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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
210 |
Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite
of beauty.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
748 |
And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that
I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble
strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I
will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she
shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your
two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in
despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he
shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,
Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be
ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,
and I will tell you my drift.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Don John |
787 |
Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Claudio |
1257 |
Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of
all, dies for him.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4] |
Margaret |
1559 |
Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I
meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance
that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am
not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list
not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,
if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you
are in love or that you will be in love or that you
can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and
now is he become a man: he swore he would never
marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats
his meat without grudging: and how you may be
converted I know not, but methinks you look with
your eyes as other women do.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Leonato |
2148 |
My lord, my lord,
I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,
Despite his nice fence and his active practise,
His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
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