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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

125

Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

200

Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

229

Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou
wilt prove a notable argument.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Don Pedro

234

Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull
doth bear the yoke.'

5

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.

6

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.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

434

Well, then, go you into hell?

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Antonio

442

[To HERO] Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled
by your father.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

449

Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Balthasar

487

Well, I would you did like me.

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Ursula

498

I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

518

I am sure you know him well enough.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Claudio

546

You know me well; I am he.

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Benedick

586

Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it
is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
that puts the world into her person and so gives me
out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

659

Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave
him use for it, a double heart for his single one:
marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,
therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

671

The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor
well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and
something of that jealous complexion.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Benedick

819

I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.
[Exit Boy]
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his
behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at
such shallow follies in others, become the argument
of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man
is Claudio. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he
rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known
when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a
good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,
carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to
speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man
and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his
words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many
strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with
these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not
be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but
I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster
of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman
is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in
my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,
or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;
fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not
near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good
discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and
Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

856

O, very well, my lord: the music ended,
We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Benedick

877

Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it
not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out
of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when
all's done.

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

897

Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.