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Before LEONATO'S house.
[Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO]
ANTONIO
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If you | go^on | thus*, you | will kill |
yourself,
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And 'tis | not wis|dom thus | to sec|ond grief,
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Against | yourself.
LEONATO
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I pray | thee, cease | thy counsel,
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Which falls | into | mine^ears | as prof|itless
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As wat|er in | a sieve:| give^not | me counsel,
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Nor let no | comforter | delight | mine ear,
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But such | a one | whose^wrongs | do suit | with
mine.
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Bring me | a fath|er that / so loved | his child,
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Whose^joy | of her | is ov|erwhelmed | like^mine,
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And bid | him speak | of pa|tience.|
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Measure | his woe | the length | and breadth | of
mine,
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And let | it ans|wer eve|ry strain | for strain,
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As thus | for thus,| and such | a grief | for
such,
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In eve|ry lin|eament,| branch, shape, and form:
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If such | a one | will smile | and stroke | his
beard,
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And sor|row, wag,| cry hem, when | he should
groan,
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Patch grief with* prov|erbs, make | misfor|tune
drunk, ??
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With cand|le-wast|ers: bring | him yet | to me,
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And I | of him | will gath|er pa|tience:
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But there is | no such man:| for broth|er, men
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Can couns|el and / speak com|fort to | that
grief,
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Which^they | themselves | not^feel,| but tast/ing
it,
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Their couns|el turns | to pas|sion, which |
before,
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Would give | precep|tial med|icine | to rage,
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Fetter | strong mad/ness in | a silk|en thread,
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Charm^ache | with air,| and ag|ony | with words,
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No, no, 'tis^all | men's^of|fice, to / speak
pa||tience ??
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To those | that wring | under the | load of |
sorrow:
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But no | man's vir/tue nor | suffi|ciency
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To be | so mo/ral, when | he shall | endure
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The like | himself:| therefore | give me no*|
counsel,
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My griefs | cry loud/er than | adver|tisement.
ANTONIO
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Therein | do men | from child|ren noth|ing
differ.
LEONATO
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I pray | thee peace,| I will | be flesh | and
blood,
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For there | was nev|er yet | philo|sopher,
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That could | endure | the toothache pa|tiently,
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Howev|er they | have writ | the style | of gods,
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And made | a push | at chance | and suf|ferance.
ANTONIO
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Yet bend | not all the harm | upon | yourself,
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Make those / that do | offend | you, suf|fer too.
LEONATO
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There thou*| speakst rea/son, nay^I | will do so.
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My soul | doth^tell | me, He|ro is | belied,
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And that | shall Claud|io know,| so shall | the
prince,
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And all | of them | that thus | dishon|or her.
ANTONIO
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Here comes | the prince | and Claud|io hast|ily.
DON PEDRO
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Good^den,| good^den.
CLAUDIO
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Good^day | to both | of you.
LEONATO
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Hear you | my lords?
DON PEDRO
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We have some | haste Leo|nato.
LEONATO
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Some haste | my lord! Well, fare | you well | my
lord,
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Are you | so* has|ty now?| Well, all is one.
DON PEDRO
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Nay, do | not quar/rel with us,| good old man.
ANTONIO
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If he | could right | himself | with quar|reling,
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Some of | us would | lie low.
CLAUDIO
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Who | wrongs him?
LEONATO
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Marry | thou dost | wrong me,| thou dissem|bler,
thou:
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Nay, never lay | thy hand | upon | thy sword,
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I fear | thee not.
CLAUDIO
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Marry | beshrew | my hand,
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If it | should give | your age | such cause of
fear,
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In faith | my hand | meant noth/ing to | my
sword.
LEONATO
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Tush, tush, man,| never fleer and jest | at me,
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I speak | not like a dot|ard, nor | a fool,
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As und|er priv|ilege | of age | to brag,
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What I | have done | being young,| or what would
do,
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Were I | not^old,| know Claud/io to | thy head,
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Thou* hast / so wronged | mine^in|nocent child |
and me,
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That I | am forced | to lay | my reve|rence by,
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And with / grey hairs | and bruise | of ma|ny
days,
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Do* chal|lenge thee | to tri|al of | a man,
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I say | thou* hast | belied | mine^in|nocent
child.
