{"id":41,"date":"2019-05-08T15:39:59","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/muchado2019\/?page_id=41"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:24:36","slug":"act-5-scene-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/muchado2019\/act-5-scene-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 5, Scene 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Before LEONATO\u2019S house.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:\u00a0<br>And &#8217;tis not wisdom thus to second grief\u00a0<br>Against yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>I pray thee, cease thy counsel,\u00a0<br>Which falls into mine ears as profitless\u00a0<br>As water in a sieve: give not me counsel;\u00a0<br>Nor let no comforter delight mine ear\u00a0<br>But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine.<br>Bring me a father that so loved his child,\u00a0<br>Whose joy of her is overwhelm&#8217;d like mine,\u00a0<br>And bid him speak of patience;\u00a0<br>Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine\u00a0<br>And let it answer every strain for strain,<br>As thus for thus and such a grief for such,\u00a0<br>In every lineament, branch, shape, and form:\u00a0<br>If such a one will smile and stroke his beard,\u00a0<br>Bid sorrow wag, cry &#8216;hem!&#8217; when he should groan,\u00a0<br>Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk<br>With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me,\u00a0<br>And I of him will gather patience.\u00a0<br>But there is no such man: for, brother, men\u00a0<br>Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief\u00a0<br>Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,<br>Their counsel turns to passion, which before\u00a0<br>Would give preceptial medicine to rage,\u00a0<br>Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,\u00a0<br>Charm ache with air and agony with words:\u00a0<br>No, no; &#8217;tis all men&#8217;s office to speak patience<br>To those that wring under the load of sorrow,\u00a0<br>But no man&#8217;s virtue nor sufficiency\u00a0<br>To be so moral when he shall endure\u00a0<br>The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel:\u00a0<br>My griefs cry louder than advertisement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Therein do men from children nothing differ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood;\u00a0<br>For there was never yet philosopher\u00a0<br>That could endure the toothache patiently,\u00a0<br>However they have writ the style of gods<br>And made a push at chance and sufferance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself;&nbsp;<br>Make those that do offend you suffer too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>There thou speak&#8217;st reason: nay, I will do so.\u00a0<br>My soul doth tell me Hero is belied;<br>And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince\u00a0<br>And all of them that thus dishonour her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Good den, good den.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Good day to both of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Hear you. my lords,\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>We have some haste, Leonato.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord:\u00a0<br>Are you so hasty now? well, all is one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>If he could right himself with quarreling,&nbsp;<br>Some of us would lie low.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Who wrongs him?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:\u2014<br>Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword;\u00a0<br>I fear thee not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Marry, beshrew my hand,\u00a0<br>If it should give your age such cause of fear:\u00a0<br>In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me:\u00a0<br>I speak not like a dotard nor a fool,\u00a0<br>As under privilege of age to brag\u00a0<br>What I have done being young, or what would do\u00a0<br>Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head,<br>Thou hast so wrong&#8217;d mine innocent child and me\u00a0<br>That I am forced to lay my reverence by\u00a0<br>And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days,\u00a0<br>Do challenge thee to trial of a man.\u00a0<br>I say thou hast belied mine innocent child;<br>Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart,\u00a0<br>And she lies buried with her ancestors;\u00a0<br>O, in a tomb where never scandal slept,\u00a0<br>Save this of hers, framed by thy villany!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>My villany?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Thine, Claudio; thine, I say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>You say not right, old man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>My lord, my lord,\u00a0<br>I&#8217;ll prove it on his body, if he dare,\u00a0<br>Despite his nice fence and his active practise,<br>His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Away! I will not have to do with you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill&#8217;d my child:&nbsp;<br>If thou kill&#8217;st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>He shall kill two of us, and men indeed:<br>But that&#8217;s no matter; let him kill one first;\u00a0<br>Win me and wear me; let him answer me.\u00a0<br>Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me:\u00a0<br>Sir boy, I&#8217;ll whip you from your foining fence;\u00a0<br>Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.<strong>2160<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Brother,\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece;\u00a0<br>And she is dead, slander&#8217;d to death by villains,\u00a0<br>That dare as well answer a man indeed\u00a0<br>As I dare take a serpent by the tongue:<br>Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Brother Antony,\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea,\u00a0<br>And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,\u2014\u00a0<br>Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys,<br>That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander,\u00a0<br>Go anticly, show outward hideousness,\u00a0<br>And speak off half a dozen dangerous words,\u00a0<br>How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;\u00a0<br>And this is all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>But, brother Antony,\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Come, &#8217;tis no matter:&nbsp;<br>Do not you meddle; let me deal in this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience.\u00a0<br>My heart is sorry for your daughter&#8217;s death:<br>But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing\u00a0<br>But what was true and very full of proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>My lord, my lord,\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>I will not hear you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>And shall, or some of us will smart for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>See, see; here comes the man we went to seek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter BENEDICK]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Now, signior, what news?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>Good day, my lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part&nbsp;<br>almost a fray.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>We had like to have had our two noses snapped off\u00a0<br>with two old men without teeth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had&nbsp;<br>we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came&nbsp;<br>to seek you both.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are<br>high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten\u00a0<br>away. Wilt thou use thy wit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Never any did so, though very many have been beside<br>their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the\u00a0<br>minstrels; draw, to pleasure us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou&nbsp;<br>sick, or angry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat,<br>thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you&nbsp;<br>charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was\u00a0<br>broke cross.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>By this light, he changes more and more: I think&nbsp;<br>he be angry indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>Shall I speak a word in your ear?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>God bless me from a challenge!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong><em>[Aside to CLAUDIO]<\/em>\u00a0You are a villain; I jest not:\u00a0<br>I will make it good how you dare, with what you\u00a0<br>dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will\u00a0<br>protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet\u00a0<br>lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me<br>hear from you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>What, a feast, a feast?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217; faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf&#8217;s\u00a0<br>head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most<br>curiously, say my knife&#8217;s naught. Shall I not find\u00a0<br>a woodcock too?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.&nbsp;<\/strong>Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the\u00a0<br>other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: &#8216;True,&#8217;<br>said she, &#8216;a fine little one.&#8217; &#8216;No,&#8217; said I, &#8216;a\u00a0<br>great wit:&#8217; &#8216;Right,&#8217; says she, &#8216;a great gross one.&#8217;\u00a0<br>&#8216;Nay,&#8217; said I, &#8216;a good wit:&#8217; &#8216;Just,&#8217; said she, &#8216;it\u00a0<br>hurts nobody.&#8217; &#8216;Nay,&#8217; said I, &#8216;the gentleman\u00a0<br>is wise:&#8217; &#8216;Certain,&#8217; said she, &#8216;a wise gentleman.&#8217;<br>&#8216;Nay,&#8217; said I, &#8216;he hath the tongues:&#8217; &#8216;That I\u00a0<br>believe,&#8217; said she, &#8216;for he swore a thing to me on\u00a0<br>Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning;\u00a0<br>there&#8217;s a double tongue; there&#8217;s two tongues.&#8217; Thus\u00a0<br>did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular<br>virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou\u00a0<br>wast the properest man in Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>For the which she wept heartily and said she cared&nbsp;<br>not.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she<br>did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly:\u00a0<br>the old man&#8217;s daughter told us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was&nbsp;<br>hid in the garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>But when shall we set the savage bull&#8217;s horns on<br>the sensible Benedick&#8217;s head?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yea, and text underneath, &#8216;Here dwells Benedick the&nbsp;<br>married man&#8217;?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave\u00a0<br>you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests<br>as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked,\u00a0<br>hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank\u00a0<br>you: I must discontinue your company: your brother\u00a0<br>the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among\u00a0<br>you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord<br>Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till\u00a0<br>then, peace be with him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exit]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>He is in earnest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>In most profound earnest; and, I&#8217;ll warrant you, for<br>the love of Beatrice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>And hath challenged thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Most sincerely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his\u00a0<br>doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a&nbsp;<br>doctor to such a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and&nbsp;<br>be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.&nbsp;<\/strong>Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she&nbsp;<br>shall ne&#8217;er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay,&nbsp;<br>an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>How now? two of my brother&#8217;s men bound! Borachio\u00a0<br>one!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Hearken after their offence, my lord.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Officers, what offence have these men done?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.\u00a0<\/strong>Marry, sir, they have committed false report;\u00a0<br>moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily,\u00a0<br>they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have<br>belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust\u00a0<br>things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I\u00a0<br>ask thee what&#8217;s their offence; sixth and lastly, why\u00a0<br>they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay<br>to their charge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by&nbsp;<br>my troth, there&#8217;s one meaning well suited.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus\u00a0<br>bound to your answer? this learned constable is<br>too cunning to be understood: what&#8217;s your offence?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Borachio.