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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
149 |
Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for
my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak
after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
152 |
No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
163 |
Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this
with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,
to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take
you, to go in the song?
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
201 |
You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
202 |
By my troth, I speak my thought.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
485 |
Speak low, if you speak love.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
683 |
Speak, count, 'tis your cue.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
688 |
Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth
with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
703 |
No, my lord, unless I might have another for
working-days: your grace is too costly to wear
every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I
was born to speak all mirth and no matter.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Benedick |
819 |
I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.
[Exit Boy]
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his
behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
such shallow follies in others, become the argument
of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man
is Claudio. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he
rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known
when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a
good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,
carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to
speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man
and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his
words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not
be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but
I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster
of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman
is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in
my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,
or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;
fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not
near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good
discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and
Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1137 |
Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,
How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,
But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,
She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;
If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,
Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
If low, an agate very vilely cut;
If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;
If silent, why, a block moved with none.
So turns she every man the wrong side out
And never gives to truth and virtue that
Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1150 |
No, not to be so odd and from all fashions
As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:
But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,
She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me
Out of myself, press me to death with wit.
Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,
Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:
It were a better death than die with mocks,
Which is as bad as die with tickling.
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13 |
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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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Don John |
1272 |
If your leisure served, I would speak with you.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Don John |
1274 |
If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for
what I would speak of concerns him.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Dogberry |
1359 |
Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet
watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should
offend: only, have a care that your bills be not
stolen. Well, you are to call at all the
ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
First Watchman |
1484 |
Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4] |
Hero |
1529 |
Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Hero |
1703 |
Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Leonato |
1704 |
Sweet prince, why speak not you?
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