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Enter DON JOHN and CONRAD
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Enter DON JOHN and CONRAD
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CONRAD What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus out of
measure sad?
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CONRAD What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus out of
measure sad?
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DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore
the sadness is without limit.
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DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore
the sadness is without limit.
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CONRAD 5 You should hear reason.
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CONRAD You should hear reason.
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DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
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DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
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CONRAD If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.
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CONRAD If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.
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DON JOHN I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayst thou art, born
under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a
10 mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad
when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I
have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am
drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am
merry and claw no man in his humor.
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DON JOHN I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayst thou art, born
under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a
mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad
when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I
have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am
drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am
merry and claw no man in his humor.
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CONRAD 15 Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you
may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out
against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his
grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but
by the fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that
20 you frame the season for your own harvest.
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CONRAD Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you
may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out
against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his
grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but
by the fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that
you frame the season for your own harvest.
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DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace,
and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I
cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be
25 denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a
muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have
decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would
bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the
meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
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DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace,
and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I
cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be
denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a
muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have
decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would
bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the
meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
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CONRAD 30 Can you make no use of your discontent?
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CONRAD Can you make no use of your discontent?
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DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?
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DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?
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Enter BORACHIO
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Enter BORACHIO
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What news, Borachio?
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What news, Borachio?
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BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince your
brother
35 is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give you
intelligence of an intended marriage.
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BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince your
brother
is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give you
intelligence of an intended marriage.
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DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he
for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
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DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he
for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
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BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother’s right hand.
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BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother’s right hand.
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DON JOHN 40 Who? The most exquisite Claudio?
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DON JOHN Who? The most exquisite Claudio?
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BORACHIO Even he.
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BORACHIO Even he.
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DON JOHN A proper squire. And who, and who? Which way looks he?
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DON JOHN A proper squire. And who, and who? Which way looks he?
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BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
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BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
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DON JOHN A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
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DON JOHN A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
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BORACHIO 45 Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty
room, comes me the Prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in
sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras, and there
heard it agreed upon that the Prince should woo Hero for
himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count
50 Claudio.
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BORACHIO Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty
room, comes me the Prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in
sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras, and there
heard it agreed upon that the Prince should woo Hero for
himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count
Claudio.
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DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to my
displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my
overthrow. If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every
way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
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DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to my
displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my
overthrow. If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every
way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
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CONRAD 55 To the death, my lord.
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CONRAD To the death, my lord.
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DON JOHN Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the greater that I
am subdued. Would the cook were o' my mind! Shall we go
prove what’s to be done?
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DON JOHN Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the greater that I
am subdued. Would the cook were o' my mind! Shall we go
prove what’s to be done?
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BORACHIO We’ll wait upon your lordship.
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BORACHIO We’ll wait upon your lordship.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Original Text |
Modern Text |
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Enter DON JOHN and CONRAD
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Enter DON JOHN and CONRAD
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CONRAD What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus out of
measure sad?
|
CONRAD What the goodyear, my lord, why are you thus out of
measure sad?
|
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DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore
the sadness is without limit.
|
DON JOHN There is no measure in the occasion that breeds. Therefore
the sadness is without limit.
|
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CONRAD 5 You should hear reason.
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CONRAD You should hear reason.
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DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
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DON JOHN And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
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CONRAD If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.
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CONRAD If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.
|
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DON JOHN I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayst thou art, born
under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a
10 mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad
when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I
have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am
drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am
merry and claw no man in his humor.
|
DON JOHN I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayst thou art, born
under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a
mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am. I must be sad
when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I
have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am
drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am
merry and claw no man in his humor.
|
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CONRAD 15 Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you
may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out
against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his
grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but
by the fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that
20 you frame the season for your own harvest.
|
CONRAD Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you
may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out
against your brother, and he hath ta'en you newly into his
grace, where it is impossible you should take true root but
by the fair weather that you make yourself. It is needful that
you frame the season for your own harvest.
|
|
DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace,
and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I
cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be
25 denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a
muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have
decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would
bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the
meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
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DON JOHN I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace,
and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to
fashion a carriage to rob love from any. In this, though I
cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be
denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a
muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have
decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would
bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the
meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not to alter me.
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CONRAD 30 Can you make no use of your discontent?
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CONRAD Can you make no use of your discontent?
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DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?
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DON JOHN I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here?
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Enter BORACHIO
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Enter BORACHIO
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What news, Borachio?
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What news, Borachio?
|
|
BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince your
brother
35 is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give you
intelligence of an intended marriage.
|
BORACHIO I came yonder from a great supper. The Prince your
brother
is royally entertained by Leonato, and I can give you
intelligence of an intended marriage.
|
|
DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he
for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
|
DON JOHN Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he
for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?
|
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BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother’s right hand.
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BORACHIO Marry, it is your brother’s right hand.
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DON JOHN 40 Who? The most exquisite Claudio?
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DON JOHN Who? The most exquisite Claudio?
|
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BORACHIO Even he.
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BORACHIO Even he.
|
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DON JOHN A proper squire. And who, and who? Which way looks he?
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DON JOHN A proper squire. And who, and who? Which way looks he?
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BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
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BORACHIO Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
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DON JOHN A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
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DON JOHN A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?
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BORACHIO 45 Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty
room, comes me the Prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in
sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras, and there
heard it agreed upon that the Prince should woo Hero for
himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count
50 Claudio.
|
BORACHIO Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty
room, comes me the Prince and Claudio, hand in hand, in
sad conference. I whipped me behind the arras, and there
heard it agreed upon that the Prince should woo Hero for
himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count
Claudio.
|
|
DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to my
displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my
overthrow. If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every
way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
|
DON JOHN Come, come, let us thither. This may prove food to my
displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my
overthrow. If I can cross him any way, I bless myself every
way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
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CONRAD 55 To the death, my lord.
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CONRAD To the death, my lord.
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DON JOHN Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the greater that I
am subdued. Would the cook were o' my mind! Shall we go
prove what’s to be done?
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DON JOHN Let us to the great supper. Their cheer is the greater that I
am subdued. Would the cook were o' my mind! Shall we go
prove what’s to be done?
|
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BORACHIO We’ll wait upon your lordship.
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BORACHIO We’ll wait upon your lordship.
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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