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Work The work is either a play, poem, or sonnet. The sonnets are treated as single work with 154 parts.

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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

471

The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.
[All put on their masks]
[Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR,]
DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked]

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1072

[Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Hero

1073

Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor;
There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice
Proposing with the prince and Claudio:
Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula
Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse
Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us;
And bid her steal into the pleached bower,
Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun,
Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites,
Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her,
To listen our purpose. This is thy office;
Bear thee well in it and leave us alone.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Hero

1088

Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come,
As we do trace this alley up and down,
Our talk must only be of Benedick.
When I do name him, let it be thy part
To praise him more than ever man did merit:
My talk to thee must be how Benedick
Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter
Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made,
That only wounds by hearsay.
[Enter BEATRICE, behind]
Now begin;
For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs
Close by the ground, to hear our conference.

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

Hero

1107

Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing
Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it.
[Approaching the bower]
No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful;
I know her spirits are as coy and wild
As haggerds of the rock.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1]

(stage directions)

1185

[Exeunt HERO and URSULA]

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

(stage directions)

1489

[Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA]

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Hero

1490

Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire
her to rise.

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

(stage directions)

1574

[Re-enter URSULA]

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 4]

Hero

1578

Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula.

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2]

(stage directions)

2495

[Enter URSULA]

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

(stage directions)

2543

[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE,]
MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO]

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Beatrice

2631

Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula
Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.