel and make him my waiting gentlewoman. He that hath
Speaker 4: a beard is more than a youth. And he that
Speaker 4: hath no beard is less than a man. And he
Speaker 4: that is more than a youth is not for me.
Speaker 4: And he that is less than a man, I am
Speaker 4: not for him. Therefore I will even take sixpence in
Speaker 4: earnest of the bear ward and lead his apes into hell.
Speaker 2: Well, then go you into hell, No, but.
Speaker 4: To the gate, and there will the devil meet me
Speaker 4: like an old cuckold with horns on his head, and say,
Speaker 4: get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to heaven. Here's
Speaker 4: no place for you maids. So I deliver up my
Speaker 4: apes and away to Saint. For the heavens. He shows
Speaker 4: me where the bachelors sit, and there live we as
Speaker 4: merry as the day is long to hero.
Speaker 11: Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled by your father.
Speaker 4: Yes, faith, it is my cousin's duty to make courtesy
Speaker 4: and say father, as it please you. But yet for
Speaker 4: all that cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or
Speaker 4: else make another curtesy and say father as it please me.
Speaker 2: Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted.
Speaker 4: With a husband, not till God makes men of some
Speaker 4: other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman
Speaker 4: to be overmastered? With a piece of valiant dust to
Speaker 4: make an account of her life to a clod of
Speaker 4: wayward marl. No, Uncle al nan Adam's sons are my brethren,
Speaker 4: and truly I hold it a sin to match my
Speaker 4: kindred daughter.
Speaker 2: Remember what I told you. If the Prince do solicit
Speaker 2: you in that kind you know your answer.
Speaker 4: The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you
Speaker 4: be not wooed in good time, if the prince be
Speaker 4: too him, tell him there is measure in everything, and
Speaker 4: so dance out the answer for hear me, hero. Wooing,
Speaker 4: wedding and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure,
Speaker 4: and a sank pace. The first sweet is hot and
Speaker 4: hasty like a Scotch jig, and full is fantastical. The
Speaker 4: wedding mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and
Speaker 4: ancient tree. And then comes repentance, and with his bad legs,
Speaker 4: falls into the sank pace, faster and faster till he
Speaker 4: sink into his grave.
Speaker 2: Cousin, you apprehend a passing shrewdely.
Speaker 4: I have a good eye, Uncle, I can see a
Speaker 4: church by daylight.
Speaker 2: The revelers are entering, Brother, make good.
Speaker 1: Room, enter Don Pedro, Claudio Benedic Bofazar, Don, John Baraccio,
Speaker 1: Margaret Ursula, and others.
Speaker 6: Masked lady, will you walk about with your friend?
Speaker 5: So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing.
Speaker 5: I am yours for the walk, and especially when I.
Speaker 6: Walk away with me and your company.
Speaker 5: I may say so when I please, and when.
Speaker 6: Please you to say so when.
Speaker 5: I like your favor, for God defend the loot should
Speaker 5: be like the case.
Speaker 6: My visor is phileman's roof within the house is Jove.
Speaker 5: Why then your visor should be thatched.
Speaker 6: Speak low. If you speak loud takes her aside.
Speaker 15: Well, I would you did like me?
Speaker 16: So would not I? For your own sake? For I
Speaker 16: have many ill qualities.
Speaker 15: Which is one I say?
Speaker 16: My prayer is aloud.
Speaker 15: I love you the better. The hearers may cry, Amen.
Speaker 17: God match me with a good dancer. Amen, and God
Speaker 17: keep him out of my sight. When the dance is done,
Speaker 17: Answer clerk.
Speaker 15: No more words. The clerk is answered, I know you
Speaker 15: well enough.
Speaker 14: You are, Senor Antonio. I am not I know you
Speaker 14: by the waggling of your head.
Speaker 11: Nor to tell you true I counterfit him.
Speaker 14: You could never do him so ill well unless you
Speaker 14: were the very man. Here's his dry hand? Up and
Speaker 14: down you were? He?
Speaker 7: You were?
Speaker 11: He at a word?
Speaker 9: I am not.
Speaker 10: Come.
Speaker 7: Come?
Speaker 14: Do you think I do not know you? By your
Speaker 14: excellent wit? Can virtue hide it? So go to mom?
Speaker 14: You are he Grace's will appear, and there's an end.
Speaker 4: Will you not tell me who told you so?
Speaker 11: No?
Speaker 7: You shall pardon me.
Speaker 4: Nor will you not tell me who you are? And
Speaker 4: not now that I was disdainful, and that I had
Speaker 4: my good wit? Out of the hundred merry tales. Well,
Speaker 4: this was Signor Benedict that said, so what's he? I'm
Speaker 4: sure you know him well enough?
Speaker 7: Not, I believe me.
Speaker 4: Did he never make you laugh?
Speaker 7: I pray you? What is he?
Speaker 4: Why? He is the Prince's jester, a very dull fool.
Speaker 4: Only his gift is in devising impossible slanders. None but
Speaker 4: Libertine's delight in him. And the commendation is not in
Speaker 4: his wit, but in his villainy, for he both pleases
Speaker 4: men and angers them, and then they laugh at him
Speaker 4: and beat him. I am sure he is in the fleet.
Speaker 4: I would he had boarded me.
Speaker 7: When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say,
Speaker 7: do do?
Speaker 4: But he'll break a comparison or two on me, which,
Speaker 4: peradventure not marked or laughed at, strikes him into melancholy.
Speaker 4: And then there's a partridge wing saved for the fool
Speaker 4: will eat no supper that night.
Speaker 1: Music within.
Speaker 4: We must follow the leaders.
Speaker 7: In every good thing.
Speaker 4: Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave
Speaker 4: them at the next turning dance.
Speaker 1: Then exiant all but Don John, Baraccio and Claudio.
Speaker 9: Sure, my brother is amorous on Hero and hath withdrawn
Speaker 9: her father to break with him about it. The ladies
Speaker 9: follow her, but one visor remains.
Speaker 13: And that is Claudio. I know him by his bearing?
Speaker 8: Are you not signor Benedick?
Speaker 6: You know me well?
Speaker 10: I am he Signor?
Speaker 9: You are very near my brother in his love. He
Speaker 9: is enamored on Hero. I pray you dissuade him from her.
Speaker 9: She is no equal for his birth. You may do
Speaker 9: the part of an honest man in it.
Speaker 10: How know you he loves her.
Speaker 9: I heard him swear his affection.
Speaker 13: So did I too, and he swore he would marry
Speaker 13: her to night.
Speaker 1: Come let us to the banquet, Exiot, Don John, and Barraccio.
Speaker 10: Thea's auntsaan name of Benedick. But hear these ill news
Speaker 10: with the ears of Claudio tis certain. So the Prince
Speaker 10: vus for himself. French is constant in all other things
Speaker 10: save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all
Speaker 10: hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every I
Speaker 10: negotiate for itself and trust No agent for beauty is
Speaker 10: a witch against his charm's faith melted into blood. This
Speaker 10: is an accident of hourly proof, which I mistrusted. Not farewell. Therefore,
Speaker 10: hero re enter Benedict, Count Claudio, ye the same.
Speaker 7: Come, will you go with me whither even to the
Speaker 7: next willow about your own business? Count, what fashion will
Speaker 7: you wear the garland of about your neck like a
Speaker 7: usurer's chain, or under your arms like a lieutenant's scarf.
Speaker 7: You must wear it one way. For the Prince hath
Speaker 7: got your hero.
Speaker 10: I wish him joy of her.
Speaker 7: Why that's spoken like an honest drovier. So they sell bullocks.
Speaker 7: But did you think the Prince would have served you? Thus?
Speaker 10: I pray you leave me.
Speaker 7: Ho now you strike like the blind man, twas the
Speaker 7: boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.
Speaker 10: If it will not be I'll leave you.
Speaker 7: Exit alas poor hurt fowl. Now will he creep into
Speaker 7: but that my lady Beatrice should know me and not
Speaker 7: know me the Prince's fool. It may be I go
Speaker 7: under that title because I am merry yea, But so
Speaker 7: I am apt to do myself wrong. I am not
Speaker 7: so reputed. It is the base, the bitter disposition of
Speaker 7: Beatrice that puts the world into her person and so
Speaker 7: gives me out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may
Speaker 7: re enter.
Speaker 6: Don Pedro, now signor where's the count? Did you see him? Troth?
Speaker 7: My lord, I have played the part of lady fame.
Speaker 7: I found him here, as melancholy as a lodge and
Speaker 7: a warren. I told him, and I think I told
Speaker 7: him true, that your grace had got the good will
Speaker 7: of this young lady. And I offered him my company
Speaker 7: to a willow tree, either to make him a garland
Speaker 7: as being forsaken, or to bind him up a rod,
Speaker 7: as being worthy to be whipped.
Speaker 6: To be whipped? What's his fault?
Speaker 7: The flat t friends gression of a schoolboy who, being
Speaker 7: overjoyed with finding a bird's nest, shows at his companion
Speaker 7: and he steals it.
Speaker 6: Wilt thou make a trust a transgression. The transgression is
Speaker 6: in the stealer.
Speaker 7: Yet it had not been amiss. The rod had been made,
Speaker 7: and the garland too. For the garland he might have
Speaker 7: worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on you, who,
Speaker 7: as I take it, have stolen his bird's nest.
Speaker 6: I will but teach them to sing, and restore them
Speaker 6: to the owner.
Speaker 7: If their singing answer your saying, by my faith, you
Speaker 7: say honestly.
Speaker 6: The lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you. The gentleman
Speaker 6: that danced with her told her, she is much wronged
Speaker 6: by you.
Speaker 7: Oh, she misused me past the endurance of a block
Speaker 7: an oak, But with one green leaf on it would
Speaker 7: have answered her. My very visor began to assume life
Speaker 7: and scold with her. She told me, not thinking I
Speaker 7: had been myself, that I was the Prince's jester, that
Speaker 7: I was duller than a great thaw, huddling jest upon jest,
Speaker 7: with such impossible conveyance upon me, that I stood like
Speaker 7: a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting
Speaker 7: at me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs. If
Speaker 7: her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were
Speaker 7: no living near her, she would infect to the north star.
Speaker 7: I would not marry her, though she were endowed with
Speaker 7: all that Adam had left him before he transgressed, she
Speaker 7: would have made hercules have turned spit yea, and have
Speaker 7: cleft his club to make the fire too. Come talk
Speaker 7: not of her. You shall find her the infernal atay
Speaker 7: in good apparel. I would to God some scholar would
Speaker 7: conjure her, For certainly, while she is here, a man
Speaker 7: may live as quiet a hell as in a sanctuary,
Speaker 7: and people sin upon purpose because they would go there.
Speaker 7: So indeed, all disquiet, horror, and perturbation follow her.
Speaker 1: Re Enter Claudio, Beatrice, Hero and Leonatto.
Speaker 6: Look here she comes.
Speaker 7: Will your grace command me any service to the world's end?
Speaker 7: I will go on the slightest errand now to the
Speaker 7: antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I
Speaker 7: will fetch you a toothpicker, now from the furthest inch
Speaker 7: of Asia. Bring you the length of Prester John's foot.
Speaker 7: Fetch you a hair off the great chams beard. Do
Speaker 7: you any embassage to the pigmies rather than hold three
Speaker 7: words conference with this harpy.
Speaker 6: You have no employment for me, none but to desire
Speaker 6: your good company.
Speaker 7: Ugh, God, sir, here's a dish I love not I
Speaker 7: cannot endure, my lady, tongue exit.
Speaker 6: Come, lady, Come, you have lost the heart of Signor.
Speaker 4: Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I
Speaker 4: gave him use for it, a double heart for a
Speaker 4: single one Mary once before he won it of me
Speaker 4: with false dice. Therefore, your grace may well say I
Speaker 4: have lost it.
Speaker 6: You have put him down, Lady, you have put him down.
Speaker 4: So I would not he should do to me, my lord,
Speaker 4: lest I should prove the mother of fools. I have
Speaker 4: brought Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.
Speaker 6: Why, how now, Count? Wherefore are you sad?
Speaker 10: Not sad? My lord?
Speaker 6: How then sick?
Speaker 10: Neither?
Speaker 1: My lord?
Speaker 4: The count is neither sad nor sick, nor marry nor well.
Speaker 4: But civil Count Civil is an orange and something of
Speaker 4: that jealous complexion.
Speaker 6: If faith, lady, I think you're blazoned to be true,
Speaker 6: though I'll be sworn if he be so, his conceit
Speaker 6: is false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name,
Speaker 6: and fair hero is won. I have broke with her
Speaker 6: father and his good will obtained name the day of marriage,
Speaker 6: and God give thee joy.
Speaker 2: Count take of me my daughter, and with her my fortunes.
Speaker 2: His grace hath made the match and all grace. Say
Speaker 2: amen to it.
Speaker 4: Speak count tis your cue.
Speaker 10: Silence is the perfectest herald of joy. I weer but
Speaker 10: a little happy. If I could say, how much, lady,
Speaker 10: as you are mine, I am yours. Give away myself
Speaker 10: for you, and dote upon the exchange.
Speaker 4: Speak, cousin, or if you cannot stop his mouth with
Speaker 4: a kiss, and let not him speak neither.
Speaker 6: In faith, Lady, you have a merry heart.
Speaker 4: Yea, my lord, I thank it. Poor fool, it keeps
Speaker 4: on the windy side of care. My cousin tells him
Speaker 4: in his ear that he is in her heart.
Speaker 10: And so she doth cousin, good Lord.
Speaker 4: For a liance. Thus goes every one to the world,
Speaker 4: but I and I am sun burnt. I may sit
Speaker 4: in a corner and cry high ho for a husband.
Speaker 6: Lady, Beatrice, I will get you one.
Speaker 4: I would rather have one of your father's, getting hath
Speaker 4: your grace near a brother like you. Your father got
Speaker 4: excellent husbands if a maid could come by them, Will
Speaker 4: you have me, lady, No, my lord, unless I might
Speaker 4: have another for working days. Your grace is too costly
Speaker 4: to wear every day. But I beseech your grace pardon me.
