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| author |  gmcdonald | 2010-02-13 01:32:03 +0000 |
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| committer | gmcdonald | 2010-02-13 01:32:03 +0000 |
| commit | 0425aadc78680e53000fd0108b540d6eca048516 (patch) | |
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Moving axis svn, part of TLP move INFRA-2441
git-svn-id: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/axis/axis2/c/core/trunk@909681 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/axis.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/axis.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..bc996c5 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/axis.xml @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> + +<root> + + <a> + <a.1/> + <a.2/> + <a.3/> + <a.4/> + <a.5/> + </a> + + <b> + <b.1/> + <b.2/> + <b.3/> + <b.4/> + <b.5/> + <b.6/> + <b.7/> + <b.8/> + <b.9/> + </b> + +</root> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basic.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basic.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..88385fb --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basic.xml @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> + +<foo> + <bar> + <baz/> + <cheese/> + <baz/> + <cheese/> + <baz/> + </bar> +</foo> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basicupdate.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basicupdate.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..57d458c --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/basicupdate.xml @@ -0,0 +1,47 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> + +<xu:modifications xmlns:xu="http://www.xmldb.org/xupdate"> + + <xu:append select="/foo/bar/cheese[1]"> + Goudse kaas + <edam type="jong belegen">Rond</edam> + </xu:append> + + <xu:remove select="/foo/bar/baz[2]"/> + + <xu:if test="/foo"> + <xu:insert-before select="/foo/bar/baz[2]"> + <cheese>More cheese!</cheese> + </xu:insert-before> + </xu:if> + + <xu:insert-before select="/foo/bar/baz[2]"> + <cheese>Even more cheese!</cheese> + </xu:insert-before> + + <xu:if test="/bar"> + <xu:insert-before select="/foo/bar/baz[2]"> + <sausages>No sausages today</sausages> + </xu:insert-before> + </xu:if> + + <xu:variable + xmlns:private="http://www.jaxen.org/private" + name="private:twice"> + <cracker/> + <!-- champagne --> + <?oisters with a bit of lemon?> + </xu:variable> + + <xu:variable name="twice" select="'Twice'"/> + + <xu:insert-after + select="/foo/bar" + xmlns:private="http://www.jaxen.org/private" + > + <xu:value-of select="$private:twice"/> + <xu:value-of select="$private:twice"/> + <xu:value-of select="$twice"/> + </xu:insert-after> + +</xu:modifications> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/contents.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/contents.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..35e3ac7 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/contents.xml @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> + +<?xml-stylesheet href="XSL\JavaXML.html.xsl" type="text/xsl"?> +<?xml-stylesheet href="XSL\JavaXML.wml.xsl" type="text/xsl" + media="wap"?> +<?cocoon-process type="xslt"?> + +<!-- Java and XML --> +<JavaXML:Book xmlns:JavaXML="http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/javaxml/" + xmlns:ora="http://www.oreilly.com" + xmlns:unused="http://www.unused.com" + ora:category="Java" +> + <!-- comment one --> + <!-- comment two --> + + <JavaXML:Title>Java and XML</JavaXML:Title> + <JavaXML:Contents xmlns:topic="http://www.oreilly.com/topics"> + <JavaXML:Chapter topic:focus="XML"> + <JavaXML:Heading>Introduction</JavaXML:Heading> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="7"> + What Is It? + </JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="3"> + How Do I Use It? + </JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="4"> + Why Should I Use It? + </JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="0"> + What's Next? + </JavaXML:Topic> + </JavaXML:Chapter> + + <JavaXML:Chapter topic:focus="XML"> + <JavaXML:Heading>Creating XML</JavaXML:Heading> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="0">An XML Document</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="2">The Header</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="6">The Content</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="1">What's Next?</JavaXML:Topic> + </JavaXML:Chapter> + + <JavaXML:Chapter topic:focus="Java"> + <JavaXML:Heading>Parsing XML</JavaXML:Heading> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="3">Getting Prepared</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="3">SAX Readers</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="9">Content Handlers</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="4">Error Handlers</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="0"> + A Better Way to Load a Parser + </JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="4">"Gotcha!"</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="0">What's Next?</JavaXML:Topic> + </JavaXML:Chapter> + + <JavaXML:SectionBreak/> + + <JavaXML:Chapter topic:focus="Java"> + <JavaXML:Heading>Web Publishing Frameworks</JavaXML:Heading> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="4">Selecting a Framework</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="4">Installation</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="3"> + Using a Publishing Framework + </JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="2">XSP</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="3">Cocoon 2.0 and Beyond</JavaXML:Topic> + <JavaXML:Topic subSections="0">What's Next?</JavaXML:Topic> + </JavaXML:Chapter> + </JavaXML:Contents> +</JavaXML:Book> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/defaultNamespace.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/defaultNamespace.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1e32981 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/defaultNamespace.xml @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<a xmlns="http://dummyNamespace/"> + <b> + <c>Hello</c> + </b> +</a> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/evaluate.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/evaluate.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..90d06bd --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/evaluate.xml @@ -0,0 +1,28 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> + +<evaluate> + <data> + <jumps> + <subject> + <the/> + <fox color="brown"/> + <speed category="quick"/> + </subject> + <over/> + <object> + <the/> + <dog color="unspecified"/> + <speed category="lazy"/> + </object> + </jumps> + </data> + + <!-- there is one element with attribute color="brown" should this + meta-test should succeed --> + + <metatest select="//@color">brown</metatest> + + <!-- there is no element with attribute category="moderate" --> + <metatest select="//speed/@category">moderate</metatest> + +</evaluate> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/fibo.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/fibo.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b5d0ec --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/fibo.xml @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<Fibonacci_Numbers> + <fibonacci index="0">0</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="1">1</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="2">1</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="3">2</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="4">3</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="5">5</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="6">8</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="7">13</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="8">21</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="9">34</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="10">55</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="11">89</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="12">144</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="13">233</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="14">377</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="15">610</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="16">987</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="17">1597</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="18">2584</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="19">4181</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="20">6765</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="21">10946</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="22">17711</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="23">28657</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="24">46368</fibonacci> + <fibonacci index="25">75025</fibonacci> +</Fibonacci_Numbers> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/id.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/id.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..749ab20 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/id.xml @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> + +<!DOCTYPE foo [ + +<!ELEMENT foo (bar)> +<!ATTLIST foo id CDATA #IMPLIED> +<!ELEMENT bar (#PCDATA|cheese)*> +<!ATTLIST bar id ID #REQUIRED> +<!ELEMENT cheese (#PCDATA)> +<!ATTLIST cheese kind ID #IMPLIED> +]> + +<foo id="foobar"> + <bar id="fb1"> + baz + <cheese kind="edam">gouda</cheese> + baz + <cheese kind="gouda">cheddar</cheese> + baz + </bar> +</foo> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen24.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen24.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9b81996 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen24.xml @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<body><p><span></span></p><div></div></body> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen3.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen3.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a87723a --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/jaxen3.xml @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<Configuration> + <hostname> + <val>2</val> + <attrlist> + <hostname>CE-A</hostname> + </attrlist> + </hostname> + <hostname> + <val>1</val> + <attrlist> + <hostname>CE-B</hostname> + </attrlist> + </hostname> +</Configuration> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/lang.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/lang.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49b45db --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/lang.xml @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<e1 xml:lang="hr"> + <e2 xml:lang="en-US"> + <e3/> + </e2> + <e2 xml:lang="hu"> + <e3/> + <e3/> + <e3 xml:lang="es"/> + </e2> +</e1>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/message.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/message.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3b81df2 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/message.xml @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<message> + <header> + <service>lookupformservice</service> + <connectionid>9</connectionid> + <appid>stammdaten</appid> + <action>new</action> + </header> + <body> + <data> + <items> + <item> + <name>iteminfo</name> + <value>ELE</value> + </item> + <item> + <name>parentinfo</name> + <value>Pruefgebiete</value> + </item> + <item> + <name>id</name> + <value>1</value> + </item> + </items> + </data> + </body> +</message> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/moreover.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/moreover.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..38d4c4f --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/moreover.xml @@ -0,0 +1,244 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?> + <moreovernews> + <article code="13563275"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13563273</url> + <headline_text>e-Commerce Operators Present Version 1.0 of the XML Standard</headline_text> + <source>StockAccess</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.stockaccess.com/index.html</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 24 2000 6:28AM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13560996"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13560995</url> + <headline_text>W3C Publishes XML Protocol Requirements Document</headline_text> + <source>Xml</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.xml.com/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 24 2000 12:22AM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13553522"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13553521</url> + <headline_text>Prowler: Open Source XML-Based Content Management Framework</headline_text> + <source>Xml</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.xml.com/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 23 2000 2:05PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13549014"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13549013</url> + <headline_text>The Middleware Company Debuts Public Training Courses in Ejb, J2ee And Xml</headline_text> + <source>Java Industry Connection</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/more/hotnews/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 23 2000 12:15PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13544468"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13544467</url> + <headline_text>Revised Working Draft for the W3C XML Information Set</headline_text> + <source>Xml</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.xml.com/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 23 2000 5:50AM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13534837"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13534836</url> + <headline_text>XML: Its The Great Peacemaker</headline_text> + <source>ZDNet</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.zdnet.com/intweek/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 22 2000 9:05PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + 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<article code="13533493"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13533492</url> + <headline_text>W3C Releases XHTML Basic Specification as a W3C Recommendation</headline_text> + <source>Xml</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.xml.com/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 22 2000 8:34PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13521835"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13521827</url> + <headline_text>Java, Xml And Oracle9i(TM) Make A Great Team</headline_text> + <source>Java Industry Connection</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/more/hotnews/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 22 2000 3:21PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> 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</access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13491296"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13491292</url> + <headline_text>XML as the great peacemaker - Extensible Markup Language Accomplished The Seemingly Impossible This Year: It B</headline_text> + <source>Hospitality Net</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.hospitalitynet.org/news/list.htm?c=2000</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 21 2000 7:45PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13484761"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13484758</url> + <headline_text>XML as the great peacemaker</headline_text> + <source>CNET</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003.html?tag=st.ne.1002.dir.1003</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 21 2000 4:41PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13480897"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13480896</url> + <headline_text>COOP Switzerland Selects Mercator as Integration Platform</headline_text> + <source>Stockhouse Canada</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.stockhouse.ca/news/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 21 2000 1:55PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13471024"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13471023</url> + <headline_text>Competing XML Specs Move Toward a Union</headline_text> + <source>Internet World</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://www.internetworld.com/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 21 2000 11:14AM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13452281"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13452280</url> + <headline_text>Next-generation XHTML stripped down for handhelds</headline_text> + <source>CNET</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005.html?tag=st.ne.1002.dir.1005</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 20 2000 9:11PM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + <article code="13451791"> + <url>http://c.moreover.com/click/here.pl?x13451789</url> + <headline_text>Xml Powers Oracle9i(TM) Dynamic Services</headline_text> + <source>Java Industry Connection</source> + 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Connection</source> + <media_type>text</media_type> + <cluster>moreover...</cluster> + <tagline> </tagline> + <document_url>http://industry.java.sun.com/javanews/more/hotnews/</document_url> + <harvest_time>Dec 20 2000 9:04AM</harvest_time> + <access_registration> </access_registration> + <access_status> </access_status> + </article> + </moreovernews> + diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/much_ado.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/much_ado.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f008fad --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/much_ado.xml @@ -0,0 +1,6850 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<PLAY> +<TITLE>Much Ado about Nothing</TITLE> + +<FM> +<P>Text placed in the public domain by Moby Lexical Tools, 1992.</P> +<P>SGML markup by Jon Bosak, 1992-1994.</P> +<P>XML version by Jon Bosak, 1996-1998.</P> +<P>This work may be freely copied and distributed worldwide.</P> +</FM> + + +<PERSONAE> +<TITLE>Dramatis Personae</TITLE> + +<PERSONA>DON PEDRO, prince of Arragon.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>DON JOHN, his bastard brother.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>CLAUDIO, a young lord of Florence.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>BENEDICK, a young lord of Padua.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>LEONATO, governor of Messina.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>ANTONIO, his brother.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>BALTHASAR, attendant on Don Pedro.</PERSONA> + +<PGROUP> +<PERSONA>CONRADE</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>BORACHIO</PERSONA> +<GRPDESCR>followers of Don John.</GRPDESCR> +</PGROUP> + +<PERSONA>FRIAR FRANCIS</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>DOGBERRY, a constable.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>VERGES, a headborough.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>A Sexton.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>A Boy.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>HERO, daughter to Leonato.</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>BEATRICE, niece to Leonato.</PERSONA> + +<PGROUP> +<PERSONA>MARGARET</PERSONA> +<PERSONA>URSULA</PERSONA> +<GRPDESCR>gentlewomen attending on Hero.</GRPDESCR> +</PGROUP> + +<PERSONA>Messengers, Watch, Attendants, &c. </PERSONA> +</PERSONAE> + +<SCNDESCR>SCENE Messina.</SCNDESCR> + +<PLAYSUBT>MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING</PLAYSUBT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT I</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a +Messenger</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon</LINE> +<LINE>comes this night to Messina.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off</LINE> +<LINE>when I left him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How many gentlemen have you lost in this action?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But few of any sort, and none of name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings</LINE> +<LINE>home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath</LINE> +<LINE>bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by</LINE> +<LINE>Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the</LINE> +<LINE>promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb,</LINE> +<LINE>the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better</LINE> +<LINE>bettered expectation than you must expect of me to</LINE> +<LINE>tell you how.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much</LINE> +<LINE>glad of it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have already delivered him letters, and there</LINE> +<LINE>appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could</LINE> +<LINE>not show itself modest enough without a badge of</LINE> +<LINE>bitterness.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Did he break out into tears?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In great measure.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces</LINE> +<LINE>truer than those that are so washed. How much</LINE> +<LINE>better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the</LINE> +<LINE>wars or no?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know none of that name, lady: there was none such</LINE> +<LINE>in the army of any sort.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What is he that you ask for, niece?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged</LINE> +<LINE>Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading</LINE> +<LINE>the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged</LINE> +<LINE>him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he</LINE> +<LINE>killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath</LINE> +<LINE>he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much;</LINE> +<LINE>but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He hath done good service, lady, in these wars.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it:</LINE> +<LINE>he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an</LINE> +<LINE>excellent stomach.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And a good soldier too, lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all</LINE> +<LINE>honourable virtues.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:</LINE> +<LINE>but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a</LINE> +<LINE>kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her:</LINE> +<LINE>they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit</LINE> +<LINE>between them.