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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
130 |
You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
195 |
Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor
'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be
so.'
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
255 |
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
you flout old ends any further, examine your
conscience: and so I leave you.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
435 |
No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet
me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and
say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to
heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver
I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the
heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and
there live we as merry as the day is long.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Claudio |
1236 |
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no
believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'
mornings; what should that bode?
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Claudio |
1240 |
No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,
and the old ornament of his cheek hath already
stuffed tennis-balls.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Benedick |
1260 |
Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old
signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight
or nine wise words to speak to you, which these
hobby-horses must not hear.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Borachio |
1444 |
Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this
fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot
bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?
sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers
in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's
priests in the old church-window, sometime like the
shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,
where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?
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Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Dogberry |
1588 |
Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the
matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so
blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,
in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Verges |
1592 |
Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living
that is an old man and no honester than I.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Dogberry |
1610 |
A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they
say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help
us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,
neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men
ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest
soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever
broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men
are not alike; alas, good neighbour!
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Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Friar Francis |
1852 |
Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case.
Your daughter here the princes left for dead:
Let her awhile be secretly kept in,
And publish it that she is dead indeed;
Maintain a mourning ostentation
And on your family's old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Don Pedro |
2121 |
Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Leonato |
2131 |
Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:
I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,
As under privilege of age to brag
What I have done being young, or what would do
Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,
Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me
That I am forced to lay my reverence by
And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,
Do challenge thee to trial of a man.
I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;
Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,
And she lies buried with her ancestors;
O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,
Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Don Pedro |
2147 |
You say not right, old man.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Claudio |
2194 |
We had like to have had our two noses snapped off
with two old men without teeth.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Don Pedro |
2250 |
Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she
did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:
the old man's daughter told us all.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Don Pedro |
2349 |
By my soul, nor I:
And yet, to satisfy this good old man,
I would bend under any heavy weight
That he'll enjoin me to.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2] |
Benedick |
2477 |
An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in
the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect
in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live
no longer in monument than the bell rings and the
widow weeps.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2] |
Ursula |
2496 |
Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old
coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been
falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily
abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is
fed and gone. Will you come presently?
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