Speaker 4: I was born to speak all mirth, and no matter.
Speaker 6: Your silence most defends me, and to be merry. Best
Speaker 6: become to you, For out of question, you were born
Speaker 6: in a merry hour.
Speaker 4: No sure, my lord, my mother cried, But then there
Speaker 4: was a star danced, and under that I was born. Cousins,
Speaker 4: God give you joy.
Speaker 2: Niece. Will you look to those things I told you of?
Speaker 4: I cry you, mercy, uncle, by your grace's pardon.
Speaker 6: Exit by my truth. A pleasant spirited lady.
Speaker 2: There is little of the melancholy element in her, my lord.
Speaker 2: She is never sad, but when she sleeps, and not
Speaker 2: ever sad. Then, for I have heard my daughter say
Speaker 2: she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.
Speaker 6: She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.
Speaker 2: Oh, by no means she mocks all lures out of suit.
Speaker 6: She were an excellent wife for Benedict.
Speaker 2: Oh lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,
Speaker 2: they would talk themselves mad.
Speaker 6: Count Claudio would mean you to go to church.
Speaker 10: Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crouches to love have
Speaker 10: all his rights not.
Speaker 2: Till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just
Speaker 2: seven night, and a time too brief too to have
Speaker 2: all things. Answer my mind.
Speaker 6: Come, you shake your head at so long a breathing,
Speaker 6: But I warrant the claudio that time shall not go
Speaker 6: dully by us. I will, in the interim, undertake one
Speaker 6: of Hercules's labors, which is to bring Signor Benedict and
Speaker 6: the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection, the one
Speaker 6: with the other. I would fain have it a match,
Speaker 6: and I doubt not, but to fashion it if you
Speaker 6: three will minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.
Speaker 2: My Lord, I am for you, though it cost me
Speaker 2: ten knights's watchings.
Speaker 6: And I my Lord, and you too, gentle.
Speaker 5: Hero, I will do any modest office, my Lord, to
Speaker 5: help my cousin to a good husband.
Speaker 6: And Bennedicck is not the unhopefulest husband that I know.
Speaker 6: Thus far can I praise him. He is of noble strain,
Speaker 6: of approved valor and confirmed honesty. I will teach you
Speaker 6: how to humor your cousin that she shall fall in
Speaker 6: love with Benedick and I, with your too, helps will
Speaker 6: so practice on Benedict that in despite of his quick
Speaker 6: wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love
Speaker 6: with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no
Speaker 6: longer an archer. His glory shall be ours, for we
Speaker 6: are the only love gods. Go in with me, and
Speaker 6: I will tell you my.
Speaker 1: Drift exiant scene too. Another room in Leonato's house. Enter
Speaker 1: Don John and Baraccio.
Speaker 9: It is so the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter
Speaker 9: of Leonardo.
Speaker 13: Ye, my lord, but I can cross it any.
Speaker 9: Bar any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me.
Speaker 9: I am sick and displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes
Speaker 9: withthwart his affection ranges evenly with mine. How canst thou
Speaker 9: cross this marriage?
Speaker 13: Not honestly, my Lord, but so covertly that no dishonesty
Speaker 13: shall appear in me?
Speaker 8: Show me briefly how.
Speaker 13: I think I told your lordship a year since, how
Speaker 13: much I am in the favor of Margaret, the waiting
Speaker 13: gentlewoman to Hero. I remember, I can, at any unseasonable
Speaker 13: instant of the night, appoint her to look out at
Speaker 13: her lady's chamber window.
Speaker 8: What life is in that to be the death of
Speaker 8: this marriage, of.
Speaker 13: That lies in you to temper. Go you to the
Speaker 13: Prince your brother spare not to tell him that he
Speaker 13: hath wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio. Whose
Speaker 13: estimation do you mightily hold up to a contaminated stale
Speaker 13: such a one as Hero.
Speaker 8: What proof shall I make of that.
Speaker 13: Proof enough to misuse the Prince to vex Claudio, to
Speaker 13: undo Hero and cull Leonato. Look you for any other issue.
Speaker 9: Only to despite them. I will endeavor anything.
Speaker 13: Go then find me a meet hour to draw Don
Speaker 13: Pedro in the count Claudio alone. Tell them that you
Speaker 13: know that Hero loves me, intending kind of zeal both
Speaker 13: to the Prince and Claudio, as in love of your
Speaker 13: brother's honor, who hath made this match and his friend's reputation,
Speaker 13: who is thus like to be cozened with the semblance
Speaker 13: of a maid that you have discovered. Thus they will
Speaker 13: scarcely believe this without trial. Offer them instances which shall
Speaker 13: bear no less likelihood than to see me at her
Speaker 13: chamber window. Hear me call Margaret Hero here, Margaret term
Speaker 13: me Claudio, and bring them to see this the very night,
Speaker 13: for the intended wedding. For in the meantime I will
Speaker 13: so fashion the matter that Hero shall be absent, and
Speaker 13: there shall appear such seeming truth of Hero's disloyalty, that
Speaker 13: jealousy shall be called assurance. In all the preparation overthrown.
Speaker 9: Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will
Speaker 9: put it in practice. Be cunning in the working this,
Speaker 9: and thy fee is a thousand ducts.
Speaker 13: Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall
Speaker 13: not shame me.
Speaker 9: I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
Speaker 1: Exit Scene three, Leonardo's garden. Enter Benedict boy, Enter a boy.
Speaker 7: Signor in my chamber window lies a book. Bring it
Speaker 7: hither to me in the orchard.
Speaker 14: I am here already, sir, I know.
Speaker 7: That, but I would have thee Hence and here.
Speaker 1: Again exit boy.
Speaker 7: I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
Speaker 7: another man is a fool, when he dedicates his behaviors
Speaker 7: to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow
Speaker 7: follies and others, become the argument of his own scorn
Speaker 7: by falling in love. And such a man as Claudio
Speaker 7: I have known, when there was no music with him
Speaker 7: but the drum and the fife. And now had he
Speaker 7: rather hear the tabor and the pipe, I have known
Speaker 7: when he would have walked ten mile afoot to see
Speaker 7: a good armor. And now will he lie ten nights
Speaker 7: awake carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was
Speaker 7: wont to speak plain and to the purpose, like an
Speaker 7: honest man and a soldier, And now was he turned orthography.
Speaker 7: His words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
Speaker 7: strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
Speaker 7: these eyes I cannot tell, I think not. I will
Speaker 7: not be sworn. But love may transform me to an oyster.
Speaker 7: But I'll take my oath on it. Till he have
Speaker 7: made an oyster of me, he shall never make me
Speaker 7: such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well.
Speaker 7: Another is wise, yet I am well. Another virtuous, yet
Speaker 7: I am well. But till all graces be in one woman,
Speaker 7: one woman shall not come in my grace rich. She
Speaker 7: shall be that's certain, wise, or all none virtuous, Or
Speaker 7: I'll never cheapen her fair, or I'll never look on
Speaker 7: her mild, or come not near me noble, or not
Speaker 7: I for an angel of good discourse, an excellent musician,
Speaker 7: and her hair shall be of what color it? Please God,
Speaker 7: ha the Prince and Monsieur louve I will hide me
Speaker 7: in the arbor withdraws.
Speaker 1: Enter Don Pedro, Leonato and Claudio, followed by Balthazar and musicians.
Speaker 6: Come. Shall we hear this music?
Speaker 10: Yea, my lord, how still the evening is has hushed
Speaker 10: on purpose to grace harmony.
Speaker 6: See you where Benedict hath hid himself?
Speaker 10: Oh very well, my lord, the music ended? Will fitch
Speaker 10: the kit fox with a penniworth.
Speaker 6: Come, Balthazar, we'll hear that song again.
Speaker 15: Oh good, my lord, tax not so bad a voice
Speaker 15: to slander music any more than once.
Speaker 6: It is the witness still of excellency to put a
Speaker 6: strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee sing,
Speaker 6: and let me woo no more?
Speaker 15: Because you talk of wooing, I will sing, since many
Speaker 15: a word doth commence his suit to her. He thinks
Speaker 15: not worthy, yet he woos? Yet will he swear he loves?
Speaker 13: Nay?
Speaker 6: Pray thee come, or if thou wilt hold longer argument,
Speaker 6: do it? In notes?
Speaker 15: Note this before my notes. There's not a note of
Speaker 15: mine that's worth the noting.
Speaker 6: Why these are very crutchets, that he speaks notes, notes
Speaker 6: forsooth and nothing music.
Speaker 7: Oh, now, divine air. Now is his soul ravished? Is
Speaker 7: it not strange that sheep's guts should hail souls out
Speaker 7: of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money?
Speaker 1: When all's done, bothas are sings.
Speaker 18: Sigh no more, lady, sigh no more?
Speaker 19: Men word deceivers, ever one foot in sea and one
Speaker 19: on shore to one thing constant never, Then sigh not so,
Speaker 19: but lead them and be you blithe than bonny, converting
Speaker 19: on your sounds of woe into hay on in no it?
Speaker 16: Sing no more?
Speaker 19: Did he sing no more of dumb, so dull and
Speaker 19: heavy The fraud of men was ever so, since Saler
Speaker 19: first was leavy. Then sigh not so, But let them go,
Speaker 19: and be you blithe than bonny, converting on your sounds
Speaker 19: of woe into hay ony.
Speaker 20: On it.
Speaker 6: By my troth a good.
Speaker 15: Song and an ill singer, my lord.
Speaker 6: Ha no no faith thou sing'st well enough for a
Speaker 6: shift aside.
Speaker 7: And he had been a dog that should have howled,
Speaker 7: thus they would have hanged him. And I pray God
Speaker 7: his bad voice bowed no mischief. I had a leief
Speaker 7: of heard the night raven come? What playing could have
Speaker 7: come after it?
Speaker 6: Yea, marry dost thou hear, Balthazar, I pray thee get
Speaker 6: us some excellent music for to morrow night. We would
Speaker 6: have it at the lady Hero's chamber window.
Speaker 15: The best I can, my Lord do so.
Speaker 1: Farewell, exiant Balthazar, and musicians, come.
Speaker 6: Hither, Leonato, What was it you told me of to
Speaker 6: day that your niece Beatrice was in love with Signor Benedick.
Speaker 1: Oh I aside to don pedro.
Speaker 10: Stocon stocone the fowl sits. I did never think that
Speaker 10: lady would have loved any.
Speaker 2: Man, No, nor I neither, but most wonderful that she
Speaker 2: should so dote on Signor Benedict, whom she hath in
Speaker 2: all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhore aside is possible?
Speaker 7: Sits the wind in that corner.
Speaker 2: By my troth my Lord, I cannot tell what to
Speaker 2: think of it, but that she loves him with an
Speaker 2: enraged affection. It is past the infinite of thought.
Speaker 6: Maybe she doth but counterfeit faith like enough.
Speaker 2: Oh God, counterfeit. There was never counterfeit of passion came
Speaker 2: so near the life of passion as she discovers it.
Speaker 6: Why what effects of passion show she?
Speaker 1: Aside?
Speaker 10: Face the hook? Well, this fish will bite.
Speaker 2: What affects my lord? She will sit you. You heard
Speaker 2: my daughter tell you how she did.
Speaker 6: Indeed how now I pray you you amaze me. I
Speaker 6: would have thought her spirit had been invincible against all
Speaker 6: assaults of affection.
Speaker 2: I would have sworn it had my lord, especially against Benedict.
Speaker 7: Aside, I should think this is a gull, but that
Speaker 7: the white bearded fellow speaks it knavery cannot sure hide
Speaker 7: itself in such reverence.
Speaker 10: Aside, he hath taken the infection, hold it up?
Speaker 6: Hath she made her affection known to Benedicck.
Speaker 2: No, and swear she never will. That's her torment?
Speaker 10: Tis true? Indeed, so your daughter says, shall I says
Speaker 10: she that has so often counted him with scorn, Write
Speaker 10: to him that I love him?
Speaker 2: This says she, now when she is beginning to write
Speaker 2: to him, For she'll be up twenty times a night,
Speaker 2: and there will she sit in her smock till she
Speaker 2: have writ a sheet of paper. My daughter tells us all, now.
Speaker 10: You talk of a sheet of paper, I remember, pretty
Speaker 10: jest your daughter told us of Oh.
Speaker 2: When she had read it and was reading it over,
Speaker 2: she found Benedict and Beatrice between the sheet that Oh.
Speaker 2: She tore the letter into a thousand halfpence, railed at
Speaker 2: herself that she should be so immodest to write to
Speaker 2: one that she knew what flowed her. I measure him,
Speaker 2: says she, by my own spirit, for I should flout
Speaker 2: him if he writ to me, yea, though I love him, I.
Speaker 10: Should Then down upon her knee, she falls, weeps, sobs,
Speaker 10: beats a heart, tears a hair, praise, curses. Oh, sweet Benaderic,
Speaker 10: God give me patience.
Speaker 2: She doth indeed, my daughter says so. And the ecstasy
Speaker 2: hath so much overborne her, that my daughter is sometimes
Speaker 2: a feared she will do a desperate outrage to herself.
Speaker 6: It is very true, it were good that Benedict knew
Speaker 6: of it by some other. If she will not discover it,
Speaker 6: to what end he would.
Speaker 10: But make a sport of it, until meant the poor
Speaker 10: lady worse, and.
Speaker 6: He should it were an alms to hang him. She's
Speaker 6: an excellent sweet lady, and out of all suspicion, she
Speaker 6: is virtuous.
Speaker 10: And she is exceedingly wise.
Speaker 6: In everything, but in loving benedickt.
Speaker 2: Oh, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender
Speaker 2: a body. We have ten proofs to one that blood
Speaker 2: hath the victory. I am sorry for her as I
Speaker 2: have just cause, being her uncle and her.
Speaker 6: Guardian, I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
Speaker 6: I would have daffed all other respects and made her
Speaker 6: half myself. I pray you tell Bennedeck of it, and
Speaker 6: hear what he will say, were it good?
