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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Leonato |
25 |
A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces
truer than those that are so washed. How much
better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping!
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
35 |
He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged
Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading
the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged
him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he
killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath
he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Beatrice |
115 |
A dear happiness to women: they would else have
been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God
and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I
had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man
swear he loves me.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
131 |
That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio
and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath
invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at
the least a month; and he heartily prays some
occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no
hypocrite, but prays from his heart.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
207 |
That I neither feel how she should be loved nor
know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that
fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
223 |
With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord,
not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood
with love than I will get again with drinking, pick
out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me
up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of
blind Cupid.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
231 |
If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot
at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on
the shoulder, and called Adam.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
246 |
Well, you temporize with the hours. In the
meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to
Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will
not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made
great preparation.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Conrade |
336 |
If not a present remedy, at least a patient
sufferance.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
338 |
I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art,
born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral
medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide
what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile
at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait
for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and
tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and
claw no man in his humour.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
399 |
Was not Count John here at supper?
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
421 |
Just, if he send me no husband; for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and
evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a
beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
499 |
At a word, I am not.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Antonio |
505 |
At a word, I am not.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
522 |
Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool;
only his gift is in devising impossible slanders:
none but libertines delight in him; and the
commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany;
for he both pleases men and angers them, and then
they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in
the fleet: I would he had boarded me.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
530 |
Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me;
which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at,
strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a
partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no
supper that night.
[Music]
We must follow the leaders.
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
538 |
Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at
the next turning.
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
620 |
O, she misused me past the endurance of a block!
an oak but with one green leaf on it would have
answered her; my very visor began to assume life and
scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been
myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was
duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest
with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood
like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at
me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs:
if her breath were as terrible as her terminations,
there were no living near her; she would infect to
the north star. I would not marry her, though she
were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before
he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have
turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make
the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find
her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God
some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while
she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a
sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they
would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror
and perturbation follows her.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
733 |
Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing:
but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go
dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of
Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior
Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of
affection the one with the other. I would fain have
it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if
you three will but minister such assistance as I
shall give you direction.
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
775 |
I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window.
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