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last</LINE> +<LINE>conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and</LINE> +<LINE>now is the whole man governed with one: so that if</LINE> +<LINE>he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him</LINE> +<LINE>bear it for a difference between himself and his</LINE> +<LINE>horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left,</LINE> +<LINE>to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his</LINE> +<LINE>companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is't possible?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as</LINE> +<LINE>the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the</LINE> +<LINE>next block.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray</LINE> +<LINE>you, who is his companion? Is there no young</LINE> +<LINE>squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he</LINE> +<LINE>is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker</LINE> +<LINE>runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if</LINE> +<LINE>he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a</LINE> +<LINE>thousand pound ere a' be cured.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will hold friends with you, lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do, good friend.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You will never run mad, niece.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, not till a hot January.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Don Pedro is approached.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, +and BALTHASAR</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your</LINE> +<LINE>trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid</LINE> +<LINE>cost, and you encounter it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of</LINE> +<LINE>your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should</LINE> +<LINE>remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides</LINE> +<LINE>and happiness takes his leave.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this</LINE> +<LINE>is your daughter.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Her mother hath many times told me so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this</LINE> +<LINE>what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers</LINE> +<LINE>herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an</LINE> +<LINE>honourable father.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not</LINE> +<LINE>have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as</LINE> +<LINE>like him as she is.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior</LINE> +<LINE>Benedick: nobody marks you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is it possible disdain should die while she hath</LINE> +<LINE>such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?</LINE> +<LINE>Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come</LINE> +<LINE>in her presence.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I</LINE> +<LINE>am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I</LINE> +<LINE>would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard</LINE> +<LINE>heart; for, truly, I love none.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A dear happiness to women: they would else have</LINE> +<LINE>been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God</LINE> +<LINE>and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I</LINE> +<LINE>had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man</LINE> +<LINE>swear he loves me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some</LINE> +<LINE>gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate</LINE> +<LINE>scratched face.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such</LINE> +<LINE>a face as yours were.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and</LINE> +<LINE>so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's</LINE> +<LINE>name; I have done.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio</LINE> +<LINE>and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath</LINE> +<LINE>invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at</LINE> +<LINE>the least a month; and he heartily prays some</LINE> +<LINE>occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no</LINE> +<LINE>hypocrite, but prays from his heart.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>To DON JOHN</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to</LINE> +<LINE>the prince your brother, I owe you all duty.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank</LINE> +<LINE>you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Please it your grace lead on?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Your hand, Leonato; we will go together.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I noted her not; but I looked on her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is she not a modest young lady?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for</LINE> +<LINE>my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak</LINE> +<LINE>after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high</LINE> +<LINE>praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little</LINE> +<LINE>for a great praise: only this commendation I can</LINE> +<LINE>afford her, that were she other than she is, she</LINE> +<LINE>were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I</LINE> +<LINE>do not like her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me</LINE> +<LINE>truly how thou likest her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Would you buy her, that you inquire after her?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Can the world buy such a jewel?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this</LINE> +<LINE>with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,</LINE> +<LINE>to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a</LINE> +<LINE>rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take</LINE> +<LINE>you, to go in the song?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I</LINE> +<LINE>looked on.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such</LINE> +<LINE>matter: there's her cousin, an she were not</LINE> +<LINE>possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty</LINE> +<LINE>as the first of May doth the last of December. But I</LINE> +<LINE>hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the</LINE> +<LINE>contrary, if Hero would be my wife.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world</LINE> +<LINE>one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion?</LINE> +<LINE>Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again?</LINE> +<LINE>Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck</LINE> +<LINE>into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away</LINE> +<LINE>Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter DON PEDRO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What secret hath held you here, that you followed</LINE> +<LINE>not to Leonato's?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would your grace would constrain me to tell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I charge thee on thy allegiance.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb</LINE> +<LINE>man; I would have you think so; but, on my</LINE> +<LINE>allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is</LINE> +<LINE>in love. With who? now that is your grace's part.</LINE> +<LINE>Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's</LINE> +<LINE>short daughter.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If this were so, so were it uttered.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor</LINE> +<LINE>'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be</LINE> +<LINE>so.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it</LINE> +<LINE>should be otherwise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You speak this to fetch me in, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, I speak my thought.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That I love her, I feel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That she is worthy, I know.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That I neither feel how she should be loved nor</LINE> +<LINE>know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that</LINE> +<LINE>fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite</LINE> +<LINE>of beauty.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And never could maintain his part but in the force</LINE> +<LINE>of his will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she</LINE> +<LINE>brought me up, I likewise give her most humble</LINE> +<LINE>thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my</LINE> +<LINE>forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick,</LINE> +<LINE>all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do</LINE> +<LINE>them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the</LINE> +<LINE>right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which</LINE> +<LINE>I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood</LINE> +<LINE>with love than I will get again with drinking, pick</LINE> +<LINE>out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me</LINE> +<LINE>up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of</LINE> +<LINE>blind Cupid.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou</LINE> +<LINE>wilt prove a notable argument.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot</LINE> +<LINE>at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on</LINE> +<LINE>the shoulder, and called Adam.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull</LINE> +<LINE>doth bear the yoke.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible</LINE> +<LINE>Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set</LINE> +<LINE>them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted,</LINE> +<LINE>and in such great letters as they write 'Here is</LINE> +<LINE>good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign</LINE> +<LINE>'Here you may see Benedick the married man.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in</LINE> +<LINE>Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I look for an earthquake too, then.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, you temporize with the hours. In the</LINE> +<LINE>meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to</LINE> +<LINE>Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will</LINE> +<LINE>not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made</LINE> +<LINE>great preparation.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have almost matter enough in me for such an</LINE> +<LINE>embassage; and so I commit you--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your</LINE> +<LINE>discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and</LINE> +<LINE>the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere</LINE> +<LINE>you flout old ends any further, examine your</LINE> +<LINE>conscience: and so I leave you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My liege, your highness now may do me good.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My love is thine to teach: teach it but how,</LINE> +<LINE>And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn</LINE> +<LINE>Any hard lesson that may do thee good.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hath Leonato any son, my lord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No child but Hero; she's his only heir.</LINE> +<LINE>Dost thou affect her, Claudio?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>When you went onward on this ended action,</LINE> +<LINE>I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye,</LINE> +<LINE>That liked, but had a rougher task in hand</LINE> +<LINE>Than to drive liking to the name of love:</LINE> +<LINE>But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts</LINE> +<LINE>Have left their places vacant, in their rooms</LINE> +<LINE>Come thronging soft and delicate desires,</LINE> +<LINE>All prompting me how fair young Hero is,</LINE> +<LINE>Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou wilt be like a lover presently</LINE> +<LINE>And tire the hearer with a book of words.</LINE> +<LINE>If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it,</LINE> +<LINE>And I will break with her and with her father,</LINE> +<LINE>And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end</LINE> +<LINE>That thou began'st to twist so fine a story?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How sweetly you do minister to love,</LINE> +<LINE>That know love's grief by his complexion!</LINE> +<LINE>But lest my liking might too sudden seem,</LINE> +<LINE>I would have salved it with a longer treatise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What need the bridge much broader than the flood?</LINE> +<LINE>The fairest grant is the necessity.</LINE> +<LINE>Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest,</LINE> +<LINE>And I will fit thee with the remedy.</LINE> +<LINE>I know we shall have revelling to-night:</LINE> +<LINE>I will assume thy part in some disguise</LINE> +<LINE>And tell fair Hero I am Claudio,</LINE> +<LINE>And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart</LINE> +<LINE>And take her hearing prisoner with the force</LINE> +<LINE>And strong encounter of my amorous tale:</LINE> +<LINE>Then after to her father will I break;</LINE> +<LINE>And the conclusion is, she shall be thine.</LINE> +<LINE>In practise let us put it presently.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?</LINE> +<LINE>hath he provided this music?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell</LINE> +<LINE>you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are they good?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As the event stamps them: but they have a good</LINE> +<LINE>cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count</LINE> +<LINE>Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine</LINE> +<LINE>orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:</LINE> +<LINE>the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my</LINE> +<LINE>niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it</LINE> +<LINE>this night in a dance: and if he found her</LINE> +<LINE>accordant, he meant to take the present time by the</LINE> +<LINE>top and instantly break with you of it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and</LINE> +<LINE>question him yourself.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear</LINE> +<LINE>itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,</LINE> +<LINE>that she may be the better prepared for an answer,</LINE> +<LINE>if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter Attendants</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you</LINE> +<LINE>mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your</LINE> +<LINE>skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III. The same.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out</LINE> +<LINE>of measure sad?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There is no measure in the occasion that breeds;</LINE> +<LINE>therefore the sadness is without limit.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You should hear reason.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If not a present remedy, at least a patient</LINE> +<LINE>sufferance.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,</LINE> +<LINE>born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral</LINE> +<LINE>medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide</LINE> +<LINE>what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile</LINE> +<LINE>at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait</LINE> +<LINE>for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and</LINE> +<LINE>tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and</LINE> +<LINE>claw no man in his humour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, but you must not make the full show of this</LINE> +<LINE>till you may do it without controlment. You have of</LINE> +<LINE>late stood out against your brother, and he hath</LINE> +<LINE>ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is</LINE> +<LINE>impossible you should take true root but by the</LINE> +<LINE>fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful</LINE> +<LINE>that you frame the season for your own harvest.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in</LINE> +<LINE>his grace, and it better fits my blood to be</LINE> +<LINE>disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob</LINE> +<LINE>love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to</LINE> +<LINE>be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied</LINE> +<LINE>but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with</LINE> +<LINE>a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I</LINE> +<LINE>have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my</LINE> +<LINE>mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do</LINE> +<LINE>my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and</LINE> +<LINE>seek not to alter me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Can you make no use of your discontent?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I make all use of it, for I use it only.</LINE> +<LINE>Who comes here?</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BORACHIO</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>What news, Borachio?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your</LINE> +<LINE>brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I</LINE> +<LINE>can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will it serve for any model to build mischief on?</LINE> +<LINE>What is he for a fool that betroths himself to</LINE> +<LINE>unquietness?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, it is your brother's right hand.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Who? the most exquisite Claudio?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Even he.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks</LINE> +<LINE>he?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A very forward March-chick! How came you to this?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a</LINE> +<LINE>musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand</LINE> +<LINE>in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the</LINE> +<LINE>arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the</LINE> +<LINE>prince should woo Hero for himself, and having</LINE> +<LINE>obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to</LINE> +<LINE>my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the</LINE> +<LINE>glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I</LINE> +<LINE>bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To the death, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the</LINE> +<LINE>greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of</LINE> +<LINE>my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We'll wait upon your lordship.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT II</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. A hall in LEONATO'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Was not Count John here at supper?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I saw him not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see</LINE> +<LINE>him but I am heart-burned an hour after.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is of a very melancholy disposition.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He were an excellent man that were made just in the</LINE> +<LINE>midway between him and Benedick: the one is too</LINE> +<LINE>like an image and says nothing, and the other too</LINE> +<LINE>like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's</LINE> +<LINE>mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior</LINE> +<LINE>Benedick's face,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money</LINE> +<LINE>enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman</LINE> +<LINE>in the world, if a' could get her good-will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a</LINE> +<LINE>husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In faith, she's too curst.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's</LINE> +<LINE>sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst</LINE> +<LINE>cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Just, if he send me no husband; for the which</LINE> +<LINE>blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and</LINE> +<LINE>evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a</LINE> +<LINE>beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You may light on a husband that hath no beard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel</LINE> +<LINE>and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a</LINE> +<LINE>beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no</LINE> +<LINE>beard is less than a man: and he that is more than</LINE> +<LINE>a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a</LINE> +<LINE>man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take</LINE> +<LINE>sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his</LINE> +<LINE>apes into hell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, then, go you into hell?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet</LINE> +<LINE>me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and</LINE> +<LINE>say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to</LINE> +<LINE>heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver</LINE> +<LINE>I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the</LINE> +<LINE>heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and</LINE> +<LINE>there live we as merry as the day is long.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>To HERO</STAGEDIR> Well, niece, I trust you will be ruled</LINE> +<LINE>by your father.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy</LINE> +<LINE>and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all</LINE> +<LINE>that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else</LINE> +<LINE>make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please</LINE> +<LINE>me.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not till God make men of some other metal than</LINE> +<LINE>earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be</LINE> +<LINE>overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make</LINE> +<LINE>an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?