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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Don John |
335 |
And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3] |
Borachio |
382 |
Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a
musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand
in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the
arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the
prince should woo Hero for himself, and having
obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Don John |
552 |
I heard him swear his affection.
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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Leonato |
717 |
There's little of the melancholy element in her, my
lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and
not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say,
she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked
herself with laughing.
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Benedick |
898 |
An he had been a dog that should have howled thus,
they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad
voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the
night-raven, come what plague could have come after
it.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Leonato |
928 |
What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard
my daughter tell you how.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Don John |
1305 |
If you dare not trust that you see, confess not
that you know: if you will follow me, I will show
you enough; and when you have seen more and heard
more, proceed accordingly.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2] |
Sexton |
2025 |
What heard you him say else?
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Leonato |
2185 |
No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Dogberry |
2380 |
Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and
black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call
me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his
punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of
one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and
a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's
name, the which he hath used so long and never paid
that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing
for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4] |
Leonato |
2546 |
So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her
Upon the error that you heard debated:
But Margaret was in some fault for this,
Although against her will, as it appears
In the true course of all the question.
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