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Work
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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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1 |
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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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
444 |
Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy
and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all
that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else
make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please
me.'
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1124 |
O god of love! I know he doth deserve
As much as may be yielded to a man:
But Nature never framed a woman's heart
Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;
Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,
Misprising what they look on, and her wit
Values itself so highly that to her
All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,
Nor take no shape nor project of affection,
She is so self-endeared.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Verges |
1324 |
Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
salvation, body and soul.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4] |
Margaret |
1517 |
Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not
marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord
honourable without marriage? I think you would have
me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad
thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend
nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a
husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband
and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not
heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2] |
Sexton |
2025 |
What heard you him say else?
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2] |
Sexton |
2030 |
What else, fellow?
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2] |
Sexton |
2035 |
What else?
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4] |
Benedick |
2552 |
And so am I, being else by faith enforced
To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.
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