</LINE> +<LINE>No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;</LINE> +<LINE>and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince</LINE> +<LINE>do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be</LINE> +<LINE>not wooed in good time: if the prince be too</LINE> +<LINE>important, tell him there is measure in every thing</LINE> +<LINE>and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero:</LINE> +<LINE>wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig,</LINE> +<LINE>a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot</LINE> +<LINE>and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as</LINE> +<LINE>fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a</LINE> +<LINE>measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes</LINE> +<LINE>repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the</LINE> +<LINE>cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>All put on their masks</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, +DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady, will you walk about with your friend?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing,</LINE> +<LINE>I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With me in your company?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I may say so, when I please.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And when please you to say so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>When I like your favour; for God defend the lute</LINE> +<LINE>should be like the case!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, your visor should be thatched.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Speak low, if you speak love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Drawing her aside</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, I would you did like me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many</LINE> +<LINE>ill-qualities.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Which is one?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I say my prayers aloud.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God match me with a good dancer!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Amen.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is</LINE> +<LINE>done! Answer, clerk.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No more words: the clerk is answered.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>At a word, I am not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know you by the waggling of your head.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To tell you true, I counterfeit him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were</LINE> +<LINE>the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you</LINE> +<LINE>are he, you are he.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>At a word, I am not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your</LINE> +<LINE>excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,</LINE> +<LINE>mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an</LINE> +<LINE>end.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will you not tell me who told you so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, you shall pardon me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nor will you not tell me who you are?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not now.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit</LINE> +<LINE>out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was</LINE> +<LINE>Signior Benedick that said so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What's he?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am sure you know him well enough.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not I, believe me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Did he never make you laugh?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, what is he?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;</LINE> +<LINE>only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:</LINE> +<LINE>none but libertines delight in him; and the</LINE> +<LINE>commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;</LINE> +<LINE>for he both pleases men and angers them, and then</LINE> +<LINE>they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in</LINE> +<LINE>the fleet: I would he had boarded me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;</LINE> +<LINE>which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,</LINE> +<LINE>strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a</LINE> +<LINE>partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no</LINE> +<LINE>supper that night.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Music</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>We must follow the leaders.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In every good thing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at</LINE> +<LINE>the next turning.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, +and CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath</LINE> +<LINE>withdrawn her father to break with him about it.</LINE> +<LINE>The ladies follow her and but one visor remains.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are not you Signior Benedick?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You know me well; I am he.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:</LINE> +<LINE>he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him</LINE> +<LINE>from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may</LINE> +<LINE>do the part of an honest man in it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How know you he loves her?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I heard him swear his affection.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, let us to the banquet.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thus answer I in the name of Benedick,</LINE> +<LINE>But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio.</LINE> +<LINE>'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself.</LINE> +<LINE>Friendship is constant in all other things</LINE> +<LINE>Save in the office and affairs of love:</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues;</LINE> +<LINE>Let every eye negotiate for itself</LINE> +<LINE>And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch</LINE> +<LINE>Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.</LINE> +<LINE>This is an accident of hourly proof,</LINE> +<LINE>Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter BENEDICK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Count Claudio?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, the same.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, will you go with me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Whither?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Even to the next willow, about your own business,</LINE> +<LINE>county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?</LINE> +<LINE>about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under</LINE> +<LINE>your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear</LINE> +<LINE>it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wish him joy of her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they</LINE> +<LINE>sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would</LINE> +<LINE>have served you thus?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, leave me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the</LINE> +<LINE>boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If it will not be, I'll leave you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.</LINE> +<LINE>But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not</LINE> +<LINE>know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go</LINE> +<LINE>under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I</LINE> +<LINE>am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it</LINE> +<LINE>is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice</LINE> +<LINE>that puts the world into her person and so gives me</LINE> +<LINE>out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter DON PEDRO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.</LINE> +<LINE>I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a</LINE> +<LINE>warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,</LINE> +<LINE>that your grace had got the good will of this young</LINE> +<LINE>lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,</LINE> +<LINE>either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or</LINE> +<LINE>to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To be whipped! What's his fault?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being</LINE> +<LINE>overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his</LINE> +<LINE>companion, and he steals it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The</LINE> +<LINE>transgression is in the stealer.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made,</LINE> +<LINE>and the garland too; for the garland he might have</LINE> +<LINE>worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on</LINE> +<LINE>you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to</LINE> +<LINE>the owner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If their singing answer your saying, by my faith,</LINE> +<LINE>you say honestly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the</LINE> +<LINE>gentleman that danced with her told her she is much</LINE> +<LINE>wronged by you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!</LINE> +<LINE>an oak but with one green leaf on it would have</LINE> +<LINE>answered her; my very visor began to assume life and</LINE> +<LINE>scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been</LINE> +<LINE>myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was</LINE> +<LINE>duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest</LINE> +<LINE>with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood</LINE> +<LINE>like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at</LINE> +<LINE>me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:</LINE> +<LINE>if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,</LINE> +<LINE>there were no living near her; she would infect to</LINE> +<LINE>the north star. I would not marry her, though she</LINE> +<LINE>were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before</LINE> +<LINE>he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have</LINE> +<LINE>turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make</LINE> +<LINE>the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find</LINE> +<LINE>her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God</LINE> +<LINE>some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while</LINE> +<LINE>she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a</LINE> +<LINE>sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they</LINE> +<LINE>would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror</LINE> +<LINE>and perturbation follows her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Look, here she comes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will your grace command me any service to the</LINE> +<LINE>world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now</LINE> +<LINE>to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;</LINE> +<LINE>I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the</LINE> +<LINE>furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of</LINE> +<LINE>Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great</LINE> +<LINE>Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,</LINE> +<LINE>rather than hold three words' conference with this</LINE> +<LINE>harpy. You have no employment for me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>None, but to desire your good company.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot</LINE> +<LINE>endure my Lady Tongue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of</LINE> +<LINE>Signior Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave</LINE> +<LINE>him use for it, a double heart for his single one:</LINE> +<LINE>marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,</LINE> +<LINE>therefore your grace may well say I have lost it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have put him down, lady, you have put him down.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I</LINE> +<LINE>should prove the mother of fools. I have brought</LINE> +<LINE>Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not sad, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How then? sick?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Neither, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor</LINE> +<LINE>well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and</LINE> +<LINE>something of that jealous complexion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true;</LINE> +<LINE>though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is</LINE> +<LINE>false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and</LINE> +<LINE>fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father,</LINE> +<LINE>and his good will obtained: name the day of</LINE> +<LINE>marriage, and God give thee joy!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my</LINE> +<LINE>fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an</LINE> +<LINE>grace say Amen to it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Speak, count, 'tis your cue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were</LINE> +<LINE>but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as</LINE> +<LINE>you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for</LINE> +<LINE>you and dote upon the exchange.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth</LINE> +<LINE>with a kiss, and let not him speak neither.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In faith, lady, you have a merry heart.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on</LINE> +<LINE>the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his</LINE> +<LINE>ear that he is in her heart.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And so she doth, cousin.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the</LINE> +<LINE>world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a</LINE> +<LINE>corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady Beatrice, I will get you one.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would rather have one of your father's getting.</LINE> +<LINE>Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your</LINE> +<LINE>father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will you have me, lady?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, my lord, unless I might have another for</LINE> +<LINE>working-days: your grace is too costly to wear</LINE> +<LINE>every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I</LINE> +<LINE>was born to speak all mirth and no matter.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best</LINE> +<LINE>becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in</LINE> +<LINE>a merry hour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there</LINE> +<LINE>was a star danced, and under that was I born.</LINE> +<LINE>Cousins, God give you joy!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There's little of the melancholy element in her, my</LINE> +<LINE>lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and</LINE> +<LINE>not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,</LINE> +<LINE>she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked</LINE> +<LINE>herself with laughing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She were an excellent wife for Benedict.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married,</LINE> +<LINE>they would talk themselves mad.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love</LINE> +<LINE>have all his rites.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just</LINE> +<LINE>seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all</LINE> +<LINE>things answer my mind.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:</LINE> +<LINE>but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go</LINE> +<LINE>dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of</LINE> +<LINE>Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior</LINE> +<LINE>Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of</LINE> +<LINE>affection the one with the other. I would fain have</LINE> +<LINE>it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if</LINE> +<LINE>you three will but minister such assistance as I</LINE> +<LINE>shall give you direction.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten</LINE> +<LINE>nights' watchings.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And you too, gentle Hero?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my</LINE> +<LINE>cousin to a good husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that</LINE> +<LINE>I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble</LINE> +<LINE>strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I</LINE> +<LINE>will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she</LINE> +<LINE>shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your</LINE> +<LINE>two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in</LINE> +<LINE>despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he</LINE> +<LINE>shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this,</LINE> +<LINE>Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be</LINE> +<LINE>ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me,</LINE> +<LINE>and I will tell you my drift.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. The same.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the</LINE> +<LINE>daughter of Leonato.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be</LINE> +<LINE>medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,</LINE> +<LINE>and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges</LINE> +<LINE>evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no</LINE> +<LINE>dishonesty shall appear in me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Show me briefly how.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I think I told your lordship a year since, how much</LINE> +<LINE>I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting</LINE> +<LINE>gentlewoman to Hero.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I remember.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,</LINE> +<LINE>appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to</LINE> +<LINE>the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that</LINE> +<LINE>he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned</LINE> +<LINE>Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold</LINE> +<LINE>up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What proof shall I make of that?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,</LINE> +<LINE>to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any</LINE> +<LINE>other issue?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and</LINE> +<LINE>the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know</LINE> +<LINE>that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the</LINE> +<LINE>prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's</LINE> +<LINE>honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's</LINE> +<LINE>reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the</LINE> +<LINE>semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered</LINE> +<LINE>thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:</LINE> +<LINE>offer them instances; which shall bear no less</LINE> +<LINE>likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,</LINE> +<LINE>hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me</LINE> +<LINE>Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night</LINE> +<LINE>before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I</LINE> +<LINE>will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be</LINE> +<LINE>absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth</LINE> +<LINE>of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called</LINE> +<LINE>assurance and all the preparation overthrown.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put</LINE> +<LINE>it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and</LINE> +<LINE>thy fee is a thousand ducats.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning</LINE> +<LINE>shall not shame me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will presently go learn their day of marriage.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III. LEONATO'S orchard.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BENEDICK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Boy!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter Boy</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Boy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Signior?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither</LINE> +<LINE>to me in the orchard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Boy</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am here already, sir.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit Boy</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much</LINE> +<LINE>another man is a fool when he dedicates his</LINE> +<LINE>behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at</LINE> +<LINE>such shallow follies in others, become the argument</LINE> +<LINE>of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man</LINE> +<LINE>is Claudio. I have known when there was no music</LINE> +<LINE>with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he</LINE> +<LINE>rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known</LINE> +<LINE>when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a</LINE> +<LINE>good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake,</LINE> +<LINE>carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to</LINE> +<LINE>speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man</LINE> +<LINE>and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his</LINE> +<LINE>words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many</LINE> +<LINE>strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with</LINE> +<LINE>these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not</LINE> +<LINE>be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but</LINE> +<LINE>I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster</LINE> +<LINE>of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman</LINE> +<LINE>is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am</LINE> +<LINE>well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all</LINE> +<LINE>graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in</LINE> +<LINE>my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise,</LINE> +<LINE>or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her;</LINE> +<LINE>fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not</LINE> +<LINE>near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good</LINE> +<LINE>discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall</LINE> +<LINE>be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and</LINE> +<LINE>Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Withdraws</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, shall we hear this music?