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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
153 |
Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high
praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little
for a great praise: only this commendation I can
afford her, that were she other than she is, she
were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I
do not like her.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
162 |
Can the world buy such a jewel?
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
170 |
I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such
matter: there's her cousin, an she were not
possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty
as the first of May doth the last of December. But I
hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
188 |
You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb
man; I would have you think so; but, on my
allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is
in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.
Mark how short his answer is;—With Hero, Leonato's
short daughter.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Antonio |
305 |
He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell
you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Conrade |
364 |
Can you make no use of your discontent?
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
369 |
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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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
388 |
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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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
401 |
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see
him but I am heart-burned an hour after.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
470 |
I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Ursula |
506 |
Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
644 |
Will your grace command me any service to the
world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;
I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
rather than hold three words' conference with this
harpy. You have no employment for me?
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
748 |
And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that
I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble
strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she
shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your
two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in
despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he
shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,
Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be
ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,
and I will tell you my drift.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
763 |
Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
775 |
I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Don John |
805 |
Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put
it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
thy fee is a thousand ducats.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Balthasar |
906 |
The best I can, my lord.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Benedick |
1026 |
[Coming forward] This can be no trick: the
conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of
this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it
seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!
why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:
they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive
the love come from her; they say too that she will
rather die than give any sign of affection. I did
never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy
are they that hear their detractions and can put
them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a
truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis
so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving
me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor
no great argument of her folly, for I will be
horribly in love with her. I may chance have some
odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,
because I have railed so long against marriage: but
doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat
in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of
the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?
No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would
die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I
were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!
she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in
her.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Beatrice |
1186 |
[Coming forward]
What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?
Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?
Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!
No glory lives behind the back of such.
And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,
Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:
If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee
To bind our loves up in a holy band;
For others say thou dost deserve, and I
Believe it better than reportingly.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Benedick |
1225 |
Well, every one can master a grief but he that has
it.
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