{"id":50,"date":"2019-05-08T15:49:51","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T15:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/muchado2019\/?page_id=50"},"modified":"2021-03-15T19:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-03-15T19:24:36","slug":"act-5-scene-4","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.seethingbrains.com\/muchado2019\/act-5-scene-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Act 5, Scene 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A room in LEONATO\u2019S house.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE,] [p]MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friar Francis.\u00a0<\/strong>Did I not tell you she was innocent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her\u00a0<br>Upon the error that you heard debated:\u00a0<br>But Margaret was in some fault for this,\u00a0<br>Although against her will, as it appears\u00a0<br>In the true course of all the question.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>And so am I, being else by faith enforced\u00a0<br>To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all,\u00a0<br>Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,<br>And when I send for you, come hither mask&#8217;d.\u00a0<br><em>[Exeunt Ladies]<\/em>\u00a0<br>The prince and Claudio promised by this hour\u00a0<br>To visit me. You know your office, brother:\u00a0<br>You must be father to your brother&#8217;s daughter<br>And give her to young Claudio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>Which I will do with confirm&#8217;d countenance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friar Francis.\u00a0<\/strong>To do what, signior?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>To bind me, or undo me; one of them.<br>Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,\u00a0<br>Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>That eye my daughter lent her: &#8217;tis most true.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>And I do with an eye of love requite her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>The sight whereof I think you had from me,<br>From Claudio and the prince: but what&#8217;s your will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:\u00a0<br>But, for my will, my will is your good will\u00a0<br>May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin&#8217;d\u00a0<br>In the state of honourable marriage:<br>In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>My heart is with your liking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friar Francis.\u00a0<\/strong>And my help.\u00a0<br>Here comes the prince and Claudio.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others]\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Good morrow to this fair assembly.<\/li><li><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:\u00a0<br>We here attend you. Are you yet determined\u00a0<br>To-day to marry with my brother&#8217;s daughter?<\/li><li><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.<\/li><li><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Call her forth, brother; here&#8217;s the friar ready.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exit ANTONIO]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what&#8217;s the matter,\u00a0<br>That you have such a February face,\u00a0<br>So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>I think he thinks upon the savage bull.\u00a0<br>Tush, fear not, man; we&#8217;ll tip thy horns with gold\u00a0<br>And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,\u00a0<br>As once Europa did at lusty Jove,\u00a0<br>When he would play the noble beast in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;\u00a0<br>And some such strange bull leap&#8217;d your father&#8217;s cow,\u00a0<br>And got a calf in that same noble feat\u00a0<br>Much like to you, for you have just his bleat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.<br><em>[Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked]<\/em>\u00a0<br>Which is the lady I must seize upon?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Antonio.\u00a0<\/strong>This same is she, and I do give you her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Why, then she&#8217;s mine. Sweet, let me see your face.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>No, that you shall not, till you take her hand<br>Before this friar and swear to marry her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Give me your hand: before this holy friar,\u00a0<br>I am your husband, if you like of me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hero.\u00a0<\/strong>And when I lived, I was your other wife:\u00a0<br><em>[Unmasking]<\/em><br>And when you loved, you were my other husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>Another Hero!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hero.\u00a0<\/strong>Nothing certainer:\u00a0<br>One Hero died defiled, but I do live,\u00a0<br>And surely as I live, I am a maid.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>The former Hero! Hero that is dead!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Friar Francis.\u00a0<\/strong>All this amazement can I qualify:\u00a0<br>When after that the holy rites are ended,\u00a0<br>I&#8217;ll tell you largely of fair Hero&#8217;s death:<br>Meantime let wonder seem familiar,\u00a0<br>And to the chapel let us presently.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong><em>[Unmasking]<\/em>\u00a0I answer to that name. What is your will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Do not you love me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>Why, no; no more than reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio\u00a0<br>Have been deceived; they swore you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>Do not you love me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Troth, no; no more than reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula\u00a0<br>Are much deceived; for they did swear you did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>They swore that you were almost sick for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>&#8216;Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>No, truly, but in friendly recompense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>And I&#8217;ll be sworn upon&#8217;t that he loves her;\u00a0<br>For here&#8217;s a paper written in his hand,\u00a0<br>A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,<br>Fashion&#8217;d to Beatrice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Hero.\u00a0<\/strong>And here&#8217;s another\u00a0<br>Writ in my cousin&#8217;s hand, stolen from her pocket,\u00a0<br>Containing her affection unto Benedick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>A miracle! here&#8217;s our own hands against our hearts.<br>Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take\u00a0<br>thee for pity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Beatrice.\u00a0<\/strong>I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield\u00a0<br>upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,\u00a0<br>for I was told you were in a consumption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Peace! I will stop your mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Kissing her]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Don Pedro.\u00a0<\/strong>How dost thou, Benedick, the married man?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>I&#8217;ll tell thee what, prince; a college of\u00a0<br>wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost<br>thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:\u00a0<br>if a man will be beaten with brains, a&#8217; shall wear\u00a0<br>nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do\u00a0<br>purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any\u00a0<br>purpose that the world can say against it; and<br>therefore never flout at me for what I have said\u00a0<br>against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my\u00a0<br>conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to\u00a0<br>have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my\u00a0<br>kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Claudio.\u00a0<\/strong>I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,\u00a0<br>that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single\u00a0<br>life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of\u00a0<br>question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look\u00a0<br>exceedingly narrowly to thee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Come, come, we are friends: let&#8217;s have a dance ere\u00a0<br>we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts\u00a0<br>and our wives&#8217; heels.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leonato.\u00a0<\/strong>We&#8217;ll have dancing afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince,<br>thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:\u00a0<br>there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Enter a Messenger]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Messenger.\u00a0<\/strong>My lord, your brother John is ta&#8217;en in flight,\u00a0<br>And brought with armed men back to Messina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Benedick.\u00a0<\/strong>Think not on him till to-morrow:\u00a0<br>I&#8217;ll devise thee brave punishments for him.\u00a0<br>Strike up, pipers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Dance]\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">[Exeunt]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A room in LEONATO\u2019S house. [Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE,] [p]MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO] Friar Francis.\u00a0Did I not tell you she was innocent? 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