Speaker 2: Thank you?
Speaker 10: He think surely she will die, for she says she
Speaker 10: will die if he love her not, and she will
Speaker 10: die ere she may have love known, and she will
Speaker 10: die if he woo her, rather than she will bate
Speaker 10: one breath of her accustomed crossness.
Speaker 6: She doth well if she should make tender of her love,
Speaker 6: tis very possible he'll scorn it. For the man, as
Speaker 6: you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
Speaker 10: He is a very proper man.
Speaker 6: He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
Speaker 10: For God, and in my mind, very wise.
Speaker 6: He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.
Speaker 10: And I take him to be valiant as.
Speaker 6: Hector, I assure you, and in the managing of quarrels.
Speaker 6: You may say he is wise, for either he avoids
Speaker 6: them with great discretion or undertakes them with a most
Speaker 6: christian like fear.
Speaker 2: If he do fear God, I must necessarily keep peace.
Speaker 2: If he break the peace, he ought to enter into
Speaker 2: a quarrel with fear and trembling.
Speaker 6: And so will he do. For the man doth fear God,
Speaker 6: howsoever it seems not in him, by some large jests,
Speaker 6: he will make well. I am sorry for your niece.
Speaker 6: Shall we go seek Bennedicck and tell him of her love?
Speaker 10: Never tell him, my lord? Let her wear it out
Speaker 10: with good counsel.
Speaker 2: Nay, that's impossible. She may wear her heart out first.
Speaker 6: Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter.
Speaker 6: Let it cool the while. I love Bennedicck well, and
Speaker 6: wish he would modestly examine himself to see how much
Speaker 6: he is unworthy. So good a lady, my lord, will
Speaker 6: you walk?
Speaker 1: Dinner is ready aside?
Speaker 10: If he do not do it on her. Upon this
Speaker 10: I will never trust my expect aside.
Speaker 6: Let there be the same net spread for her, And
Speaker 6: that must your daughter and her gentlewoman carry. The sport
Speaker 6: will be when they hold one an opinion of another's dotage,
Speaker 6: and no such matter. That's the scene I would see,
Speaker 6: which will be merely a dumb show. Let us send
Speaker 6: her to call him in to dinner.
Speaker 1: Exitant, Don Pedro, Claudio and Leonato advancing from the arbor.
Speaker 7: This can be no trick. The conference was sadly born.
Speaker 7: They have the truth of this from a hero. They
Speaker 7: seem to pity the lady. It seems her affections have
Speaker 7: their full bent. Love me, why it must be requited?
Speaker 7: I hear how I am censured. They say, I will
Speaker 7: bear myself proudly if I perceive the love come from her.
Speaker 7: They say too, that she will rather die than give
Speaker 7: any any sign of affection. I did never think to marry.
Speaker 7: I must not seem proud. Happy are they that hear
Speaker 7: their distractions and can put them to mending. They say,
Speaker 7: the lady is fair, tis the truth I can bear
Speaker 7: them witness, and virtuous tis so I cannot reprove it.
Speaker 7: And wise but for loving me by my troth, it
Speaker 7: is no addition to her wit, nor no great argument
Speaker 7: of her folly, For I will be horribly in love
Speaker 7: with her. I may chance have some odd quirks and
Speaker 7: remnants of wit broken on me because I have railed
Speaker 7: so long against marriage. But doth not the appetite alter
Speaker 7: A man loves the meat in his youth that he
Speaker 7: cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences in
Speaker 7: these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from
Speaker 7: the career of his humor. No, the world must be peopled.
Speaker 7: When I said I would die a bachelor, I did
Speaker 7: not think I should live till I were married. Here
Speaker 7: comes Beatrice. By this day, she's a fair lady. I
Speaker 7: do spy some marks of love in her.
Speaker 4: Enter Beatrice, against my will, I am sent to bid
Speaker 4: you come in to dinner.
Speaker 7: Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.
Speaker 4: I took no more pains for those thanks than you
Speaker 4: take pains to thank me. If it had been painful,
Speaker 4: I would not have come.
Speaker 7: You take pleasure, then in the message.
Speaker 4: Yea, just so much as you may take upon a
Speaker 4: knife's point and choke a doll withal you have no
Speaker 4: stomach signor fare you well exit.
Speaker 7: Ha against my will, I am sent to bid you
Speaker 7: come into dinner. There's a double meaning in that I
Speaker 7: took no more pains for those thanks than you took
Speaker 7: pains to thank me. That's as much as to say.
Speaker 7: Any pains that I take for you is as easy
Speaker 7: as thanks. If I do not take pity of her,
Speaker 7: I am a villain. If I do not love her,
Speaker 7: I am a jew. I will go get her picture.
Speaker 1: Exit end of Act two, Act three, Scene one, Leonardo's garden.
Speaker 1: Enter Hero, Margaret and Ursula.
Speaker 5: Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor. There shalt thou
Speaker 5: find my cousin Beatrice proposing with the prince, and Claudio
Speaker 5: whisper her ear and tell her. I and Ursula walk
Speaker 5: in the orchard, and our whole discourse is all of her.
Speaker 5: Say that thou overheard's dust and bid her steal into
Speaker 5: the pleached bower where honeysuckles ripened by the sun. Forbid
Speaker 5: the son to enter, like favorites made proud by princes
Speaker 5: that advance their pride against the power that bread it.
Speaker 5: There will she hide her to listen to our propose.
Speaker 5: This is thy office, Bear thee well in it, and
Speaker 5: leave us alone.
Speaker 7: I'll make her come.
Speaker 16: I warrant you presently exit.
Speaker 5: Now, Ursula. When Beatrice stuff come as we do, trace
Speaker 5: this alley up and down. Our talk must be only
Speaker 5: of Benedict. When I do name him, let it be
Speaker 5: thy part to praise him more than ever man did merit.
Speaker 5: My talk to thee must be how Benneddick is sick
Speaker 5: in love with Beatrice. Of this matter as little Cupid's
Speaker 5: crafty arrow made that only wounds by hearsay.
Speaker 1: Enter Beatrice behind.
Speaker 5: Now begin, for look where Beatrice, like a lap wing,
Speaker 5: runs close by the ground to hear our conference.
Speaker 14: The pleasant angling is to see the fish cut with
Speaker 14: her golden oars the silver stream, and greedily devour the
Speaker 14: treacherous bait. So angle we for Beatrice, who even now
Speaker 14: is couched in the wood wine cobrature. Fear you not
Speaker 14: my part of the dialog.
Speaker 5: Then we go near her, that her ear lose nothing
Speaker 5: of the full sweet bait.
Speaker 12: That we lay for it.
Speaker 1: They advance to the bower.
Speaker 5: No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful. I know her
Speaker 5: spirits are as coy and wild as haggards of the rock.
Speaker 14: But are you sure that Benedict loves Beatrice so entirely?
Speaker 5: So says the Prince, and my new troth at lord.
Speaker 14: And did they bid you tell her of it? Madam?
Speaker 5: They did entreat me to acquaint her of it. But
Speaker 5: I persuaded them, if they loved Benedict, to wish him
Speaker 5: wrestle with affection, and never to let Beatrice know of it.
Speaker 14: Why did you so dot? Not the gentleman deserve as
Speaker 14: full as fortune in a bed, as ever Beatrice shall
Speaker 14: couch upon, Oh.
Speaker 5: God of love, I know he doth deserve as much
Speaker 5: as may be yielded to a man. But nature never
Speaker 5: framed a woman's heart of proudest stuff than that of Beatrice.
Speaker 5: Disdain and scorn rides sparkling in her eyes, misprising what
Speaker 5: they look on, and her wit values itself so highly
Speaker 5: that to her all matter el seems weak. She cannot love,
Speaker 5: nor take no shape nor project of affection. She is
Speaker 5: so self endeared.
Speaker 14: Sure I think so, And therefore certainly it were not good.
Speaker 14: She knew his love, lest she make sport at it?
Speaker 5: Why you speak truth? I never yet saw man, how wise,
Speaker 5: how noble, young, how rarely featured, But she would spell
Speaker 5: him backward. If their face, she would swear the gentleman
Speaker 5: should be her sister. If black, why nature drawing of
Speaker 5: an antic made a foul blot, if tall a lance
Speaker 5: ill headed, if low an egg gate very vilely cut.
Speaker 5: If speaking, why a vein blown with all winds? If silent,
Speaker 5: why a block moved with none? So turns she every
Speaker 5: man the wrong side out, and never gives to truth
Speaker 5: and virtue that which simpleness in merit purchaseth.
Speaker 14: Sure, sure such carping is not commendable.
Speaker 5: No, not to be so odd, and from all fashions
Speaker 5: as Beatrice's cannot be commendable. But who dared tell her? So?
Speaker 5: If I should speak, she would mock me into air. Oh,
Speaker 5: she would laugh me out of myself, press me to
Speaker 5: death with wit. Therefore, let Benedict, like covered fire, consume
Speaker 5: away in size waste inwardly, it were a better death
Speaker 5: than die with mocks, which is as bad as die
Speaker 5: with tickling.
Speaker 14: Yet tell her of it, hear what she will say.
Speaker 5: No, Rather, I will go to Benedict and counsel him
Speaker 5: to fight against his passion. And truly ou devise some
Speaker 5: honest slanders to stay my cousin with one. Doth not
Speaker 5: know how much an ill word may im poison liking.
Speaker 14: Oh, do not your cousin such a wrong? She cannot
Speaker 14: be so much without true judgment, having so swift and
Speaker 14: excellent a wit as she is prized to have, as
Speaker 14: to refuse so rare a gentleman. As Signor Benedict, he.
Speaker 5: Is the only man of Italy always accepted.
Speaker 14: My dear Claudia, I pray you be not angry with me, Madam,
Speaker 14: speaking my fancy. Senor Benedict for shape, for bearing argument
Speaker 14: and valor goes foremost in report through Italy.
Speaker 5: Indeed he hath an excellent good name.
Speaker 14: His excellence did earn it where he had it. When
Speaker 14: are you married, madam?
Speaker 5: Why every day tomorrow? Come go in. I'll show thee
Speaker 5: summertias and have thy counsel, which is the best to
Speaker 5: furnish me Tomorrow.
Speaker 14: She is limed, I warrant you we have caught her, Madam.
Speaker 5: If it proves so, then loving goes by haaps, some
Speaker 5: cubid kills with arrows, some with.
Speaker 1: Traps, exant hero and ursula advancing.
Speaker 4: What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Speaker 4: Stand I condemned for pride and scorn, so much contempt,
Speaker 4: farewell and maiden pride, adieu. No glory lives behind the
Speaker 4: back of such and Benedict. Love on. I will requite thee,
Speaker 4: taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. If thou
Speaker 4: dost love, my kindness shall incite THEE to bind our
Speaker 4: loves up in a holy band. For others say thou
Speaker 4: dost deserve, And I believe it better than reportingly, exit.
Speaker 1: Too a room in Leonato's house. Enter Don Pedro, Claudio, Benedict,
Speaker 1: and Leonato.
Speaker 6: I do, but stay till your marriage be consummate, and
Speaker 6: then I go toward Arragon.
Speaker 10: I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll vouchsafe me.
Speaker 6: Nay, that would be as great as soil in the
Speaker 6: new gloss of your marriage, as to show a child
Speaker 6: his new coat and forbid him to wear it. I
Speaker 6: will only be bold with Benedict for his company. For
Speaker 6: from the crown of his head to the soul of
Speaker 6: his foot, he is all mirth. He hath twice or
Speaker 6: thrice cut Cupid's bowstring, and the little hangman dare not
Speaker 6: shoot at him. He hath the heart as sound as
Speaker 6: a bell, and his tongue is the clapper. For what
Speaker 6: his heart thinks, his tongue speaks gallants.
Speaker 7: I am not as I have.
Speaker 2: Been, so say I methinks you are saddern I.
Speaker 10: Hope you be in love.
Speaker 6: Hang him truant there's no true drop of blood in
Speaker 6: him to be truly touched with love. If he be
Speaker 6: sad he wants money, I have the toothache, draw it,
Speaker 6: hang it.
Speaker 10: You must hang it first and draw it afterwards.
Speaker 6: What sigh for the toothache?
Speaker 2: Where is but a humor or a worm?
Speaker 7: Well? Everyone can master of grief, but he that has.
Speaker 10: It yet say I he is in love.
Speaker 6: There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it
Speaker 6: be a fancy that he hath too strange disguises as
Speaker 6: to be a Dutchman to day, a Frenchman tomorrow, or
Speaker 6: in the shape of two countries at once, as a
Speaker 6: German from the waist downward all slops, and a Spaniard
Speaker 6: from the hip upward. No doublet unless he have a
Speaker 6: fancy to this foolery as it appears he hath. He
Speaker 6: is no fool for fancy, as you would have it appear.
Speaker 10: He is if he be not in love with some woman.
Speaker 10: There is no believing old signs. It brushes his hat
Speaker 10: in mornings that boat.
Speaker 6: Hath any man seen him at the barber's No.
Speaker 10: But the baba's man hath been seen with him? And
Speaker 10: the old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis balls.
Speaker 2: Indeed, he looks younger than he did by the loss
Speaker 2: of a beard.
Speaker 6: Nay, rubs himself with civet. Can you smell him out
Speaker 6: by that?
Speaker 10: That's as much as to say the sweet Heath's in love.
Speaker 6: The greatest note of it is his melancholy.
Speaker 10: And when was he one to wash his face yea.
Speaker 6: Or to paint himself for the witch? I hear what
Speaker 6: they say of him.
Speaker 10: Nay, but his jesting spirit, which is now crept into
Speaker 10: lutestring and new governed by stops.
Speaker 6: Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him. Conclude, conclude
Speaker 6: he is in love?
Speaker 10: Nay, But I know who loves him?
Speaker 6: That I would know too. I warrant one that knows
Speaker 6: him not yes.
Speaker 10: And his ill conditions, and despite of all dies for him, she.
