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1

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 1]

Benedick

163

Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this
with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack,
to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a
rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take
you, to go in the song?

2

Much Ado about Nothing
[I, 3]

Conrade

346

Yea, but you must not make the full show of this
till you may do it without controlment. You have of
late stood out against your brother, and he hath
ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is
impossible you should take true root but by the
fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful
that you frame the season for your own harvest.

3

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Claudio

569

Yea, the same.

4

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Benedick

586

Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges.
But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not
know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go
under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I
am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it
is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice
that puts the world into her person and so gives me
out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may.

5

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.

6

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 1]

Beatrice

691

Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on
the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his
ear that he is in her heart.

7

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 2]

Borachio

763

Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.

8

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Claudio

853

Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,
As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!

9

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Don Pedro

903

Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee,
get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we
would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window.

10

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Leonato

954

O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence;
railed at herself, that she should be so immodest
to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I
measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I
should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I
love him, I should.'

11

Much Ado about Nothing
[II, 3]

Beatrice

1060

Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.

12

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 2]

Don Pedro

1249

Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear
what they say of him.

13

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 3]

Verges

1324

Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer
salvation, body and soul.

14

Much Ado about Nothing
[III, 5]

Dogberry

1601

Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for
I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any
man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I
am glad to hear it.

15

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Friar Francis

1768

Yea, wherefore should she not?

16

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Beatrice

1910

Yea, and I will weep a while longer.

17

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 1]

Beatrice

1975

Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.

18

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

1991

Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your
name, friend?

19

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Conrade

1998

[with Borachio] Yea, sir, we hope.

20

Much Ado about Nothing
[IV, 2]

Dogberry

2015

Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch
come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's
name, accuse these men.