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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 |
51 |
It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man:
but for the stuffing,—well, we are all mortal.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
85 |
Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your
trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Don Pedro |
97 |
You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this
what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers
herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an
honourable father.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
106 |
What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living?
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
125 |
Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
255 |
Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your
discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and
the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere
you flout old ends any further, examine your
conscience: and so I leave you.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Leonato |
307 |
Are they good?
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Conrade |
330 |
What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out
of measure sad?
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
388 |
Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to
my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the
glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I
bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
450 |
Not till God make men of some other metal than
earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be
overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make
an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl?
No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren;
and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.
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12 |
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]
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Ursula |
498 |
I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Ursula |
502 |
You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were
the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you
are he, you are he.
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Ursula |
506 |
Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your
excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to,
mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an
end.
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16 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Beatrice |
512 |
Nor will you not tell me who you are?
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17 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
545 |
Are not you Signior Benedick?
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18 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
547 |
Signior, you are very near my brother in his love:
he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him
from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may
do the part of an honest man in it.
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19 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don Pedro |
667 |
Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad?
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20 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Claudio |
684 |
Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were
but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as
you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for
you and dote upon the exchange.
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