Speaker 6: Shall be buried with her face upwards.
Speaker 7: Yet is this no charm for the toothache old segnor
Speaker 7: walk aside with me? I have studied eight or nine
Speaker 7: wise words to speak to you, which these hobby horses
Speaker 7: must not hear.
Speaker 1: Exeant, Benedict, and Leonato.
Speaker 6: For my life to break with him about Beatrice.
Speaker 10: Tis even so Hero and Margaret hope by this played
Speaker 10: their part with Beatrice, and then the two hearts will
Speaker 10: not bite one another when they meet.
Speaker 1: Enter Don John, my lord and brother, God save you,
Speaker 1: good den brother, if your.
Speaker 9: Leisure served, I would speak with you in private.
Speaker 8: If it please you.
Speaker 9: Yet, Count Claudio may hear, for what I would speak
Speaker 9: of concerns him.
Speaker 6: What's the matter?
Speaker 1: To Claudio means your.
Speaker 9: Lordship to be married tomorrow?
Speaker 6: You know he does?
Speaker 9: I know not that when he knows what I know.
Speaker 10: If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.
Speaker 8: You may think I love you.
Speaker 9: You not let that appear hereafter, and aim better at
Speaker 9: me by that I now will manifest. For my brother,
Speaker 9: I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart,
Speaker 9: hath hoped to affect your ensuing marriage. Surely suit ill
Speaker 9: spent and labor ill bestowed.
Speaker 6: Why what's the matter?
Speaker 9: I came hither to tell you? And circumstances shortened, for
Speaker 9: she has been too long a talking of the lady
Speaker 9: is disloyal?
Speaker 10: Who hero?
Speaker 9: Even she Leonarto's hero, your hero, every man's.
Speaker 10: Hero, disloyal?
Speaker 9: The words too good to paint out her wickedness. I
Speaker 9: could say she were worse. Think you of a worse
Speaker 9: title than I will fit her to it? Wonder not
Speaker 9: till further warrant go but with me Tonight you shall
Speaker 9: see her chamber window entered even the night before her
Speaker 9: wedding day. If you love her, then tomorrow wed her.
Speaker 9: But it would be better fit your honor to change
Speaker 9: your mind.
Speaker 10: May this be so?
Speaker 6: I will not think.
Speaker 9: It if you dare not trust that you see, confess
Speaker 9: not that you know. If you will follow me, I
Speaker 9: will show you enough. And when you have seen more
Speaker 9: and heard more, proceed accordingly.
Speaker 10: If I see anything tonight, why I should not marry
Speaker 10: her tomorrow in the congregation where I shall wed, there
Speaker 10: will I shame her?
Speaker 6: And as I wood for THEE to obtain her, I
Speaker 6: will join with THEE to disgrace her.
Speaker 9: I will disparage her no farther till you are my witnesses.
Speaker 9: Bear it coldly, but till midnight, and let the issue
Speaker 9: show itself.
Speaker 6: Oh day untowardly turned.
Speaker 10: Nor misty strangely thwarting, Oh plague right well prevented.
Speaker 9: So will you say, And you have seen the.
Speaker 1: Sequel exeant scene three, A street enter dog Mary and
Speaker 1: verges with the watch.
Speaker 18: Are you good men and true yea or else it
Speaker 18: to a pity. But they should suffer salvation body and soul.
Speaker 21: Nay, that were a punishment too good for them. If
Speaker 21: they should have any allegiance in them being chosen for
Speaker 21: the Prince's watch.
Speaker 18: Well give them their charge. Neighbor dog Betty.
Speaker 21: First, who think you the most desertless man to be constable?
Speaker 20: Here? Ojcake, sir, or George Secul, so they can write
Speaker 20: and read?
Speaker 21: Come hither, neighbor Secall. God hath blessed you with a
Speaker 21: good name to be a well favored man as a
Speaker 21: gift of fortune. But to write and read comes by.
Speaker 11: Nature, both which Master Constable you have.
Speaker 21: I knew it would be your answer. Well for your favor, sir,
Speaker 21: why give God thanks and make no boast of it.
Speaker 21: And for your writing and reading, let that appear when
Speaker 21: there is no need of such vanity. You are thought
Speaker 21: here to be the most senseless and fit man to
Speaker 21: be the constable of the war. Therefore bear you the lantern.
Speaker 21: This is your charge. You shall comprehend all vagram men.
Speaker 21: You are to bid any man stand in the Prince's name.
Speaker 11: How if it will not stand.
Speaker 21: Why then take no note of him, But let him go,
Speaker 21: and presently call the rest of the watch together, And
Speaker 21: thank god you are rid of a nave.
Speaker 18: If he will not stand when he is bidden, he
Speaker 18: is none of the Prince's subjects true.
Speaker 21: And they are to meddle with none but the Prince's subjects.
Speaker 21: You shall also make no noise in the streets, for
Speaker 21: for the watch to babble and to talk is most tolerable,
Speaker 21: and not to be endured.
Speaker 11: We will rather sleep than talk. We know what belongs
Speaker 11: to a watch.
Speaker 21: Why you speak like an ancient and most quiet watchman,
Speaker 21: For I cannot see how sleeping should offend. Only have
Speaker 21: a care that your bills be not stolen. But you
Speaker 21: are to call at all the ale houses and bid
Speaker 21: those that are drunk to get them to bed.
Speaker 11: How if they will not, why then let.
Speaker 21: Them alone to their sober If they make you not,
Speaker 21: then the better answer you may say, they are not
Speaker 21: the man you took them for.
Speaker 11: Well, sir, if you meet a thief.
Speaker 21: You may suspect him, by virtue of your office, to
Speaker 21: be no true man. And for such kind of men,
Speaker 21: the less you meddle or make with them, why the
Speaker 21: more is for your honesty.
Speaker 11: If we know him to be a thief. Shall we
Speaker 11: not lay hands on him?
Speaker 2: Truly?
Speaker 21: By your office you may, but I think they the
Speaker 21: touch pitch will be defiled. The most peaceable way for you,
Speaker 21: if you do take a thief, is to let him
Speaker 21: show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
Speaker 18: You have always been called a merciful man, partner.
Speaker 21: Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will,
Speaker 21: much more a man who hath any honesty in him.
Speaker 18: If you hear a child cry in the night, you
Speaker 18: must call to the nurse and bid us do it.
Speaker 11: How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us.
Speaker 21: Why then depart in peace and let the child wake
Speaker 21: her with crying. For the you that will not hear
Speaker 21: her lamb when it bas will never answer a calf
Speaker 21: when he bleats.
Speaker 18: Tis very true.
Speaker 21: This is the end of the charge. You constable are
Speaker 21: to present the prince's own person. If you meet the
Speaker 21: Prince in the night, may.
Speaker 18: Stay him, neighbor, lady that I think I cannot.
Speaker 21: Five shillings to one on with any man that knows
Speaker 21: the statutes. He may stay him, marry not without the
Speaker 21: prince be willing. For indeed, the watch out to offend
Speaker 21: no man. And it is an offense to say a
Speaker 21: man against.
Speaker 18: His will by lady. I think it'd be so.
Speaker 21: Ha ha, Well masters, good night, and there be any matter
Speaker 21: of weight chances call up me. Keep your fellow's counsels
Speaker 21: and your own, and good night, come neighbor.
Speaker 22: Hm, well, masters, we hear our charge. Hey, let's go
Speaker 22: sit here upon the church bench till two for you
Speaker 22: all to bird.
Speaker 21: One word more, honest neighbors. I pray you watch about
Speaker 21: Signor Leonardo's door, for the wedding being there tomorrow. There
Speaker 21: is a great coil. Tonight, Adieu be vigetant.
Speaker 1: I beseech you exityant Dogberry and verges enter Baraccio and Conrad.
Speaker 13: What Conrad aside? Peace Stiller, Conrad, I.
Speaker 12: Say, here, man, I am at the elbow.
Speaker 13: Mass, and my elbow ititched. I thought there would a
Speaker 13: scab follow.
Speaker 12: Oh wellod an answer for that, and now forward with ditail.
Speaker 13: Stanley close then under this penthouse for at drizzle's rain,
Speaker 13: and I will, like a true drunkard, utter all to.
Speaker 1: Thee aside some trees.
Speaker 13: Therefore no I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.
Speaker 12: Is it possible that any villain, they should be so dear.
Speaker 13: Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible, any villainy
Speaker 13: should be so rich. For when rich villains have need
Speaker 13: of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will.
Speaker 12: I wonder at it?
Speaker 13: That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that the fashion
Speaker 13: of a doublet or a hat or a cloak is
Speaker 13: nothing to a man? Yes it is, I mean the fashion.
Speaker 12: Yes, the fashion is the fashion tush.
Speaker 13: I may as well say the fool's the fool. But
Speaker 13: seest thou not what a defornt deep this fashion is?
Speaker 12: Aside, there has been a final faith this seven years
Speaker 12: that goes up and down like that, gentleman.
Speaker 13: I remember, didst thou not hear somebody?
Speaker 12: No, twas the vein on the house.
Speaker 13: Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this
Speaker 13: fashion is? How giddily he turns about all the hot
Speaker 13: bloods between fourteen and five and thirty, sometimes fashioning them
Speaker 13: like Pharaoh's soldiers in the Riccy painting, sometime like god
Speaker 13: Bell's priests in the old church window, sometime like the
Speaker 13: shaven Hercules and the smirched, worm eaten tapestry, where his
Speaker 13: cod piece seems as massy as his club.
Speaker 12: All this I see, and I see that the fashion
Speaker 12: wears how more than the man. But art thou not
Speaker 12: thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast shifted
Speaker 12: out thy tale into telling me of the fashion.
Speaker 13: Not so neither. But know that I have tonight wooed Margaret,
Speaker 13: the lady Hero's gentlewoman by the name of Hero. She
Speaker 13: leans me out at her mistress chamber window, bids me
Speaker 13: a thousand times good night. I tell this tale vilely.
Speaker 13: I should first tell thee how the Prince, Claudio and
Speaker 13: my master planted and placed and possessed by my master.
Speaker 13: Don John saw afar offrom the orchard this amiable encounter.
Speaker 12: And thought stain Margaret was hearing two of.
Speaker 13: Them, did the Prince and Claudio, But the devil my
Speaker 13: master knew she was Margaret, and partly by his oaths
Speaker 13: which first possessed them, partly by the dark Knight, which
Speaker 13: did deceive them, but chiefly by my villainy, which did
Speaker 13: confirm any slander that Don John had made away. Went Claudio, enraged,
Speaker 13: swore he would meet her as he was appointed next
Speaker 13: morning at the temple, and there before the whole congregation,
Speaker 13: shame her with what he saw, or knight, and send
Speaker 13: her home again without a husband.
Speaker 20: We tired you in the Prince's name.
Speaker 22: Stand call up the right master Constable. We have here
Speaker 22: recovered the most dangerous piece of lettery that was ever
Speaker 22: known in the Commonwealth.
Speaker 12: And one deformed is one of them. I know him.
Speaker 20: W's lock.
Speaker 12: Masters, Masters, you will be made bring deformed for it.
Speaker 20: I warrant you, masters, never speak, we charge you, let
Speaker 20: us obey you to go with us.
Speaker 13: We are like to prove a goodly commodity being taken
Speaker 13: up of these men's bills.
Speaker 12: A commodity in question. I warrant you come. We'll obey you.
Speaker 1: Exitent scene for a room in Leonardo's house. Inter hero
Speaker 1: Margaret and Ursula.
Speaker 5: Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice and desire her to rise.
Speaker 14: I will, lady and bid her come hither well.
Speaker 1: Exit Troth.
Speaker 16: I think your other Roboto were better.
Speaker 5: No pratty, good Meg, I'll wear this by.
Speaker 16: My Troth's not so good, and I warrant your cousin
Speaker 16: will say so.
Speaker 5: My cousin's a fool, and thou art another. I'll wear
Speaker 5: none but this.
Speaker 16: I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair
Speaker 16: were a thought, and your gown's a most rare fashion,
Speaker 16: If faith I saw the Duchess of Milan's gown, that
Speaker 16: they pray.
Speaker 5: So oh, that exceeds they say, by my troths.
Speaker 16: But a night gown in respect of yours, cloth of
Speaker 16: gold and cuts and laced with silver, set with pearls,
Speaker 16: down sleeves, sides, leeves, and skirts around underborn with a
Speaker 16: blush tinsel. But for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent fashion,
Speaker 16: yours is worth ten.
Speaker 5: Aunt, God, give me joy to wear it, for my
Speaker 5: heart is exceeding heavy.
Speaker 16: Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man
Speaker 16: shy upon thee, not not ashamed of what, lady of
Speaker 16: speaking honorably? Is not marriage honorable in a beggar? Is
Speaker 16: not your lord honorable without marriage? I think you would
Speaker 16: have me say, saving your reverence a husband and bad
Speaker 16: thinking do not rest true speaking. I'll offend nobody. Is
Speaker 16: there any harm in the heavier for a husband, none,
Speaker 16: I think, And it be the right husband and the
Speaker 16: right wife. Otherwise tis light and not heavy. Ask my
Speaker 16: lady Beatrice else here she comes, enter Beatrice, good.
Speaker 4: Morrow, Couz good morrow, sweet hero.
Speaker 5: Why how now do you speak in the sick tune?
Speaker 4: I am out of all other tune.
Speaker 16: Methinks, Oh claps into light, O love that goes without
Speaker 16: a burden? Do you sing it? And I'll dance it?
Speaker 4: Ye, light of love with your heels. Then if your
Speaker 4: husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall lack no barns.
Speaker 16: Oh illegitimate construction. I scorn that with my heels.
Speaker 4: Tis almost five o'clock, cousin, tis time you were ready
Speaker 4: by my truth. I am exceedingly ill high ho.
Speaker 16: For a hawk, a horse, or a husband.
Speaker 4: For the letter that begins them all?
Speaker 16: H Well, an you be not turned to turk? There's
Speaker 16: no more sailing by the star.
Speaker 4: What means the fool trow nothing?