\u00a0<\/strong>Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer:\u00a0<br>do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have\u00a0<br>deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms\u00a0<br>could not discover, these shallow fools have brought<br>to light: who in the night overheard me confessing\u00a0<br>to this man how Don John your brother incensed me\u00a0<br>to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into\u00a0<br>the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero&#8217;s\u00a0<br>garments, how you disgraced her, when you should<br>marry her: my villany they have upon record; which\u00a0<br>I had rather seal with my death than repeat over\u00a0<br>to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my\u00a0<br>master&#8217;s false accusation; and, briefly, I desire\u00a0<br>nothing but the reward of a villain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>Runs not this speech like iron through your blood?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>I have drunk poison whiles he utter&#8217;d it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>But did my brother set thee on to this?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Borachio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>He is composed and framed of treachery:<br>And fled he is upon this villany.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear&nbsp;<br>In the rare semblance that I loved it first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.\u00a0<\/strong>Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our\u00a0<br>sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter:<br>and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time\u00a0<br>and place shall serve, that I am an ass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Verges.&nbsp;<\/strong>Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the&nbsp;<br>Sexton too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Which is the villain? let me see his eyes,&nbsp;<br>That, when I note another man like him,&nbsp;<br>I may avoid him: which of these is he?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Borachio.&nbsp;<\/strong>If you would know your wronger, look on me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill&#8217;d<br>Mine innocent child?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Borachio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Yea, even I alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself:\u00a0<br>Here stand a pair of honourable men;\u00a0<br>A third is fled, that had a hand in it.<br>I thank you, princes, for my daughter&#8217;s death:\u00a0<br>Record it with your high and worthy deeds:\u00a0<br>&#8216;Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>I know not how to pray your patience;\u00a0<br>Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself;<br>Impose me to what penance your invention\u00a0<br>Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn&#8217;d I not\u00a0<br>But in mistaking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>By my soul, nor I:\u00a0<br>And yet, to satisfy this good old man,<br>I would bend under any heavy weight\u00a0<br>That he&#8217;ll enjoin me to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>I cannot bid you bid my daughter live;\u00a0<br>That were impossible: but, I pray you both,\u00a0<br>Possess the people in Messina here<br>How innocent she died; and if your love\u00a0<br>Can labour ought in sad invention,\u00a0<br>Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb\u00a0<br>And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night:\u00a0<br>To-morrow morning come you to my house,<br>And since you could not be my son-in-law,\u00a0<br>Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,\u00a0<br>Almost the copy of my child that&#8217;s dead,\u00a0<br>And she alone is heir to both of us:\u00a0<br>Give her the right you should have given her cousin,<br>And so dies my revenge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>O noble sir,\u00a0<br>Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me!\u00a0<br>I do embrace your offer; and dispose\u00a0<br>For henceforth of poor Claudio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>To-morrow then I will expect your coming;\u00a0<br>To-night I take my leave. This naughty man\u00a0<br>Shall face to face be brought to Margaret,\u00a0<br>Who I believe was pack&#8217;d in all this wrong,\u00a0<br>Hired to it by your brother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Borachio.&nbsp;<\/strong>No, by my soul, she was not,&nbsp;<br>Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,&nbsp;<br>But always hath been just and virtuous&nbsp;<br>In any thing that I do know by her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.\u00a0<\/strong>Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and<br>black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call\u00a0<br>me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his\u00a0<br>punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of\u00a0<br>one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and\u00a0<br>a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God&#8217;s<br>name, the which he hath used so long and never paid\u00a0<br>that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing\u00a0<br>for God&#8217;s sake: pray you, examine him upon that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>I thank thee for thy care and honest pains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.\u00a0<\/strong>Your worship speaks like a most thankful and<br>reverend youth; and I praise God for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>There&#8217;s for thy pains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.&nbsp;<\/strong>God save the foundation!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dogberry.\u00a0<\/strong>I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I<br>beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the\u00a0<br>example of others. God keep your worship! I wish\u00a0<br>your worship well; God restore you to health! I\u00a0<br>humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry\u00a0<br>meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong>Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.&nbsp;<\/strong>Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.&nbsp;<\/strong>We will not fail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>To-night I&#8217;ll mourn with Hero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.&nbsp;<\/strong><em>[To the Watch]<\/em>&nbsp;Bring you these fellows on. We&#8217;ll&nbsp;<br>talk with Margaret,&nbsp;<br>How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exeunt, severally]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before LEONATO\u2019S house. [Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO] Antonio.\u00a0If you go on thus, you will kill yourself:\u00a0And &#8217;tis not wisdom thus to second grief\u00a0Against yourself. 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