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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
69 |
I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
85 |
Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.
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3 |
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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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
92 |
You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this
is your daughter.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
115 |
A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
120 |
God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some
gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate
scratched face.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
127 |
I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and
so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's
name; I have done.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
137 |
If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.
[To DON JOHN]
Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to
the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
143 |
Please it your grace lead on?
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
144 |
Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
186 |
I would your grace would constrain me to tell.
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12 |
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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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
254 |
The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.
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14 |
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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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
261 |
My liege, your highness now may do me good.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Leonato |
303 |
How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?
hath he provided this music?
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17 |
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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18 |
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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19 |
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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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Conrade |
364 |
Can you make no use of your discontent?
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