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,</LINE> +<LINE>As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>See you where Benedick hath hid himself?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, very well, my lord: the music ended,</LINE> +<LINE>We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter BALTHASAR with Music</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice</LINE> +<LINE>To slander music any more than once.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is the witness still of excellency</LINE> +<LINE>To put a strange face on his own perfection.</LINE> +<LINE>I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;</LINE> +<LINE>Since many a wooer doth commence his suit</LINE> +<LINE>To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes,</LINE> +<LINE>Yet will he swear he loves.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, pray thee, come;</LINE> +<LINE>Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,</LINE> +<LINE>Do it in notes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Note this before my notes;</LINE> +<LINE>There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks;</LINE> +<LINE>Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Air</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it</LINE> +<LINE>not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out</LINE> +<LINE>of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when</LINE> +<LINE>all's done.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>The Song</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,</LINE> +<LINE>Men were deceivers ever,</LINE> +<LINE>One foot in sea and one on shore,</LINE> +<LINE>To one thing constant never:</LINE> +<LINE>Then sigh not so, but let them go,</LINE> +<LINE>And be you blithe and bonny,</LINE> +<LINE>Converting all your sounds of woe</LINE> +<LINE>Into Hey nonny, nonny.</LINE> +<LINE>Sing no more ditties, sing no moe,</LINE> +<LINE>Of dumps so dull and heavy;</LINE> +<LINE>The fraud of men was ever so,</LINE> +<LINE>Since summer first was leafy:</LINE> +<LINE>Then sigh not so, &c.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, a good song.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And an ill singer, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,</LINE> +<LINE>they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad</LINE> +<LINE>voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the</LINE> +<LINE>night-raven, come what plague could have come after</LINE> +<LINE>it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,</LINE> +<LINE>get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we</LINE> +<LINE>would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BALTHASAR</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The best I can, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do so: farewell.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit BALTHASAR</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of</LINE> +<LINE>to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with</LINE> +<LINE>Signior Benedick?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did</LINE> +<LINE>never think that lady would have loved any man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she</LINE> +<LINE>should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in</LINE> +<LINE>all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think</LINE> +<LINE>of it but that she loves him with an enraged</LINE> +<LINE>affection: it is past the infinite of thought.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>May be she doth but counterfeit.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Faith, like enough.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of</LINE> +<LINE>passion came so near the life of passion as she</LINE> +<LINE>discovers it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, what effects of passion shows she?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard</LINE> +<LINE>my daughter tell you how.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She did, indeed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I</LINE> +<LINE>thought her spirit had been invincible against all</LINE> +<LINE>assaults of affection.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially</LINE> +<LINE>against Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I should think this a gull, but that the</LINE> +<LINE>white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot,</LINE> +<LINE>sure, hide himself in such reverence.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hath she made her affection known to Benedick?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No; and swears she never will: that's her torment.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall</LINE> +<LINE>I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him</LINE> +<LINE>with scorn, write to him that I love him?'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This says she now when she is beginning to write to</LINE> +<LINE>him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and</LINE> +<LINE>there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a</LINE> +<LINE>sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a</LINE> +<LINE>pretty jest your daughter told us of.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she</LINE> +<LINE>found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;</LINE> +<LINE>railed at herself, that she should be so immodest</LINE> +<LINE>to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I</LINE> +<LINE>measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I</LINE> +<LINE>should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I</LINE> +<LINE>love him, I should.'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,</LINE> +<LINE>beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O</LINE> +<LINE>sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the</LINE> +<LINE>ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter</LINE> +<LINE>is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage</LINE> +<LINE>to herself: it is very true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It were good that Benedick knew of it by some</LINE> +<LINE>other, if she will not discover it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To what end? He would make but a sport of it and</LINE> +<LINE>torment the poor lady worse.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an</LINE> +<LINE>excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion,</LINE> +<LINE>she is virtuous.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And she is exceeding wise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In every thing but in loving Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender</LINE> +<LINE>a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath</LINE> +<LINE>the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just</LINE> +<LINE>cause, being her uncle and her guardian.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would</LINE> +<LINE>have daffed all other respects and made her half</LINE> +<LINE>myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear</LINE> +<LINE>what a' will say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Were it good, think you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she</LINE> +<LINE>will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere</LINE> +<LINE>she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo</LINE> +<LINE>her, rather than she will bate one breath of her</LINE> +<LINE>accustomed crossness.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She doth well: if she should make tender of her</LINE> +<LINE>love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the</LINE> +<LINE>man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is a very proper man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He hath indeed a good outward happiness.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I take him to be valiant.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of</LINE> +<LINE>quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he</LINE> +<LINE>avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes</LINE> +<LINE>them with a most Christian-like fear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace:</LINE> +<LINE>if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a</LINE> +<LINE>quarrel with fear and trembling.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And so will he do; for the man doth fear God,</LINE> +<LINE>howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests</LINE> +<LINE>he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall</LINE> +<LINE>we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with</LINE> +<LINE>good counsel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter:</LINE> +<LINE>let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I</LINE> +<LINE>could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see</LINE> +<LINE>how much he is unworthy so good a lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never</LINE> +<LINE>trust my expectation.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let there be the same net spread for her; and that</LINE> +<LINE>must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The</LINE> +<LINE>sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of</LINE> +<LINE>another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the</LINE> +<LINE>scene that I would see, which will be merely a</LINE> +<LINE>dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Coming forward</STAGEDIR> This can be no trick: the</LINE> +<LINE>conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of</LINE> +<LINE>this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it</LINE> +<LINE>seems her affections have their full bent. Love me!</LINE> +<LINE>why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured:</LINE> +<LINE>they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive</LINE> +<LINE>the love come from her; they say too that she will</LINE> +<LINE>rather die than give any sign of affection. I did</LINE> +<LINE>never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy</LINE> +<LINE>are they that hear their detractions and can put</LINE> +<LINE>them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a</LINE> +<LINE>truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis</LINE> +<LINE>so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving</LINE> +<LINE>me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor</LINE> +<LINE>no great argument of her folly, for I will be</LINE> +<LINE>horribly in love with her. I may chance have some</LINE> +<LINE>odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me,</LINE> +<LINE>because I have railed so long against marriage: but</LINE> +<LINE>doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat</LINE> +<LINE>in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.</LINE> +<LINE>Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of</LINE> +<LINE>the brain awe a man from the career of his humour?</LINE> +<LINE>No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would</LINE> +<LINE>die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I</LINE> +<LINE>were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day!</LINE> +<LINE>she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in</LINE> +<LINE>her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter BEATRICE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I took no more pains for those thanks than you take</LINE> +<LINE>pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would</LINE> +<LINE>not have come.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You take pleasure then in the message?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's</LINE> +<LINE>point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,</LINE> +<LINE>signior: fare you well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in</LINE> +<LINE>to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took</LINE> +<LINE>no more pains for those thanks than you took pains</LINE> +<LINE>to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains</LINE> +<LINE>that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do</LINE> +<LINE>not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not</LINE> +<LINE>love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT III</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. LEONATO'S garden.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;</LINE> +<LINE>There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice</LINE> +<LINE>Proposing with the prince and Claudio:</LINE> +<LINE>Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula</LINE> +<LINE>Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse</LINE> +<LINE>Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;</LINE> +<LINE>And bid her steal into the pleached bower,</LINE> +<LINE>Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,</LINE> +<LINE>Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,</LINE> +<LINE>Made proud by princes, that advance their pride</LINE> +<LINE>Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,</LINE> +<LINE>To listen our purpose. This is thy office;</LINE> +<LINE>Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,</LINE> +<LINE>As we do trace this alley up and down,</LINE> +<LINE>Our talk must only be of Benedick.</LINE> +<LINE>When I do name him, let it be thy part</LINE> +<LINE>To praise him more than ever man did merit:</LINE> +<LINE>My talk to thee must be how Benedick</LINE> +<LINE>Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter</LINE> +<LINE>Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,</LINE> +<LINE>That only wounds by hearsay.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BEATRICE, behind</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Now begin;</LINE> +<LINE>For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs</LINE> +<LINE>Close by the ground, to hear our conference.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish</LINE> +<LINE>Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,</LINE> +<LINE>And greedily devour the treacherous bait:</LINE> +<LINE>So angle we for Beatrice; who even now</LINE> +<LINE>Is couched in the woodbine coverture.</LINE> +<LINE>Fear you not my part of the dialogue.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing</LINE> +<LINE>Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Approaching the bower</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;</LINE> +<LINE>I know her spirits are as coy and wild</LINE> +<LINE>As haggerds of the rock.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But are you sure</LINE> +<LINE>That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So says the prince and my new-trothed lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And did they bid you tell her of it, madam?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>They did entreat me to acquaint her of it;</LINE> +<LINE>But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick,</LINE> +<LINE>To wish him wrestle with affection,</LINE> +<LINE>And never to let Beatrice know of it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman</LINE> +<LINE>Deserve as full as fortunate a bed</LINE> +<LINE>As ever Beatrice shall couch upon?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O god of love! I know he doth deserve</LINE> +<LINE>As much as may be yielded to a man:</LINE> +<LINE>But Nature never framed a woman's heart</LINE> +<LINE>Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice;</LINE> +<LINE>Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>Misprising what they look on, and her wit</LINE> +<LINE>Values itself so highly that to her</LINE> +<LINE>All matter else seems weak: she cannot love,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor take no shape nor project of affection,</LINE> +<LINE>She is so self-endeared.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sure, I think so;</LINE> +<LINE>And therefore certainly it were not good</LINE> +<LINE>She knew his love, lest she make sport at it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man,</LINE> +<LINE>How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured,</LINE> +<LINE>But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced,</LINE> +<LINE>She would swear the gentleman should be her sister;</LINE> +<LINE>If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique,</LINE> +<LINE>Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;</LINE> +<LINE>If low, an agate very vilely cut;</LINE> +<LINE>If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds;</LINE> +<LINE>If silent, why, a block moved with none.</LINE> +<LINE>So turns she every man the wrong side out</LINE> +<LINE>And never gives to truth and virtue that</LINE> +<LINE>Which simpleness and merit purchaseth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, not to be so odd and from all fashions</LINE> +<LINE>As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable:</LINE> +<LINE>But who dare tell her so? If I should speak,</LINE> +<LINE>She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me</LINE> +<LINE>Out of myself, press me to death with wit.</LINE> +<LINE>Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire,</LINE> +<LINE>Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly:</LINE> +<LINE>It were a better death than die with mocks,</LINE> +<LINE>Which is as bad as die with tickling.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No; rather I will go to Benedick</LINE> +<LINE>And counsel him to fight against his passion.</LINE> +<LINE>And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders</LINE> +<LINE>To stain my cousin with: one doth not know</LINE> +<LINE>How much an ill word may empoison liking.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, do not do your cousin such a wrong.</LINE> +<LINE>She cannot be so much without true judgment--</LINE> +<LINE>Having so swift and excellent a wit</LINE> +<LINE>As she is prized to have--as to refuse</LINE> +<LINE>So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is the only man of Italy.</LINE> +<LINE>Always excepted my dear Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray you, be not angry with me, madam,</LINE> +<LINE>Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick,</LINE> +<LINE>For shape, for bearing, argument and valour,</LINE> +<LINE>Goes foremost in report through Italy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed, he hath an excellent good name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>His excellence did earn it, ere he had it.</LINE> +<LINE>When are you married, madam?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in:</LINE> +<LINE>I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel</LINE> +<LINE>Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If it proves so, then loving goes by haps:</LINE> +<LINE>Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt HERO and URSULA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Coming forward</STAGEDIR></LINE> +<LINE>What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true?</LINE> +<LINE>Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much?</LINE> +<LINE>Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu!</LINE> +<LINE>No glory lives behind the back of such.</LINE> +<LINE>And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee,</LINE> +<LINE>Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand:</LINE> +<LINE>If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee</LINE> +<LINE>To bind our loves up in a holy band;</LINE> +<LINE>For others say thou dost deserve, and I</LINE> +<LINE>Believe it better than reportingly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. A room in LEONATO'S house</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and</LINE> +<LINE>then go I toward Arragon.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll</LINE> +<LINE>vouchsafe me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss</LINE> +<LINE>of your marriage as to show a child his new coat</LINE> +<LINE>and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold</LINE> +<LINE>with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown</LINE> +<LINE>of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all</LINE> +<LINE>mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's</LINE> +<LINE>bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at</LINE> +<LINE>him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his</LINE> +<LINE>tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his</LINE> +<LINE>tongue speaks.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Gallants, I am not as I have been.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So say I methinks you are sadder.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I hope he be in love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in</LINE> +<LINE>him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,</LINE> +<LINE>he wants money.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have the toothache.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Draw it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hang it!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What! sigh for the toothache?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Where is but a humour or a worm.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, every one can master a grief but he that has</LINE> +<LINE>it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet say I, he is in love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be</LINE> +<LINE>a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be</LINE> +<LINE>a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the</LINE> +<LINE>shape of two countries at once, as, a German from</LINE> +<LINE>the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from</LINE> +<LINE>the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy</LINE> +<LINE>to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no</LINE> +<LINE>fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he be not in love with some woman, there is no</LINE> +<LINE>believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o'</LINE> +<LINE>mornings; what should that bode?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hath any man seen him at the barber's?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him,</LINE> +<LINE>and the old ornament of his cheek hath already</LINE> +<LINE>stuffed tennis-balls.