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are treated as single work with 154 parts.
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Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Messenger |
79 |
I will hold friends with you, lady.
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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2] |
Leonato |
320 |
No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear
itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,
that she may be the better prepared for an answer,
if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.
[Enter Attendants]
Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your
skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
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3 |
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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4 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1] |
Benedick |
644 |
Will your grace command me any service to the
world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now
to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on;
I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the
furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of
Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great
Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies,
rather than hold three words' conference with this
harpy. You have no employment for me?
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5 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2] |
Borachio |
778 |
The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that
he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Claudio—whose estimation do you mightily hold
up—to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Don Pedro |
869 |
Now, pray thee, come;
Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument,
Do it in notes.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Claudio |
939 |
He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3] |
Don Pedro |
1019 |
Let there be the same net spread for her; and that
must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The
sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of
another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the
scene that I would see, which will be merely a
dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Friar Francis |
1805 |
Hear me a little; for I have only been
Silent so long and given way unto
This course of fortune [—]
By noting of the lady I have mark'd
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes;
And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire,
To burn the errors that these princes hold
Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool;
Trust not my reading nor my observations,
Which with experimental seal doth warrant
The tenor of my book; trust not my age,
My reverence, calling, nor divinity,
If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here
Under some biting error.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1] |
Antonio |
2168 |
Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,
And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,—
Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,
That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,
Go anticly, show outward hideousness,
And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,
How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;
And this is all.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4] |
Claudio |
2585 |
I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.
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