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Enter LEONATO , ANTONIO , BENEDICK , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , FRIAR FRANCIS , and HERO
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Enter LEONATO , ANTONIO , BENEDICK , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , FRIAR FRANCIS , and HERO
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FRIAR FRANCIS Did I not tell you she was innocent?
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FRIAR FRANCIS Did I not tell you she was innocent?
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LEONATO So are the Prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated.
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
5 Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.
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LEONATO So are the Prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated.
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.
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ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
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ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
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BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
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BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
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LEONATO 10 Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither masked.
The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me.—You know your office, brother.
15 You must be father to your brother’s daughter,
And give her to young Claudio.
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LEONATO Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither masked.
The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me.—You know your office, brother.
You must be father to your brother’s daughter,
And give her to young Claudio.
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Exeunt Ladies
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Exeunt Ladies
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ANTONIO Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
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ANTONIO Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
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BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
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BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
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FRIAR FRANCIS To do what, Signior?
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FRIAR FRANCIS To do what, Signior?
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BENEDICK 20 To bind me or undo me, one of them.—
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good Signior,
Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
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BENEDICK To bind me or undo me, one of them.—
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good Signior,
Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
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LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her; ’tis most true.
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LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her; ’tis most true.
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BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.
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BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.
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LEONATO 25 The sight whereof I think you had from me,
From Claudio and the Prince. But what’s your will?
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LEONATO The sight whereof I think you had from me,
From Claudio and the Prince. But what’s your will?
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BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
But for my will, my will is your goodwill
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined
30 In the state of honorable marriage—
In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
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BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
But for my will, my will is your goodwill
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined
In the state of honorable marriage—
In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
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LEONATO My heart is with your liking.
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LEONATO My heart is with your liking.
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FRIAR FRANCIS And my help.
Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
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FRIAR FRANCIS And my help.
Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
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Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO , and two or three others
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Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO , and two or three others
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DON PEDRO Good morrow to this fair assembly.
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DON PEDRO Good morrow to this fair assembly.
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LEONATO 35 Good morrow, Prince; good morrow, Claudio.
We here attend you. Are you yet determined
Today to marry with my brother’s daughter?
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LEONATO Good morrow, Prince; good morrow, Claudio.
We here attend you. Are you yet determined
Today to marry with my brother’s daughter?
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CLAUDIO I’ll hold my mind were she an Ethiope.
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CLAUDIO I’ll hold my mind were she an Ethiope.
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LEONATO Call her forth, brother. Here’s the friar ready.
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LEONATO Call her forth, brother. Here’s the friar ready.
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Exit ANTONIO
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Exit ANTONIO
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DON PEDRO 40 Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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DON PEDRO Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man. We’ll tip thy horns with gold,
45 And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
As once Europa did at lusty Jove
When he would play the noble beast in love.
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CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man. We’ll tip thy horns with gold,
And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
As once Europa did at lusty Jove
When he would play the noble beast in love.
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BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
And some such strange bull leapt your father’s cow
50 And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
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BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
And some such strange bull leapt your father’s cow
And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
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CLAUDIO For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
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CLAUDIO For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
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Enter ANTONIO , HERO , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , the ladies masked
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Enter ANTONIO , HERO , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , the ladies masked
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Which is the lady I must seize upon?
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Which is the lady I must seize upon?
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LEONATO This same is she, and I do give you her.
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LEONATO This same is she, and I do give you her.
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CLAUDIO |
CLAUDIO |
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LEONATO No, that you shall not till you take her hand
Before this friar and swear to marry her.
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LEONATO No, that you shall not till you take her hand
Before this friar and swear to marry her.
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CLAUDIO (to HERO) Give me your hand before this holy friar.
I am your husband, if you like of me.
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CLAUDIO (to HERO) Give me your hand before this holy friar.
I am your husband, if you like of me.
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HERO 60 And when I lived, I was your other wife,
And when you loved, you were my other husband.
(She unmasks)
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HERO And when I lived, I was your other wife,
And when you loved, you were my other husband.
(She unmasks)
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CLAUDIO Another Hero!
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CLAUDIO Another Hero!
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HERO Nothing certainer.
One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
65 And surely as I live, I am a maid.
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HERO Nothing certainer.
One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
And surely as I live, I am a maid.
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DON PEDRO The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
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DON PEDRO The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
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LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
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LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
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FRIAR FRANCIS All this amazement can I qualify
When after that the holy rites are ended
70 I’ll tell you largely of fair Hero’s death.
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the chapel let us presently.
