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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
(stage directions) |
1 |
[Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger]
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
175 |
I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the
contrary, if Hero would be my wife.
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3 |
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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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
266 |
No child but Hero; she's his only heir.
Dost thou affect her, Claudio?
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
268 |
O, my lord,
When you went onward on this ended action,
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,
That liked, but had a rougher task in hand
Than to drive liking to the name of love:
But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts
Have left their places vacant, in their rooms
Come thronging soft and delicate desires,
All prompting me how fair young Hero is,
Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.
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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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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
380 |
Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
382 |
Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a
musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand
in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the
arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the
prince should woo Hero for himself, and having
obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
(stage directions) |
398 |
[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others]
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
442 |
[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
458 |
The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be
not wooed in good time: if the prince be too
important, tell him there is measure in every thing
and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:
wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,
a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot
and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as
fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a
measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes
repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the
cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
541 |
Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath
withdrawn her father to break with him about it.
The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
547 |
Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him
from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
do the part of an honest man in it.
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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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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
572 |
Even to the next willow, about your own business,
county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?
about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under
your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear
it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
(stage directions) |
643 |
[Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO]
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
674 |
I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;
though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is
false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and
fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,
and his good will obtained: name the day of
marriage, and God give thee joy!
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Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
745 |
And you too, gentle Hero?
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
771 |
I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero.
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