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Thy sland|er hath / gone through | and through |
her heart,
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And she / lies bur|ied with | her an|cestors:
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O in | a tomb | where nev|er scan|dal slept,
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Save this of hers,| framed by | thy vil/lany.
CLAUDIO
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My* vil|lany? /
LEONATO
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Thine Claud|io, thine | I say.
DON PEDRO
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You* say | not^right | old^man.
LEONATO
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My lord,| my lord,
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I'll prove | it on | his bo|dy if | he dare,
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Despite | his nice | fence, and his | active |
practice,
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His May | of youth,| and bloom | of lust|ihood.
CLAUDIO
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Away,| I will / not have | to do | with you.
LEONATO
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Canst^thou | so* daff | me? Thou | hast killed |
my child,
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If thou killst me,| boy, thou*| shalt^kill | a
man.
ANTONIO
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He shall | kill two / of us,| and men | indeed,
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But that's | no* matter,| let him | kill one
first:
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Win me | and wear | me, let | him ans|wer me,
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Come* fol|low me boy,| come sir | boy, come*|
follow me
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Sir boy,| I'll whip | you from | your foin|ing
fence,
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Nay, as | I am a | gentleman,| I will.
LEONATO
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Brother.
ANTONIO
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Content | yourself,| God^knows | I loved | my
niece,
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And she is | dead, sland/ered to | death by |
villains,
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That dare | as well | answer | a man | indeed,
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As I dare take | a ser|pent by | the tongue.
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Boys, apes, brag|garts, Jacks,| milk|sops.
LEONATO
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Brother | Antony. \\
ANTONIO
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Hold you con|tent, what man?| I know | them, yea
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And what | they weigh,| even to the |
utmost^|scruple,
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Scrambling,| out^fac|ing, fash|ion-mong|ing boys,
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That lie,| and cog,| and flout,| deprave,| and
sland||er,
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Go | anticly | and show | outward | hideousness,
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And speak | of half | a doz|en dange|rous words,
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How they | might^hurt | their^en|emies,^if | they
durst.
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And this | is all. \\
LEONATO
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But broth|er Ant|ony.
ANTONIO
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Come, 'tis | no matter,
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Do not | you med|dle, let | me deal | in this.
DON PEDRO
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Gentlemen | both, we | will not | wake your |
patience
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My heart | is sor|ry for | your daught|er's
death:
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But on | my hon|or she | was charged | with
noth||ing
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But what | was true,| and ve|ry full | of proof.
LEONATO
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My lord,| my lord.
DON PEDRO
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I will | not hear you.
LEONATO
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No come broth|er, away,| I will | be* heard.
ANTONIO
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And shall,| or some | of us | will smart | for
it.
[Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO]
DON PEDRO
See, see, here comes the man we went to seek.
CLAUDIO
Now signior, what news?
BENEDICK
Good day my lord.
DON PEDRO
Welcome signior, you are almost come to part almost a fray.
CLAUDIO
We had like to have had our two noses snapped off with two old men without
teeth.
DON PEDRO
Leonato and his brother, What thinkst thou? Had we fought, I doubt we
should have been too young for them.
BENEDICK
In a false quarrel there is no true valor, I came to seek you both.
CLAUDIO
We have been up and down to seek thee, for we are high-proof melancholy, and
would fain have it beaten away. Wilt thou use thy wit?
BENEDICK
It is in my scabbard, shall I draw it?
DON PEDRO
Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?
CLAUDIO
Never any did so, though very many have been beside their wit, I will bid
thee draw, as we do the minstrels, draw to pleasure us.
DON PEDRO
As I am an honest man he looks pale, art thou sick, or angry?
CLAUDIO
What, courage man: what though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough
in thee to kill care.
BENEDICK
Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you charge it against me, I
pray you choose another subject.
CLAUDIO
Nay then give him another staff, this last was broke cross.
DON PEDRO
By this light, he changes more and more, I think he be angry indeed.