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him</LINE> +<LINE>out by that?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The greatest note of it is his melancholy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And when was he wont to wash his face?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear</LINE> +<LINE>what they say of him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into</LINE> +<LINE>a lute-string and now governed by stops.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude,</LINE> +<LINE>conclude he is in love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, but I know who loves him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of</LINE> +<LINE>all, dies for him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She shall be buried with her face upwards.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old</LINE> +<LINE>signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight</LINE> +<LINE>or nine wise words to speak to you, which these</LINE> +<LINE>hobby-horses must not hear.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this</LINE> +<LINE>played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two</LINE> +<LINE>bears will not bite one another when they meet.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON JOHN</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord and brother, God save you!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good den, brother.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If your leisure served, I would speak with you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In private?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for</LINE> +<LINE>what I would speak of concerns him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What's the matter?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>To CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> Means your lordship to be married</LINE> +<LINE>to-morrow?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You know he does.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know not that, when he knows what I know.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You may think I love you not: let that appear</LINE> +<LINE>hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will</LINE> +<LINE>manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you</LINE> +<LINE>well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect</LINE> +<LINE>your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and</LINE> +<LINE>labour ill bestowed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, what's the matter?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances</LINE> +<LINE>shortened, for she has been too long a talking of,</LINE> +<LINE>the lady is disloyal.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Who, Hero?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero:</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Disloyal?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I</LINE> +<LINE>could say she were worse: think you of a worse</LINE> +<LINE>title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till</LINE> +<LINE>further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall</LINE> +<LINE>see her chamber-window entered, even the night</LINE> +<LINE>before her wedding-day: if you love her then,</LINE> +<LINE>to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour</LINE> +<LINE>to change your mind.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>May this be so?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will not think it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you dare not trust that you see, confess not</LINE> +<LINE>that you know: if you will follow me, I will show</LINE> +<LINE>you enough; and when you have seen more and heard</LINE> +<LINE>more, proceed accordingly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry</LINE> +<LINE>her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should</LINE> +<LINE>wed, there will I shame her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join</LINE> +<LINE>with thee to disgrace her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will disparage her no farther till you are my</LINE> +<LINE>witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and</LINE> +<LINE>let the issue show itself.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O day untowardly turned!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O mischief strangely thwarting!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O plague right well prevented! so will you say when</LINE> +<LINE>you have seen the sequel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III. A street.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are you good men and true?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer</LINE> +<LINE>salvation, body and soul.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if</LINE> +<LINE>they should have any allegiance in them, being</LINE> +<LINE>chosen for the prince's watch.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>First, who think you the most desertless man to be</LINE> +<LINE>constable?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can</LINE> +<LINE>write and read.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed</LINE> +<LINE>you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is</LINE> +<LINE>the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Second Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Both which, master constable,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well,</LINE> +<LINE>for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make</LINE> +<LINE>no boast of it; and for your writing and reading,</LINE> +<LINE>let that appear when there is no need of such</LINE> +<LINE>vanity. You are thought here to be the most</LINE> +<LINE>senseless and fit man for the constable of the</LINE> +<LINE>watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your</LINE> +<LINE>charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are</LINE> +<LINE>to bid any man stand, in the prince's name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Second Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How if a' will not stand?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and</LINE> +<LINE>presently call the rest of the watch together and</LINE> +<LINE>thank God you are rid of a knave.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none</LINE> +<LINE>of the prince's subjects.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>True, and they are to meddle with none but the</LINE> +<LINE>prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in</LINE> +<LINE>the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to</LINE> +<LINE>talk is most tolerable and not to be endured.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We will rather sleep than talk: we know what</LINE> +<LINE>belongs to a watch.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet</LINE> +<LINE>watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should</LINE> +<LINE>offend: only, have a care that your bills be not</LINE> +<LINE>stolen. Well, you are to call at all the</LINE> +<LINE>ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How if they will not?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if</LINE> +<LINE>they make you not then the better answer, you may</LINE> +<LINE>say they are not the men you took them for.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, sir.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue</LINE> +<LINE>of your office, to be no true man; and, for such</LINE> +<LINE>kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them,</LINE> +<LINE>why the more is for your honesty.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay</LINE> +<LINE>hands on him?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they</LINE> +<LINE>that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable</LINE> +<LINE>way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him</LINE> +<LINE>show himself what he is and steal out of your company.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have been always called a merciful man, partner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more</LINE> +<LINE>a man who hath any honesty in him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call</LINE> +<LINE>to the nurse and bid her still it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake</LINE> +<LINE>her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her</LINE> +<LINE>lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis very true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are</LINE> +<LINE>to present the prince's own person: if you meet the</LINE> +<LINE>prince in the night, you may stay him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows</LINE> +<LINE>the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without</LINE> +<LINE>the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought</LINE> +<LINE>to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a</LINE> +<LINE>man against his will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By'r lady, I think it be so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be</LINE> +<LINE>any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your</LINE> +<LINE>fellows' counsels and your own; and good night.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, neighbour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here</LINE> +<LINE>upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch</LINE> +<LINE>about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being</LINE> +<LINE>there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night.</LINE> +<LINE>Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What Conrade!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR> Peace! stir not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Conrade, I say!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, man; I am at thy elbow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a</LINE> +<LINE>scab follow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward</LINE> +<LINE>with thy tale.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for</LINE> +<LINE>it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard,</LINE> +<LINE>utter all to thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR> Some treason, masters: yet stand close.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is it possible that any villany should be so dear?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any</LINE> +<LINE>villany should be so rich; for when rich villains</LINE> +<LINE>have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what</LINE> +<LINE>price they will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I wonder at it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that</LINE> +<LINE>the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is</LINE> +<LINE>nothing to a man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, it is apparel.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I mean, the fashion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, the fashion is the fashion.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But</LINE> +<LINE>seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion</LINE> +<LINE>is?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside</STAGEDIR> I know that Deformed; a' has been a vile</LINE> +<LINE>thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a</LINE> +<LINE>gentleman: I remember his name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Didst thou not hear somebody?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No; 'twas the vane on the house.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this</LINE> +<LINE>fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot</LINE> +<LINE>bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty?</LINE> +<LINE>sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers</LINE> +<LINE>in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's</LINE> +<LINE>priests in the old church-window, sometime like the</LINE> +<LINE>shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry,</LINE> +<LINE>where his codpiece seems as massy as his club?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears</LINE> +<LINE>out more apparel than the man. But art not thou</LINE> +<LINE>thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast</LINE> +<LINE>shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night</LINE> +<LINE>wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the</LINE> +<LINE>name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress'</LINE> +<LINE>chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good</LINE> +<LINE>night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first</LINE> +<LINE>tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master,</LINE> +<LINE>planted and placed and possessed by my master Don</LINE> +<LINE>John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And thought they Margaret was Hero?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the</LINE> +<LINE>devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly</LINE> +<LINE>by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by</LINE> +<LINE>the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly</LINE> +<LINE>by my villany, which did confirm any slander that</LINE> +<LINE>Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore</LINE> +<LINE>he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning</LINE> +<LINE>at the temple, and there, before the whole</LINE> +<LINE>congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night</LINE> +<LINE>and send her home again without a husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Second Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Call up the right master constable. We have here</LINE> +<LINE>recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that</LINE> +<LINE>ever was known in the commonwealth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a'</LINE> +<LINE>wears a lock.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Masters, masters,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Second Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Masters,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken</LINE> +<LINE>up of these men's bills.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV. HERO's apartment.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire</LINE> +<LINE>her to rise.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will, lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And bid her come hither.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Troth, I think your other rabato were better.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your</LINE> +<LINE>cousin will say so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear</LINE> +<LINE>none but this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair</LINE> +<LINE>were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare</LINE> +<LINE>fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's</LINE> +<LINE>gown that they praise so.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, that exceeds, they say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of</LINE> +<LINE>yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with</LINE> +<LINE>silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves,</LINE> +<LINE>and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel:</LINE> +<LINE>but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent</LINE> +<LINE>fashion, yours is worth ten on 't.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is</LINE> +<LINE>exceeding heavy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fie upon thee! art not ashamed?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not</LINE> +<LINE>marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord</LINE> +<LINE>honourable without marriage? I think you would have</LINE> +<LINE>me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad</LINE> +<LINE>thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend</LINE> +<LINE>nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a</LINE> +<LINE>husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband</LINE> +<LINE>and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not</LINE> +<LINE>heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter BEATRICE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, coz.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, sweet Hero.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am out of all other tune, methinks.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a</LINE> +<LINE>burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your</LINE> +<LINE>husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall</LINE> +<LINE>lack no barns.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were</LINE> +<LINE>ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For a hawk, a horse, or a husband?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For the letter that begins them all, H.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more</LINE> +<LINE>sailing by the star.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What means the fool, trow?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>These gloves the count sent me; they are an</LINE> +<LINE>excellent perfume.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, God help me! God help me! how long have you</LINE> +<LINE>professed apprehension?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your</LINE> +<LINE>cap. By my troth, I am sick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus,</LINE> +<LINE>and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There thou prickest her with a thistle.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in</LINE> +<LINE>this Benedictus.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I</LINE> +<LINE>meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance</LINE> +<LINE>that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am</LINE> +<LINE>not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list</LINE> +<LINE>not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think,</LINE> +<LINE>if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you</LINE> +<LINE>are in love or that you will be in love or that you</LINE> +<LINE>can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and</LINE> +<LINE>now is he become a man: he swore he would never</LINE> +<LINE>marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats</LINE> +<LINE>his meat without grudging: and how you may be</LINE> +<LINE>converted I know not, but methinks you look with</LINE> +<LINE>your eyes as other women do.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not a false gallop.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter URSULA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior</LINE> +<LINE>Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the</LINE> +<LINE>town, are come to fetch you to church.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE V. Another room in LEONATO'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What would you with me, honest neighbour?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you</LINE> +<LINE>that decerns you nearly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, this it is, sir.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, in truth it is, sir.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What is it, my good friends?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the</LINE> +<LINE>matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so</LINE> +<LINE>blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but,</LINE> +<LINE>in faith, honest as the skin between his brows.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living</LINE> +<LINE>that is an old man and no honester than I.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Neighbours, you are tedious.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the</LINE> +<LINE>poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,</LINE> +<LINE>if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in</LINE> +<LINE>my heart to bestow it all of your worship.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All thy tediousness on me, ah?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for</LINE> +<LINE>I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any</LINE> +<LINE>man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I</LINE> +<LINE>am glad to hear it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And so am I.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would fain know what you have to say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your</LINE> +<LINE>worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant</LINE> +<LINE>knaves as any in Messina.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they</LINE> +<LINE>say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help</LINE> +<LINE>us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith,</LINE> +<LINE>neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men</LINE> +<LINE>ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest</LINE> +<LINE>soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever</LINE> +<LINE>broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men</LINE> +<LINE>are not alike; alas, good neighbour!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Gifts that God gives.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I must leave you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed</LINE> +<LINE>comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would</LINE> +<LINE>have them this morning examined before your worship.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I</LINE> +<LINE>am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It shall be suffigance.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter a Messenger</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to</LINE> +<LINE>her husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll wait upon them: I am ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole;</LINE> +<LINE>bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we</LINE> +<LINE>are now to examination these men.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And we must do it wisely.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's</LINE> +<LINE>that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only</LINE> +<LINE>get the learned writer to set down our</LINE> +<LINE>excommunication and meet me at the gaol.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT IV</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. A church.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS, +CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain</LINE> +<LINE>form of marriage, and you shall recount their</LINE> +<LINE>particular duties afterwards.