Speaker 16: I but God send everyone their heart's desire.
Speaker 5: These gloves the count sent me. They are an excellent perfume.
Speaker 4: I am stuffed, cousin. I cannot smell a maid and stuffed.
Speaker 16: There's goodly catching of cold.
Speaker 4: Oh God help me, God help me. How long have
Speaker 4: you professed apprehension?
Speaker 16: Ever since you left it? Doth not my wit become me?
Speaker 21: Rarely?
Speaker 4: It is not seen enough. You should wear it in
Speaker 4: your cap by my troth, I am sick.
Speaker 16: I get you some of this distilled carduce, Benedictus, and
Speaker 16: lay it to your heart. It is the only thing
Speaker 16: for a qualm.
Speaker 5: There thou prickst he with a thistle.
Speaker 4: Benedictus, Why, Benedictus, you have some moral in this, Benedictus.
Speaker 16: Moral No, by my troth, I have no moral meaning.
Speaker 16: I meant plain homely thistle. You may think, perchance that
Speaker 16: I think you are in love. Nay, by your lady,
Speaker 16: I'm not such a fool to think I list, nor
Speaker 16: I list not to think what I can, nor indeed
Speaker 16: I cannot think if I would think my heart out
Speaker 16: of thinking that you are in love, or that you
Speaker 16: will be in love, or that you can.
Speaker 23: Be in love.
Speaker 16: Yet benedict was such another, and now is he become
Speaker 16: a man. He swore he would never marry, and yet now,
Speaker 16: in despite of his heart, he eats his meat without grudging.
Speaker 16: And how you may be converted, I know not, But
Speaker 16: methinks you look with your eyes as other women do.
Speaker 4: What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
Speaker 16: Not a false gallop?
Speaker 14: Re enter ursula, madam, withdraw the Prince, the count signor
Speaker 14: benedict John, John, and all the gallants of the town
Speaker 14: are come to fetch you to church.
Speaker 5: Help me to dress good, cousin good, make good Ursula Exiant.
Speaker 1: Scene five, another room in Leonato's house. Enter Leonato and
Speaker 1: Dogberry and Verges.
Speaker 21: What would you with me, honest neighbor Mary, Sir, I
Speaker 21: would have some confidence with you that discerns you nearly brief.
Speaker 2: I pray you for you. See, it is a busy
Speaker 2: time with me, Mary.
Speaker 18: This it is, sir, Yes, in truth it is, sir.
Speaker 2: What is it?
Speaker 21: My good friends, good man Vergis, Sir speaks a little
Speaker 21: off the matter. An old man, Sir, and his wits
Speaker 21: air not so blunt as God help I would desire
Speaker 21: they were, But in faith honest is the skin between
Speaker 21: his brows.
Speaker 18: Yes, I thank God. I am as honest as any
Speaker 18: man living that is an old man, and no honest
Speaker 18: do than I.
Speaker 21: Comparisons are odorous palabras.
Speaker 2: Neighbor Vergis, Neighbors, you are tedious.
Speaker 21: It pleases your worship to say so. But we are
Speaker 21: the poor Duke's officers. But truly, for mine own part,
Speaker 21: if I were as tedious as a king, I could
Speaker 21: find it in my heart to bestow all of it
Speaker 21: upon your worship, all thy tediousness on me ha yea,
Speaker 21: and twere a thousand pounds more than tis. For I
Speaker 21: hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any
Speaker 21: man in the city. And though I be but a
Speaker 21: poor man, I am glad to hear it, and.
Speaker 18: So am I.
Speaker 2: I would fain know what you have to say.
Speaker 18: Mary, Sir, I watch tonight accepting your worship's presence had
Speaker 18: taken a couple of them, as added knaves, as any
Speaker 18: a messina.
Speaker 21: A good old man, Sir, he will be talking, as
Speaker 21: they say when the age is in, the wit is out,
Speaker 21: God help us. It is a world to see what said.
Speaker 21: If faith neighbor verges, well, God's a good man, and
Speaker 21: two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind
Speaker 21: an honest soul. If faith, sir, by my trophy is
Speaker 21: has ever broke bread. But God is to be worshiped.
Speaker 21: All men are not alike alas good neighbor.
Speaker 2: Indeed, neighbor he comes too short.
Speaker 21: Of you gifts that God gives. I must leave you
Speaker 21: one word, sir, our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended two
Speaker 21: auspicious persons, and we would have them this morning examined
Speaker 21: before your worship.
Speaker 2: Take their examination yourself and bring it to me. I
Speaker 2: am now in great haste, as may appear unto you.
Speaker 21: It shall be suffrageance.
Speaker 2: Drink some wine. Here you go very well.
Speaker 1: Enter a messenger, my lord.
Speaker 3: They stay for you to give your daughter to her husband.
Speaker 2: I'll wait them. I am ready excitant.
Speaker 1: Leonato and messenger.
Speaker 21: Go good partner, Go get you to Francis Siccoal. Bid
Speaker 21: him bring his pen and inkhorn to the jail. We
Speaker 21: are now to examination these men.
Speaker 18: And we must do it wisely.
Speaker 21: We will spare for no wit. I warrant you here's
Speaker 21: that shall drive some of them to a non com
Speaker 21: only get the learned writer to set down our excommunication
Speaker 21: and meet me at the jail Exciant.
Speaker 1: End of Act three, Act four, Scene one, the inside
Speaker 1: of a church. Enter Don Pedro, Don John, Leonato, Friar Francis, Claudio, Benedict, Hero, Beatrice,
Speaker 1: et cetera.
Speaker 2: Come, Friar Francis, be brief only to the plain form
Speaker 2: of marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards.
Speaker 24: You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.
Speaker 25: No, to be.
Speaker 2: Married to her. Friar, you come to marry her.
Speaker 24: Lady, You come hither to be married to this count?
Speaker 24: I do if either of you know any inward impediment,
Speaker 24: why you should not be conjoined? I charge you on
Speaker 24: your souls to utter it.
Speaker 10: Know you any hero?
Speaker 5: None, my Lord, know you any count?
Speaker 2: I dare make his answer none?
Speaker 10: Oh what man dare do? What man may do? What
Speaker 10: man daily do? Not knowing what they do?
Speaker 7: How now interjections, why then some be of laughing?
Speaker 10: As ha ha he Stanley, by friar father, by your leave,
Speaker 10: will you, with free and unconstrained soul, give me this maid, your.
Speaker 2: Daughter, as freely son as God did give her me?
Speaker 10: And what if I to give you back? Whose worth
Speaker 10: may counterpoise his rich and precious gift?
Speaker 6: Nothing unless you render her again?
Speaker 10: Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness, Dear Leonato, take
Speaker 10: her back again, Give not this rotten orange to your friend.
Speaker 10: She'd put the sign and semblance of her honor the
Speaker 10: hold hell like a maid. She blushes here. Oh what
Speaker 10: authority and show of truth can cunning sin cover itself
Speaker 10: withal comes? Not that blood as modest evidence to witness
Speaker 10: simple virtue? Would you not swear all you that see
Speaker 10: her that she were a maid by these exterior shows.
Speaker 10: But she is none. She knows the heat of a
Speaker 10: luxurious bed. Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
Speaker 2: What do you mean, my lord.
Speaker 10: Not to be married? Not in it my soul to
Speaker 10: an approved wanton dear, my.
Speaker 2: Lord, if you, in your own proof, have vanquished the
Speaker 2: resistance of her youth and made defeat of her virginity, I.
Speaker 10: Know what you would say if I have known her,
Speaker 10: you will say she'd embrace me as a husband, and
Speaker 10: so extenuate the forehand. Sin No, Leonato, I never tempted
Speaker 10: her with word too large, but as a brother to
Speaker 10: his sister, showed bashful sincerity and comely love.
Speaker 5: And seemed I ever otherwise to you.
Speaker 10: Out on thee seeming, I will write against it. You
Speaker 10: seem to me as Diana in her orb as chaste,
Speaker 10: as is the bud ere it be blown. But you
Speaker 10: are more in temperate in your blood than venus, all
Speaker 10: those permbaned animals at rage in savage sensuality?
Speaker 5: Is my lord? Well that he does speak so.
Speaker 2: Wide, sweet prince? Why speak not you?
Speaker 6: What should I speak? I stand dishonored that have gone
Speaker 6: about to link my dear friend to a common stale.
Speaker 2: Are these things spoken? Or do I but dream sir?
Speaker 8: They are spoken? And these things are true?
Speaker 7: This looks not like a nupshial.
Speaker 10: True, Oh God, Leonardo, stand I hear? Is this the prince?
Speaker 5: Is this?
Speaker 10: The Prince's brother?
Speaker 1: Is this face?
Speaker 10: Heroes? Our eyes, our own all?
Speaker 2: This is so? But what of this? My lord?
Speaker 10: Let me but move one question to your daughter, and
Speaker 10: by that fatherly, unkindly power that you have in her
Speaker 10: bitter answer truly, I.
Speaker 2: Charge thee do so as thou art, by child?
Speaker 5: Oh God, how am I beset? What kind of catechising
Speaker 5: call you this?
Speaker 10: To make you answer truly to your name?
Speaker 5: Is it not Hero who can blot that name with
Speaker 5: any just reproach Mary?
Speaker 10: That can Hero? Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue?
Speaker 10: What man was he talked to you yesternight out at
Speaker 10: your window betwixt twelve and one? Now, if you're a maid?
Speaker 10: Answer to this?
Speaker 6: I talked with no man at that, Oh my lord,
Speaker 6: why then you are no maiden? Leonardo? I am sorry.
Speaker 6: You must hear upon my honor, myself, my brother, and
Speaker 6: this grieved count did see her hear her at that
Speaker 6: hour last night? Talk with a ruffian at her chamber window,
Speaker 6: who hath indeed like a most liberal villain, confessed the
Speaker 6: vile encounters they have had a thousand times in secret
Speaker 6: cy cy.
Speaker 9: They are not to be named, my lord, not to
Speaker 9: be spoke of. There is not chastity enough in language
Speaker 9: without offense to utter them. Thus, pretty lady, I am
Speaker 9: sorry for thy much misgovernment, O.
Speaker 10: Hero, What a hero hadst thou been if half thy
Speaker 10: outward graces had been placed about thy thoughts and counsels
Speaker 10: of thy heart. But fare thee well, most foul, most fair,
Speaker 10: farewell by pure and piety and impious purity for thee.
Speaker 10: I'll lock up all the gates of love, and on
Speaker 10: my eyelids shall conjecture hang to turn all beauty to
Speaker 10: thoughts of harm, And never shall it more be gracious?
Speaker 2: Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?
Speaker 4: Hero swooned, Why how now, cousin, wherefore sink you down?
Speaker 14: Come?
Speaker 8: Let us go?
Speaker 9: These things come thus to light smother her spirits.
Speaker 1: Up Exiyot, Don Pedro, Don John and Claudio?
Speaker 7: How doth the lady dead?
Speaker 4: I think? Help uncle Hero?
Speaker 7: Why Hero?
Speaker 4: Uncle Senor Benedict friar Oh.
Speaker 2: Fate take not away thy heavy hand. Death is the
Speaker 2: fairest cover for her shame that may be wished for.
Speaker 4: How now, cousin, Hero have comfort?
Speaker 3: Lady, dost thou look up yea?
Speaker 24: Wherefore should she not?
Speaker 2: Wherefore why does not every earthly thing cry shame upon her?
Speaker 2: Could she here deny the story that is printed in
Speaker 2: her blood? Do not live, Hero, Do not open thine eyes?
Speaker 2: For did I think thou wouldst not die quickly? Thought
Speaker 2: I thy spirit were stronger than my shames? Myself would
Speaker 2: on the rear of reproaches strike at thy life? Grieved
Speaker 2: I I had but one chied aye for that at
Speaker 2: frugal nature's frame, Oh, one too much by thee? Why
Speaker 2: had I won? Why ever wast thou lovely in mine eyes?
Speaker 2: Why had I not, with charitable hand, took up a
Speaker 2: beggar's issue at my gait, who smirched thus admired with infamy?
Speaker 2: I might have said, No part of it is mine.
Speaker 2: Shame derives itself from unknown loins, but mine and mine.
Speaker 2: I loved and mine, I praised and mine that I
Speaker 2: was proud on mine so much that I myself was
Speaker 2: to myself not mine, valuing of her? Why she, Oh,
Speaker 2: she has fallen into a pit of bink, that the
Speaker 2: wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again,
Speaker 2: and saw too little which may season give to her
Speaker 2: foul tainted flesh.
Speaker 7: Sir, sir, be patient for my part. I am so
Speaker 7: attired in wonder. I know not what to say.
Speaker 4: Oh, on my soul. My cousin is.
Speaker 7: Belied, lady, were you her bedfellow last night?
Speaker 4: No, truly not, although until last night I have this
Speaker 4: twelvemonth than her bedfellow confirmed.
Speaker 2: Confirmed. Oh, that is stronger made which was before barred
Speaker 2: up with the ribs of iron. Would the two princes
Speaker 2: Lie and Claudial Lie, who loved her so that speaking
Speaker 2: of her foulness, washed it with tears. Hence from her
Speaker 2: let her die.
Speaker 24: Hear me a little, for I have only been silent
Speaker 24: so long, and given way unto this course of fortune.
Speaker 24: By noting of the lady, I have marked a thousand
Speaker 24: blushing apparitions to start into her face, a thousand innocent
Speaker 24: shames in angel whiteness, bear away those blushes, And in
Speaker 24: her eye there hath appeared a fire to burn the
Speaker 24: errors that these princes hold against her maiden truth, Call
Speaker 24: me a fool Trust not my reading nor my observations, which,
Speaker 24: with experimental seal doth warrant the tenure.
Speaker 5: Of my book.
Speaker 24: Trust not my age, my reverence, calling, nor divinity. If
Speaker 24: this sweet lady lie not guiltless here under some biting error.
