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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Leonato

94

Her mother hath many times told me so.

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 2]

Leonato

317

Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

456

Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince
do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

510

Will you not tell me who told you so?

5

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Benedick

596

Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame.
I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a
warren: I told him, and I think I told him true,
that your grace had got the good will of this young
lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree,
either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or
to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Don Pedro

617

The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the
gentleman that danced with her told her she is much
wronged by you.

7

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.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Leonato

713

Niece, will you look to those things I told you of?

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Borachio

771

I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero.

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

907

Do so: farewell.
[Exit BALTHASAR]
Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of
to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with
Signior Benedick?

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

949

Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a
pretty jest your daughter told us of.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 1]

Don Pedro

2250

Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she
did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:
the old man's daughter told us all.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4]

Beatrice

2648

I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield
upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,
for I was told you were in a consumption.