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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Hero |
33 |
My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
41 |
Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;
but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
53 |
You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a
kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:
they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit
between them.
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4 |
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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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
84 |
[Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR]
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
96 |
Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
97 |
You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an
honourable father.
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8 |
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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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
107 |
Is it possible disdain should die while she hath
such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?
Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come
in her presence.
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10 |
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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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
145 |
[Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO]
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
146 |
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
236 |
The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible
Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set
them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,
and in such great letters as they write 'Here is
good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign
'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'
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14 |
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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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
254 |
The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
404 |
He were an excellent man that were made just in the
midway between him and Benedick: the one is too
like an image and says nothing, and the other too
like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
471 |
The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.
[All put on their masks]
[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR,]
DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked]
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
514 |
That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit
out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'—well this was
Signior Benedick that said so.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
545 |
Are not you Signior Benedick?
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Claudio |
556 |
Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,
But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.
'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.
Friendship is constant in all other things
Save in the office and affairs of love:
Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;
Let every eye negotiate for itself
And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
This is an accident of hourly proof,
Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!
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