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MESSENGER. Oh, yes, Benedick has returned and is as cheerful as ever. BEATRICE. He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at. the flight, and my uncle’s Fool, reading the challenge, subscribed for Cupid and challenged him at the bird-bolt. 35 I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these.
Well, you are come to me in happy time, The rather for I have some sport in hand. Wherein your cunning can assist me much. There is a lord will hear you play tonight; 90 But I am doubtful of your modesties, Lest over-eyeing of his odd behavior—. For yet his Honor never heard a play—. You break into some merry passion.
That strain again, it had a dying fall. 5 Oh, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odor. Enough, no more. 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before. O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, 10 That, notwithstanding thy capacity.
Take but good note, and you shall see in him. The triple pillar of the world transformed. Into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see. Look at them. Take a good look, and you’ll see that one of the three men who rule the world has turned into a whore’s jester. Look and see. CLEOPATRA. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
On pain of torture, from those bloody hands. Throw your mistempered weapons to the ground, And hear the sentence of your movèd prince. Three civil brawls, bred of an airy word, 80 By thee, old Capulet, and Montague, Have thrice disturbed the quiet of our streets. And made Verona’s ancient citizens.
The DUKE , EGEON , and the JAILER enter, with other attendants. EGEON. Proceed, Solinus, to procure my fall, And by the doom of death end woes and all. EGEON. Continue, Solinus, and bring on my downfall. Give me the death sentence and end all my troubles. DUKE. Merchant of Syracuse, plead no more.
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