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady, you come hither to be married to this count.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I do.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If either of you know any inward impediment why you</LINE> +<LINE>should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls,</LINE> +<LINE>to utter it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Know you any, Hero?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>None, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Know you any, count?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I dare make his answer, none.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily</LINE> +<LINE>do, not knowing what they do!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of</LINE> +<LINE>laughing, as, ah, ha, he!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:</LINE> +<LINE>Will you with free and unconstrained soul</LINE> +<LINE>Give me this maid, your daughter?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As freely, son, as God did give her me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And what have I to give you back, whose worth</LINE> +<LINE>May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nothing, unless you render her again.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.</LINE> +<LINE>There, Leonato, take her back again:</LINE> +<LINE>Give not this rotten orange to your friend;</LINE> +<LINE>She's but the sign and semblance of her honour.</LINE> +<LINE>Behold how like a maid she blushes here!</LINE> +<LINE>O, what authority and show of truth</LINE> +<LINE>Can cunning sin cover itself withal!</LINE> +<LINE>Comes not that blood as modest evidence</LINE> +<LINE>To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear,</LINE> +<LINE>All you that see her, that she were a maid,</LINE> +<LINE>By these exterior shows? But she is none:</LINE> +<LINE>She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;</LINE> +<LINE>Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What do you mean, my lord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Not to be married,</LINE> +<LINE>Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof,</LINE> +<LINE>Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth,</LINE> +<LINE>And made defeat of her virginity,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know what you would say: if I have known her,</LINE> +<LINE>You will say she did embrace me as a husband,</LINE> +<LINE>And so extenuate the 'forehand sin:</LINE> +<LINE>No, Leonato,</LINE> +<LINE>I never tempted her with word too large;</LINE> +<LINE>But, as a brother to his sister, show'd</LINE> +<LINE>Bashful sincerity and comely love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And seem'd I ever otherwise to you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it:</LINE> +<LINE>You seem to me as Dian in her orb,</LINE> +<LINE>As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown;</LINE> +<LINE>But you are more intemperate in your blood</LINE> +<LINE>Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals</LINE> +<LINE>That rage in savage sensuality.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet prince, why speak not you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What should I speak?</LINE> +<LINE>I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about</LINE> +<LINE>To link my dear friend to a common stale.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This looks not like a nuptial.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>True! O God!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Leonato, stand I here?</LINE> +<LINE>Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother?</LINE> +<LINE>Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All this is so: but what of this, my lord?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let me but move one question to your daughter;</LINE> +<LINE>And, by that fatherly and kindly power</LINE> +<LINE>That you have in her, bid her answer truly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, God defend me! how am I beset!</LINE> +<LINE>What kind of catechising call you this?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To make you answer truly to your name.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name</LINE> +<LINE>With any just reproach?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, that can Hero;</LINE> +<LINE>Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue.</LINE> +<LINE>What man was he talk'd with you yesternight</LINE> +<LINE>Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?</LINE> +<LINE>Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,</LINE> +<LINE>I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour,</LINE> +<LINE>Myself, my brother and this grieved count</LINE> +<LINE>Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night</LINE> +<LINE>Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window</LINE> +<LINE>Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain,</LINE> +<LINE>Confess'd the vile encounters they have had</LINE> +<LINE>A thousand times in secret.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>Not to be spoke of;</LINE> +<LINE>There is not chastity enough in language</LINE> +<LINE>Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady,</LINE> +<LINE>I am sorry for thy much misgovernment.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been,</LINE> +<LINE>If half thy outward graces had been placed</LINE> +<LINE>About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!</LINE> +<LINE>But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell,</LINE> +<LINE>Thou pure impiety and impious purity!</LINE> +<LINE>For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love,</LINE> +<LINE>And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang,</LINE> +<LINE>To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm,</LINE> +<LINE>And never shall it more be gracious.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>HERO swoons</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON JOHN</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light,</LINE> +<LINE>Smother her spirits up.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How doth the lady?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dead, I think. Help, uncle!</LINE> +<LINE>Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand.</LINE> +<LINE>Death is the fairest cover for her shame</LINE> +<LINE>That may be wish'd for.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now, cousin Hero!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Have comfort, lady.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dost thou look up?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, wherefore should she not?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing</LINE> +<LINE>Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny</LINE> +<LINE>The story that is printed in her blood?</LINE> +<LINE>Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:</LINE> +<LINE>For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die,</LINE> +<LINE>Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames,</LINE> +<LINE>Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches,</LINE> +<LINE>Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?</LINE> +<LINE>Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame?</LINE> +<LINE>O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?</LINE> +<LINE>Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?</LINE> +<LINE>Why had I not with charitable hand</LINE> +<LINE>Took up a beggar's issue at my gates,</LINE> +<LINE>Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy,</LINE> +<LINE>I might have said 'No part of it is mine;</LINE> +<LINE>This shame derives itself from unknown loins'?</LINE> +<LINE>But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised</LINE> +<LINE>And mine that I was proud on, mine so much</LINE> +<LINE>That I myself was to myself not mine,</LINE> +<LINE>Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen</LINE> +<LINE>Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea</LINE> +<LINE>Hath drops too few to wash her clean again</LINE> +<LINE>And salt too little which may season give</LINE> +<LINE>To her foul-tainted flesh!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sir, sir, be patient.</LINE> +<LINE>For my part, I am so attired in wonder,</LINE> +<LINE>I know not what to say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, on my soul, my cousin is belied!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady, were you her bedfellow last night?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, truly not; although, until last night,</LINE> +<LINE>I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made</LINE> +<LINE>Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron!</LINE> +<LINE>Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie,</LINE> +<LINE>Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness,</LINE> +<LINE>Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hear me a little; for I have only been</LINE> +<LINE>Silent so long and given way unto</LINE> +<LINE>This course of fortune</LINE> +<LINE>By noting of the lady. I have mark'd</LINE> +<LINE>A thousand blushing apparitions</LINE> +<LINE>To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames</LINE> +<LINE>In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;</LINE> +<LINE>And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,</LINE> +<LINE>To burn the errors that these princes hold</LINE> +<LINE>Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;</LINE> +<LINE>Trust not my reading nor my observations,</LINE> +<LINE>Which with experimental seal doth warrant</LINE> +<LINE>The tenor of my book; trust not my age,</LINE> +<LINE>My reverence, calling, nor divinity,</LINE> +<LINE>If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here</LINE> +<LINE>Under some biting error.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Friar, it cannot be.</LINE> +<LINE>Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left</LINE> +<LINE>Is that she will not add to her damnation</LINE> +<LINE>A sin of perjury; she not denies it:</LINE> +<LINE>Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse</LINE> +<LINE>That which appears in proper nakedness?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady, what man is he you are accused of?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>They know that do accuse me; I know none:</LINE> +<LINE>If I know more of any man alive</LINE> +<LINE>Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant,</LINE> +<LINE>Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father,</LINE> +<LINE>Prove you that any man with me conversed</LINE> +<LINE>At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight</LINE> +<LINE>Maintain'd the change of words with any creature,</LINE> +<LINE>Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There is some strange misprision in the princes.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Two of them have the very bent of honour;</LINE> +<LINE>And if their wisdoms be misled in this,</LINE> +<LINE>The practise of it lives in John the bastard,</LINE> +<LINE>Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know not. If they speak but truth of her,</LINE> +<LINE>These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour,</LINE> +<LINE>The proudest of them shall well hear of it.</LINE> +<LINE>Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor age so eat up my invention,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor fortune made such havoc of my means,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends,</LINE> +<LINE>But they shall find, awaked in such a kind,</LINE> +<LINE>Both strength of limb and policy of mind,</LINE> +<LINE>Ability in means and choice of friends,</LINE> +<LINE>To quit me of them throughly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pause awhile,</LINE> +<LINE>And let my counsel sway you in this case.</LINE> +<LINE>Your daughter here the princes left for dead:</LINE> +<LINE>Let her awhile be secretly kept in,</LINE> +<LINE>And publish it that she is dead indeed;</LINE> +<LINE>Maintain a mourning ostentation</LINE> +<LINE>And on your family's old monument</LINE> +<LINE>Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites</LINE> +<LINE>That appertain unto a burial.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What shall become of this? what will this do?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf</LINE> +<LINE>Change slander to remorse; that is some good:</LINE> +<LINE>But not for that dream I on this strange course,</LINE> +<LINE>But on this travail look for greater birth.</LINE> +<LINE>She dying, as it must so be maintain'd,</LINE> +<LINE>Upon the instant that she was accused,</LINE> +<LINE>Shall be lamented, pitied and excused</LINE> +<LINE>Of every hearer: for it so falls out</LINE> +<LINE>That what we have we prize not to the worth</LINE> +<LINE>Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost,</LINE> +<LINE>Why, then we rack the value, then we find</LINE> +<LINE>The virtue that possession would not show us</LINE> +<LINE>Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio:</LINE> +<LINE>When he shall hear she died upon his words,</LINE> +<LINE>The idea of her life shall sweetly creep</LINE> +<LINE>Into his study of imagination,</LINE> +<LINE>And every lovely organ of her life</LINE> +<LINE>Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit,</LINE> +<LINE>More moving-delicate and full of life,</LINE> +<LINE>Into the eye and prospect of his soul,</LINE> +<LINE>Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn,</LINE> +<LINE>If ever love had interest in his liver,</LINE> +<LINE>And wish he had not so accused her,</LINE> +<LINE>No, though he thought his accusation true.</LINE> +<LINE>Let this be so, and doubt not but success</LINE> +<LINE>Will fashion the event in better shape</LINE> +<LINE>Than I can lay it down in likelihood.</LINE> +<LINE>But if all aim but this be levell'd false,</LINE> +<LINE>The supposition of the lady's death</LINE> +<LINE>Will quench the wonder of her infamy:</LINE> +<LINE>And if it sort not well, you may conceal her,</LINE> +<LINE>As best befits her wounded reputation,</LINE> +<LINE>In some reclusive and religious life,</LINE> +<LINE>Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you:</LINE> +<LINE>And though you know my inwardness and love</LINE> +<LINE>Is very much unto the prince and Claudio,</LINE> +<LINE>Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this</LINE> +<LINE>As secretly and justly as your soul</LINE> +<LINE>Should with your body.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Being that I flow in grief,</LINE> +<LINE>The smallest twine may lead me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis well consented: presently away;</LINE> +<LINE>For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day</LINE> +<LINE>Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, and I will weep a while longer.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will not desire that.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have no reason; I do it freely.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is there any way to show such friendship?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A very even way, but no such friend.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>May a man do it?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is a man's office, but not yours.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is</LINE> +<LINE>not that strange?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As strange as the thing I know not. It were as</LINE> +<LINE>possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as</LINE> +<LINE>you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I</LINE> +<LINE>confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do not swear, and eat it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make</LINE> +<LINE>him eat it that says I love not you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will you not eat your word?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest</LINE> +<LINE>I love thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then, God forgive me!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What offence, sweet Beatrice?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to</LINE> +<LINE>protest I loved you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And do it with all thy heart.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I love you with so much of my heart that none is</LINE> +<LINE>left to protest.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, bid me do any thing for thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Kill Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Ha! not for the wide world.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You kill me to deny it. Farewell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tarry, sweet Beatrice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in</LINE> +<LINE>you: nay, I pray you, let me go.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Beatrice,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In faith, I will go.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We'll be friends first.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is Claudio thine enemy?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is he not approved in the height a villain, that</LINE> +<LINE>hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O</LINE> +<LINE>that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they</LINE> +<LINE>come to take hands; and then, with public</LINE> +<LINE>accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,</LINE> +<LINE>--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart</LINE> +<LINE>in the market-place.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hear me, Beatrice,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, but, Beatrice,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Beat--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony,</LINE> +<LINE>a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant,</LINE> +<LINE>surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I</LINE> +<LINE>had any friend would be a man for my sake! But</LINE> +<LINE>manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into</LINE> +<LINE>compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and</LINE> +<LINE>trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules</LINE> +<LINE>that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a</LINE> +<LINE>man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will</LINE> +<LINE>kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand,</LINE> +<LINE>Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you</LINE> +<LINE>hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your</LINE> +<LINE>cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. A prison.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and +the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is our whole dissembly appeared?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Which be the malefactors?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, that am I and my partner.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But which are the offenders that are to be</LINE> +<LINE>examined? let them come before master constable.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your</LINE> +<LINE>name, friend?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Borachio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do</LINE> +<LINE>you serve God?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, sir, we hope.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Write down, that they hope they serve God: and</LINE> +<LINE>write God first; for God defend but God should go</LINE> +<LINE>before such villains! Masters, it is proved already</LINE> +<LINE>that you are little better than false knaves; and it</LINE> +<LINE>will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer</LINE> +<LINE>you for yourselves?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, sir, we say we are none.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I</LINE> +<LINE>will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a</LINE> +<LINE>word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought</LINE> +<LINE>you are false knaves.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sir, I say to you we are none.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a</LINE> +<LINE>tale. Have you writ down, that they are none?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Master constable, you go not the way to examine:</LINE> +<LINE>you must call forth the watch that are their accusers.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch</LINE> +<LINE>come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's</LINE> +<LINE>name, accuse these men.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's</LINE> +<LINE>brother, was a villain.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat</LINE> +<LINE>perjury, to call a prince's brother villain.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Master constable,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look,</LINE> +<LINE>I promise thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What heard you him say else?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Second Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of</LINE> +<LINE>Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Flat burglary as ever was committed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, by mass, that it is.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What else, fellow?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>First Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to</LINE> +<LINE>disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting</LINE> +<LINE>redemption for this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What else?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Watchman</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This is all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Sexton</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And this is more, masters, than you can deny.</LINE> +<LINE>Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away;</LINE> +<LINE>Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner</LINE> +<LINE>refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died.</LINE> +<LINE>Master constable, let these men be bound, and</LINE> +<LINE>brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show</LINE> +<LINE>him their examination.