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Jul 31, 2015 · Read the full text of Shakespeare's comedy of love and wit, Much Ado About Nothing, in PDF format. Follow the courtship and scandal of Hero and Claudio, and the verbal duel of Benedick and Beatrice.
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I know not how to pray your patience; Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself; Impose me to what penance your invention Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not But in mistaking. DON PEDRO. By my soul, nor I: And yet, to satisfy this good old man, I would bend under any heavy weight That he'll enjoin me to.
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- 98 Much Ado About Nothing, V. wi
- .DRAMATIS PERSONZ
- Boracuio, Confidant to Don John
- (Innocen, Wife to Leonato)
- 6 Much Ado About Nothing, I.1
- Enter Leonato; [Antonio,] his brother; his
- And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch _—188
- D. John. It is so; the Count Claudio shall
- Don Pedro and the Count Claudio alone: tell
- [Leonato’s Orchard]
- 84 Much Ado About Nothing, II. wm
- Much Ado About Nothing, II. iii 36
- Much Ado About Nothing, II. iii 41
- [Leonato’s Orchard]
- Whisper her ear, and tell her, I] and Ursula 4
- But I persuaded them, if they lov’d Benedick,
- But she would spell him backward: if fair-fac’d, She would swear the gentleman should be her
- Exeunt.
- First Watch. We charge you in the prince’s
- [Hero’s Apartment]
- Dogb. A good old man, sir; he will be talking:
- Dogb. We will spare for no wit, I warrant
- Much Ado About Nothing, IV .i 71
- 72 M uch Ado About Nothing, IV.1
- Enter the Constables [Dogberry and Verges]
- Come, bind them. Thou naughty varlet! 17
- Dost thou, not suspect my years? O that he
- [Before Leonato’s House.]
- Much Ado About Nothing, V.i 87
- 100 = Much Ado About Nothing, V. iv
- Leon. That eye my daughter lent her: ’tis
- 110 _Much Ado About Nothing
- I. is 264 for the sign of blind Cupid. Allud-
- ‘Bottle’ means probably the wicker basket used
- I. iii. 61 smoking a musty room. Elizabethan
- Much Ado About Nothing 118
- IIT. i, 112 Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand. A figure suggested by the taming
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- The figures of Dogberry and his companions
Bora. Didst thou not hear somebody? Con. No: ’twas the vane on the house.
Scene Three [Within the Church] Enter Claudio, Prince, and three or four , with tapers. Heavily, heavily.’
Dow Penpro, Prince of Arragon Lreonato, Governor of Messina . Don Joun, Bastard Brother to Don Pedro Craupio, a young Lord of Florence, Favourite to Don Pedro Benepicx, a young Lord of Padua, favour’d likewise by Don Pedro Antonio, Brother to Leonato Battuasar, Servant to Don Pedro
Conrapz, Friend to Borachio Docserrry, a constable, ttao foolish Officers Verces, a headborough, Friar FrANcIs
Hero, Daughter to Leonato and Innogen Beatrice, Niece to Leonato MarGaRET, t two Gentlewomen attending on Ursuta, Hero A Sexton, a Boy in attendance on Benedick, Messengers, members of the Night Watch, and other Attendants Scene: Messina in Sicily.
mind; so some gentleman or other shall ’scape ‘a predestinate scratched face.)
wife; Hero, his daughter; and Beatrice, his niece; and a kinsman.
Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero! Enter Benedick.
marry the daughter of Leonato. r Bora. Yea, my lord; but I can cross it. D. John. Any bar, any cross, any impedi- ment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine.
them that you know that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio, as—in love of your brother’s honour, who hath made this match, and his friend’s reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the sem- blance of a maid,—that you have discovered thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial: offer them instances, wh...
Enter Benedick, alone. Bene. Boy! [Enter Boy.] Boy. Signior? Bene. In my chamber-window lies a book; bring it hither to me in the orchard. 4 Boy. I am here already, sir. Bene. I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again. [Ezit Boy.] I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviours to...
have made an oyster of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that’s certain; wise, or Ill none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I’ll never lo...
D. Pedro. It is the witness still of excellency, To put a strange face on his own perfection. I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more. Balth. Because you talk of wooing, I will sing;
D. Pedro. {Aside.] Let there be the same net spread for her; and that must your daughter and her gentlewoman earry. 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. 238 Ezeunt [all but Benedick]. B...
Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula. Hero. Good Margaret, run thee to the parlour; There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice Proposing with the prince and Claudio:
Walk in the orchard, and our whole discourse Is all of her; say that thou overheard’st us, And bid her steal into the pleached bower, Where honey-suckles, ripen’d by the sun, 8 Forbid the sun to enter; like favourites, Made proud by princes, that advance their pride
To wish him wrestle with affection, And never to let Beatrice know of it.
sister; If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antic, Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed;
Scene Three [A Street] Enter Dogberry and his compartner [Verges], with the watch. Dogb. Are you good men and true? Verg. Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer salvation, body and soul. Dogb. Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if they should have any allegiance in them, being chosen for the prince’s watch. Verg. Well, give th...
riame, stand! Sec. Watch. Call up the right Master con- stable. We have here recovered the most dan- gerous piece of lechery that ever was known in the commonwealth.
Enter Hero, Margaret, and Ursula. Hero. Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire her to rise.
as they say, ‘when the age is in, the wit is out.’
you; here’s that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only get the learned writer to set down our excommunication, and meet me at the gaol. Exeunt.
And given way unto this course of fortune, By noting of the lady: I have mark’d
Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death. Friar. There is some strange misprision in the princes.
and the Town Clerk [Sexton] in gowns, [with the Watch, Conrade and] Borachio. Dogb. Is our whole dissembly appeared?
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
and their whole connection with the plot were original with Shakespeare, as has been said. How truly the poet depicted the actual coue
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