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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
17 |
He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much
glad of it.
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2 |
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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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
74 |
O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he
is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker
runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if
he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a
thousand pound ere a' be cured.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
79 |
I will hold friends with you, lady.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
81 |
You will never run mad, niece.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
104 |
I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior
Benedick: nobody marks you.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
144 |
Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.
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8 |
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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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
207 |
That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that
fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.
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10 |
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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11 |
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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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
223 |
With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
blind Cupid.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
246 |
Well, you temporize with the hours. In the
meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to
Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will
not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made
great preparation.
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14 |
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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15 |
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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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Antonio |
318 |
A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and
question him yourself.
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17 |
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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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
372 |
Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?
What is he for a fool that betroths himself to
unquietness?
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19 |
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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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
420 |
So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.
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