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Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO
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Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO
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LEONATO How now, brother, where is my cousin, your son? Hath he
provided this music?
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LEONATO How now, brother, where is my cousin, your son? Hath he
provided this music?
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ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you strange
news that you yet dreamt not of.
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ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you strange
news that you yet dreamt not of.
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LEONATO 5 Are they good?
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LEONATO Are they good?
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ANTONIO As the events stamps them, but they have a good cover;
they show well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio,
walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were
thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince
10 discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter
and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if he
found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by
the top and instantly break with you of it.
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ANTONIO As the events stamps them, but they have a good cover;
they show well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio,
walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were
thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince
discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter
and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if he
found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by
the top and instantly break with you of it.
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LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
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LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
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ANTONIO 15 A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and question him
yourself.
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ANTONIO A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and question him
yourself.
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LEONATO No, no, we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself. But I
will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the
better prepared for an answer if peradventure this be true.
20 Go you and tell her of it.
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LEONATO No, no, we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself. But I
will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the
better prepared for an answer if peradventure this be true.
Go you and tell her of it.
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Enter ANTONIO ’s son, with a musician and attendants
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Enter ANTONIO ’s son, with a musician and attendants
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Cousins, you know what you have to do.—O, I cry you
mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your skill.—
Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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Cousins, you know what you have to do.—O, I cry you
mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your skill.—
Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO
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Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO
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LEONATO How now, brother, where is my cousin, your son? Hath he
provided this music?
|
LEONATO How now, brother, where is my cousin, your son? Hath he
provided this music?
|
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ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you strange
news that you yet dreamt not of.
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ANTONIO He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you strange
news that you yet dreamt not of.
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LEONATO 5 Are they good?
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LEONATO Are they good?
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ANTONIO As the events stamps them, but they have a good cover;
they show well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio,
walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were
thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince
10 discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter
and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if he
found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by
the top and instantly break with you of it.
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ANTONIO As the events stamps them, but they have a good cover;
they show well outward. The Prince and Count Claudio,
walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were
thus much overheard by a man of mine: the Prince
discovered to Claudio that he loved my niece your daughter
and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, and if he
found her accordant, he meant to take the present time by
the top and instantly break with you of it.
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LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
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LEONATO Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
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ANTONIO 15 A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and question him
yourself.
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ANTONIO A good sharp fellow. I will send for him, and question him
yourself.
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LEONATO No, no, we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself. But I
will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the
better prepared for an answer if peradventure this be true.
20 Go you and tell her of it.
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LEONATO No, no, we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself. But I
will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the
better prepared for an answer if peradventure this be true.
Go you and tell her of it.
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Enter ANTONIO ’s son, with a musician and attendants
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Enter ANTONIO ’s son, with a musician and attendants
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Cousins, you know what you have to do.—O, I cry you
mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your skill.—
Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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Cousins, you know what you have to do.—O, I cry you
mercy, friend. Go you with me and I will use your skill.—
Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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