CLAUDIO
If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.
BENEDICK
Shall I speak a word in your ear?
CLAUDIO
God bless me from a challenge.
BENEDICK
You are a villain, I jest not, I will make it good how you dare, with what
you dare, and when you dare: do me right, or I will protest your cowardice:
you have killed a sweet lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you, let me
hear from you.
CLAUDIO
Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.
DON PEDRO
What, a feast, a feast?
CLAUDIO
In faith I thank him, he hath bid me to a calf's head and a capon, the
which if I do not carve most curiously, say my knife's naught, Shall I not
find a woodcock too?
BENEDICK
Sir, your wit ambles well, it goes easily.
DON PEDRO
I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the other day: I said thou
hadst a fine wit: True says she, a fine little one: no said I, a great
wit: right says she, a great gross one: nay said I, a good wit: just said
she, it hurts nobody: nay said I, the gentleman is wise: certain said she,
a wise gentleman: nay said I, he hath the tongues: that I believe said
she, for he swore a thing to me on Monday night, which he forswore on
Tuesday morning: there's a double tongue, there's two tongues: Thus did she
an hour together transshape thy particular virtues, yet at last she
concluded with a sigh, thou wast the properest man in Italy.
CLAUDIO
For the which she wept heartily, and said she cared not.
DON PEDRO
Yea that she did, but yet for all that, and if she did not hate him deadly,
she would love him dearly, the old man's daughter told us all.
CLAUDIO
All, all, and moreover, God saw him when he was hid in the garden.
DON PEDRO
But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on the sensible Benedick's
head?
CLAUDIO
Yea and text underneath, Here dwells Benedick the married man.
BENEDICK
Fare you well, boy, you know my mind, I will leave you now to your
gossip-like humor, you break jests as braggarts do their blades, which God
be thanked hurt not: my lord, for your many courtesies I thank you, I must
discontinue your company, your brother the bastard is fled from Messina: you
have among you, killed a sweet and innocent lady: For my Lord Lackbeard
there, he and I shall meet, and till then peace be with him.
[Exit]
DON PEDRO
He is in earnest.
CLAUDIO
In most profound earnest, and I'll warrant you, for the love of Beatrice.
DON PEDRO
And hath challenged thee.
CLAUDIO
Most sincerely.
DON PEDRO
What a pretty thing man is, when he goes in his doublet and hose, and leaves
off his wit.
CLAUDIO
He is then a giant to an ape, but then is an ape a doctor to such a man.
DON PEDRO
But soft you, let me be, pluck up my heart, and be sad, did he not say my
brother was fled?
[Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]
DOGBERRY
Come you sir, if justice cannot tame you, she shall nere weigh more reasons
in her balance, nay, and you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked
to.
DON PEDRO
How now, two of my brother's men bound? Borachio one.
CLAUDIO
Hearken after their offense my lord.
DON PEDRO
Officers, what offense have these men done?
DOGBERRY
Marry sir, they have committed false report, moreover they have spoken
untruths, secondarily they are slanders, sixth and lastly, they have belied
a lady, thirdly, they have verified unjust things, and to conclude they
are lying knaves.
DON PEDRO
First I ask thee what they have done, thirdly I ask thee what's their
offense, sixth and lastly why they are committed, and to conclude, what
you lay to their charge.
CLAUDIO
Rightly reasoned, and in his own division, and by my troth there's one
meaning well suited.
DON PEDRO
Who have you offended masters, that you are thus bound to your answer? This
learned constable is too cunning to be understood, what's your offense?
BORACHIO
Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: do you hear me, and let
this count kill me: I have deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms
could not discover, these shallow fools have brought to light, who in the
night overheard me confessing to this man how Don John your brother incensed
me to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into the orchard and saw
me court Margaret in Hero's garments, how you disgraced her when you should
marry her: my villany they have upon record, which I had rather seal with my
death, than repeat over to my shame: The lady is dead upon mine and my
master's false accusation: and briefly, I desire nothing but the reward of
a villain.
DON PEDRO
Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?
CLAUDIO
I have drunk poison whiles he uttered it.