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FRIAR FRANCIS All this amazement can I qualify
When after that the holy rites are ended
I’ll tell you largely of fair Hero’s death.
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the chapel let us presently.
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BENEDICK Soft and fair, Friar.—Which is Beatrice?
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BENEDICK Soft and fair, Friar.—Which is Beatrice?
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BEATRICE (unmasking) I answer to that name. What is your will?
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BEATRICE (unmasking) I answer to that name. What is your will?
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BENEDICK 75 Do not you love me?
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BENEDICK Do not you love me?
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BEATRICE Why no, no more than reason.
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BEATRICE Why no, no more than reason.
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BENEDICK Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
Have been deceived. They swore you did.
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BENEDICK Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
Have been deceived. They swore you did.
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BEATRICE Do not you love me?
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BEATRICE Do not you love me?
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BENEDICK Troth, no, no more than reason.
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BENEDICK Troth, no, no more than reason.
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BEATRICE 80 Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
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BEATRICE Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
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BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.
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BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.
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BEATRICE They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
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BEATRICE They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
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BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
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BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
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BEATRICE 85 No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
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BEATRICE No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
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LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
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LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
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CLAUDIO And I’ll be sworn upon ’t that he loves her,
For here’s a paper written in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
90 Fashioned to Beatrice.
(Shows a paper)
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CLAUDIO And I’ll be sworn upon ’t that he loves her,
For here’s a paper written in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
Fashioned to Beatrice.
(Shows a paper)
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HERO And here’s another,
Writ in my cousin’s hand, stol'n from her pocket,
Containing her affection unto Benedick.
(Shows a paper)
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HERO And here’s another,
Writ in my cousin’s hand, stol'n from her pocket,
Containing her affection unto Benedick.
(Shows a paper)
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BENEDICK I will have thee, but, by this light, I take thee for pity.
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BENEDICK I will have thee, but, by this light, I take thee for pity.
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BEATRICE I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield upon
great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told
you were in a consumption.
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BEATRICE I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield upon
great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told
you were in a consumption.
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BENEDICK 100 Peace! I will stop your mouth.
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BENEDICK Peace! I will stop your mouth.
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They kiss
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They kiss
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DON PEDRO How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
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DON PEDRO How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
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BENEDICK I’ll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot
flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire
or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with brains, he
105 shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it, and therefore never flout at me
for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy thing, and
this is my conclusion.—For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
110 have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my kinsman,
live unbruised, and love my cousin.
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BENEDICK I’ll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot
flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire
or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with brains, he
shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it, and therefore never flout at me
for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy thing, and
this is my conclusion.—For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my kinsman,
live unbruised, and love my cousin.
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CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I
might have cudgeled thee out of thy single life, to make thee
a double-dealer, which out of question, thou wilt be, if my
115 cousin do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee.
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CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I
might have cudgeled thee out of thy single life, to make thee
a double-dealer, which out of question, thou wilt be, if my
cousin do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee.
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BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a dance ere we are
married, that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives'
heels.
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BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a dance ere we are
married, that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives'
heels.
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LEONATO We’ll have dancing afterward.
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LEONATO We’ll have dancing afterward.
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BENEDICK sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more
reverend than one tipped with horn.
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BENEDICK sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more
reverend than one tipped with horn.
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Enter a MESSENGER
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Enter a MESSENGER
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MESSENGER (to DON PEDRO) My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight
And brought with armed men back to Messina.
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MESSENGER (to DON PEDRO) My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight
And brought with armed men back to Messina.
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BENEDICK thee brave punishments for him.—Strike up, pipers.
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BENEDICK thee brave punishments for him.—Strike up, pipers.
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Dance
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Dance
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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Enter LEONATO , ANTONIO , BENEDICK , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , FRIAR FRANCIS , and HERO
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Enter LEONATO , ANTONIO , BENEDICK , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , FRIAR FRANCIS , and HERO
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FRIAR FRANCIS Did I not tell you she was innocent?
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FRIAR FRANCIS Did I not tell you she was innocent?
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LEONATO So are the Prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated.
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
5 Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.
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LEONATO So are the Prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated.
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.
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ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
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ANTONIO Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.
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BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
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BENEDICK And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
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LEONATO 10 Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither masked.
The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me.—You know your office, brother.
15 You must be father to your brother’s daughter,
And give her to young Claudio.