Speaker 2: Friar, it cannot be thou seest that all the grace
Speaker 2: that she loved is that she will not add to
Speaker 2: her damnation of sin, of perjury denies it. Why seekest
Speaker 2: thou then to cover with excuse that which appears in
Speaker 2: proper nakedness?
Speaker 24: Lady? What man is he you are accused of?
Speaker 9: They know that, do accuse me?
Speaker 26: I know none.
Speaker 27: If I know more of any man alive than.
Speaker 5: That which maiden modesty doth warrant.
Speaker 27: Let all my sins lack mercy, Oh, my father, prove
Speaker 27: you that any man with me conversed at ours unmeet,
Speaker 27: or that I yester night maintained the change of words
Speaker 27: with any creature, Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death.
Speaker 24: There is some strange misprison in the princes.
Speaker 7: Two of them have the very bent of honor, And
Speaker 7: if their wisdoms be misled in this, the practice of
Speaker 7: it lives in John the bastard, whose spirits, toil and
Speaker 7: frame of villanies.
Speaker 2: I know not if they speak, but truth of her.
Speaker 2: These hands shall tear her if they wrong her honor.
Speaker 2: The proudest of them shall well hear of it. Time
Speaker 2: hath not yet so dried this butt of mine, nor
Speaker 2: age so eat up my invention, nor fortune made such
Speaker 2: havoc of my means, nor my bad life. Refit me
Speaker 2: so much of my friends. But they shall find awaked
Speaker 2: in such a kind both strength of limb and policy
Speaker 2: of mind, ability and means, and a choice of friends,
Speaker 2: to quit me of them thoroughly.
Speaker 24: Pouse a while, and let my counsel sway you. In
Speaker 24: this case, your daughter here the princes left for dead,
Speaker 24: Let her a while be secretly kept in, and publish
Speaker 24: it that she is dead. Indeed, maintain a mourning ostentation,
Speaker 24: And on your family's old monument hang mournful epitaphs, and
Speaker 24: do all rights that appertain unto a burial.
Speaker 2: What shall become of this? What will this do?
Speaker 24: Marry this well carried? Shall on her behalf change slander
Speaker 24: to remorse? That is some good, But not for that
Speaker 24: dream I on this strange course, but on this travail,
Speaker 24: look for greater birth. She dying, as it must be
Speaker 24: so maintained upon the instant that she was accused, shall
Speaker 24: be lamented, pitied, and excused of every hearer. For it
Speaker 24: so falls out that what we have we prize not
Speaker 24: to the worth whiles we enjoy it, But being lacked
Speaker 24: and lost, Why then we rack the value. Then we
Speaker 24: find the virtue that possession would not show us whilst
Speaker 24: it is ours. So will it fare with Claudio when
Speaker 24: he shall hear she died upon his words, the idea
Speaker 24: of her life shall sweetly creep into his study of imagination,
Speaker 24: and every lovely organ of her life shall come apparelled
Speaker 24: in more precious habit, more moving, delicate, and full of life,
Speaker 24: into the eye and prospect of his soul than when
Speaker 24: she lived. Indeed, then shall he mourn if ever love
Speaker 24: had interest in his liver, and wish he had not
Speaker 24: so accused her. No, though he thought his accusation true,
Speaker 24: Let this be so, and doubt not. But success will
Speaker 24: fashion the event in better shape than I can lay
Speaker 24: it down in likelihood. But if all aim but this
Speaker 24: be leveled false, the supposition of the lady's death will
Speaker 24: quench the wonder of her infamy. And if it sort
Speaker 24: not well, you may conceal her as best befits her
Speaker 24: wounded reputation in some reclusive and religious life, out of
Speaker 24: all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries.
Speaker 7: Senor Leonatto, let the Friar advise you. And though you
Speaker 7: know my inwardness and love is very much unto the
Speaker 7: Prince and Claudio, Yet by mine, honor, I will deal
Speaker 7: in this as secretly and justly as your soul should.
Speaker 2: With your being, that I flow in grief, the smallest
Speaker 2: twine may.
Speaker 24: Lead me tis well consented presently away for to strange sores.
Speaker 24: Strangely they strain the cure. Come, lady, die to live?
Speaker 24: This wedding day perhaps is but prolonged. Have patience and endure.
Speaker 1: Exitant, Friar Hero and Leonatto.
Speaker 7: Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?
Speaker 4: Yea, and I will weep a while longer. I will
Speaker 4: not desire that you have no reason. I do it freely.
Speaker 7: Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.
Speaker 4: Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that
Speaker 4: would right her?
Speaker 7: Is there any way to show such friendship?
Speaker 4: A very even way? But no such friend.
Speaker 7: May a man do it?
Speaker 4: It is a man's office, but not yours.
Speaker 7: I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
Speaker 4: Is not that strange, as strange as the thing I know.
Speaker 4: Not it were possible for me to say I loved
Speaker 4: nothing so well as you. But believe me not. And
Speaker 4: yet I lie not. I confess nothing, nor I deny nothing.
Speaker 4: I am sorry for my cousin.
Speaker 7: By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest.
Speaker 4: Me, do not swear by it and eat it.
Speaker 7: I will swear by it that you love me, and
Speaker 7: I will make him eat it that says I love
Speaker 7: not you.
Speaker 4: You will not eat your word with no.
Speaker 7: Sauce that can be devised to it. I protest I
Speaker 7: love THEE.
Speaker 4: Why then, God forgive me what offense? Sweet Beatrice, you
Speaker 4: have stayed me in a happy hour. I was about
Speaker 4: to protest I loved.
Speaker 7: You, and do it with all thy heart.
Speaker 4: I love you with so much of my heart that
Speaker 4: none is left to protest.
Speaker 7: Come bid me do anything for THEE.
Speaker 4: Kill Claudio, ha, not for the wide world. You kill
Speaker 4: me to deny it.
Speaker 7: Farewell Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
Speaker 4: I am gone, though I am here. There is no
Speaker 4: love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go.
Speaker 4: Beatrice in faith, I will go.
Speaker 7: Will be friends first.
Speaker 4: You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine?
Speaker 7: Enemy is Claudio thine enemy?
Speaker 4: Is he not approved in the height of villain, that
Speaker 4: hath slandered, scorn, dishonored my kinswoman, Oh that I were
Speaker 4: a man? What bear her in hand until they come
Speaker 4: to take hands? And then with public accusation, uncovered, slander,
Speaker 4: unmitigated rancor, O God, that I were a man, I
Speaker 4: would eat his heart in the market place, hear me
Speaker 4: Beatrice talk with a man out at a window, a
Speaker 4: proper saying nay.
Speaker 7: But Beatrice, sweet.
Speaker 4: Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, She is undone,
Speaker 4: a be it princes and county is surely a princely testimony,
Speaker 4: a good count confect, a sweet gallant. Surely, Oh that
Speaker 4: I were a man for his sake, or that I
Speaker 4: had any friend would be a man for my sake.
Speaker 4: But manhood is melted into curses, valor into compliment, and
Speaker 4: manna only turned into tongue and trim one's too. He
Speaker 4: is now as valiant as Hercules. That only tells a
Speaker 4: lion swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing
Speaker 4: therefore I will die a woman with grieving.
Speaker 7: Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand I love thee.
Speaker 4: Use it for my love some other way than swearing
Speaker 4: by it.
Speaker 7: Thank you in your soul. The Count Claudio hath wronged hero.
Speaker 4: Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.
Speaker 7: Enough, I am engaged. I will challenge him. I will
Speaker 7: kiss your hand, and so leave you. By this hand,
Speaker 7: Claudio shall render me a dear as you hear of me,
Speaker 7: so think of me. Go comfort your cousin. I must
Speaker 7: say she is dead, and so farewell.
Speaker 1: Exiant scene to a prison, enter Dogberry, Verges and sexton
Speaker 1: in gowns and the watch with Conrad and Barraccio.
Speaker 21: Is our whole assembly appeared?
Speaker 18: Or a stool and a cushion for the sexton?
Speaker 23: Which be the malefactors?
Speaker 11: Mary?
Speaker 21: That am I and my partner?
Speaker 18: Nay, that's certain. We have the exhibition to examine.
Speaker 23: But which are the offenders that are to be examined?
Speaker 23: Let them come before Master Constable.
Speaker 21: Yay, Mary, Let them come before me. What is your name, friend, Barracchio, pray,
Speaker 21: write down Barraccio yours, Sirrah, I'm a gentleman, sir my
Speaker 21: name is Conrad. Write down, Master, gentleman Conrad, do you
Speaker 21: serve God?
Speaker 13: Yea, Sir, we hope.
Speaker 21: Write down that they hope they serve God, and write
Speaker 21: God first, for God defend. But God should go before
Speaker 21: such villains. Masters. It has proved already that you are
Speaker 21: a little better than false knaves, and it will go
Speaker 21: near to be thought. So shortly, how answer you for yourselves?
Speaker 12: Marry, sir, we say we are none.
Speaker 21: A marvelous witty fellow, I assure you, but I will
Speaker 21: go about with him. Come you hither, Sarah, a word
Speaker 21: in your ear. Sir, I say to you it is
Speaker 21: thought you are false knaves.
Speaker 13: Sir, I say to you we are none.
Speaker 21: Well stand aside for God. They are both in a tale.
Speaker 21: Have you write down that they are none?
Speaker 23: Master Constable, you go not the way to examine. You
Speaker 23: must call forth the watch that are their accusers.
Speaker 21: Yay, Mary, that's the eftist way. Let the watch come forth, Masters,
Speaker 21: I charge you in the Prince's name, accuse these men.
Speaker 20: This man said, Sir that Don Jong, the Prince's brother,
Speaker 20: was a villain.
Speaker 21: Write down, Prince John a villain? Why this is flat perjury?
Speaker 21: Call the Prince's brother, villain, Master Constable, pray thee, fellow peace,
Speaker 21: I do not like thy. Look, I promise thee.
Speaker 23: What heard you him say?
Speaker 7: Else?
Speaker 11: Mary, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don
Speaker 11: John for accusing the lady Hero wrongfully.
Speaker 21: Flat burglary as ever was committed.
Speaker 20: What else, Fellow, and that Count Claudio did mean upon
Speaker 20: his words to disgrace Hero before the whole assembly and
Speaker 20: not to marry her.
Speaker 21: Oh, villain, thou shalt be condemned into everlasting redemption for this?
Speaker 7: What else?
Speaker 11: This is all?
Speaker 23: And this is more masters than you can deny. Prince John,
Speaker 23: is this morning secretly stolen away? Hero was in this manner,
Speaker 23: accused in this manner, refused, and upon grief of this,
Speaker 23: suddenly died. Master Constable, Let these men be bound in
Speaker 23: bratto Leonado's. I will go before and show him their examination.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 21: Come, let them be opinioned.
Speaker 12: Let them be in the hands of Coxir.
Speaker 21: God's my life. Where's the sexton? Let him write down
Speaker 21: the Prince's officer, Coxcomb. Come bind them. Thou naughty bollot Away,
Speaker 21: you are an ass.
Speaker 2: You are an ass.
Speaker 21: Dost thou not suspect my place? Dost thou not suspect
Speaker 21: my years. Oh that he were here to write me
Speaker 21: down an ass. But masters, remember that I am an ass,
Speaker 21: though it be not written down. Yet, forget not that
Speaker 21: I am an ass. No thou villain, Thou art full
Speaker 21: of piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.
Speaker 21: I am a wise fellow, And which is more an officer,
Speaker 21: and which is more a householder, and which is more
Speaker 21: as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in Messina.
Speaker 21: And one that knows the law go to. And a
Speaker 21: rich fellow enough go to. And a fellow that hath
Speaker 21: had losses, and one that hath two gowns and everything
Speaker 21: handsome about him, bring him away. Oh that I had
Speaker 21: been written down an ass Exian.
Speaker 1: And of Act four, Act five, seene one, before Leonato's house,
Speaker 1: Enter Leonato and Antonio.
Speaker 11: If you go on thus, you will kill yourself. It
Speaker 11: is not wisdom thus to second grief against yourself.
Speaker 2: I praythee see side. Counsel which falls into mine ears
Speaker 2: as profitestless as water in the siev. Give not me counsel,
Speaker 2: nor let no comforter delight mine ear. But such a
Speaker 2: one whose wrongs do suit with mine, bring me a
Speaker 2: father that so loved his child, whose joy of her
Speaker 2: is so overwhelmed like mine. And bid him speak to
Speaker 2: me of patience, measure his woe the length and breadth
Speaker 2: of mine, and let it answer every strain for strain,
Speaker 2: as thus for thus, and such a grief for such
Speaker 2: in every lineament, branch, shape, and form. If such a
Speaker 2: one will smile and stroke his beard, bid sorrow, wag
Speaker 2: cry hem when he should groan, patch grief with proverbs,
Speaker 2: make misfortune drunk with candle wasters. Bring him yet to me,
Speaker 2: and I of him will gather patients. But there is
Speaker 2: no such man. For brother men can counsel and speak
Speaker 2: comfort to that grief which they themselves not feel. But
Speaker 2: tasting it, their counsel turns to passion, which before would
Speaker 2: give perceptual medicine, to rage, fetter, strong madness in a
Speaker 2: sulken thread, charm ache with air, and agony with words.
Speaker 2: No no tis all men's office to speak patience to
Speaker 2: those that ring under the load of sorrow. But no
Speaker 2: man's virtue nor sufficiency to be so moral when he
Speaker 2: shall endure the like himself. Therefore, give me no counsel.
Speaker 2: My griefs cry louder than advertisement.
Speaker 11: Therein do men from children, nothing differ.
Speaker 2: I pray thee peace. I will be flesh and blood.
Speaker 2: For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the
Speaker 2: toothache patiently. However they have writ this style of God's
Speaker 2: and made a push at chance and sufferance it.
Speaker 11: Then not all the harm upon yourself. Make those that
Speaker 11: do a thing you suffer too.
Speaker 2: There thou speakest reason, nay, I will do so. My
Speaker 2: soul doth tell me. Hero is belied, and that shall Audio. No,
Speaker 2: so shall the Prince and all of them that thus
Speaker 2: dishonor her.