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, let them be opinioned.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Let them be in the hands--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Off, coxcomb!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write</LINE> +<LINE>down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them.</LINE> +<LINE>Thou naughty varlet!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CONRADE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Away! you are an ass, you are an ass.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not</LINE> +<LINE>suspect my years? O that he were here to write me</LINE> +<LINE>down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an</LINE> +<LINE>ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not</LINE> +<LINE>that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of</LINE> +<LINE>piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness.</LINE> +<LINE>I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer,</LINE> +<LINE>and, which is more, a householder, and, which is</LINE> +<LINE>more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in</LINE> +<LINE>Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a</LINE> +<LINE>rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath</LINE> +<LINE>had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every</LINE> +<LINE>thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that</LINE> +<LINE>I had been writ down an ass!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +</ACT> + +<ACT><TITLE>ACT V</TITLE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:</LINE> +<LINE>And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief</LINE> +<LINE>Against yourself.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray thee, cease thy counsel,</LINE> +<LINE>Which falls into mine ears as profitless</LINE> +<LINE>As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;</LINE> +<LINE>Nor let no comforter delight mine ear</LINE> +<LINE>But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.</LINE> +<LINE>Bring me a father that so loved his child,</LINE> +<LINE>Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine,</LINE> +<LINE>And bid him speak of patience;</LINE> +<LINE>Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine</LINE> +<LINE>And let it answer every strain for strain,</LINE> +<LINE>As thus for thus and such a grief for such,</LINE> +<LINE>In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:</LINE> +<LINE>If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,</LINE> +<LINE>Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan,</LINE> +<LINE>Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk</LINE> +<LINE>With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,</LINE> +<LINE>And I of him will gather patience.</LINE> +<LINE>But there is no such man: for, brother, men</LINE> +<LINE>Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief</LINE> +<LINE>Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,</LINE> +<LINE>Their counsel turns to passion, which before</LINE> +<LINE>Would give preceptial medicine to rage,</LINE> +<LINE>Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,</LINE> +<LINE>Charm ache with air and agony with words:</LINE> +<LINE>No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience</LINE> +<LINE>To those that wring under the load of sorrow,</LINE> +<LINE>But no man's virtue nor sufficiency</LINE> +<LINE>To be so moral when he shall endure</LINE> +<LINE>The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:</LINE> +<LINE>My griefs cry louder than advertisement.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Therein do men from children nothing differ.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;</LINE> +<LINE>For there was never yet philosopher</LINE> +<LINE>That could endure the toothache patiently,</LINE> +<LINE>However they have writ the style of gods</LINE> +<LINE>And made a push at chance and sufferance.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;</LINE> +<LINE>Make those that do offend you suffer too.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so.</LINE> +<LINE>My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;</LINE> +<LINE>And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince</LINE> +<LINE>And all of them that thus dishonour her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good den, good den.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good day to both of you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hear you. my lords,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We have some haste, Leonato.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:</LINE> +<LINE>Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he could right himself with quarreling,</LINE> +<LINE>Some of us would lie low.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Who wrongs him?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:--</LINE> +<LINE>Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;</LINE> +<LINE>I fear thee not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, beshrew my hand,</LINE> +<LINE>If it should give your age such cause of fear:</LINE> +<LINE>In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:</LINE> +<LINE>I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,</LINE> +<LINE>As under privilege of age to brag</LINE> +<LINE>What I have done being young, or what would do</LINE> +<LINE>Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,</LINE> +<LINE>Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me</LINE> +<LINE>That I am forced to lay my reverence by</LINE> +<LINE>And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,</LINE> +<LINE>Do challenge thee to trial of a man.</LINE> +<LINE>I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;</LINE> +<LINE>Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,</LINE> +<LINE>And she lies buried with her ancestors;</LINE> +<LINE>O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,</LINE> +<LINE>Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My villany?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>You say not right, old man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, my lord,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll prove it on his body, if he dare,</LINE> +<LINE>Despite his nice fence and his active practise,</LINE> +<LINE>His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Away! I will not have to do with you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child:</LINE> +<LINE>If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:</LINE> +<LINE>But that's no matter; let him kill one first;</LINE> +<LINE>Win me and wear me; let him answer me.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:</LINE> +<LINE>Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence;</LINE> +<LINE>Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Brother,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;</LINE> +<LINE>And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains,</LINE> +<LINE>That dare as well answer a man indeed</LINE> +<LINE>As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:</LINE> +<LINE>Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Brother Antony,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,</LINE> +<LINE>And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,--</LINE> +<LINE>Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,</LINE> +<LINE>That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,</LINE> +<LINE>Go anticly, show outward hideousness,</LINE> +<LINE>And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,</LINE> +<LINE>How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;</LINE> +<LINE>And this is all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But, brother Antony,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, 'tis no matter:</LINE> +<LINE>Do not you meddle; let me deal in this.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.</LINE> +<LINE>My heart is sorry for your daughter's death:</LINE> +<LINE>But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing</LINE> +<LINE>But what was true and very full of proof.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, my lord,--</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will not hear you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And shall, or some of us will smart for it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter BENEDICK</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, signior, what news?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good day, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part</LINE> +<LINE>almost a fray.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We had like to have had our two noses snapped off</LINE> +<LINE>with two old men without teeth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had</LINE> +<LINE>we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came</LINE> +<LINE>to seek you both.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are</LINE> +<LINE>high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten</LINE> +<LINE>away. Wilt thou use thy wit?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Never any did so, though very many have been beside</LINE> +<LINE>their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the</LINE> +<LINE>minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou</LINE> +<LINE>sick, or angry?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,</LINE> +<LINE>thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you</LINE> +<LINE>charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was</LINE> +<LINE>broke cross.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By this light, he changes more and more: I think</LINE> +<LINE>he be angry indeed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Shall I speak a word in your ear?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God bless me from a challenge!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Aside to CLAUDIO</STAGEDIR> You are a villain; I jest not:</LINE> +<LINE>I will make it good how you dare, with what you</LINE> +<LINE>dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will</LINE> +<LINE>protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet</LINE> +<LINE>lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me</LINE> +<LINE>hear from you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What, a feast, a feast?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's</LINE> +<LINE>head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most</LINE> +<LINE>curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find</LINE> +<LINE>a woodcock too?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the</LINE> +<LINE>other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,'</LINE> +<LINE>said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a</LINE> +<LINE>great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.'</LINE> +<LINE>'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it</LINE> +<LINE>hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman</LINE> +<LINE>is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.'</LINE> +<LINE>'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I</LINE> +<LINE>believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on</LINE> +<LINE>Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;</LINE> +<LINE>there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus</LINE> +<LINE>did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular</LINE> +<LINE>virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou</LINE> +<LINE>wast the properest man in Italy.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For the which she wept heartily and said she cared</LINE> +<LINE>not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she</LINE> +<LINE>did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:</LINE> +<LINE>the old man's daughter told us all.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was</LINE> +<LINE>hid in the garden.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on</LINE> +<LINE>the sensible Benedick's head?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the</LINE> +<LINE>married man'?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave</LINE> +<LINE>you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests</LINE> +<LINE>as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,</LINE> +<LINE>hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank</LINE> +<LINE>you: I must discontinue your company: your brother</LINE> +<LINE>the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among</LINE> +<LINE>you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord</LINE> +<LINE>Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till</LINE> +<LINE>then, peace be with him.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is in earnest.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for</LINE> +<LINE>the love of Beatrice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And hath challenged thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Most sincerely.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his</LINE> +<LINE>doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a</LINE> +<LINE>doctor to such a man.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and</LINE> +<LINE>be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE +and BORACHIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she</LINE> +<LINE>shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,</LINE> +<LINE>an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio</LINE> +<LINE>one!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Hearken after their offence, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Officers, what offence have these men done?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Marry, sir, they have committed false report;</LINE> +<LINE>moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,</LINE> +<LINE>they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have</LINE> +<LINE>belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust</LINE> +<LINE>things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I</LINE> +<LINE>ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why</LINE> +<LINE>they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay</LINE> +<LINE>to their charge.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by</LINE> +<LINE>my troth, there's one meaning well suited.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus</LINE> +<LINE>bound to your answer? this learned constable is</LINE> +<LINE>too cunning to be understood: what's your offence?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:</LINE> +<LINE>do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have</LINE> +<LINE>deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms</LINE> +<LINE>could not discover, these shallow fools have brought</LINE> +<LINE>to light: who in the night overheard me confessing</LINE> +<LINE>to this man how Don John your brother incensed me</LINE> +<LINE>to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into</LINE> +<LINE>the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's</LINE> +<LINE>garments, how you disgraced her, when you should</LINE> +<LINE>marry her: my villany they have upon record; which</LINE> +<LINE>I had rather seal with my death than repeat over</LINE> +<LINE>to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my</LINE> +<LINE>master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire</LINE> +<LINE>nothing but the reward of a villain.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>But did my brother set thee on to this?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>He is composed and framed of treachery:</LINE> +<LINE>And fled he is upon this villany.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear</LINE> +<LINE>In the rare semblance that I loved it first.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our</LINE> +<LINE>sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:</LINE> +<LINE>and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time</LINE> +<LINE>and place shall serve, that I am an ass.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>VERGES</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the</LINE> +<LINE>Sexton too.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,</LINE> +<LINE>That, when I note another man like him,</LINE> +<LINE>I may avoid him: which of these is he?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you would know your wronger, look on me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd</LINE> +<LINE>Mine innocent child?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, even I alone.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:</LINE> +<LINE>Here stand a pair of honourable men;</LINE> +<LINE>A third is fled, that had a hand in it.</LINE> +<LINE>I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death:</LINE> +<LINE>Record it with your high and worthy deeds:</LINE> +<LINE>'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I know not how to pray your patience;</LINE> +<LINE>Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;</LINE> +<LINE>Impose me to what penance your invention</LINE> +<LINE>Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not</LINE> +<LINE>But in mistaking.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>By my soul, nor I:</LINE> +<LINE>And yet, to satisfy this good old man,</LINE> +<LINE>I would bend under any heavy weight</LINE> +<LINE>That he'll enjoin me to.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;</LINE> +<LINE>That were impossible: but, I pray you both,</LINE> +<LINE>Possess the people in Messina here</LINE> +<LINE>How innocent she died; and if your love</LINE> +<LINE>Can labour ought in sad invention,</LINE> +<LINE>Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb</LINE> +<LINE>And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:</LINE> +<LINE>To-morrow morning come you to my house,</LINE> +<LINE>And since you could not be my son-in-law,</LINE> +<LINE>Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,</LINE> +<LINE>Almost the copy of my child that's dead,</LINE> +<LINE>And she alone is heir to both of us:</LINE> +<LINE>Give her the right you should have given her cousin,</LINE> +<LINE>And so dies my revenge.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O noble sir,</LINE> +<LINE>Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!</LINE> +<LINE>I do embrace your offer; and dispose</LINE> +<LINE>For henceforth of poor Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To-morrow then I will expect your coming;</LINE> +<LINE>To-night I take my leave. This naughty man</LINE> +<LINE>Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,</LINE> +<LINE>Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong,</LINE> +<LINE>Hired to it by your brother.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BORACHIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, by my soul, she was not,</LINE> +<LINE>Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,</LINE> +<LINE>But always hath been just and virtuous</LINE> +<LINE>In any thing that I do know by her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and</LINE> +<LINE>black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call</LINE> +<LINE>me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his</LINE> +<LINE>punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of</LINE> +<LINE>one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and</LINE> +<LINE>a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's</LINE> +<LINE>name, the which he hath used so long and never paid</LINE> +<LINE>that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing</LINE> +<LINE>for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Your worship speaks like a most thankful and</LINE> +<LINE>reverend youth; and I praise God for you.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>There's for thy pains.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>God save the foundation!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DOGBERRY</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I</LINE> +<LINE>beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the</LINE> +<LINE>example of others. God keep your worship! I wish</LINE> +<LINE>your worship well; God restore you to health! I</LINE> +<LINE>humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry</LINE> +<LINE>meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We will not fail.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To-night I'll mourn with Hero.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>To the Watch</STAGEDIR> Bring you these fellows on. We'll</LINE> +<LINE>talk with Margaret,</LINE> +<LINE>How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt, severally</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE II. LEONATO'S garden.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at</LINE> +<LINE>my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living</LINE> +<LINE>shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou</LINE> +<LINE>deservest it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To have no man come over me! why, shall I always</LINE> +<LINE>keep below stairs?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit,</LINE> +<LINE>but hurt not.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a</LINE> +<LINE>woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give</LINE> +<LINE>thee the bucklers.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the</LINE> +<LINE>pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>MARGARET</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And therefore will come.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exit MARGARET</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Sings</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>The god of love,</LINE> +<LINE>That sits above,</LINE> +<LINE>And knows me, and knows me,</LINE> +<LINE>How pitiful I deserve,--</LINE> +<LINE>I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good</LINE> +<LINE>swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and</LINE> +<LINE>a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,</LINE> +<LINE>whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a</LINE> +<LINE>blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned</LINE> +<LINE>over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I</LINE> +<LINE>cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find</LINE> +<LINE>out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent</LINE> +<LINE>rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,</LINE> +<LINE>'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous</LINE> +<LINE>endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,</LINE> +<LINE>nor I cannot woo in festival terms.