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LEONATO Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,
Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,
And when I send for you, come hither masked.
The Prince and Claudio promised by this hour
To visit me.—You know your office, brother.
You must be father to your brother’s daughter,
And give her to young Claudio.
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Exeunt Ladies
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Exeunt Ladies
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ANTONIO Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
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ANTONIO Which I will do with confirmed countenance.
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BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
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BENEDICK Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
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FRIAR FRANCIS To do what, Signior?
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FRIAR FRANCIS To do what, Signior?
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BENEDICK 20 To bind me or undo me, one of them.—
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good Signior,
Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
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BENEDICK To bind me or undo me, one of them.—
Signior Leonato, truth it is, good Signior,
Your niece regards me with an eye of favor.
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LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her; ’tis most true.
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LEONATO That eye my daughter lent her; ’tis most true.
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BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.
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BENEDICK And I do with an eye of love requite her.
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LEONATO 25 The sight whereof I think you had from me,
From Claudio and the Prince. But what’s your will?
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LEONATO The sight whereof I think you had from me,
From Claudio and the Prince. But what’s your will?
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BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
But for my will, my will is your goodwill
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined
30 In the state of honorable marriage—
In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
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BENEDICK Your answer, sir, is enigmatical.
But for my will, my will is your goodwill
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined
In the state of honorable marriage—
In which, good Friar, I shall desire your help.
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LEONATO My heart is with your liking.
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LEONATO My heart is with your liking.
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FRIAR FRANCIS And my help.
Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
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FRIAR FRANCIS And my help.
Here comes the Prince and Claudio.
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Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO , and two or three others
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Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO , and two or three others
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DON PEDRO Good morrow to this fair assembly.
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DON PEDRO Good morrow to this fair assembly.
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LEONATO 35 Good morrow, Prince; good morrow, Claudio.
We here attend you. Are you yet determined
Today to marry with my brother’s daughter?
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LEONATO Good morrow, Prince; good morrow, Claudio.
We here attend you. Are you yet determined
Today to marry with my brother’s daughter?
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CLAUDIO I’ll hold my mind were she an Ethiope.
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CLAUDIO I’ll hold my mind were she an Ethiope.
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LEONATO Call her forth, brother. Here’s the friar ready.
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LEONATO Call her forth, brother. Here’s the friar ready.
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Exit ANTONIO
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Exit ANTONIO
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DON PEDRO 40 Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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DON PEDRO Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?
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CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man. We’ll tip thy horns with gold,
45 And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
As once Europa did at lusty Jove
When he would play the noble beast in love.
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CLAUDIO I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man. We’ll tip thy horns with gold,
And all Europa shall rejoice at thee
As once Europa did at lusty Jove
When he would play the noble beast in love.
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BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
And some such strange bull leapt your father’s cow
50 And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
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BENEDICK Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low,
And some such strange bull leapt your father’s cow
And got a calf in that same noble feat
Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.
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CLAUDIO For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
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CLAUDIO For this I owe you. Here comes other reck'nings.
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Enter ANTONIO , HERO , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , the ladies masked
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Enter ANTONIO , HERO , BEATRICE , MARGARET , URSULA , the ladies masked
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Which is the lady I must seize upon?
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Which is the lady I must seize upon?
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LEONATO This same is she, and I do give you her.
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LEONATO This same is she, and I do give you her.
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CLAUDIO |
CLAUDIO |
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LEONATO No, that you shall not till you take her hand
Before this friar and swear to marry her.
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LEONATO No, that you shall not till you take her hand
Before this friar and swear to marry her.
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CLAUDIO (to HERO) Give me your hand before this holy friar.
I am your husband, if you like of me.
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CLAUDIO (to HERO) Give me your hand before this holy friar.
I am your husband, if you like of me.
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HERO 60 And when I lived, I was your other wife,
And when you loved, you were my other husband.
(She unmasks)
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HERO And when I lived, I was your other wife,
And when you loved, you were my other husband.
(She unmasks)
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CLAUDIO Another Hero!
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CLAUDIO Another Hero!
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HERO Nothing certainer.
One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
65 And surely as I live, I am a maid.
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HERO Nothing certainer.
One Hero died defiled, but I do live,
And surely as I live, I am a maid.
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DON PEDRO The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
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DON PEDRO The former Hero! Hero that is dead!
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LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
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LEONATO She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.
