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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
11 |
Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by
Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the
promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,
the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better
bettered expectation than you must expect of me to
tell you how.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
35 |
He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
57 |
Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and
now is the whole man governed with one: so that if
he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him
bear it for a difference between himself and his
horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,
to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his
companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
66 |
Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as
the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the
next block.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
70 |
No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray
you, who is his companion? Is there no young
squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
88 |
Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of
your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should
remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides
and happiness takes his leave.
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7 |
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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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
131 |
That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
the least a month; and he heartily prays some
occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
177 |
Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world
one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?
Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?
Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck
into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away
Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.
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10 |
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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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
212 |
And never could maintain his part but in the force
of his will.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
243 |
Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in
Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
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13 |
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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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
284 |
How sweetly you do minister to love,
That know love's grief by his complexion!
But lest my liking might too sudden seem,
I would have salved it with a longer treatise.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
338 |
I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest 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 humour.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Conrade |
346 |
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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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
353 |
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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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
411 |
With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money
enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman
in the world, if a' could get her good-will.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
421 |
Just, if he send me no husband; for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
426 |
What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel
and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a
beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no
beard is less than a man: and he that is more than
a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a
man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take
sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his
apes into hell.
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