Speaker 11: Here comes to Prince and Claudio hastily.
Speaker 1: Enter Don Pedro and Claudio.
Speaker 6: Good Den, good Den.
Speaker 10: Good day to both of you.
Speaker 2: Hear you, my lords.
Speaker 6: We have some haste Leonatto.
Speaker 2: Some haste, my lord? Well fare you well, my lord?
Speaker 2: Are you so hasty? Now? Well? All is one?
Speaker 6: Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man, if he.
Speaker 11: Could right himself with quarreling, some of us would lie.
Speaker 10: Low who wrongs him?
Speaker 2: Marry Thou dost wrong me, thou dissembler, Thou nay, never
Speaker 2: lay thy hand upon thy sword. I fear thee, not.
Speaker 10: Marry beshrew my hand if it should give your aise
Speaker 10: such cause of fear in faith, my hand been nothing
Speaker 10: to my sword.
Speaker 2: Toush touch man, never flear and jest at me. I
Speaker 2: speak not like a daughter, nor a fool, as under
Speaker 2: privilege of age to brag what I have done being young,
Speaker 2: or what would do were I not old, No claudio
Speaker 2: to thy head. Thou hast so wronged mine innocent child
Speaker 2: and me that I am forced to lay my reverence
Speaker 2: by and with gray hairs and brews of many days,
Speaker 2: a due challenge, thee to trial of a man. I say,
Speaker 2: thou hast belied mine innocent child. Thy slander hath gone
Speaker 2: through and through her heart, and she lied buried with
Speaker 2: her ancestors, oh in a tomb where never scandals slept.
Speaker 2: Say this of hers, framed by thy villainy, my villainy, thine,
Speaker 2: claudial thine.
Speaker 6: I say you say not, right, old man, my lord, my.
Speaker 2: Lord, I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,
Speaker 2: despite his nice fence and his active practice, his may
Speaker 2: of youth and bloom of lustihood.
Speaker 10: A way I will not have to do with you.
Speaker 2: Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child
Speaker 2: if thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
Speaker 11: He shall kill two of us and men indeed, but
Speaker 11: that's no matter. Let him kill one first when being
Speaker 11: where me, let you man me Come follow me, boy, Come,
Speaker 11: sir boy, Come follow me, sir boy, I'll whip you
Speaker 11: from your pointing bench. Nay, as I'm a gentleman, I
Speaker 11: will brother content yourself. God knows I love mindies and
Speaker 11: she is dead. Slander to death by villains that dare
Speaker 11: as well as answer a man, indeed, as I dare
Speaker 11: take a serpent by the tongue boys.
Speaker 25: Apes, braggets, jack's milk SOPs, Brother Anthony, hold your content,
Speaker 25: what man I know them, yeay, and what they weigh
Speaker 25: even to the utmost scruple scambling, out facing fashion monging
Speaker 25: boys that lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
Speaker 25: go antickly, show outward hideousness and speak of half a
Speaker 25: dozen dangerous words.
Speaker 11: How they might hurt their enemies if they durst. And
Speaker 11: this is all, but Brother Anthony, come tis no man,
Speaker 11: Do not you meddle.
Speaker 6: Let me deal in this gentlemen, both we will not
Speaker 6: wake your patience. My heart is sorry for your daughter's death.
Speaker 6: But on my honor she was charged with nothing but
Speaker 6: what was true and very full of proof. My Lord,
Speaker 6: my lord, I will not hear you no.
Speaker 11: Come brother away, I will be heard and shall or
Speaker 11: some of us will smart for it.
Speaker 1: Exitant Leonato and Antonio enter Benedict.
Speaker 6: See see here comes the man we went to seek.
Speaker 10: Now signor what news?
Speaker 7: Good day, my lord?
Speaker 6: Welcome signor you are almost come to part.
Speaker 10: Almost afraid we had like to have had out two
Speaker 10: noses snapped off with two old men without.
Speaker 6: Teeth Leonato and his brother. What think'st thou had we fought?
Speaker 6: I doubt we should have been too young for them.
Speaker 7: In a false squirrel. There is no true valor. I
Speaker 7: came to seek you both.
Speaker 10: We have been up and down to seek THEE, for
Speaker 10: we are high proof, melancholy, and would fain of it
Speaker 10: beaten away? Wilt thou use thy wit?
Speaker 7: It is in my scabbard. Shall I draw it?
Speaker 6: Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
Speaker 10: Never any did so, though very many have been beside
Speaker 10: their wit. I will bid THEE draw as we do.
Speaker 10: The minstrels traw to pleasure us.
Speaker 6: As I am an honest man. He looks pale. Art
Speaker 6: Thou sick or angry?
Speaker 10: What courage man? What thou care killed a cat? Thou
Speaker 10: wast metal enough in thee to kill care?
Speaker 7: Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and
Speaker 7: you charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject,
Speaker 7: and nay.
Speaker 10: Then give him another staff. This last was broke cross.
Speaker 6: By this light. He changes more and more. I think
Speaker 6: ye be angry.
Speaker 10: Indeed, if he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
Speaker 7: Shall I speak a word in your ear?
Speaker 10: God bless me from a challenge aside to Claudio.
Speaker 7: You are a villain. I jest not. I will make
Speaker 7: it good how you dare, with what you dare, and
Speaker 7: when you dare, do me right, or I will protest
Speaker 7: your cowardice. You have killed a sweet lady, and her
Speaker 7: death shall fall heavy on you. Let me hear from you.
Speaker 10: Well, I will meet you so I may have good cheer.
Speaker 6: What a feast? A feast?
Speaker 10: I faith I thank him He hath bid me to
Speaker 10: a calf's head and a cap on the witch. If
Speaker 10: I do not carve most curiously, say my nice not?
Speaker 10: Shall I not find a woodcock too?
Speaker 22: Sir?
Speaker 7: Your wit ambles well it goes easily.
Speaker 6: I'll tell thee how Beatrice praise thy wit. The other
Speaker 6: day I said thou hadst a fine wit. True, she
Speaker 6: says a fine little one. No said I A great wit.
Speaker 6: Right said she a great gross one. Nay said I
Speaker 6: A good wit, just said she. It hurts nobody, Nay
Speaker 6: said I. The gentleman is wise certain, said she a
Speaker 6: wise gentle man. Nay said I. He hath the tongues
Speaker 6: that I believe, said she, For he swore a thing
Speaker 6: to me on Monday night which he forswore on Tuesday morning.
Speaker 6: There is a double tongue. There's two tongues. Thus did
Speaker 6: she an hour to gather transshape thy particular virtues. Yet
Speaker 6: at last she concluded with a sigh, thou wast the
Speaker 6: properest man in Italy.
Speaker 21: For the witch.
Speaker 10: She wept heartily and said she cared not yea that
Speaker 10: she did.
Speaker 6: But yet for all that, and if she did not
Speaker 6: hate him deadly, she would love him dearly. The old
Speaker 6: man's daughter told us all.
Speaker 10: All all, and moreover, God saw him when he was
Speaker 10: hid in the garden.
Speaker 6: But when shall we set the savage bulls horns on
Speaker 6: the sensible Benedict's head.
Speaker 10: Yea in text underneath here dwells Benedict the married man.
Speaker 7: Fare you well, boy, you know my mind. I will
Speaker 7: leave you now to your gossip like humor. You break
Speaker 7: jests as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked
Speaker 7: hurt not my lord for your many courtesies, I thank you.
Speaker 7: I must discontinue your company. Your brother the bastard is
Speaker 7: fled from Messina. You have among you killed a sweet
Speaker 7: and innocent lady for my lord Lackbeard. There he and
Speaker 7: I shall meet until then peace be with him.
Speaker 1: Exit.
Speaker 10: He is in earnest, in most profound, earnest. And I'll
Speaker 10: warrant you for the love of Beatrice, and hath challenged
Speaker 10: thee most sincerely.
Speaker 6: What a pretty thing man is when he goes in
Speaker 6: his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit.
Speaker 10: He is in a giant to an ape. But then
Speaker 10: is an ape adopted to such men?
Speaker 6: But soft you let me be, pluck up my heart
Speaker 6: and be sad? Did he not say my brother was fled?
Speaker 1: Enter Dogberry verges and the watch with Conrad and Barraccio.
Speaker 21: Come you, sir. If justice cannot tame you, she shall
Speaker 21: near weigh more reasons in her balance. Nay, and you'll
Speaker 21: be a cursing hypocrite once you must be looked to.
Speaker 6: How now two of my brother's men bound boraccio one?
Speaker 10: How can after their offense? My lord officers?
Speaker 6: What offense have these men done? Uh?
Speaker 21: Marry sir? They have committed false report? Moreover, they have
Speaker 21: spoken untruth. Secondarily they are slanders six them. Lastly they
Speaker 21: have belied a lady. Thirdly they have verified unjust things,
Speaker 21: and two conclude they are lying knaves.
Speaker 6: First I ask thee what they have done? Thirdly I
Speaker 6: ask THEE what's their offense? Sixth and lastly why they
Speaker 6: are committed? And to conclude what you lay to their charge?
Speaker 10: Rightly reasoned and in his own diversion? And by my troth,
Speaker 10: there's one meaning well suited.
Speaker 6: Who have you offended? Masters? That you are thus bound
Speaker 6: to your answer? This learned constable is too cunning to
Speaker 6: be understood? What's your offense?
Speaker 13: Sweet prince? Let me go no further to mine answer?
Speaker 13: Do you hear me? And let this count kill me?
Speaker 13: I have deceived even your very eyes what your wisdoms
Speaker 13: could not discover. These shallow fools have brought to light,
Speaker 13: who in the night overheard me confessing to this man,
Speaker 13: How Don John, your brother incensed me to slander the
Speaker 13: lady Hero. How you were brought into the orchard and
Speaker 13: saw me court Margaret in Hero's garments. How you disgraced
Speaker 13: her when you should marry her. My villainy, they have
Speaker 13: upon record, which I had rather seal with my death
Speaker 13: than repeat over to my shame. The lady is dead
Speaker 13: upon mine and my master's false accusation, And briefly I
Speaker 13: desire nothing but the reward of a.
Speaker 6: Villain runs not this speech like iron through your blood.
Speaker 10: I have drunk poison whilst he uttered it.
Speaker 6: But did my brother set thee on to this.
Speaker 13: Yea and paid me richly for the practice of it.
Speaker 6: He is composed and framed of treachery and fled. He
Speaker 6: is upon this villainy.
Speaker 10: Sweet Hero. Now that image doth appear in the rest
Speaker 10: semblance that I loved it.
Speaker 21: First, come bring away the plaintiffs. By this time our
Speaker 21: sexton hath reformed Signor Leonardo of the matter. And masters
Speaker 21: do not forget to specify when time and place shall
Speaker 21: serve that I am an ass.
Speaker 18: Here Here comes Master, Signor Leonardo, and the sexton.
Speaker 1: Two re enter Leonardo Antonio and the sexton which.
Speaker 2: Is the villain? Let me see his eyes, that when
Speaker 2: I note another man like him, I may avoid him.
Speaker 2: Which of these is he?
Speaker 13: If you would know your wronger, look on me, art.
Speaker 2: Thou the slave that with thy breast has killed mine
Speaker 2: innocent child.
Speaker 13: Yea even I alone, No.
Speaker 2: Not soul villain, thou beliest thyself. Here stand a pair
Speaker 2: of honorable men. A third is fled, that had a
Speaker 2: hand in it. I thank you, princess, for my daughter's death.
Speaker 2: Record it with your high and worthy deed. Twas bravely done.
Speaker 2: If you bethink you of it.
Speaker 10: I know not how to pray your patience, Yet I
Speaker 10: must speak. Choose your revenge yourself. Impose me to what
Speaker 10: penance or invention can lay upon my sin? Yet sinned
Speaker 10: I not but a mistaking.
Speaker 6: By my soul, nor I and yet to satisfy this
Speaker 6: good old man, I would bin under any heavy weight
Speaker 6: that he'll enjoin me too.
Speaker 2: I cannot bid you bid my daughter live, That were impossible.
Speaker 2: But I pray you both possess the people in Messina
Speaker 2: here how innocent she died, and if your love can
Speaker 2: labor art in sad invention, hang her an epitaph upon
Speaker 2: her tomb and sing it to her bones. Sing it
Speaker 2: tonight tomorrow morning, come you to my house. And since
Speaker 2: you could not be my son in law, be it
Speaker 2: my nephew. My brother. Hath a daughter almost a copy
Speaker 2: of my child that's dead, and she alone is heir
Speaker 2: to both of us. Give her the right you should
Speaker 2: have given her cousin, and so dies my revenge.
Speaker 10: Oh noble sir, you are of the kindest dotting tears
Speaker 10: from me. I do embrace your offer and dispose for
Speaker 10: henceforth of poor Claudio.
Speaker 2: Tomorrow. Then I will expect your coming to night. I
Speaker 2: take my leave. This naughty man shall face to face
Speaker 2: be brought to Margaret, who I believe was packed and
Speaker 2: all this wrong, hired to it by your brother.
Speaker 13: No, by my soul she was not, nor knew not
Speaker 13: what she did when she spoke to me, But always
Speaker 13: hath been just and virtuous in anything that I do
Speaker 13: know by her.
Speaker 21: Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and black,
Speaker 21: this plaintiff here, the offender did call me ass I
Speaker 21: beseech you. Let it be remembered in this punt. And
Speaker 21: also the watch heard them talk of one deformed. They
Speaker 21: say he wears a key in his ear at a
Speaker 21: lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's name,
Speaker 21: which he hath used so long and never paid that
Speaker 21: now men grow hard hearted and will lend nothing for
Speaker 21: God's sake. Pray you examine him upon that point.
Speaker 2: I thank THEE for thy care and honest pains.
Speaker 21: Your worship speaks like a most thankful and reverend youth,
Speaker 21: and I praise God for you.
Speaker 2: There's for thy pains.
Speaker 21: God save the foundation.
Speaker 12: Go.
