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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
53 |
You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
94 |
Her mother hath many times told me so.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
95 |
Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
101 |
If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not
have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as
like him as she is.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
107 |
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
147 |
I noted her not; but I looked on her.
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7 |
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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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
159 |
Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
truly how thou likest her.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
161 |
Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?
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10 |
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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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
200 |
Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
205 |
That I love her, I feel.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
214 |
That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she
brought me up, I likewise give her most humble
thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my
forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,
all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do
them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the
right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which
I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
266 |
No child but Hero; she's his only heir.
Dost thou affect her, Claudio?
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
268 |
O, my lord,
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love:
But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
278 |
Thou wilt be like a lover presently
And tire the hearer with a book of words.
If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,
And I will break with her and with her father,
And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end
That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
288 |
What need the bridge much broader than the flood?
The fairest grant is the necessity.
Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,
And I will fit thee with the remedy.
I know we shall have revelling to-night:
I will assume thy part in some disguise
And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,
And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart
And take her hearing prisoner with the force
And strong encounter of my amorous tale:
Then after to her father will I break;
And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.
In practise let us put it presently.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Antonio |
308 |
As the event 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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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Leonato |
320 |
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.
[Enter Attendants]
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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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
382 |
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 whipt 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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