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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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2 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Benedick |
111 |
Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I
am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I
would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard
heart; for, truly, I love none.
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3 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1] |
Claudio |
159 |
Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me
truly how thou likest her.
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4 |
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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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.
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6 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 1] |
Hero |
1160 |
No; rather I will go to Benedick
And counsel him to fight against his passion.
And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders
To stain my cousin with: one doth not know
How much an ill word may empoison liking.
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7 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2] |
Don Pedro |
1216 |
Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in
him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad,
he wants money.
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8 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Dogberry |
1375 |
Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they
that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable
way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him
show himself what he is and steal out of your company.
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9 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3] |
Dogberry |
1380 |
Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more
a man who hath any honesty in him.
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10 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5] |
Dogberry |
1596 |
It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the
poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part,
if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in
my heart to bestow it all of your worship.
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11 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Claudio |
1716 |
Let me but move one question to your daughter;
And, by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
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12 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Claudio |
1722 |
To make you answer truly to your name.
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13 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1] |
Beatrice |
1798 |
No, truly not; although, until last night,
I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.
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14 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 2] |
Benedick |
2429 |
And therefore will come.
[Exit MARGARET]
[Sings]
The god of love,
That sits above,
And knows me, and knows me,
How pitiful I deserve,—
I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good
swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and
a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers,
whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a
blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned
over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I
cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find
out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent
rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for,
'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous
endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet,
nor I cannot woo in festival terms.
[Enter BEATRICE]
Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
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15 |
Much Ado about Nothing
[V, 4] |
Beatrice |
2636 |
No, truly, but in friendly recompense.
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