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter BEATRICE</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>O, stay but till then!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere</LINE> +<LINE>I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with</LINE> +<LINE>knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but</LINE> +<LINE>foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I</LINE> +<LINE>will depart unkissed.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense,</LINE> +<LINE>so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee</LINE> +<LINE>plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either</LINE> +<LINE>I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe</LINE> +<LINE>him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for</LINE> +<LINE>which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For them all together; which maintained so politic</LINE> +<LINE>a state of evil that they will not admit any good</LINE> +<LINE>part to intermingle with them. But for which of my</LINE> +<LINE>good parts did you first suffer love for me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love</LINE> +<LINE>indeed, for I love thee against my will.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart!</LINE> +<LINE>If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for</LINE> +<LINE>yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It appears not in this confession: there's not one</LINE> +<LINE>wise man among twenty that will praise himself.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in</LINE> +<LINE>the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect</LINE> +<LINE>in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live</LINE> +<LINE>no longer in monument than the bell rings and the</LINE> +<LINE>widow weeps.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And how long is that, think you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in</LINE> +<LINE>rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the</LINE> +<LINE>wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no</LINE> +<LINE>impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his</LINE> +<LINE>own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for</LINE> +<LINE>praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is</LINE> +<LINE>praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Very ill.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And how do you?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Very ill too.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave</LINE> +<LINE>you too, for here comes one in haste.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter URSULA</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>URSULA</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old</LINE> +<LINE>coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been</LINE> +<LINE>falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily</LINE> +<LINE>abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is</LINE> +<LINE>fed and gone. Will you come presently?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Will you go hear this news, signior?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be</LINE> +<LINE>buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with</LINE> +<LINE>thee to thy uncle's.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE III. A church.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four +with tapers</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Is this the monument of Leonato?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Lord</SPEAKER> +<LINE>It is, my lord.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Reading out of a scroll</STAGEDIR></LINE> +<LINE>Done to death by slanderous tongues</LINE> +<LINE>Was the Hero that here lies:</LINE> +<LINE>Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,</LINE> +<LINE>Gives her fame which never dies.</LINE> +<LINE>So the life that died with shame</LINE> +<LINE>Lives in death with glorious fame.</LINE> +<LINE>Hang thou there upon the tomb,</LINE> +<LINE>Praising her when I am dumb.</LINE> +<LINE>Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.</LINE> +<SUBHEAD>SONG.</SUBHEAD> +<LINE>Pardon, goddess of the night,</LINE> +<LINE>Those that slew thy virgin knight;</LINE> +<LINE>For the which, with songs of woe,</LINE> +<LINE>Round about her tomb they go.</LINE> +<LINE>Midnight, assist our moan;</LINE> +<LINE>Help us to sigh and groan,</LINE> +<LINE>Heavily, heavily:</LINE> +<LINE>Graves, yawn and yield your dead,</LINE> +<LINE>Till death be uttered,</LINE> +<LINE>Heavily, heavily.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Now, unto thy bones good night!</LINE> +<LINE>Yearly will I do this rite.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, masters; put your torches out:</LINE> +<LINE>The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day,</LINE> +<LINE>Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about</LINE> +<LINE>Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.</LINE> +<LINE>Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, masters: each his several way.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds;</LINE> +<LINE>And then to Leonato's we will go.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's</LINE> +<LINE>Than this for whom we render'd up this woe.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> + +<SCENE><TITLE>SCENE IV. A room in LEONATO'S house.</TITLE> +<STAGEDIR>Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, +MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Did I not tell you she was innocent?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her</LINE> +<LINE>Upon the error that you heard debated:</LINE> +<LINE>But Margaret was in some fault for this,</LINE> +<LINE>Although against her will, as it appears</LINE> +<LINE>In the true course of all the question.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And so am I, being else by faith enforced</LINE> +<LINE>To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,</LINE> +<LINE>Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,</LINE> +<LINE>And when I send for you, come hither mask'd.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt Ladies</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>The prince and Claudio promised by this hour</LINE> +<LINE>To visit me. You know your office, brother:</LINE> +<LINE>You must be father to your brother's daughter</LINE> +<LINE>And give her to young Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Which I will do with confirm'd countenance.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To do what, signior?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>To bind me, or undo me; one of them.</LINE> +<LINE>Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,</LINE> +<LINE>Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I do with an eye of love requite her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The sight whereof I think you had from me,</LINE> +<LINE>From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:</LINE> +<LINE>But, for my will, my will is your good will</LINE> +<LINE>May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd</LINE> +<LINE>In the state of honourable marriage:</LINE> +<LINE>In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My heart is with your liking.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And my help.</LINE> +<LINE>Here comes the prince and Claudio.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or +three others</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow to this fair assembly.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:</LINE> +<LINE>We here attend you. Are you yet determined</LINE> +<LINE>To-day to marry with my brother's daughter?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Exit ANTONIO</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter,</LINE> +<LINE>That you have such a February face,</LINE> +<LINE>So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I think he thinks upon the savage bull.</LINE> +<LINE>Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold</LINE> +<LINE>And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,</LINE> +<LINE>As once Europa did at lusty Jove,</LINE> +<LINE>When he would play the noble beast in love.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;</LINE> +<LINE>And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,</LINE> +<LINE>And got a calf in that same noble feat</LINE> +<LINE>Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>Which is the lady I must seize upon?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>ANTONIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>This same is she, and I do give you her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, that you shall not, till you take her hand</LINE> +<LINE>Before this friar and swear to marry her.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Give me your hand: before this holy friar,</LINE> +<LINE>I am your husband, if you like of me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And when I lived, I was your other wife:</LINE> +<STAGEDIR>Unmasking</STAGEDIR> +<LINE>And when you loved, you were my other husband.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Another Hero!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Nothing certainer:</LINE> +<LINE>One Hero died defiled, but I do live,</LINE> +<LINE>And surely as I live, I am a maid.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>The former Hero! Hero that is dead!</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>FRIAR FRANCIS</SPEAKER> +<LINE>All this amazement can I qualify:</LINE> +<LINE>When after that the holy rites are ended,</LINE> +<LINE>I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:</LINE> +<LINE>Meantime let wonder seem familiar,</LINE> +<LINE>And to the chapel let us presently.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE><STAGEDIR>Unmasking</STAGEDIR> I answer to that name. What is your will?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do not you love me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, no; no more than reason.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio</LINE> +<LINE>Have been deceived; they swore you did.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Do not you love me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Troth, no; no more than reason.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula</LINE> +<LINE>Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>They swore that you were almost sick for me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>No, truly, but in friendly recompense.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her;</LINE> +<LINE>For here's a paper written in his hand,</LINE> +<LINE>A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,</LINE> +<LINE>Fashion'd to Beatrice.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>HERO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>And here's another</LINE> +<LINE>Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,</LINE> +<LINE>Containing her affection unto Benedick.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.</LINE> +<LINE>Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take</LINE> +<LINE>thee for pity.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BEATRICE</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield</LINE> +<LINE>upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,</LINE> +<LINE>for I was told you were in a consumption.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Peace! I will stop your mouth.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Kissing her</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>DON PEDRO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of</LINE> +<LINE>wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost</LINE> +<LINE>thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:</LINE> +<LINE>if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear</LINE> +<LINE>nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do</LINE> +<LINE>purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any</LINE> +<LINE>purpose that the world can say against it; and</LINE> +<LINE>therefore never flout at me for what I have said</LINE> +<LINE>against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my</LINE> +<LINE>conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to</LINE> +<LINE>have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my</LINE> +<LINE>kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>CLAUDIO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,</LINE> +<LINE>that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single</LINE> +<LINE>life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of</LINE> +<LINE>question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look</LINE> +<LINE>exceedingly narrowly to thee.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere</LINE> +<LINE>we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts</LINE> +<LINE>and our wives' heels.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>LEONATO</SPEAKER> +<LINE>We'll have dancing afterward.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,</LINE> +<LINE>thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:</LINE> +<LINE>there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + + +<STAGEDIR>Enter a Messenger</STAGEDIR> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>Messenger</SPEAKER> +<LINE>My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,</LINE> +<LINE>And brought with armed men back to Messina.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<SPEECH> +<SPEAKER>BENEDICK</SPEAKER> +<LINE>Think not on him till to-morrow:</LINE> +<LINE>I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.</LINE> +<LINE>Strike up, pipers.</LINE> +</SPEECH> + +<STAGEDIR>Dance</STAGEDIR> +<STAGEDIR>Exeunt</STAGEDIR> +</SCENE> +</ACT> +</PLAY> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/namespaces.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/namespaces.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e8e4df8 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/namespaces.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<foo:a xmlns:foo="http://fooNamespace/"> + <b> + <c>Hello</c> + </b> + + <foo:d> + <foo:e>Hey</foo:e> + </foo:d> + + <bar:f xmlns:bar="http://barNamespace/"> + <bar:g>Hey2</bar:g> + </bar:f> + + <alias:x xmlns:alias="http://fooNamespace/"> + <alias:y>Hey3</alias:y> + </alias:x> +</foo:a> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/nitf.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/nitf.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..269d99e --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/nitf.xml @@ -0,0 +1,67 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<nitf> + + <!-- Example of markup of URLs (at the bottom of the story) --> + + <head> + <meta name="ap-cycle" content="AP"/> + <meta name="ap-online-code" content="1700"/> + <meta name="ap-company" content="CO:Media Metrix Inc;TS:MMXI;IG:SVC;"/> + <meta name="ap-routing" content="ENTITLEMENTS,pfONLINE,pf1700"/> + <meta name="ap-format" content="bx"/> + <meta name="ap-category" content="f"/> + <meta name="ap-selector" content="-----"/> + <meta name="ap-transref" content="V0347"/> + <docdata> + <doc-id regsrc="AP" id-string="D76UIMO80"/> + <urgency ed-urg="7"/> + <date.issue norm="20000911T185842Z"/> + <du-key key="Napster Traffic"/> + <doc.copyright holder="(AP)"/> + </docdata> + </head> + <body> + <body.head> + <hedline> + <hl1>Use of Napster Quadruples</hl1> + </hedline> + <byline>By PETER SVENSSON + <byttl>AP Business Writer</byttl> + </byline> + <distributor>The Associated Press</distributor> + <dateline> + <location>NEW YORK</location> + </dateline> + </body.head> + <body.content> + <block> + <p>Despite the uncertain legality of the Napster online music-sharing service, the number of people +using it more than quadrupled in just five months, Media Metrix said Monday.</p> + <p>That made Napster the fastest-growing software application ever recorded by the Internet research +company.</p> + <p>From 1.1 million home users in the United States in February, the first month Media Metrix +tracked the application, Napster use rocketed to 4.9 million users in July.</p> + <p>That represents 6 percent of U.S. home PC users who have modems, said Media Metrix, which pays +people to install monitoring software on their computers.</p> + <p>It estimates total usage from a panel of about 50,000 people in the United States.</p> + <p>Napster was also used at work by 887,000 people in July, Media Metrix said.</p> + <p>Napster Inc. has been sued by the recording industry for allegedly enabling copyright +infringement. The federal government weighed in on the case Friday, saying the service is not protected +under a key copyright law, as the San Mateo, Calif., company claims.</p> + <p>Bruce Ryon, head of Media Metrix's New Media Group, said Napster was used by "the full spectrum of PC users, not just the youth with time on their hands and a passion for music."</p> + <p>The Napster program allows users to copy digital music files from the hard drives of other +users over the Internet.</p> + <p>Napster Inc. said last week that 28 million people had downloaded its program. It does not reveal +its own figures for how many people actually use the software.</p> + <p>Because the program connects to the company's computers over the Internet every time +it is run, Napster Inc. can track usage exactly.</p> + <p>__</p> + <p>On the Net:</p> + <p><a href="http://www.napster.com"> +http://www.napster.com</a></p> + <p><a href="http://www.mediametrix.com"> +http://www.mediametrix.com</a></p> + </block> + </body.content> + </body> +</nitf> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/numbers.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/numbers.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a1791cd --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/numbers.xml @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> + +<numbers> + <set> + <nr>3</nr> + <nr>24</nr> + <nr>55</nr> + <nr>11</nr> + <nr>2</nr> + <nr>-3</nr> + </set> + <set> + <nr value="66"/> + <nr value="123"/> + <nr value="55"/> + <nr value="9999"/> + </set> +</numbers> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..980bbf9 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi.xml @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<foo> + <?cheese is tasty?> + <bar> + <baz/> + <cheese/> + <baz/> + <?toast is tasty?> + <cheese/> + <baz/> + </bar> + <?cheese is gooey?> +</foo> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi2.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi2.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..46bce45 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/pi2.xml @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<a> + <b>foo</b> + <?toc order-by="x"?> + <c>bar</c> +</a> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/simple.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/simple.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3cff71a --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/simple.xml @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<root><a>a</a><b>b</b><c><d>d</d></c></root> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/spaces.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/spaces.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4c46c63 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/spaces.xml @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +<?xml version="1.0"?> +<foo> + <bar>baz + <cheese id="3"/> + baz + <cheese/> + baz + </bar> + <doc><![CDATA[<foo>]]></doc> +</foo>
\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/test.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/test.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a222795 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/test.xml @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<axiomc:book xmlns:axiomc="http://ws.apache.org/axis2/c/om" xmlns:isbn="urn:ISBN:0-395-74341-6" xmlns:bn="urn:BN"> + <axiomc:title><axiomc:a bn:test='attr'>Axis2C OM HOWTO</axiomc:a><isbn:number>1748491379</isbn:number></axiomc:title> + <isbn:number>1748491379</isbn:number> + <author title="Mr" name="Axitoc Oman"/> + <a> </a> + <notes> + <p xmlns="urn:w3-org-ns:HTML"> + This is vey good book on OM! + </p> + </notes> +</axiomc:book> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/testNamespaces.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/testNamespaces.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..50f7c93 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/testNamespaces.xml @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@ +<Template> + <Application1 xmlns:xplt="http://www.xxxx.com/" + xmlns:xpl="http://www.xxxx.com/" + version="3.0" + randomAttribute="foo" + > + <xpl:insertText/> + <xplt:anyElement> + <Name/> + </xplt:anyElement> + </Application1> + + <Application2 xmlns:xplt="http://www.xxxx.com/" + xmlns:xpl="http://www.xxxx.com/" + version="3.0" + > + <xpl:insertText/> + <xplt:anyElement> + <Name/> + </xplt:anyElement> + </Application2> +</Template> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/underscore.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/underscore.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..111446f --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/underscore.xml @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" ?> +<root a="1" _a="2"> + <b>1</b> + <_b>2</_b> +</root> + diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..972cf5d --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web.xml @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<web-app> + <servlet> + <servlet-name>snoop</servlet-name> + <servlet-class>SnoopServlet</servlet-class> + </servlet> + <servlet> + <servlet-name>file</servlet-name> + <servlet-class>ViewFile</servlet-class> + <init-param> + <param-name>initial</param-name> + <param-value> + 1000 + </param-value> + <description> + The initial value for the counter <!-- optional --> + </description> + </init-param> + </servlet> + <servlet-mapping> + <servlet-name> + mv + </servlet-name> + <url-pattern> + *.wm + </url-pattern> + </servlet-mapping> + + <distributed/> + + <security-role> + <role-name> + manager + </role-name> + <role-name> + director + </role-name> + <role-name> + president + </role-name> + </security-role> +</web-app> diff --git a/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web2.xml b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web2.xml new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7d479d3 --- /dev/null +++ b/axiom/test/resources/xml/om/web2.xml @@ -0,0 +1,7 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<root> + <b> + <d /> + </b> + <c /> +</root> |