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FRIAR FRANCIS All this amazement can I qualify
When after that the holy rites are ended
70 I’ll tell you largely of fair Hero’s death.
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the chapel let us presently.
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FRIAR FRANCIS All this amazement can I qualify
When after that the holy rites are ended
I’ll tell you largely of fair Hero’s death.
Meantime let wonder seem familiar,
And to the chapel let us presently.
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BENEDICK Soft and fair, Friar.—Which is Beatrice?
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BENEDICK Soft and fair, Friar.—Which is Beatrice?
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BEATRICE (unmasking) I answer to that name. What is your will?
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BEATRICE (unmasking) I answer to that name. What is your will?
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BENEDICK 75 Do not you love me?
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BENEDICK Do not you love me?
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BEATRICE Why no, no more than reason.
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BEATRICE Why no, no more than reason.
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BENEDICK Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
Have been deceived. They swore you did.
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BENEDICK Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
Have been deceived. They swore you did.
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BEATRICE Do not you love me?
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BEATRICE Do not you love me?
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BENEDICK Troth, no, no more than reason.
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BENEDICK Troth, no, no more than reason.
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BEATRICE 80 Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
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BEATRICE Why then, my cousin, Margaret, and Ursula
Are much deceived, for they did swear you did.
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BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.
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BENEDICK They swore that you were almost sick for me.
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BEATRICE They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
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BEATRICE They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.
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BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
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BENEDICK 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?
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BEATRICE 85 No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
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BEATRICE No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
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LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
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LEONATO Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.
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CLAUDIO And I’ll be sworn upon ’t that he loves her,
For here’s a paper written in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
90 Fashioned to Beatrice.
(Shows a paper)
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CLAUDIO And I’ll be sworn upon ’t that he loves her,
For here’s a paper written in his hand,
A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,
Fashioned to Beatrice.
(Shows a paper)
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HERO And here’s another,
Writ in my cousin’s hand, stol'n from her pocket,
Containing her affection unto Benedick.
(Shows a paper)
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HERO And here’s another,
Writ in my cousin’s hand, stol'n from her pocket,
Containing her affection unto Benedick.
(Shows a paper)
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BENEDICK I will have thee, but, by this light, I take thee for pity.
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BENEDICK I will have thee, but, by this light, I take thee for pity.
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BEATRICE I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield upon
great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told
you were in a consumption.
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BEATRICE I would not deny you, but, by this good day, I yield upon
great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told
you were in a consumption.
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BENEDICK 100 Peace! I will stop your mouth.
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BENEDICK Peace! I will stop your mouth.
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They kiss
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They kiss
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DON PEDRO How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
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DON PEDRO How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?
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BENEDICK I’ll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot
flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire
or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with brains, he
105 shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it, and therefore never flout at me
for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy thing, and
this is my conclusion.—For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
110 have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my kinsman,
live unbruised, and love my cousin.
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BENEDICK I’ll tell thee what, Prince: a college of wit-crackers cannot
flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire
or an epigram? No. If a man will be beaten with brains, he
shall wear nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do
purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that
the world can say against it, and therefore never flout at me
for what I have said against it. For man is a giddy thing, and
this is my conclusion.—For thy part, Claudio, I did think to
have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my kinsman,
live unbruised, and love my cousin.
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CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I
might have cudgeled thee out of thy single life, to make thee
a double-dealer, which out of question, thou wilt be, if my
115 cousin do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee.
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CLAUDIO I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I
might have cudgeled thee out of thy single life, to make thee
a double-dealer, which out of question, thou wilt be, if my
cousin do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee.
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BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a dance ere we are
married, that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives'
heels.
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BENEDICK Come, come, we are friends. Let’s have a dance ere we are
married, that we may lighten our own hearts and our wives'
heels.
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LEONATO We’ll have dancing afterward.
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LEONATO We’ll have dancing afterward.
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BENEDICK sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more
reverend than one tipped with horn.
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BENEDICK sad. Get thee a wife, get thee a wife. There is no staff more
reverend than one tipped with horn.
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Enter a MESSENGER
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Enter a MESSENGER
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MESSENGER (to DON PEDRO) My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight
And brought with armed men back to Messina.
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MESSENGER (to DON PEDRO) My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight
And brought with armed men back to Messina.
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BENEDICK thee brave punishments for him.—Strike up, pipers.
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BENEDICK thee brave punishments for him.—Strike up, pipers.
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Dance
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Dance
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Exeunt
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Exeunt
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