Speaker 2: I discharge THEE by prisoner, and I thank THEE.
Speaker 21: I leave an errant knave with your worship, which I
Speaker 21: beseech your worship to correct yourself with the example of others.
Speaker 21: God keep your worship. I wish your worship well. God
Speaker 21: restore you to health. I humbly give you leave to depart,
Speaker 21: and if a merry meeting may be wished, God prohibit it.
Speaker 1: Come neighbor, Exiant Dogberry and verges.
Speaker 2: Until tomorrow morning.
Speaker 6: Lords, farewell, we will not fail.
Speaker 10: Tonight.
Speaker 1: I'll loan with Hero Exiant, Don Pedro and Claudio to
Speaker 1: the watch bring you.
Speaker 2: These calls on. We'll talk with Margaret how our acquaintance
Speaker 2: grew with this lude.
Speaker 1: Fellow exeant scene too Leonardo's garden. Enter Bennedict and Margaret meeting.
Speaker 7: Pray thee, sweet mistress, Margaret, deserve well at my hands
Speaker 7: by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
Speaker 16: Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of
Speaker 16: my beauty in.
Speaker 7: So high a style, Margaret, that no man living shall
Speaker 7: come over it? For in most commonly truth, thou deservest it.
Speaker 16: To have no man come over me. Why shall I
Speaker 16: always keep below stairs?
Speaker 7: Hm? Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth.
Speaker 16: It catches, and yours as blunt as the fencer's foils,
Speaker 16: which hit but hurt not.
Speaker 7: Oh, a most manly wit, Margaret, It will not hurt
Speaker 7: a woman. And so I pray THEE call Beatrice, I
Speaker 7: give THEE the.
Speaker 16: Bucklers, give us the swords.
Speaker 7: We have bucklers of our own. If you use them, Margaret,
Speaker 7: you must put in the pikes with a vice, and
Speaker 7: they are dangerous weapons for maids.
Speaker 16: Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think
Speaker 16: hath legs.
Speaker 7: And therefore will come exit Margaret, m m m. The
Speaker 7: goha had of love that see it's all all, and
Speaker 7: know who's me? And know who's me, how.
Speaker 26: Pitifool I deserve, I mean in singing, but in loving Leander,
Speaker 26: the good swimmer Troyl is the first employer of pandurs.
Speaker 7: And a whole book full of those quondam carpet mongers
Speaker 7: whose names yet run smooth in the even road of
Speaker 7: a blank verse. Why they were never so truly turned
Speaker 7: over and over as my poor self in love Mary.
Speaker 7: I cannot show it in rhyme I have tried. I
Speaker 7: can find out no rhyme to lady but baby, an
Speaker 7: innocent rhyme for scorn horn, a hard rhyme for school fool,
Speaker 7: a babbling rhyme very ominous endings. No, I was not
Speaker 7: born under a rhyming planet. Nor I cannot woo in
Speaker 7: festival terms. Enter Beatrice, Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when
Speaker 7: I called thee.
Speaker 4: Yea signor and depart when you bid me?
Speaker 7: Oh? Stay, but till then.
Speaker 4: Then is spoken? Fare you well?
Speaker 2: Now?
Speaker 4: And yet ere I go. Let me go with that
Speaker 4: I came for, which is with no what hath passed
Speaker 4: between you and claudio.
Speaker 7: Only foul words, And thereupon I will kiss.
Speaker 4: Thee Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind
Speaker 4: is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome. Therefore
Speaker 4: I will depart unkissed.
Speaker 7: Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,
Speaker 7: so forcible as thy wit. But I must tell THEE plainly.
Speaker 7: Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either I must shortly hear
Speaker 7: from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. And
Speaker 7: I pray THEE now tell me for which of my
Speaker 7: bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?
Speaker 4: For them altogether, which maintain so politic a state of
Speaker 4: evil that they will not admit any good part to
Speaker 4: intermingle with them. But for which of my good parts
Speaker 4: did you first suffer love? For me?
Speaker 7: Suffer love a good epithet, I do suffer love, indeed,
Speaker 7: for I love THEE against my will.
Speaker 4: Of your heart. I think alas poor heart, if you
Speaker 4: spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours,
Speaker 4: for I will never love that which my friend hates.
Speaker 7: Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
Speaker 4: It appears not in this confession there's not one wise
Speaker 4: man among twenty that will praise himself.
Speaker 7: An old and old instance Beatrice that lived in the
Speaker 7: time of good neighbors. If a man do not erect
Speaker 7: in this age his own toomb ere he dies, he
Speaker 7: shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings
Speaker 7: and the widow weeps.
Speaker 4: And how long is that? Thank you question?
Speaker 7: Why an hour in clamor and a quarter in room?
Speaker 7: Therefore is it most expedient for the wise? If don
Speaker 7: worm his conscience find no impediment to the contrary, to
Speaker 7: be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am
Speaker 7: to myself so much for praising myself, who I myself
Speaker 7: will bear witness is praise worthy. And now tell me
Speaker 7: how doth your cousin very ill? And how do you
Speaker 7: very ill?
Speaker 2: Too?
Speaker 7: Serve God, love me and mend there? Will I leave
Speaker 7: you too? For here comes one in haste.
Speaker 14: Inter ursula, madam, you must come to your uncle yonders
Speaker 14: old coil at home. It is proved, my lady, Hero
Speaker 14: hath been falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio mightily abused.
Speaker 14: And Don John is the author of all who is
Speaker 14: fled and gone. Will you come presently?
Speaker 4: Will you go hear this news?
Speaker 7: Signor I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap,
Speaker 7: and be buried in thy eyes. And moreover, I will
Speaker 7: go with thee to thy uncles.
Speaker 1: Exiant Scene three. The inside of a church, Enter Don
Speaker 1: Pedro Claudio and attendants with music and papers.
Speaker 10: Is this the monument of Leonardo?
Speaker 1: It is, my lord reads from a scrawl.
Speaker 10: Done to death by slanderous tongues. Was the hero that
Speaker 10: lies here? Death in Gerdon of her wrongs gives her
Speaker 10: fame which never dies. So the life that died with
Speaker 10: shame lives in death with glorious fame. Hang thou there
Speaker 10: upon the tomb, praising her. When I am dumb. Now,
Speaker 10: music sound, and sing your solemn hymn, hardened Goddess of
Speaker 10: the night. Those that slew thy virgin Knight from the
Speaker 10: witch with songs of woe round about her tomb they
Speaker 10: go midnight, assist on moan, Help us to sigh and
Speaker 10: groan heavily heavily, graves, yawn, and yield your dead till
Speaker 10: death be uttered heavily heavily now until thy bones good night, yearly,
Speaker 10: will I do this right?
Speaker 6: Good morrow? Masters? Put your torches out. The wolves have prayed,
Speaker 6: and look the gentle day before the wheels of phoebus
Speaker 6: round about dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray.
Speaker 6: Thanks to you all, and leave us fare you well.
Speaker 10: Good morrow, mastas each his several way.
Speaker 6: Come, let us hence and put on other weeds. And
Speaker 6: then to Leonato's we will go.
Speaker 10: And Hiaman now with luckier issue speeds than this for
Speaker 10: whom we rendered up this woe.
Speaker 1: Exiant scene for a room in Leonato's house. Enter Leonato, Antonio, Benedict, Beatrice, Margaret, Ursula,
Speaker 1: Friar Francis, and Hero.
Speaker 24: Did I not tell you she was innocent?
Speaker 2: So are the Prince and Claudio, who accused her upon
Speaker 2: the error that you heard, debated it. But Margaret was
Speaker 2: in some fault for this, as it appears in the
Speaker 2: true courts of all the question.
Speaker 11: Well, I'm glad they all things sought so well, and.
Speaker 7: So am I, being else by faith and forced to
Speaker 7: call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
Speaker 2: Well, daughter, and you, gentlewoman, all withdraw into a chamber
Speaker 2: by yourselves, and when I sent for you, come hither masked.
Speaker 2: The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour to visit me.
Speaker 1: Exit, ladies.
Speaker 2: You know your office brother, you must be father to
Speaker 2: your brother's daughter and give her to young Claudio.
Speaker 11: Which I do with confirmed countenance.
Speaker 7: Uh, friar, I must entreat your pains. I think to
Speaker 7: do what signor to bind me or undo me? One
Speaker 7: of them? Signor Leonato, truth, it is good signor your
Speaker 7: niece regards me with an eye of favor.
Speaker 2: That I my daughter lent her 'tis most true.
Speaker 7: And I do, with an eye of love requite her the.
Speaker 2: Sight whereof I think you had from me, from Claudio
Speaker 2: and the Prince. But what's your will.
Speaker 7: Is enigmatical. But for my will, my will is your
Speaker 7: good will. May stand with ours this day to be
Speaker 7: conjoined in the state of honorable marriage, in which, good Friar,
Speaker 7: I shall desire your help.
Speaker 2: My heart is with your liking and my help.
Speaker 24: Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
Speaker 1: Enter Don Pedro and Claudio with attendant, Good morrow to
Speaker 1: this fair assembly.
Speaker 2: Good morrow, Prince, Good morrow, Claudio, we here attend you.
Speaker 2: Are you yet determined to day to marry with my
Speaker 2: brother's daughter?
Speaker 10: I'll hold my mind. Was she an Ethiop?
Speaker 2: Call her fourth brother? Here's the priority?
Speaker 1: Exit Antonio, Good morrow, Benedict.
Speaker 6: Why what's the matter that you have such a February face,
Speaker 6: so full of frost, of storm and cloudiness.
Speaker 10: I think he thinks upon the savage bull tush, fear not, man,
Speaker 10: We'll tip thy horns with gold, and all your ropishall
Speaker 10: rejoice at thee as once your oper did it, lusty Jove,
Speaker 10: when he would play the noble beast in love.
Speaker 7: Bull Jove, Sir had an amiable low, and some such
Speaker 7: strange bull leaped your father's cow and got a calf
Speaker 7: in that same noble feat much like to you, for
Speaker 7: you have just his bleat.
Speaker 10: For this I owe you. Here comes other reckonings.
Speaker 1: Re enter Antonio with the ladies masked.
Speaker 10: Which is the lady I must seize upon? Why then
Speaker 10: she's mine? Sweet? Let me see your face.
Speaker 2: No that you shall not till you take her hand
Speaker 2: before this friar and swear to marry her.
Speaker 10: Give me your hand before this holy friar. I am
Speaker 10: your husband, if you like of me.
Speaker 5: And when I lived, I was your other wife, unmasking,
Speaker 5: and when you loved you were my other husband.
Speaker 10: Another hero.
Speaker 5: Nothing certainer. One hero died defiled, but I do live,
Speaker 5: and surely as I live, I am a maid before
Speaker 5: hero hero that is dead.
Speaker 2: She died, my lord, but while her slander lived.
Speaker 24: All this amazement. Can I qualify when after that the
Speaker 24: holy rites are ended. I'll tell you largely a fair
Speaker 24: hero's death. Meanwhile, let wonder seem familiar. And to the
Speaker 24: chapel let us presently the.
Speaker 7: Softened fair friar, which is Beatrice unmasking.
Speaker 4: I answer to that name? What is your will?
Speaker 7: Do not you love me?
Speaker 20: Why?
Speaker 4: No? No more than reason?
Speaker 7: Why? Then your uncle and the Prince and Claudia have
Speaker 7: been deceived, For they swore you did.
Speaker 4: Do not you love me?
Speaker 7: Troth? No no more than reason?
Speaker 4: Why than my cousin, Margaret and Ursula are well deceived.
Speaker 4: For they did swear that you did.
Speaker 7: They swore that you were almost sick for me.
Speaker 4: They swore that you were well nigh dead for me.
Speaker 7: Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
Speaker 4: No truly, but in friendly recompense.
Speaker 2: Come cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
Speaker 10: And all this one ponted that he loves her, For
Speaker 10: he is a paper written in his hand, a halting
Speaker 10: sonnet of his own pure brain, fashioned to Beatrice.
Speaker 5: And here's another writt in my cousin's hand, stolen from
Speaker 5: her pocket, containing her affection.
Speaker 28: Unto Benedict, come miracle, here is our own hands against
Speaker 28: our hearts.
Speaker 7: Come, I will have THEE. But by this light I
Speaker 7: take THEE for pity.
Speaker 4: I would not deny you, but by this good day
Speaker 4: I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life,
Speaker 4: for I was told you are in a consumption peace.
Speaker 7: I will stop your mouth kisses her. I'll tell THEE
Speaker 7: what prince. A college of whitcrackers cannot flout me out
Speaker 7: of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a
Speaker 7: satire or an epigram. No, if man will be beaten
Speaker 7: with brains, I shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief,
Speaker 7: since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing
Speaker 7: to any purpose that the world can say against it,
Speaker 7: and therefore never flout at me for what I have
Speaker 7: said against it. For man is a giddy thing. And
Speaker 7: this is my conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did
Speaker 7: think to have beaten THEE. But in that thou art
Speaker 7: like to be my kinsman, live unbruised, and love my cousin.
Speaker 10: I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that
Speaker 10: I might have cudgeled THEE out of thy single life,
Speaker 10: to make THEE a double dealer, which out of question,
Speaker 10: thou wilt be if my cousin do not look exceedingly
Speaker 10: narrowly to thee.
Speaker 7: Come, Come, we are friends. Let's have a dance ere
Speaker 7: we are married. Though we may lighten our own hearts
Speaker 7: and our wives.
Speaker 2: Heals, we'll have dancing afterward.
Speaker 28: First of my word, Therefore, play music, Prince, thou art sad,
Speaker 28: Get thee a wife, Get thee a wife.
Speaker 7: There is no staff more reverent than one tipped with horn.
Speaker 3: Enter messenger, my lord, your brother John is pain in
Speaker 3: flight and brought with armed men back to Messina.
Speaker 7: Think not on him till tomorrow. I'll devise thee brave
Speaker 7: punishments for him. Strike up pipers.
Speaker 1: Dance egxiant. End of Act five