DON PEDRO
But did my brother set thee on to this?
BORACHIO
Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.
DON PEDRO
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He is | composed | and framed | of treach|ery:
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And fled | he is | upon | this vil|lany.
CLAUDIO
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Sweet* He|ro, now | thy im|age doth | appear
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In the / rare semb|lance that | I loved | it
first.
DOGBERRY
Come, bring away the plaintiffs, by this time our sexton hath reformed
Signior Leonato of the matter: and masters, do not forget to specify when
time and place shall serve, that I am an ass.
VERGES
Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the Sexton too.
[Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton]
LEONATO
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Which is | the vil|lain? Let | me see | his eyes,
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That when | I note | anoth|er man | like him,
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I may | avoid | him: which | of these | is he?
BORACHIO
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If you | would know | your wrong|er, look |
on^me.
LEONATO
Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed mine innocent child?
BORACHIO
Yea, even I alone.
LEONATO
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No, not so | villain;| thou beliest | thyself,
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Here stand a pair | of hon|ora|ble men,
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A third | is fled | that had | a hand | in it.
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I thank | you prin|ces for | my daught|er's
death:
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Record | it with | your high | and worth|y deeds,
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'Twas brave|ly done,| if you | bethink | you of
it.
CLAUDIO
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I know not | how to | pray your | patience,
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Yet^I | must^speak,| choose your | revenge |
yourself,
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Impose | me to what | penance | your in|vention
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Can lay | upon | my sin,| yet sinned | I* not,
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But in | mistak|ing.
DON PEDRO
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By | my soul | nor I:
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And yet | to sat|isfy | this^good | old^man,
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I would | bend und|er an|y hea|vy weight,
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That he'll | enjoin | me to. \\
LEONATO
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I can|not bid | you bid | my daught|er live,
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That were | impos|sible, but | I pray | you both,
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Possess | the peo|ple in | Messi|na here,
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How in|nocent | she died,| and if | your love
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Can lab|or ought | in sad | inven|tion,
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Hang her | an ep|itaph | upon | her tomb,
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And sing | it to | her bones,| sing it | tonight:
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Tomor|row morn|ing come | you to | my house,
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And since | you could / not be | my son-|in-law,
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Be^yet | my nephew:| my bro/ther hath a |
daughter, ??
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Almost | the cop|y of | my child | that's dead,
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And she | alone | is heir | to both | of us,
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Give^her | the right | you should | have given |
her cousin,
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And so dies my | revenge.
CLAUDIO
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O* nob|le sir!
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Your ov|er-kind|ness doth | wring tears / from
me,
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I do^|embrace | your of|fer, and | dispose
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For hence|forth of | poor Claud/io.|
LEONATO
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Tomor|row then | I will ex|pect your | coming,
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Tonight | I take | my leave,| this naugh|ty man
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Shall face | to face | be brought | to Marg|aret,
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Who I | believe | was packed | in all | this
wrong,
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Hired to it / by your | brother.
BORACHIO
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No by my | soul she | was not, (tri with
prev)
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Nor knew not | what she did | when she spoke | to
me,
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But al|ways hath | been just | and vir|tuous,
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In an|ything | that I | do know | by her.
DOGBERRY
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.
LEONATO
I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.
DOGBERRY
Your worship speaks like a most thankful and reverend youth, and I praise
God for you.
LEONATO
There's for thy pains.
DOGBERRY
God save the foundation.
LEONATO
Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.
DOGBERRY
I leave an arrant knave with your worship, which I beseech your worship to
correct yourself, for the example of others: God keep your worship, I wish
your worship well, God restore you to health, I humbly give you leave to
depart, and if a merry meeting may be wished, God prohibit it: Come
neighbor.
[Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES]
LEONATO
Until tomorrow morning, lords, farewell.
ANTONIO
Farewell my lords, we look for you tomorrow.
DON PEDRO
We will not fail.
CLAUDIO
Tonight I'll mourn with Hero.
LEONATO
Bring you these fellows on, we'll talk with Margaret, how her acquaintance
grew with this lewd fellow.
[Exeunt, severally]