Array ( [TITLE] => Much Ado about Nothing [PERSONA] => Array ( [TITLE] => Introduction Actors [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => DON PEDRO, prince of Arragon. [1] => DON JOHN, his bastard brother. [2] => CLAUDIO, a young lord of Florence. [3] => BENEDICK, a young lord of Padua. [4] => LEONATO, governor of Messina. [5] => ANTONIO, his brother. [6] => BALTHASAR, attendant on Don Pedro. [7] => FRIAR FRANCIS [8] => DOGBERRY, a constable. [9] => VERGES, a headborough. [10] => A Sexton. [11] => A Boy. [12] => HERO, daughter to Leonato. [13] => BEATRICE, niece to Leonato. [14] => Messengers, Watch, Attendants, &c. ) [ACTORS] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => CONRADE [1] => BORACHIO ) [GRPDESCR] => followers of Don John. ) [1] => Array ( [PERSONA] => Array ( [0] => MARGARET [1] => URSULA ) [GRPDESCR] => gentlewomen attending on Hero. ) ) ) [SCNDESCR] => SCENE Messina. [PLAYSUBT] => MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING [ACT] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT I [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger [1] => Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and BALTHASAR [2] => Exeunt all except BENEDICK and CLAUDIO [3] => Re-enter DON PEDRO [4] => Exit [5] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon [1] => comes this night to Messina. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off [1] => when I left him. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => How many gentlemen have you lost in this action? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => But few of any sort, and none of name. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings [1] => home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath [2] => bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by [1] => Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the [2] => promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, [3] => the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better [4] => bettered expectation than you must expect of me to [5] => tell you how. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much [1] => glad of it. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have already delivered him letters, and there [1] => appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could [2] => not show itself modest enough without a badge of [3] => bitterness. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Did he break out into tears? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => In great measure. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces [1] => truer than those that are so washed. How much [2] => better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the [1] => wars or no? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know none of that name, lady: there was none such [1] => in the army of any sort. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => What is he that you ask for, niece? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => My cousin means Signior Benedick of Padua. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => O, he's returned; and as pleasant as ever he was. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He set up his bills here in Messina and challenged [1] => Cupid at the flight; and my uncle's fool, reading [2] => the challenge, subscribed for Cupid, and challenged [3] => him at the bird-bolt. I pray you, how many hath he [4] => killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath [5] => he killed? for indeed I promised to eat all of his killing. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Faith, niece, you tax Signior Benedick too much; [1] => but he'll be meet with you, I doubt it not. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => He hath done good service, lady, in these wars. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You had musty victual, and he hath holp to eat it: [1] => he is a very valiant trencherman; he hath an [2] => excellent stomach. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => And a good soldier too, lady. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => And a good soldier to a lady: but what is he to a lord? ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A lord to a lord, a man to a man; stuffed with all [1] => honourable virtues. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is so, indeed; he is no less than a stuffed man: [1] => but for the stuffing,--well, we are all mortal. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There is a [1] => kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her: [2] => they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit [3] => between them. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas! he gets nothing by that. In our last [1] => conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and [2] => now is the whole man governed with one: so that if [3] => he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let him [4] => bear it for a difference between himself and his [5] => horse; for it is all the wealth that he hath left, [6] => to be known a reasonable creature. Who is his [7] => companion now? He hath every month a new sworn brother. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Is't possible? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Very easily possible: he wears his faith but as [1] => the fashion of his hat; it ever changes with the [2] => next block. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => I see, lady, the gentleman is not in your books. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No; an he were, I would burn my study. But, I pray [1] => you, who is his companion? Is there no young [2] => squarer now that will make a voyage with him to the devil? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => He is most in the company of the right noble Claudio. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Lord, he will hang upon him like a disease: he [1] => is sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker [2] => runs presently mad. God help the noble Claudio! if [3] => he have caught the Benedick, it will cost him a [4] => thousand pound ere a' be cured. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => I will hold friends with you, lady. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Do, good friend. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => You will never run mad, niece. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => No, not till a hot January. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Don Pedro is approached. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Signior Leonato, you are come to meet your [1] => trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid [2] => cost, and you encounter it. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Never came trouble to my house in the likeness of [1] => your grace: for trouble being gone, comfort should [2] => remain; but when you depart from me, sorrow abides [3] => and happiness takes his leave. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You embrace your charge too willingly. I think this [1] => is your daughter. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Her mother hath many times told me so. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Were you in doubt, sir, that you asked her? ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Signior Benedick, no; for then were you a child. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have it full, Benedick: we may guess by this [1] => what you are, being a man. Truly, the lady fathers [2] => herself. Be happy, lady; for you are like an [3] => honourable father. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If Signior Leonato be her father, she would not [1] => have his head on her shoulders for all Messina, as [2] => like him as she is. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wonder that you will still be talking, Signior [1] => Benedick: nobody marks you. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it possible disdain should die while she hath [1] => such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? [2] => Courtesy itself must convert to disdain, if you come [3] => in her presence. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I [1] => am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I [2] => would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard [3] => heart; for, truly, I love none. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A dear happiness to women: they would else have [1] => been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God [2] => and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I [3] => had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man [4] => swear he loves me. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => God keep your ladyship still in that mind! so some [1] => gentleman or other shall 'scape a predestinate [2] => scratched face. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Scratching could not make it worse, an 'twere such [1] => a face as yours were. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Well, you are a rare parrot-teacher. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => A bird of my tongue is better than a beast of yours. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would my horse had the speed of your tongue, and [1] => so good a continuer. But keep your way, i' God's [2] => name; I have done. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => You always end with a jade's trick: I know you of old. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That is the sum of all, Leonato. Signior Claudio [1] => and Signior Benedick, my dear friend Leonato hath [2] => invited you all. I tell him we shall stay here at [3] => the least a month; and he heartily prays some [4] => occasion may detain us longer. I dare swear he is no [5] => hypocrite, but prays from his heart. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you swear, my lord, you shall not be forsworn. [1] => Let me bid you welcome, my lord: being reconciled to [2] => the prince your brother, I owe you all duty. ) [STAGEDIR] => To DON JOHN ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I thank you: I am not of many words, but I thank [1] => you. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Please it your grace lead on? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Your hand, Leonato; we will go together. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I noted her not; but I looked on her. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Is she not a modest young lady? ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do you question me, as an honest man should do, for [1] => my simple true judgment; or would you have me speak [2] => after my custom, as being a professed tyrant to their sex? ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => No; I pray thee speak in sober judgment. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high [1] => praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little [2] => for a great praise: only this commendation I can [3] => afford her, that were she other than she is, she [4] => were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I [5] => do not like her. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou thinkest I am in sport: I pray thee tell me [1] => truly how thou likest her. ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Would you buy her, that you inquire after her? ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Can the world buy such a jewel? ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, and a case to put it into. But speak you this [1] => with a sad brow? or do you play the flouting Jack, [2] => to tell us Cupid is a good hare-finder and Vulcan a [3] => rare carpenter? Come, in what key shall a man take [4] => you, to go in the song? ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In mine eye she is the sweetest lady that ever I [1] => looked on. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I can see yet without spectacles and I see no such [1] => matter: there's her cousin, an she were not [2] => possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty [3] => as the first of May doth the last of December. But I [4] => hope you have no intent to turn husband, have you? ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would scarce trust myself, though I had sworn the [1] => contrary, if Hero would be my wife. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is't come to this? In faith, hath not the world [1] => one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? [2] => Shall I never see a bachelor of three-score again? [3] => Go to, i' faith; an thou wilt needs thrust thy neck [4] => into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away [5] => Sundays. Look Don Pedro is returned to seek you. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What secret hath held you here, that you followed [1] => not to Leonato's? ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I would your grace would constrain me to tell. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => I charge thee on thy allegiance. ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You hear, Count Claudio: I can be secret as a dumb [1] => man; I would have you think so; but, on my [2] => allegiance, mark you this, on my allegiance. He is [3] => in love. With who? now that is your grace's part. [4] => Mark how short his answer is;--With Hero, Leonato's [5] => short daughter. ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => If this were so, so were it uttered. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Like the old tale, my lord: 'it is not so, nor [1] => 'twas not so, but, indeed, God forbid it should be [2] => so.' ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If my passion change not shortly, God forbid it [1] => should be otherwise. ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Amen, if you love her; for the lady is very well worthy. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => You speak this to fetch me in, my lord. ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => By my troth, I speak my thought. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And, in faith, my lord, I spoke mine. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => And, by my two faiths and troths, my lord, I spoke mine. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => That I love her, I feel. ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => That she is worthy, I know. ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I neither feel how she should be loved nor [1] => know how she should be worthy, is the opinion that [2] => fire cannot melt out of me: I will die in it at the stake. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou wast ever an obstinate heretic in the despite [1] => of beauty. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And never could maintain his part but in the force [1] => of his will. ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That a woman conceived me, I thank her; that she [1] => brought me up, I likewise give her most humble [2] => thanks: but that I will have a recheat winded in my [3] => forehead, or hang my bugle in an invisible baldrick, [4] => all women shall pardon me. Because I will not do [5] => them the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the [6] => right to trust none; and the fine is, for the which [7] => I may go the finer, I will live a bachelor. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love. ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, [1] => not with love: prove that ever I lose more blood [2] => with love than I will get again with drinking, pick [3] => out mine eyes with a ballad-maker's pen and hang me [4] => up at the door of a brothel-house for the sign of [5] => blind Cupid. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou [1] => wilt prove a notable argument. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot [1] => at me; and he that hits me, let him be clapped on [2] => the shoulder, and called Adam. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, as time shall try: 'In time the savage bull [1] => doth bear the yoke.' ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The savage bull may; but if ever the sensible [1] => Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull's horns and set [2] => them in my forehead: and let me be vilely painted, [3] => and in such great letters as they write 'Here is [4] => good horse to hire,' let them signify under my sign [5] => 'Here you may see Benedick the married man.' ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => If this should ever happen, thou wouldst be horn-mad. ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in [1] => Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I look for an earthquake too, then. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, you temporize with the hours. In the [1] => meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to [2] => Leonato's: commend me to him and tell him I will [3] => not fail him at supper; for indeed he hath made [4] => great preparation. ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I have almost matter enough in me for such an [1] => embassage; and so I commit you-- ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => To the tuition of God: From my house, if I had it,-- ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => The sixth of July: Your loving friend, Benedick. ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your [1] => discourse is sometime guarded with fragments, and [2] => the guards are but slightly basted on neither: ere [3] => you flout old ends any further, examine your [4] => conscience: and so I leave you. ) ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => My liege, your highness now may do me good. ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My love is thine to teach: teach it but how, [1] => And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn [2] => Any hard lesson that may do thee good. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Hath Leonato any son, my lord? ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No child but Hero; she's his only heir. [1] => Dost thou affect her, Claudio? ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, my lord, [1] => When you went onward on this ended action, [2] => I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye, [3] => That liked, but had a rougher task in hand [4] => Than to drive liking to the name of love: [5] => But now I am return'd and that war-thoughts [6] => Have left their places vacant, in their rooms [7] => Come thronging soft and delicate desires, [8] => All prompting me how fair young Hero is, [9] => Saying, I liked her ere I went to wars. ) ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou wilt be like a lover presently [1] => And tire the hearer with a book of words. [2] => If thou dost love fair Hero, cherish it, [3] => And I will break with her and with her father, [4] => And thou shalt have her. Was't not to this end [5] => That thou began'st to twist so fine a story? ) ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How sweetly you do minister to love, [1] => That know love's grief by his complexion! [2] => But lest my liking might too sudden seem, [3] => I would have salved it with a longer treatise. ) ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What need the bridge much broader than the flood? [1] => The fairest grant is the necessity. [2] => Look, what will serve is fit: 'tis once, thou lovest, [3] => And I will fit thee with the remedy. [4] => I know we shall have revelling to-night: [5] => I will assume thy part in some disguise [6] => And tell fair Hero I am Claudio, [7] => And in her bosom I'll unclasp my heart [8] => And take her hearing prisoner with the force [9] => And strong encounter of my amorous tale: [10] => Then after to her father will I break; [11] => And the conclusion is, she shall be thine. [12] => In practise let us put it presently. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son? [1] => hath he provided this music? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell [1] => you strange news that you yet dreamt not of. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Are they good? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As the event stamps them: but they have a good [1] => cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count [2] => Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine [3] => orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine: [4] => the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my [5] => niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it [6] => this night in a dance: and if he found her [7] => accordant, he meant to take the present time by the [8] => top and instantly break with you of it. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and [1] => question him yourself. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear [1] => itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal, [2] => that she may be the better prepared for an answer, [3] => if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. [4] => Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you [5] => mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your [6] => skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter Attendants ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. The same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DON JOHN and CONRADE [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out [1] => of measure sad? ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; [1] => therefore the sadness is without limit. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => You should hear reason. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it? ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If not a present remedy, at least a patient [1] => sufferance. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art, [1] => born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral [2] => medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide [3] => what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile [4] => at no man's jests, eat when I have stomach and wait [5] => for no man's leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and [6] => tend on no man's business, laugh when I am merry and [7] => claw no man in his humour. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, but you must not make the full show of this [1] => till you may do it without controlment. You have of [2] => late stood out against your brother, and he hath [3] => ta'en you newly into his grace; where it is [4] => impossible you should take true root but by the [5] => fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful [6] => that you frame the season for your own harvest. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in [1] => his grace, and it better fits my blood to be [2] => disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob [3] => love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to [4] => be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied [5] => but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with [6] => a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I [7] => have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my [8] => mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do [9] => my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and [10] => seek not to alter me. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Can you make no use of your discontent? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I make all use of it, for I use it only. [1] => Who comes here? [2] => What news, Borachio? ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter BORACHIO ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I came yonder from a great supper: the prince your [1] => brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I [2] => can give you intelligence of an intended marriage. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Will it serve for any model to build mischief on? [1] => What is he for a fool that betroths himself to [2] => unquietness? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Marry, it is your brother's right hand. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Who? the most exquisite Claudio? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Even he. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks [1] => he? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Marry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => A very forward March-chick! How came you to this? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Being entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a [1] => musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand [2] => in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the [3] => arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the [4] => prince should woo Hero for himself, and having [5] => obtained her, give her to Count Claudio. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, let us thither: this may prove food to [1] => my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the [2] => glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I [3] => bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => To the death, my lord. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let us to the great supper: their cheer is the [1] => greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of [2] => my mind! Shall we go prove what's to be done? ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => We'll wait upon your lordship. ) ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT II [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A hall in LEONATO'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, HERO, BEATRICE, and others [1] => All put on their masks [2] => Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, BALTHASAR, DON JOHN, BORACHIO, MARGARET, URSULA and others, masked [3] => Drawing her aside [4] => Dance. Then exeunt all except DON JOHN, BORACHIO, and CLAUDIO [5] => Exeunt DON JOHN and BORACHIO [6] => Re-enter BENEDICK [7] => Exit [8] => Re-enter DON PEDRO [9] => Enter CLAUDIO, BEATRICE, HERO, and LEONATO [10] => Exit [11] => Exit [12] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Was not Count John here at supper? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => I saw him not. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see [1] => him but I am heart-burned an hour after. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => He is of a very melancholy disposition. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He were an excellent man that were made just in the [1] => midway between him and Benedick: the one is too [2] => like an image and says nothing, and the other too [3] => like my lady's eldest son, evermore tattling. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then half Signior Benedick's tongue in Count John's [1] => mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signior [2] => Benedick's face,-- ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money [1] => enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman [2] => in the world, if a' could get her good-will. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a [1] => husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => In faith, she's too curst. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Too curst is more than curst: I shall lessen God's [1] => sending that way; for it is said, 'God sends a curst [2] => cow short horns;' but to a cow too curst he sends none. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => So, by being too curst, God will send you no horns. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Just, if he send me no husband; for the which [1] => blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and [2] => evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a [3] => beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => You may light on a husband that hath no beard. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel [1] => and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a [2] => beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no [3] => beard is less than a man: and he that is more than [4] => a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a [5] => man, I am not for him: therefore, I will even take [6] => sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his [7] => apes into hell. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Well, then, go you into hell? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet [1] => me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and [2] => say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get you to [3] => heaven; here's no place for you maids:' so deliver [4] => I up my apes, and away to Saint Peter for the [5] => heavens; he shows me where the bachelors sit, and [6] => there live we as merry as the day is long. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To HERO ) [1] => by your father. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy [1] => and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all [2] => that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else [3] => make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please [4] => me.' ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not till God make men of some other metal than [1] => earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be [2] => overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make [3] => an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? [4] => No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; [5] => and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince [1] => do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be [1] => not wooed in good time: if the prince be too [2] => important, tell him there is measure in every thing [3] => and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero: [4] => wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, [5] => a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot [6] => and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as [7] => fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a [8] => measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes [9] => repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the [10] => cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => The revellers are entering, brother: make good room. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Lady, will you walk about with your friend? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So you walk softly and look sweetly and say nothing, [1] => I am yours for the walk; and especially when I walk away. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => With me in your company? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => I may say so, when I please. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => And when please you to say so? ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => When I like your favour; for God defend the lute [1] => should be like the case! ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => My visor is Philemon's roof; within the house is Jove. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Why, then, your visor should be thatched. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Speak low, if you speak love. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Well, I would you did like me. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So would not I, for your own sake; for I have many [1] => ill-qualities. ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Which is one? ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => I say my prayers aloud. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => I love you the better: the hearers may cry, Amen. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => God match me with a good dancer! ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Amen. ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And God keep him out of my sight when the dance is [1] => done! Answer, clerk. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => No more words: the clerk is answered. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => I know you well enough; you are Signior Antonio. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => At a word, I am not. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => I know you by the waggling of your head. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => To tell you true, I counterfeit him. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You could never do him so ill-well, unless you were [1] => the very man. Here's his dry hand up and down: you [2] => are he, you are he. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => At a word, I am not. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, do you think I do not know you by your [1] => excellent wit? can virtue hide itself? Go to, [2] => mum, you are he: graces will appear, and there's an [3] => end. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Will you not tell me who told you so? ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => No, you shall pardon me. ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Nor will you not tell me who you are? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Not now. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit [1] => out of the 'Hundred Merry Tales:'--well this was [2] => Signior Benedick that said so. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => What's he? ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => I am sure you know him well enough. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Not I, believe me. ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Did he never make you laugh? ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I pray you, what is he? ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, he is the prince's jester: a very dull fool; [1] => only his gift is in devising impossible slanders: [2] => none but libertines delight in him; and the [3] => commendation is not in his wit, but in his villany; [4] => for he both pleases men and angers them, and then [5] => they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in [6] => the fleet: I would he had boarded me. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => When I know the gentleman, I'll tell him what you say. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do, do: he'll but break a comparison or two on me; [1] => which, peradventure not marked or not laughed at, [2] => strikes him into melancholy; and then there's a [3] => partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no [4] => supper that night. [5] => We must follow the leaders. ) [STAGEDIR] => Music ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => In every good thing. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, if they lead to any ill, I will leave them at [1] => the next turning. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sure my brother is amorous on Hero and hath [1] => withdrawn her father to break with him about it. [2] => The ladies follow her and but one visor remains. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => And that is Claudio: I know him by his bearing. ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Are not you Signior Benedick? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => You know me well; I am he. ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Signior, you are very near my brother in his love: [1] => he is enamoured on Hero; I pray you, dissuade him [2] => from her: she is no equal for his birth: you may [3] => do the part of an honest man in it. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => How know you he loves her? ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => I heard him swear his affection. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => So did I too; and he swore he would marry her to-night. ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Come, let us to the banquet. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thus answer I in the name of Benedick, [1] => But hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio. [2] => 'Tis certain so; the prince wooes for himself. [3] => Friendship is constant in all other things [4] => Save in the office and affairs of love: [5] => Therefore, all hearts in love use their own tongues; [6] => Let every eye negotiate for itself [7] => And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch [8] => Against whose charms faith melteth into blood. [9] => This is an accident of hourly proof, [10] => Which I mistrusted not. Farewell, therefore, Hero! ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Count Claudio? ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Yea, the same. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Come, will you go with me? ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Whither? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Even to the next willow, about your own business, [1] => county. What fashion will you wear the garland of? [2] => about your neck, like an usurer's chain? or under [3] => your arm, like a lieutenant's scarf? You must wear [4] => it one way, for the prince hath got your Hero. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I wish him joy of her. ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, that's spoken like an honest drovier: so they [1] => sell bullocks. But did you think the prince would [2] => have served you thus? ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I pray you, leave me. ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ho! now you strike like the blind man: 'twas the [1] => boy that stole your meat, and you'll beat the post. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => If it will not be, I'll leave you. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Alas, poor hurt fowl! now will he creep into sedges. [1] => But that my Lady Beatrice should know me, and not [2] => know me! The prince's fool! Ha? It may be I go [3] => under that title because I am merry. Yea, but so I [4] => am apt to do myself wrong; I am not so reputed: it [5] => is the base, though bitter, disposition of Beatrice [6] => that puts the world into her person and so gives me [7] => out. Well, I'll be revenged as I may. ) ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Now, signior, where's the count? did you see him? ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Troth, my lord, I have played the part of Lady Fame. [1] => I found him here as melancholy as a lodge in a [2] => warren: I told him, and I think I told him true, [3] => that your grace had got the good will of this young [4] => lady; and I offered him my company to a willow-tree, [5] => either to make him a garland, as being forsaken, or [6] => to bind him up a rod, as being worthy to be whipped. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => To be whipped! What's his fault? ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The flat transgression of a schoolboy, who, being [1] => overjoyed with finding a birds' nest, shows it his [2] => companion, and he steals it. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The [1] => transgression is in the stealer. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been made, [1] => and the garland too; for the garland he might have [2] => worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on [3] => you, who, as I take it, have stolen his birds' nest. ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will but teach them to sing, and restore them to [1] => the owner. ) ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If their singing answer your saying, by my faith, [1] => you say honestly. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The Lady Beatrice hath a quarrel to you: the [1] => gentleman that danced with her told her she is much [2] => wronged by you. ) ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, she misused me past the endurance of a block! [1] => an oak but with one green leaf on it would have [2] => answered her; my very visor began to assume life and [3] => scold with her. She told me, not thinking I had been [4] => myself, that I was the prince's jester, that I was [5] => duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest [6] => with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood [7] => like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at [8] => me. She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: [9] => if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, [10] => there were no living near her; she would infect to [11] => the north star. I would not marry her, though she [12] => were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before [13] => he transgressed: she would have made Hercules have [14] => turned spit, yea, and have cleft his club to make [15] => the fire too. Come, talk not of her: you shall find [16] => her the infernal Ate in good apparel. I would to God [17] => some scholar would conjure her; for certainly, while [18] => she is here, a man may live as quiet in hell as in a [19] => sanctuary; and people sin upon purpose, because they [20] => would go thither; so, indeed, all disquiet, horror [21] => and perturbation follows her. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Look, here she comes. ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Will your grace command me any service to the [1] => world's end? I will go on the slightest errand now [2] => to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on; [3] => I will fetch you a tooth-picker now from the [4] => furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of [5] => Prester John's foot, fetch you a hair off the great [6] => Cham's beard, do you any embassage to the Pigmies, [7] => rather than hold three words' conference with this [8] => harpy. You have no employment for me? ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => None, but to desire your good company. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O God, sir, here's a dish I love not: I cannot [1] => endure my Lady Tongue. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of [1] => Signior Benedick. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave [1] => him use for it, a double heart for his single one: [2] => marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, [3] => therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. ) ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I [1] => should prove the mother of fools. I have brought [2] => Count Claudio, whom you sent me to seek. ) ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Why, how now, count! wherefore are you sad? ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Not sad, my lord. ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => How then? sick? ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Neither, my lord. ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The count is neither sad, nor sick, nor merry, nor [1] => well; but civil count, civil as an orange, and [2] => something of that jealous complexion. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I' faith, lady, I think your blazon to be true; [1] => though, I'll be sworn, if he be so, his conceit is [2] => false. Here, Claudio, I have wooed in thy name, and [3] => fair Hero is won: I have broke with her father, [4] => and his good will obtained: name the day of [5] => marriage, and God give thee joy! ) ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Count, take of me my daughter, and with her my [1] => fortunes: his grace hath made the match, and an [2] => grace say Amen to it. ) ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Speak, count, 'tis your cue. ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were [1] => but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as [2] => you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for [3] => you and dote upon the exchange. ) ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Speak, cousin; or, if you cannot, stop his mouth [1] => with a kiss, and let not him speak neither. ) ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => In faith, lady, you have a merry heart. ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, my lord; I thank it, poor fool, it keeps on [1] => the windy side of care. My cousin tells him in his [2] => ear that he is in her heart. ) ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And so she doth, cousin. ) [117] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the [1] => world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a [2] => corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband! ) ) [118] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Lady Beatrice, I will get you one. ) [119] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would rather have one of your father's getting. [1] => Hath your grace ne'er a brother like you? Your [2] => father got excellent husbands, if a maid could come by them. ) ) [120] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Will you have me, lady? ) [121] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, my lord, unless I might have another for [1] => working-days: your grace is too costly to wear [2] => every day. But, I beseech your grace, pardon me: I [3] => was born to speak all mirth and no matter. ) ) [122] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your silence most offends me, and to be merry best [1] => becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in [2] => a merry hour. ) ) [123] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there [1] => was a star danced, and under that was I born. [2] => Cousins, God give you joy! ) ) [124] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Niece, will you look to those things I told you of? ) [125] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => I cry you mercy, uncle. By your grace's pardon. ) [126] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady. ) [127] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There's little of the melancholy element in her, my [1] => lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and [2] => not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, [3] => she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked [4] => herself with laughing. ) ) [128] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband. ) [129] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit. ) [130] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => She were an excellent wife for Benedict. ) [131] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, [1] => they would talk themselves mad. ) ) [132] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => County Claudio, when mean you to go to church? ) [133] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love [1] => have all his rites. ) ) [134] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just [1] => seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all [2] => things answer my mind. ) ) [135] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing: [1] => but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go [2] => dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of [3] => Hercules' labours; which is, to bring Signior [4] => Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of [5] => affection the one with the other. I would fain have [6] => it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if [7] => you three will but minister such assistance as I [8] => shall give you direction. ) ) [136] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten [1] => nights' watchings. ) ) [137] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And I, my lord. ) [138] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => And you too, gentle Hero? ) [139] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my [1] => cousin to a good husband. ) ) [140] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that [1] => I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble [2] => strain, of approved valour and confirmed honesty. I [3] => will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she [4] => shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your [5] => two helps, will so practise on Benedick that, in [6] => despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he [7] => shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, [8] => Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be [9] => ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me, [10] => and I will tell you my drift. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. The same. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the [1] => daughter of Leonato. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Yea, my lord; but I can cross it. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be [1] => medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, [2] => and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges [3] => evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage? ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no [1] => dishonesty shall appear in me. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Show me briefly how. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think I told your lordship a year since, how much [1] => I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting [2] => gentlewoman to Hero. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => I remember. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, [1] => appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to [1] => the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that [2] => he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned [3] => Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold [4] => up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => What proof shall I make of that? ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, [1] => to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any [2] => other issue? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and [1] => the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know [2] => that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the [3] => prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's [4] => honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's [5] => reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the [6] => semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered [7] => thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial: [8] => offer them instances; which shall bear no less [9] => likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window, [10] => hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me [11] => Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night [12] => before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I [13] => will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be [14] => absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth [15] => of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called [16] => assurance and all the preparation overthrown. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put [1] => it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and [2] => thy fee is a thousand ducats. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning [1] => shall not shame me. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => I will presently go learn their day of marriage. ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. LEONATO'S orchard. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BENEDICK [1] => Enter Boy [2] => Withdraws [3] => Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO [4] => Enter BALTHASAR with Music [5] => Air [6] => The Song [7] => Exeunt DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and LEONATO [8] => Enter BEATRICE [9] => Exit [10] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Boy! ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Boy [LINE] => Signior? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In my chamber-window lies a book: bring it hither [1] => to me in the orchard. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Boy [LINE] => I am here already, sir. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know that; but I would have thee hence, and here again. [1] => I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much [2] => another man is a fool when he dedicates his [3] => behaviors to love, will, after he hath laughed at [4] => such shallow follies in others, become the argument [5] => of his own scorn by failing in love: and such a man [6] => is Claudio. I have known when there was no music [7] => with him but the drum and the fife; and now had he [8] => rather hear the tabour and the pipe: I have known [9] => when he would have walked ten mile a-foot to see a [10] => good armour; and now will he lie ten nights awake, [11] => carving the fashion of a new doublet. He was wont to [12] => speak plain and to the purpose, like an honest man [13] => and a soldier; and now is he turned orthography; his [14] => words are a very fantastical banquet, just so many [15] => strange dishes. May I be so converted and see with [16] => these eyes? I cannot tell; I think not: I will not [17] => be sworn, but love may transform me to an oyster; but [18] => I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster [19] => of me, he shall never make me such a fool. One woman [20] => is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am [21] => well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all [22] => graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in [23] => my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, [24] => or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; [25] => fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not [26] => near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good [27] => discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall [28] => be of what colour it please God. Ha! the prince and [29] => Monsieur Love! I will hide me in the arbour. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit Boy ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Come, shall we hear this music? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is, [1] => As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony! ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => See you where Benedick hath hid himself? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, very well, my lord: the music ended, [1] => We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Come, Balthasar, we'll hear that song again. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, good my lord, tax not so bad a voice [1] => To slander music any more than once. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is the witness still of excellency [1] => To put a strange face on his own perfection. [2] => I pray thee, sing, and let me woo no more. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Because you talk of wooing, I will sing; [1] => Since many a wooer doth commence his suit [2] => To her he thinks not worthy, yet he wooes, [3] => Yet will he swear he loves. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, pray thee, come; [1] => Or, if thou wilt hold longer argument, [2] => Do it in notes. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Note this before my notes; [1] => There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks; [1] => Note, notes, forsooth, and nothing. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, divine air! now is his soul ravished! Is it [1] => not strange that sheeps' guts should hale souls out [2] => of men's bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when [3] => all's done. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, [1] => Men were deceivers ever, [2] => One foot in sea and one on shore, [3] => To one thing constant never: [4] => Then sigh not so, but let them go, [5] => And be you blithe and bonny, [6] => Converting all your sounds of woe [7] => Into Hey nonny, nonny. [8] => Sing no more ditties, sing no moe, [9] => Of dumps so dull and heavy; [10] => The fraud of men was ever so, [11] => Since summer first was leafy: [12] => Then sigh not so, &c. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => By my troth, a good song. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => And an ill singer, my lord. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Ha, no, no, faith; thou singest well enough for a shift. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, [1] => they would have hanged him: and I pray God his bad [2] => voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the [3] => night-raven, come what plague could have come after [4] => it. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, marry, dost thou hear, Balthasar? I pray thee, [1] => get us some excellent music; for to-morrow night we [2] => would have it at the Lady Hero's chamber-window. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BALTHASAR [LINE] => The best I can, my lord. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Do so: farewell. [1] => Come hither, Leonato. What was it you told me of [2] => to-day, that your niece Beatrice was in love with [3] => Signior Benedick? ) [STAGEDIR] => Exit BALTHASAR ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I did [1] => never think that lady would have loved any man. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, nor I neither; but most wonderful that she [1] => should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in [2] => all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Is't possible? Sits the wind in that corner? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, my lord, I cannot tell what to think [1] => of it but that she loves him with an enraged [2] => affection: it is past the infinite of thought. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => May be she doth but counterfeit. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Faith, like enough. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O God, counterfeit! There was never counterfeit of [1] => passion came so near the life of passion as she [2] => discovers it. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Why, what effects of passion shows she? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Bait the hook well; this fish will bite. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What effects, my lord? She will sit you, you heard [1] => my daughter tell you how. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => She did, indeed. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How, how, pray you? You amaze me: I would have I [1] => thought her spirit had been invincible against all [2] => assaults of affection. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would have sworn it had, my lord; especially [1] => against Benedick. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I should think this a gull, but that the [1] => white-bearded fellow speaks it: knavery cannot, [2] => sure, hide himself in such reverence. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Hath she made her affection known to Benedick? ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => No; and swears she never will: that's her torment. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'Shall [1] => I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him [2] => with scorn, write to him that I love him?' ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This says she now when she is beginning to write to [1] => him; for she'll be up twenty times a night, and [2] => there will she sit in her smock till she have writ a [3] => sheet of paper: my daughter tells us all. ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a [1] => pretty jest your daughter told us of. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, when she had writ it and was reading it over, she [1] => found Benedick and Beatrice between the sheet? ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => That. ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence; [1] => railed at herself, that she should be so immodest [2] => to write to one that she knew would flout her; 'I [3] => measure him,' says she, 'by my own spirit; for I [4] => should flout him, if he writ to me; yea, though I [5] => love him, I should.' ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs, [1] => beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O [2] => sweet Benedick! God give me patience!' ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She doth indeed; my daughter says so: and the [1] => ecstasy hath so much overborne her that my daughter [2] => is sometime afeared she will do a desperate outrage [3] => to herself: it is very true. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It were good that Benedick knew of it by some [1] => other, if she will not discover it. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To what end? He would make but a sport of it and [1] => torment the poor lady worse. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An he should, it were an alms to hang him. She's an [1] => excellent sweet lady; and, out of all suspicion, [2] => she is virtuous. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And she is exceeding wise. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => In every thing but in loving Benedick. ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, my lord, wisdom and blood combating in so tender [1] => a body, we have ten proofs to one that blood hath [2] => the victory. I am sorry for her, as I have just [3] => cause, being her uncle and her guardian. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would she had bestowed this dotage on me: I would [1] => have daffed all other respects and made her half [2] => myself. I pray you, tell Benedick of it, and hear [3] => what a' will say. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Were it good, think you? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says she [1] => will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere [2] => she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo [3] => her, rather than she will bate one breath of her [4] => accustomed crossness. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => She doth well: if she should make tender of her [1] => love, 'tis very possible he'll scorn it; for the [2] => man, as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => He is a very proper man. ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => He hath indeed a good outward happiness. ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Before God! and, in my mind, very wise. ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => He doth indeed show some sparks that are like wit. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And I take him to be valiant. ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As Hector, I assure you: and in the managing of [1] => quarrels you may say he is wise; for either he [2] => avoids them with great discretion, or undertakes [3] => them with a most Christian-like fear. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he do fear God, a' must necessarily keep peace: [1] => if he break the peace, he ought to enter into a [2] => quarrel with fear and trembling. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And so will he do; for the man doth fear God, [1] => howsoever it seems not in him by some large jests [2] => he will make. Well I am sorry for your niece. Shall [3] => we go seek Benedick, and tell him of her love? ) ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with [1] => good counsel. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Nay, that's impossible: she may wear her heart out first. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, we will hear further of it by your daughter: [1] => let it cool the while. I love Benedick well; and I [2] => could wish he would modestly examine himself, to see [3] => how much he is unworthy so good a lady. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => My lord, will you walk? dinner is ready. ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he do not dote on her upon this, I will never [1] => trust my expectation. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let there be the same net spread for her; and that [1] => must your daughter and her gentlewomen carry. The [2] => sport will be, when they hold one an opinion of [3] => another's dotage, and no such matter: that's the [4] => scene that I would see, which will be merely a [5] => dumb-show. Let us send her to call him in to dinner. ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Coming forward ) [1] => conference was sadly borne. They have the truth of [2] => this from Hero. They seem to pity the lady: it [3] => seems her affections have their full bent. Love me! [4] => why, it must be requited. I hear how I am censured: [5] => they say I will bear myself proudly, if I perceive [6] => the love come from her; they say too that she will [7] => rather die than give any sign of affection. I did [8] => never think to marry: I must not seem proud: happy [9] => are they that hear their detractions and can put [10] => them to mending. They say the lady is fair; 'tis a [11] => truth, I can bear them witness; and virtuous; 'tis [12] => so, I cannot reprove it; and wise, but for loving [13] => me; by my troth, it is no addition to her wit, nor [14] => no great argument of her folly, for I will be [15] => horribly in love with her. I may chance have some [16] => odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, [17] => because I have railed so long against marriage: but [18] => doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat [19] => in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. [20] => Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of [21] => the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? [22] => No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would [23] => die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I [24] => were married. Here comes Beatrice. By this day! [25] => she's a fair lady: I do spy some marks of love in [26] => her. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I took no more pains for those thanks than you take [1] => pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would [2] => not have come. ) ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => You take pleasure then in the message? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's [1] => point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, [2] => signior: fare you well. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in [1] => to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that 'I took [2] => no more pains for those thanks than you took pains [3] => to thank me.' that's as much as to say, Any pains [4] => that I take for you is as easy as thanks. If I do [5] => not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not [6] => love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture. ) ) ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT III [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. LEONATO'S garden. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA [1] => Exit [2] => Exeunt HERO and URSULA [3] => Exit ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Margaret, run thee to the parlor; [1] => There shalt thou find my cousin Beatrice [2] => Proposing with the prince and Claudio: [3] => Whisper her ear and tell her, I and Ursula [4] => Walk in the orchard and our whole discourse [5] => Is all of her; say that thou overheard'st us; [6] => And bid her steal into the pleached bower, [7] => Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the sun, [8] => Forbid the sun to enter, like favourites, [9] => Made proud by princes, that advance their pride [10] => Against that power that bred it: there will she hide her, [11] => To listen our purpose. This is thy office; [12] => Bear thee well in it and leave us alone. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => I'll make her come, I warrant you, presently. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, Ursula, when Beatrice doth come, [1] => As we do trace this alley up and down, [2] => Our talk must only be of Benedick. [3] => When I do name him, let it be thy part [4] => To praise him more than ever man did merit: [5] => My talk to thee must be how Benedick [6] => Is sick in love with Beatrice. Of this matter [7] => Is little Cupid's crafty arrow made, [8] => That only wounds by hearsay. [9] => Now begin; [10] => For look where Beatrice, like a lapwing, runs [11] => Close by the ground, to hear our conference. ) [STAGEDIR] => Enter BEATRICE, behind ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish [1] => Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, [2] => And greedily devour the treacherous bait: [3] => So angle we for Beatrice; who even now [4] => Is couched in the woodbine coverture. [5] => Fear you not my part of the dialogue. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Then go we near her, that her ear lose nothing [1] => Of the false sweet bait that we lay for it. [2] => No, truly, Ursula, she is too disdainful; [3] => I know her spirits are as coy and wild [4] => As haggerds of the rock. ) [STAGEDIR] => Approaching the bower ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But are you sure [1] => That Benedick loves Beatrice so entirely? ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => So says the prince and my new-trothed lord. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => And did they bid you tell her of it, madam? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They did entreat me to acquaint her of it; [1] => But I persuaded them, if they loved Benedick, [2] => To wish him wrestle with affection, [3] => And never to let Beatrice know of it. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why did you so? Doth not the gentleman [1] => Deserve as full as fortunate a bed [2] => As ever Beatrice shall couch upon? ) ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O god of love! I know he doth deserve [1] => As much as may be yielded to a man: [2] => But Nature never framed a woman's heart [3] => Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice; [4] => Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes, [5] => Misprising what they look on, and her wit [6] => Values itself so highly that to her [7] => All matter else seems weak: she cannot love, [8] => Nor take no shape nor project of affection, [9] => She is so self-endeared. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sure, I think so; [1] => And therefore certainly it were not good [2] => She knew his love, lest she make sport at it. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, you speak truth. I never yet saw man, [1] => How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured, [2] => But she would spell him backward: if fair-faced, [3] => She would swear the gentleman should be her sister; [4] => If black, why, Nature, drawing of an antique, [5] => Made a foul blot; if tall, a lance ill-headed; [6] => If low, an agate very vilely cut; [7] => If speaking, why, a vane blown with all winds; [8] => If silent, why, a block moved with none. [9] => So turns she every man the wrong side out [10] => And never gives to truth and virtue that [11] => Which simpleness and merit purchaseth. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Sure, sure, such carping is not commendable. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, not to be so odd and from all fashions [1] => As Beatrice is, cannot be commendable: [2] => But who dare tell her so? If I should speak, [3] => She would mock me into air; O, she would laugh me [4] => Out of myself, press me to death with wit. [5] => Therefore let Benedick, like cover'd fire, [6] => Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly: [7] => It were a better death than die with mocks, [8] => Which is as bad as die with tickling. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Yet tell her of it: hear what she will say. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No; rather I will go to Benedick [1] => And counsel him to fight against his passion. [2] => And, truly, I'll devise some honest slanders [3] => To stain my cousin with: one doth not know [4] => How much an ill word may empoison liking. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, do not do your cousin such a wrong. [1] => She cannot be so much without true judgment-- [2] => Having so swift and excellent a wit [3] => As she is prized to have--as to refuse [4] => So rare a gentleman as Signior Benedick. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is the only man of Italy. [1] => Always excepted my dear Claudio. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray you, be not angry with me, madam, [1] => Speaking my fancy: Signior Benedick, [2] => For shape, for bearing, argument and valour, [3] => Goes foremost in report through Italy. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Indeed, he hath an excellent good name. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => His excellence did earn it, ere he had it. [1] => When are you married, madam? ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, every day, to-morrow. Come, go in: [1] => I'll show thee some attires, and have thy counsel [2] => Which is the best to furnish me to-morrow. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => She's limed, I warrant you: we have caught her, madam. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it proves so, then loving goes by haps: [1] => Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Coming forward ) [1] => What fire is in mine ears? Can this be true? [2] => Stand I condemn'd for pride and scorn so much? [3] => Contempt, farewell! and maiden pride, adieu! [4] => No glory lives behind the back of such. [5] => And, Benedick, love on; I will requite thee, [6] => Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand: [7] => If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee [8] => To bind our loves up in a holy band; [9] => For others say thou dost deserve, and I [10] => Believe it better than reportingly. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A room in LEONATO'S house [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, and LEONATO [1] => Exeunt BENEDICK and LEONATO [2] => Enter DON JOHN [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do but stay till your marriage be consummate, and [1] => then go I toward Arragon. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll bring you thither, my lord, if you'll [1] => vouchsafe me. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new gloss [1] => of your marriage as to show a child his new coat [2] => and forbid him to wear it. I will only be bold [3] => with Benedick for his company; for, from the crown [4] => of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all [5] => mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's [6] => bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at [7] => him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell and his [8] => tongue is the clapper, for what his heart thinks his [9] => tongue speaks. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Gallants, I am not as I have been. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => So say I methinks you are sadder. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I hope he be in love. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hang him, truant! there's no true drop of blood in [1] => him, to be truly touched with love: if he be sad, [2] => he wants money. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I have the toothache. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Draw it. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Hang it! ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => What! sigh for the toothache? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Where is but a humour or a worm. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, every one can master a grief but he that has [1] => it. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Yet say I, he is in love. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be [1] => a fancy that he hath to strange disguises; as, to be [2] => a Dutchman today, a Frenchman to-morrow, or in the [3] => shape of two countries at once, as, a German from [4] => the waist downward, all slops, and a Spaniard from [5] => the hip upward, no doublet. Unless he have a fancy [6] => to this foolery, as it appears he hath, he is no [7] => fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he be not in love with some woman, there is no [1] => believing old signs: a' brushes his hat o' [2] => mornings; what should that bode? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Hath any man seen him at the barber's? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, but the barber's man hath been seen with him, [1] => and the old ornament of his cheek hath already [2] => stuffed tennis-balls. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a beard. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, a' rubs himself with civet: can you smell him [1] => out by that? ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => That's as much as to say, the sweet youth's in love. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => The greatest note of it is his melancholy. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => And when was he wont to wash his face? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, or to paint himself? for the which, I hear [1] => what they say of him. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, but his jesting spirit; which is now crept into [1] => a lute-string and now governed by stops. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Indeed, that tells a heavy tale for him: conclude, [1] => conclude he is in love. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Nay, but I know who loves him. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => That would I know too: I warrant, one that knows him not. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, and his ill conditions; and, in despite of [1] => all, dies for him. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => She shall be buried with her face upwards. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet is this no charm for the toothache. Old [1] => signior, walk aside with me: I have studied eight [2] => or nine wise words to speak to you, which these [3] => hobby-horses must not hear. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => For my life, to break with him about Beatrice. ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this [1] => played their parts with Beatrice; and then the two [2] => bears will not bite one another when they meet. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => My lord and brother, God save you! ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Good den, brother. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => If your leisure served, I would speak with you. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => In private? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If it please you: yet Count Claudio may hear; for [1] => what I would speak of concerns him. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => What's the matter? ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To CLAUDIO ) [1] => to-morrow? ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => You know he does. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => I know not that, when he knows what I know. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => If there be any impediment, I pray you discover it. ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You may think I love you not: let that appear [1] => hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will [2] => manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you [3] => well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect [4] => your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and [5] => labour ill bestowed. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Why, what's the matter? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I came hither to tell you; and, circumstances [1] => shortened, for she has been too long a talking of, [2] => the lady is disloyal. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Who, Hero? ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Even she; Leonato's Hero, your Hero, every man's Hero: ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Disloyal? ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The word is too good to paint out her wickedness; I [1] => could say she were worse: think you of a worse [2] => title, and I will fit her to it. Wonder not till [3] => further warrant: go but with me to-night, you shall [4] => see her chamber-window entered, even the night [5] => before her wedding-day: if you love her then, [6] => to-morrow wed her; but it would better fit your honour [7] => to change your mind. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => May this be so? ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => I will not think it. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you dare not trust that you see, confess not [1] => that you know: if you will follow me, I will show [2] => you enough; and when you have seen more and heard [3] => more, proceed accordingly. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If I see any thing to-night why I should not marry [1] => her to-morrow in the congregation, where I should [2] => wed, there will I shame her. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And, as I wooed for thee to obtain her, I will join [1] => with thee to disgrace her. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will disparage her no farther till you are my [1] => witnesses: bear it coldly but till midnight, and [2] => let the issue show itself. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => O day untowardly turned! ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => O mischief strangely thwarting! ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O plague right well prevented! so will you say when [1] => you have seen the sequel. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A street. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DOGBERRY and VERGES with the Watch [1] => Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES [2] => Enter BORACHIO and CONRADE [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Are you good men and true? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, or else it were pity but they should suffer [1] => salvation, body and soul. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, that were a punishment too good for them, if [1] => they should have any allegiance in them, being [2] => chosen for the prince's watch. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Well, give them their charge, neighbour Dogberry. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => First, who think you the most desertless man to be [1] => constable? ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hugh Otecake, sir, or George Seacole; for they can [1] => write and read. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come hither, neighbour Seacole. God hath blessed [1] => you with a good name: to be a well-favoured man is [2] => the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Watchman [LINE] => Both which, master constable,-- ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have: I knew it would be your answer. Well, [1] => for your favour, sir, why, give God thanks, and make [2] => no boast of it; and for your writing and reading, [3] => let that appear when there is no need of such [4] => vanity. You are thought here to be the most [5] => senseless and fit man for the constable of the [6] => watch; therefore bear you the lantern. This is your [7] => charge: you shall comprehend all vagrom men; you are [8] => to bid any man stand, in the prince's name. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Watchman [LINE] => How if a' will not stand? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go; and [1] => presently call the rest of the watch together and [2] => thank God you are rid of a knave. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he will not stand when he is bidden, he is none [1] => of the prince's subjects. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => True, and they are to meddle with none but the [1] => prince's subjects. You shall also make no noise in [2] => the streets; for, for the watch to babble and to [3] => talk is most tolerable and not to be endured. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We will rather sleep than talk: we know what [1] => belongs to a watch. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, you speak like an ancient and most quiet [1] => watchman; for I cannot see how sleeping should [2] => offend: only, have a care that your bills be not [3] => stolen. Well, you are to call at all the [4] => ale-houses, and bid those that are drunk get them to bed. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => How if they will not? ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then, let them alone till they are sober: if [1] => they make you not then the better answer, you may [2] => say they are not the men you took them for. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Well, sir. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you meet a thief, you may suspect him, by virtue [1] => of your office, to be no true man; and, for such [2] => kind of men, the less you meddle or make with them, [3] => why the more is for your honesty. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If we know him to be a thief, shall we not lay [1] => hands on him? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, by your office, you may; but I think they [1] => that touch pitch will be defiled: the most peaceable [2] => way for you, if you do take a thief, is to let him [3] => show himself what he is and steal out of your company. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => You have been always called a merciful man, partner. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more [1] => a man who hath any honesty in him. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you hear a child cry in the night, you must call [1] => to the nurse and bid her still it. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => How if the nurse be asleep and will not hear us? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then, depart in peace, and let the child wake [1] => her with crying; for the ewe that will not hear her [2] => lamb when it baes will never answer a calf when he bleats. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => 'Tis very true. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This is the end of the charge:--you, constable, are [1] => to present the prince's own person: if you meet the [2] => prince in the night, you may stay him. ) ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Nay, by'r our lady, that I think a' cannot. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Five shillings to one on't, with any man that knows [1] => the statutes, he may stay him: marry, not without [2] => the prince be willing; for, indeed, the watch ought [3] => to offend no man; and it is an offence to stay a [4] => man against his will. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => By'r lady, I think it be so. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ha, ha, ha! Well, masters, good night: an there be [1] => any matter of weight chances, call up me: keep your [2] => fellows' counsels and your own; and good night. [3] => Come, neighbour. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, masters, we hear our charge: let us go sit here [1] => upon the church-bench till two, and then all to bed. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One word more, honest neighbours. I pray you watch [1] => about Signior Leonato's door; for the wedding being [2] => there to-morrow, there is a great coil to-night. [3] => Adieu: be vigitant, I beseech you. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => What Conrade! ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Conrade, I say! ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Here, man; I am at thy elbow. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Mass, and my elbow itched; I thought there would a [1] => scab follow. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will owe thee an answer for that: and now forward [1] => with thy tale. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stand thee close, then, under this pent-house, for [1] => it drizzles rain; and I will, like a true drunkard, [2] => utter all to thee. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Is it possible that any villany should be so dear? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou shouldst rather ask if it were possible any [1] => villany should be so rich; for when rich villains [2] => have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what [3] => price they will. ) ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => I wonder at it. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => That shows thou art unconfirmed. Thou knowest that [1] => the fashion of a doublet, or a hat, or a cloak, is [2] => nothing to a man. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Yes, it is apparel. ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => I mean, the fashion. ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Yes, the fashion is the fashion. ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tush! I may as well say the fool's the fool. But [1] => seest thou not what a deformed thief this fashion [2] => is? ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside ) [1] => thief this seven year; a' goes up and down like a [2] => gentleman: I remember his name. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Didst thou not hear somebody? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => No; 'twas the vane on the house. ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Seest thou not, I say, what a deformed thief this [1] => fashion is? how giddily a' turns about all the hot [2] => bloods between fourteen and five-and-thirty? [3] => sometimes fashioning them like Pharaoh's soldiers [4] => in the reeky painting, sometime like god Bel's [5] => priests in the old church-window, sometime like the [6] => shaven Hercules in the smirched worm-eaten tapestry, [7] => where his codpiece seems as massy as his club? ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All this I see; and I see that the fashion wears [1] => out more apparel than the man. But art not thou [2] => thyself giddy with the fashion too, that thou hast [3] => shifted out of thy tale into telling me of the fashion? ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not so, neither: but know that I have to-night [1] => wooed Margaret, the Lady Hero's gentlewoman, by the [2] => name of Hero: she leans me out at her mistress' [3] => chamber-window, bids me a thousand times good [4] => night,--I tell this tale vilely:--I should first [5] => tell thee how the prince, Claudio and my master, [6] => planted and placed and possessed by my master Don [7] => John, saw afar off in the orchard this amiable encounter. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => And thought they Margaret was Hero? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Two of them did, the prince and Claudio; but the [1] => devil my master knew she was Margaret; and partly [2] => by his oaths, which first possessed them, partly by [3] => the dark night, which did deceive them, but chiefly [4] => by my villany, which did confirm any slander that [5] => Don John had made, away went Claudio enraged; swore [6] => he would meet her, as he was appointed, next morning [7] => at the temple, and there, before the whole [8] => congregation, shame her with what he saw o'er night [9] => and send her home again without a husband. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => We charge you, in the prince's name, stand! ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Call up the right master constable. We have here [1] => recovered the most dangerous piece of lechery that [2] => ever was known in the commonwealth. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And one Deformed is one of them: I know him; a' [1] => wears a lock. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Masters, masters,-- ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Watchman [LINE] => You'll be made bring Deformed forth, I warrant you. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Masters,-- ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => Never speak: we charge you let us obey you to go with us. ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We are like to prove a goodly commodity, being taken [1] => up of these men's bills. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => A commodity in question, I warrant you. Come, we'll obey you. ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. HERO's apartment. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter HERO, MARGARET, and URSULA [1] => Exit [2] => Enter BEATRICE [3] => Re-enter URSULA [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good Ursula, wake my cousin Beatrice, and desire [1] => her to rise. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => I will, lady. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => And bid her come hither. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Well. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Troth, I think your other rabato were better. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => No, pray thee, good Meg, I'll wear this. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, 's not so good; and I warrant your [1] => cousin will say so. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My cousin's a fool, and thou art another: I'll wear [1] => none but this. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I like the new tire within excellently, if the hair [1] => were a thought browner; and your gown's a most rare [2] => fashion, i' faith. I saw the Duchess of Milan's [3] => gown that they praise so. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => O, that exceeds, they say. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my troth, 's but a night-gown in respect of [1] => yours: cloth o' gold, and cuts, and laced with [2] => silver, set with pearls, down sleeves, side sleeves, [3] => and skirts, round underborne with a bluish tinsel: [4] => but for a fine, quaint, graceful and excellent [5] => fashion, yours is worth ten on 't. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => God give me joy to wear it! for my heart is [1] => exceeding heavy. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => 'Twill be heavier soon by the weight of a man. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Fie upon thee! art not ashamed? ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Of what, lady? of speaking honourably? Is not [1] => marriage honourable in a beggar? Is not your lord [2] => honourable without marriage? I think you would have [3] => me say, 'saving your reverence, a husband:' and bad [4] => thinking do not wrest true speaking, I'll offend [5] => nobody: is there any harm in 'the heavier for a [6] => husband'? None, I think, and it be the right husband [7] => and the right wife; otherwise 'tis light, and not [8] => heavy: ask my Lady Beatrice else; here she comes. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Good morrow, coz. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Good morrow, sweet Hero. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Why how now? do you speak in the sick tune? ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => I am out of all other tune, methinks. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Clap's into 'Light o' love;' that goes without a [1] => burden: do you sing it, and I'll dance it. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Ye light o' love, with your heels! then, if your [1] => husband have stables enough, you'll see he shall [2] => lack no barns. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => O illegitimate construction! I scorn that with my heels. ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis almost five o'clock, cousin; tis time you were [1] => ready. By my troth, I am exceeding ill: heigh-ho! ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => For a hawk, a horse, or a husband? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => For the letter that begins them all, H. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, and you be not turned Turk, there's no more [1] => sailing by the star. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => What means the fool, trow? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Nothing I; but God send every one their heart's desire! ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => These gloves the count sent me; they are an [1] => excellent perfume. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => A maid, and stuffed! there's goodly catching of cold. ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, God help me! God help me! how long have you [1] => professed apprehension? ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become me rarely? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It is not seen enough, you should wear it in your [1] => cap. By my troth, I am sick. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus, [1] => and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a qualm. ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => There thou prickest her with a thistle. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some moral in [1] => this Benedictus. ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning; I [1] => meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance [2] => that I think you are in love: nay, by'r lady, I am [3] => not such a fool to think what I list, nor I list [4] => not to think what I can, nor indeed I cannot think, [5] => if I would think my heart out of thinking, that you [6] => are in love or that you will be in love or that you [7] => can be in love. Yet Benedick was such another, and [8] => now is he become a man: he swore he would never [9] => marry, and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats [10] => his meat without grudging: and how you may be [11] => converted I know not, but methinks you look with [12] => your eyes as other women do. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => What pace is this that thy tongue keeps? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Not a false gallop. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior [1] => Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the [2] => town, are come to fetch you to church. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good Ursula. ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE V. Another room in LEONATO'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO, with DOGBERRY and VERGES [1] => Enter a Messenger [2] => Exeunt LEONATO and Messenger [3] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => What would you with me, honest neighbour? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, I would have some confidence with you [1] => that decerns you nearly. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Brief, I pray you; for you see it is a busy time with me. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Marry, this it is, sir. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Yes, in truth it is, sir. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => What is it, my good friends? ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Goodman Verges, sir, speaks a little off the [1] => matter: an old man, sir, and his wits are not so [2] => blunt as, God help, I would desire they were; but, [3] => in faith, honest as the skin between his brows. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yes, I thank God I am as honest as any man living [1] => that is an old man and no honester than I. ) ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Comparisons are odorous: palabras, neighbour Verges. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Neighbours, you are tedious. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the [1] => poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, [2] => if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in [3] => my heart to bestow it all of your worship. ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => All thy tediousness on me, ah? ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, an 'twere a thousand pound more than 'tis; for [1] => I hear as good exclamation on your worship as of any [2] => man in the city; and though I be but a poor man, I [3] => am glad to hear it. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => And so am I. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I would fain know what you have to say. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, our watch to-night, excepting your [1] => worship's presence, ha' ta'en a couple of as arrant [2] => knaves as any in Messina. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A good old man, sir; he will be talking: as they [1] => say, when the age is in, the wit is out: God help [2] => us! it is a world to see. Well said, i' faith, [3] => neighbour Verges: well, God's a good man; an two men [4] => ride of a horse, one must ride behind. An honest [5] => soul, i' faith, sir; by my troth he is, as ever [6] => broke bread; but God is to be worshipped; all men [7] => are not alike; alas, good neighbour! ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Indeed, neighbour, he comes too short of you. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Gifts that God gives. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I must leave you. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => One word, sir: our watch, sir, have indeed [1] => comprehended two aspicious persons, and we would [2] => have them this morning examined before your worship. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Take their examination yourself and bring it me: I [1] => am now in great haste, as it may appear unto you. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => It shall be suffigance. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Drink some wine ere you go: fare you well. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, they stay for you to give your daughter to [1] => her husband. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I'll wait upon them: I am ready. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Go, good partner, go, get you to Francis Seacole; [1] => bid him bring his pen and inkhorn to the gaol: we [2] => are now to examination these men. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => And we must do it wisely. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We will spare for no wit, I warrant you; here's [1] => that shall drive some of them to a non-come: only [2] => get the learned writer to set down our [3] => excommunication and meet me at the gaol. ) ) ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT IV [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. A church. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, LEONATO, FRIAR FRANCIS, CLAUDIO, BENEDICK, HERO, BEATRICE, and Attendants [1] => HERO swoons [2] => Exeunt DON PEDRO, DON JOHN, and CLAUDIO [3] => Exeunt all but BENEDICK and BEATRICE [4] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain [1] => form of marriage, and you shall recount their [2] => particular duties afterwards. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => No. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Lady, you come hither to be married to this count. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => I do. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If either of you know any inward impediment why you [1] => should not be conjoined, charge you, on your souls, [2] => to utter it. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Know you any, Hero? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => None, my lord. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Know you any, count? ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I dare make his answer, none. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily [1] => do, not knowing what they do! ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now! interjections? Why, then, some be of [1] => laughing, as, ah, ha, he! ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave: [1] => Will you with free and unconstrained soul [2] => Give me this maid, your daughter? ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => As freely, son, as God did give her me. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And what have I to give you back, whose worth [1] => May counterpoise this rich and precious gift? ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Nothing, unless you render her again. ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness. [1] => There, Leonato, take her back again: [2] => Give not this rotten orange to your friend; [3] => She's but the sign and semblance of her honour. [4] => Behold how like a maid she blushes here! [5] => O, what authority and show of truth [6] => Can cunning sin cover itself withal! [7] => Comes not that blood as modest evidence [8] => To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear, [9] => All you that see her, that she were a maid, [10] => By these exterior shows? But she is none: [11] => She knows the heat of a luxurious bed; [12] => Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => What do you mean, my lord? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Not to be married, [1] => Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof, [1] => Have vanquish'd the resistance of her youth, [2] => And made defeat of her virginity,-- ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know what you would say: if I have known her, [1] => You will say she did embrace me as a husband, [2] => And so extenuate the 'forehand sin: [3] => No, Leonato, [4] => I never tempted her with word too large; [5] => But, as a brother to his sister, show'd [6] => Bashful sincerity and comely love. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => And seem'd I ever otherwise to you? ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Out on thee! Seeming! I will write against it: [1] => You seem to me as Dian in her orb, [2] => As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown; [3] => But you are more intemperate in your blood [4] => Than Venus, or those pamper'd animals [5] => That rage in savage sensuality. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide? ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Sweet prince, why speak not you? ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What should I speak? [1] => I stand dishonour'd, that have gone about [2] => To link my dear friend to a common stale. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Are these things spoken, or do I but dream? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true. ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => This looks not like a nuptial. ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => True! O God! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Leonato, stand I here? [1] => Is this the prince? is this the prince's brother? [2] => Is this face Hero's? are our eyes our own? ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => All this is so: but what of this, my lord? ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Let me but move one question to your daughter; [1] => And, by that fatherly and kindly power [2] => That you have in her, bid her answer truly. ) ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I charge thee do so, as thou art my child. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O, God defend me! how am I beset! [1] => What kind of catechising call you this? ) ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => To make you answer truly to your name. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name [1] => With any just reproach? ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, that can Hero; [1] => Hero itself can blot out Hero's virtue. [2] => What man was he talk'd with you yesternight [3] => Out at your window betwixt twelve and one? [4] => Now, if you are a maid, answer to this. ) ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => I talk'd with no man at that hour, my lord. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato, [1] => I am sorry you must hear: upon mine honour, [2] => Myself, my brother and this grieved count [3] => Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night [4] => Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window [5] => Who hath indeed, most like a liberal villain, [6] => Confess'd the vile encounters they have had [7] => A thousand times in secret. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fie, fie! they are not to be named, my lord, [1] => Not to be spoke of; [2] => There is not chastity enough in language [3] => Without offence to utter them. Thus, pretty lady, [4] => I am sorry for thy much misgovernment. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been, [1] => If half thy outward graces had been placed [2] => About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart! [3] => But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! farewell, [4] => Thou pure impiety and impious purity! [5] => For thee I'll lock up all the gates of love, [6] => And on my eyelids shall conjecture hang, [7] => To turn all beauty into thoughts of harm, [8] => And never shall it more be gracious. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Hath no man's dagger here a point for me? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Why, how now, cousin! wherefore sink you down? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON JOHN [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, let us go. These things, come thus to light, [1] => Smother her spirits up. ) ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => How doth the lady? ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dead, I think. Help, uncle! [1] => Hero! why, Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar! ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O Fate! take not away thy heavy hand. [1] => Death is the fairest cover for her shame [2] => That may be wish'd for. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => How now, cousin Hero! ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Have comfort, lady. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Dost thou look up? ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Yea, wherefore should she not? ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing [1] => Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny [2] => The story that is printed in her blood? [3] => Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes: [4] => For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, [5] => Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, [6] => Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches, [7] => Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one? [8] => Chid I for that at frugal nature's frame? [9] => O, one too much by thee! Why had I one? [10] => Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes? [11] => Why had I not with charitable hand [12] => Took up a beggar's issue at my gates, [13] => Who smirch'd thus and mired with infamy, [14] => I might have said 'No part of it is mine; [15] => This shame derives itself from unknown loins'? [16] => But mine and mine I loved and mine I praised [17] => And mine that I was proud on, mine so much [18] => That I myself was to myself not mine, [19] => Valuing of her,--why, she, O, she is fallen [20] => Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea [21] => Hath drops too few to wash her clean again [22] => And salt too little which may season give [23] => To her foul-tainted flesh! ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, sir, be patient. [1] => For my part, I am so attired in wonder, [2] => I know not what to say. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => O, on my soul, my cousin is belied! ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Lady, were you her bedfellow last night? ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, truly not; although, until last night, [1] => I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Confirm'd, confirm'd! O, that is stronger made [1] => Which was before barr'd up with ribs of iron! [2] => Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie, [3] => Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness, [4] => Wash'd it with tears? Hence from her! let her die. ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hear me a little; for I have only been [1] => Silent so long and given way unto [2] => This course of fortune [3] => By noting of the lady. I have mark'd [4] => A thousand blushing apparitions [5] => To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames [6] => In angel whiteness beat away those blushes; [7] => And in her eye there hath appear'd a fire, [8] => To burn the errors that these princes hold [9] => Against her maiden truth. Call me a fool; [10] => Trust not my reading nor my observations, [11] => Which with experimental seal doth warrant [12] => The tenor of my book; trust not my age, [13] => My reverence, calling, nor divinity, [14] => If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here [15] => Under some biting error. ) ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Friar, it cannot be. [1] => Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left [2] => Is that she will not add to her damnation [3] => A sin of perjury; she not denies it: [4] => Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse [5] => That which appears in proper nakedness? ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Lady, what man is he you are accused of? ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => They know that do accuse me; I know none: [1] => If I know more of any man alive [2] => Than that which maiden modesty doth warrant, [3] => Let all my sins lack mercy! O my father, [4] => Prove you that any man with me conversed [5] => At hours unmeet, or that I yesternight [6] => Maintain'd the change of words with any creature, [7] => Refuse me, hate me, torture me to death! ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => There is some strange misprision in the princes. ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Two of them have the very bent of honour; [1] => And if their wisdoms be misled in this, [2] => The practise of it lives in John the bastard, [3] => Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies. ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not. If they speak but truth of her, [1] => These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour, [2] => The proudest of them shall well hear of it. [3] => Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, [4] => Nor age so eat up my invention, [5] => Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, [6] => Nor my bad life reft me so much of friends, [7] => But they shall find, awaked in such a kind, [8] => Both strength of limb and policy of mind, [9] => Ability in means and choice of friends, [10] => To quit me of them throughly. ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pause awhile, [1] => And let my counsel sway you in this case. [2] => Your daughter here the princes left for dead: [3] => Let her awhile be secretly kept in, [4] => And publish it that she is dead indeed; [5] => Maintain a mourning ostentation [6] => And on your family's old monument [7] => Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites [8] => That appertain unto a burial. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => What shall become of this? what will this do? ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, this well carried shall on her behalf [1] => Change slander to remorse; that is some good: [2] => But not for that dream I on this strange course, [3] => But on this travail look for greater birth. [4] => She dying, as it must so be maintain'd, [5] => Upon the instant that she was accused, [6] => Shall be lamented, pitied and excused [7] => Of every hearer: for it so falls out [8] => That what we have we prize not to the worth [9] => Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, [10] => Why, then we rack the value, then we find [11] => The virtue that possession would not show us [12] => Whiles it was ours. So will it fare with Claudio: [13] => When he shall hear she died upon his words, [14] => The idea of her life shall sweetly creep [15] => Into his study of imagination, [16] => And every lovely organ of her life [17] => Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, [18] => More moving-delicate and full of life, [19] => Into the eye and prospect of his soul, [20] => Than when she lived indeed; then shall he mourn, [21] => If ever love had interest in his liver, [22] => And wish he had not so accused her, [23] => No, though he thought his accusation true. [24] => Let this be so, and doubt not but success [25] => Will fashion the event in better shape [26] => Than I can lay it down in likelihood. [27] => But if all aim but this be levell'd false, [28] => The supposition of the lady's death [29] => Will quench the wonder of her infamy: [30] => And if it sort not well, you may conceal her, [31] => As best befits her wounded reputation, [32] => In some reclusive and religious life, [33] => Out of all eyes, tongues, minds and injuries. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Signior Leonato, let the friar advise you: [1] => And though you know my inwardness and love [2] => Is very much unto the prince and Claudio, [3] => Yet, by mine honour, I will deal in this [4] => As secretly and justly as your soul [5] => Should with your body. ) ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Being that I flow in grief, [1] => The smallest twine may lead me. ) ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Tis well consented: presently away; [1] => For to strange sores strangely they strain the cure. [2] => Come, lady, die to live: this wedding-day [3] => Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure. ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while? ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Yea, and I will weep a while longer. ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => I will not desire that. ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => You have no reason; I do it freely. ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wronged. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her! ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Is there any way to show such friendship? ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => A very even way, but no such friend. ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => May a man do it? ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => It is a man's office, but not yours. ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is [1] => not that strange? ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As strange as the thing I know not. It were as [1] => possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as [2] => you: but believe me not; and yet I lie not; I [3] => confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin. ) ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Do not swear, and eat it. ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will swear by it that you love me; and I will make [1] => him eat it that says I love not you. ) ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Will you not eat your word? ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => With no sauce that can be devised to it. I protest [1] => I love thee. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Why, then, God forgive me! ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => What offence, sweet Beatrice? ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => You have stayed me in a happy hour: I was about to [1] => protest I loved you. ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => And do it with all thy heart. ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I love you with so much of my heart that none is [1] => left to protest. ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Come, bid me do any thing for thee. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Kill Claudio. ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Ha! not for the wide world. ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => You kill me to deny it. Farewell. ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Tarry, sweet Beatrice. ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I am gone, though I am here: there is no love in [1] => you: nay, I pray you, let me go. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Beatrice,-- ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => In faith, I will go. ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => We'll be friends first. ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy. ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Is Claudio thine enemy? ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Is he not approved in the height a villain, that [1] => hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O [2] => that I were a man! What, bear her in hand until they [3] => come to take hands; and then, with public [4] => accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour, [5] => --O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart [6] => in the market-place. ) ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Hear me, Beatrice,-- ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying! ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Nay, but, Beatrice,-- ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Sweet Hero! She is wronged, she is slandered, she is undone. ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Beat-- ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Princes and counties! Surely, a princely testimony, [1] => a goodly count, Count Comfect; a sweet gallant, [2] => surely! O that I were a man for his sake! or that I [3] => had any friend would be a man for my sake! But [4] => manhood is melted into courtesies, valour into [5] => compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and [6] => trim ones too: he is now as valiant as Hercules [7] => that only tells a lie and swears it. I cannot be a [8] => man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving. ) ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee. ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it. ) [114] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wronged Hero? ) [115] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul. ) [116] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Enough, I am engaged; I will challenge him. I will [1] => kiss your hand, and so I leave you. By this hand, [2] => Claudio shall render me a dear account. As you [3] => hear of me, so think of me. Go, comfort your [4] => cousin: I must say she is dead: and so, farewell. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. A prison. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and Sexton, in gowns; and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO [1] => Exit [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Is our whole dissembly appeared? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => O, a stool and a cushion for the sexton. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => Which be the malefactors? ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Marry, that am I and my partner. ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Nay, that's certain; we have the exhibition to examine. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But which are the offenders that are to be [1] => examined? let them come before master constable. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, marry, let them come before me. What is your [1] => name, friend? ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Borachio. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Pray, write down, Borachio. Yours, sirrah? ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Write down, master gentleman Conrade. Masters, do [1] => you serve God? ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Array ( [0] => CONRADE [1] => BORACHIO ) [LINE] => Yea, sir, we hope. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Write down, that they hope they serve God: and [1] => write God first; for God defend but God should go [2] => before such villains! Masters, it is proved already [3] => that you are little better than false knaves; and it [4] => will go near to be thought so shortly. How answer [5] => you for yourselves? ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Marry, sir, we say we are none. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A marvellous witty fellow, I assure you: but I [1] => will go about with him. Come you hither, sirrah; a [2] => word in your ear: sir, I say to you, it is thought [3] => you are false knaves. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Sir, I say to you we are none. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, stand aside. 'Fore God, they are both in a [1] => tale. Have you writ down, that they are none? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Master constable, you go not the way to examine: [1] => you must call forth the watch that are their accusers. ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, marry, that's the eftest way. Let the watch [1] => come forth. Masters, I charge you, in the prince's [2] => name, accuse these men. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => This man said, sir, that Don John, the prince's [1] => brother, was a villain. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Write down Prince John a villain. Why, this is flat [1] => perjury, to call a prince's brother villain. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Master constable,-- ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray thee, fellow, peace: I do not like thy look, [1] => I promise thee. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => What heard you him say else? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Second Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of [1] => Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Flat burglary as ever was committed. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Yea, by mass, that it is. ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => What else, fellow? ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => First Watchman [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And that Count Claudio did mean, upon his words, to [1] => disgrace Hero before the whole assembly. and not marry her. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O villain! thou wilt be condemned into everlasting [1] => redemption for this. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => What else? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Watchman [LINE] => This is all. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Sexton [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And this is more, masters, than you can deny. [1] => Prince John is this morning secretly stolen away; [2] => Hero was in this manner accused, in this very manner [3] => refused, and upon the grief of this suddenly died. [4] => Master constable, let these men be bound, and [5] => brought to Leonato's: I will go before and show [6] => him their examination. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Come, let them be opinioned. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Let them be in the hands-- ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Off, coxcomb! ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => God's my life, where's the sexton? let him write [1] => down the prince's officer coxcomb. Come, bind them. [2] => Thou naughty varlet! ) ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CONRADE [LINE] => Away! you are an ass, you are an ass. ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Dost thou not suspect my place? dost thou not [1] => suspect my years? O that he were here to write me [2] => down an ass! But, masters, remember that I am an [3] => ass; though it be not written down, yet forget not [4] => that I am an ass. No, thou villain, thou art full of [5] => piety, as shall be proved upon thee by good witness. [6] => I am a wise fellow, and, which is more, an officer, [7] => and, which is more, a householder, and, which is [8] => more, as pretty a piece of flesh as any is in [9] => Messina, and one that knows the law, go to; and a [10] => rich fellow enough, go to; and a fellow that hath [11] => had losses, and one that hath two gowns and every [12] => thing handsome about him. Bring him away. O that [13] => I had been writ down an ass! ) ) ) ) ) ) [4] => Array ( [TITLE] => ACT V [SCENE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO [1] => Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO [2] => Exeunt LEONATO and ANTONIO [3] => Enter BENEDICK [4] => Exit [5] => Enter DOGBERRY, VERGES, and the Watch, with CONRADE and BORACHIO [6] => Re-enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, with the Sexton [7] => Exeunt DOGBERRY and VERGES [8] => Exeunt, severally ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you go on thus, you will kill yourself: [1] => And 'tis not wisdom thus to second grief [2] => Against yourself. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray thee, cease thy counsel, [1] => Which falls into mine ears as profitless [2] => As water in a sieve: give not me counsel; [3] => Nor let no comforter delight mine ear [4] => But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine. [5] => Bring me a father that so loved his child, [6] => Whose joy of her is overwhelm'd like mine, [7] => And bid him speak of patience; [8] => Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine [9] => And let it answer every strain for strain, [10] => As thus for thus and such a grief for such, [11] => In every lineament, branch, shape, and form: [12] => If such a one will smile and stroke his beard, [13] => Bid sorrow wag, cry 'hem!' when he should groan, [14] => Patch grief with proverbs, make misfortune drunk [15] => With candle-wasters; bring him yet to me, [16] => And I of him will gather patience. [17] => But there is no such man: for, brother, men [18] => Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief [19] => Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it, [20] => Their counsel turns to passion, which before [21] => Would give preceptial medicine to rage, [22] => Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, [23] => Charm ache with air and agony with words: [24] => No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience [25] => To those that wring under the load of sorrow, [26] => But no man's virtue nor sufficiency [27] => To be so moral when he shall endure [28] => The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: [29] => My griefs cry louder than advertisement. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Therein do men from children nothing differ. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I pray thee, peace. I will be flesh and blood; [1] => For there was never yet philosopher [2] => That could endure the toothache patiently, [3] => However they have writ the style of gods [4] => And made a push at chance and sufferance. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yet bend not all the harm upon yourself; [1] => Make those that do offend you suffer too. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => There thou speak'st reason: nay, I will do so. [1] => My soul doth tell me Hero is belied; [2] => And that shall Claudio know; so shall the prince [3] => And all of them that thus dishonour her. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Here comes the prince and Claudio hastily. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Good den, good den. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Good day to both of you. ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Hear you. my lords,-- ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => We have some haste, Leonato. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Some haste, my lord! well, fare you well, my lord: [1] => Are you so hasty now? well, all is one. ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Nay, do not quarrel with us, good old man. ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If he could right himself with quarreling, [1] => Some of us would lie low. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Who wrongs him? ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, thou dost wrong me; thou dissembler, thou:-- [1] => Nay, never lay thy hand upon thy sword; [2] => I fear thee not. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, beshrew my hand, [1] => If it should give your age such cause of fear: [2] => In faith, my hand meant nothing to my sword. ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Tush, tush, man; never fleer and jest at me: [1] => I speak not like a dotard nor a fool, [2] => As under privilege of age to brag [3] => What I have done being young, or what would do [4] => Were I not old. Know, Claudio, to thy head, [5] => Thou hast so wrong'd mine innocent child and me [6] => That I am forced to lay my reverence by [7] => And, with grey hairs and bruise of many days, [8] => Do challenge thee to trial of a man. [9] => I say thou hast belied mine innocent child; [10] => Thy slander hath gone through and through her heart, [11] => And she lies buried with her ancestors; [12] => O, in a tomb where never scandal slept, [13] => Save this of hers, framed by thy villany! ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => My villany? ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Thine, Claudio; thine, I say. ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => You say not right, old man. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, my lord, [1] => I'll prove it on his body, if he dare, [2] => Despite his nice fence and his active practise, [3] => His May of youth and bloom of lustihood. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Away! I will not have to do with you. ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast kill'd my child: [1] => If thou kill'st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man. ) ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He shall kill two of us, and men indeed: [1] => But that's no matter; let him kill one first; [2] => Win me and wear me; let him answer me. [3] => Come, follow me, boy; come, sir boy, come, follow me: [4] => Sir boy, I'll whip you from your foining fence; [5] => Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will. ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Brother,-- ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece; [1] => And she is dead, slander'd to death by villains, [2] => That dare as well answer a man indeed [3] => As I dare take a serpent by the tongue: [4] => Boys, apes, braggarts, Jacks, milksops! ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Brother Antony,-- ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Hold you content. What, man! I know them, yea, [1] => And what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple,-- [2] => Scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys, [3] => That lie and cog and flout, deprave and slander, [4] => Go anticly, show outward hideousness, [5] => And speak off half a dozen dangerous words, [6] => How they might hurt their enemies, if they durst; [7] => And this is all. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => But, brother Antony,-- ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, 'tis no matter: [1] => Do not you meddle; let me deal in this. ) ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Gentlemen both, we will not wake your patience. [1] => My heart is sorry for your daughter's death: [2] => But, on my honour, she was charged with nothing [3] => But what was true and very full of proof. ) ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => My lord, my lord,-- ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => I will not hear you. ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => No? Come, brother; away! I will be heard. ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => And shall, or some of us will smart for it. ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => See, see; here comes the man we went to seek. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Now, signior, what news? ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Good day, my lord. ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Welcome, signior: you are almost come to part [1] => almost a fray. ) ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We had like to have had our two noses snapped off [1] => with two old men without teeth. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Leonato and his brother. What thinkest thou? Had [1] => we fought, I doubt we should have been too young for them. ) ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In a false quarrel there is no true valour. I came [1] => to seek you both. ) ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => We have been up and down to seek thee; for we are [1] => high-proof melancholy and would fain have it beaten [2] => away. Wilt thou use thy wit? ) ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => It is in my scabbard: shall I draw it? ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Dost thou wear thy wit by thy side? ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Never any did so, though very many have been beside [1] => their wit. I will bid thee draw, as we do the [2] => minstrels; draw, to pleasure us. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => As I am an honest man, he looks pale. Art thou [1] => sick, or angry? ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What, courage, man! What though care killed a cat, [1] => thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sir, I shall meet your wit in the career, and you [1] => charge it against me. I pray you choose another subject. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nay, then, give him another staff: this last was [1] => broke cross. ) ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By this light, he changes more and more: I think [1] => he be angry indeed. ) ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => If he be, he knows how to turn his girdle. ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Shall I speak a word in your ear? ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => God bless me from a challenge! ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Aside to CLAUDIO ) [1] => I will make it good how you dare, with what you [2] => dare, and when you dare. Do me right, or I will [3] => protest your cowardice. You have killed a sweet [4] => lady, and her death shall fall heavy on you. Let me [5] => hear from you. ) ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Well, I will meet you, so I may have good cheer. ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => What, a feast, a feast? ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I' faith, I thank him; he hath bid me to a calf's [1] => head and a capon; the which if I do not carve most [2] => curiously, say my knife's naught. Shall I not find [3] => a woodcock too? ) ) [59] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Sir, your wit ambles well; it goes easily. ) [60] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll tell thee how Beatrice praised thy wit the [1] => other day. I said, thou hadst a fine wit: 'True,' [2] => said she, 'a fine little one.' 'No,' said I, 'a [3] => great wit:' 'Right,' says she, 'a great gross one.' [4] => 'Nay,' said I, 'a good wit:' 'Just,' said she, 'it [5] => hurts nobody.' 'Nay,' said I, 'the gentleman [6] => is wise:' 'Certain,' said she, 'a wise gentleman.' [7] => 'Nay,' said I, 'he hath the tongues:' 'That I [8] => believe,' said she, 'for he swore a thing to me on [9] => Monday night, which he forswore on Tuesday morning; [10] => there's a double tongue; there's two tongues.' Thus [11] => did she, an hour together, transshape thy particular [12] => virtues: yet at last she concluded with a sigh, thou [13] => wast the properest man in Italy. ) ) [61] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For the which she wept heartily and said she cared [1] => not. ) ) [62] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, that she did: but yet, for all that, an if she [1] => did not hate him deadly, she would love him dearly: [2] => the old man's daughter told us all. ) ) [63] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All, all; and, moreover, God saw him when he was [1] => hid in the garden. ) ) [64] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But when shall we set the savage bull's horns on [1] => the sensible Benedick's head? ) ) [65] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Yea, and text underneath, 'Here dwells Benedick the [1] => married man'? ) ) [66] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Fare you well, boy: you know my mind. I will leave [1] => you now to your gossip-like humour: you break jests [2] => as braggarts do their blades, which God be thanked, [3] => hurt not. My lord, for your many courtesies I thank [4] => you: I must discontinue your company: your brother [5] => the bastard is fled from Messina: you have among [6] => you killed a sweet and innocent lady. For my Lord [7] => Lackbeard there, he and I shall meet: and, till [8] => then, peace be with him. ) ) [67] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => He is in earnest. ) [68] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In most profound earnest; and, I'll warrant you, for [1] => the love of Beatrice. ) ) [69] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => And hath challenged thee. ) [70] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Most sincerely. ) [71] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his [1] => doublet and hose and leaves off his wit! ) ) [72] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is then a giant to an ape; but then is an ape a [1] => doctor to such a man. ) ) [73] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => But, soft you, let me be: pluck up, my heart, and [1] => be sad. Did he not say, my brother was fled? ) ) [74] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come you, sir: if justice cannot tame you, she [1] => shall ne'er weigh more reasons in her balance: nay, [2] => an you be a cursing hypocrite once, you must be looked to. ) ) [75] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => How now? two of my brother's men bound! Borachio [1] => one! ) ) [76] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Hearken after their offence, my lord. ) [77] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Officers, what offence have these men done? ) [78] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Marry, sir, they have committed false report; [1] => moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, [2] => they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have [3] => belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust [4] => things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves. ) ) [79] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => First, I ask thee what they have done; thirdly, I [1] => ask thee what's their offence; sixth and lastly, why [2] => they are committed; and, to conclude, what you lay [3] => to their charge. ) ) [80] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Rightly reasoned, and in his own division: and, by [1] => my troth, there's one meaning well suited. ) ) [81] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Who have you offended, masters, that you are thus [1] => bound to your answer? this learned constable is [2] => too cunning to be understood: what's your offence? ) ) [82] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet prince, let me go no farther to mine answer: [1] => do you hear me, and let this count kill me. I have [2] => deceived even your very eyes: what your wisdoms [3] => could not discover, these shallow fools have brought [4] => to light: who in the night overheard me confessing [5] => to this man how Don John your brother incensed me [6] => to slander the Lady Hero, how you were brought into [7] => the orchard and saw me court Margaret in Hero's [8] => garments, how you disgraced her, when you should [9] => marry her: my villany they have upon record; which [10] => I had rather seal with my death than repeat over [11] => to my shame. The lady is dead upon mine and my [12] => master's false accusation; and, briefly, I desire [13] => nothing but the reward of a villain. ) ) [83] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Runs not this speech like iron through your blood? ) [84] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I have drunk poison whiles he utter'd it. ) [85] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => But did my brother set thee on to this? ) [86] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Yea, and paid me richly for the practise of it. ) [87] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => He is composed and framed of treachery: [1] => And fled he is upon this villany. ) ) [88] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Sweet Hero! now thy image doth appear [1] => In the rare semblance that I loved it first. ) ) [89] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, bring away the plaintiffs: by this time our [1] => sexton hath reformed Signior Leonato of the matter: [2] => and, masters, do not forget to specify, when time [3] => and place shall serve, that I am an ass. ) ) [90] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => VERGES [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Here, here comes master Signior Leonato, and the [1] => Sexton too. ) ) [91] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Which is the villain? let me see his eyes, [1] => That, when I note another man like him, [2] => I may avoid him: which of these is he? ) ) [92] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => If you would know your wronger, look on me. ) [93] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast kill'd [1] => Mine innocent child? ) ) [94] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Yea, even I alone. ) [95] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, not so, villain; thou beliest thyself: [1] => Here stand a pair of honourable men; [2] => A third is fled, that had a hand in it. [3] => I thank you, princes, for my daughter's death: [4] => Record it with your high and worthy deeds: [5] => 'Twas bravely done, if you bethink you of it. ) ) [96] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I know not how to pray your patience; [1] => Yet I must speak. Choose your revenge yourself; [2] => Impose me to what penance your invention [3] => Can lay upon my sin: yet sinn'd I not [4] => But in mistaking. ) ) [97] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => By my soul, nor I: [1] => And yet, to satisfy this good old man, [2] => I would bend under any heavy weight [3] => That he'll enjoin me to. ) ) [98] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I cannot bid you bid my daughter live; [1] => That were impossible: but, I pray you both, [2] => Possess the people in Messina here [3] => How innocent she died; and if your love [4] => Can labour ought in sad invention, [5] => Hang her an epitaph upon her tomb [6] => And sing it to her bones, sing it to-night: [7] => To-morrow morning come you to my house, [8] => And since you could not be my son-in-law, [9] => Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter, [10] => Almost the copy of my child that's dead, [11] => And she alone is heir to both of us: [12] => Give her the right you should have given her cousin, [13] => And so dies my revenge. ) ) [99] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => O noble sir, [1] => Your over-kindness doth wring tears from me! [2] => I do embrace your offer; and dispose [3] => For henceforth of poor Claudio. ) ) [100] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To-morrow then I will expect your coming; [1] => To-night I take my leave. This naughty man [2] => Shall face to face be brought to Margaret, [3] => Who I believe was pack'd in all this wrong, [4] => Hired to it by your brother. ) ) [101] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BORACHIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, by my soul, she was not, [1] => Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me, [2] => But always hath been just and virtuous [3] => In any thing that I do know by her. ) ) [102] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Moreover, sir, which indeed is not under white and [1] => black, this plaintiff here, the offender, did call [2] => me ass: I beseech you, let it be remembered in his [3] => punishment. And also, the watch heard them talk of [4] => one Deformed: they say be wears a key in his ear and [5] => a lock hanging by it, and borrows money in God's [6] => name, the which he hath used so long and never paid [7] => that now men grow hard-hearted and will lend nothing [8] => for God's sake: pray you, examine him upon that point. ) ) [103] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => I thank thee for thy care and honest pains. ) [104] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your worship speaks like a most thankful and [1] => reverend youth; and I praise God for you. ) ) [105] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => There's for thy pains. ) [106] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => God save the foundation! ) [107] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Go, I discharge thee of thy prisoner, and I thank thee. ) [108] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DOGBERRY [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I leave an arrant knave with your worship; which I [1] => beseech your worship to correct yourself, for the [2] => example of others. God keep your worship! I wish [3] => your worship well; God restore you to health! I [4] => humbly give you leave to depart; and if a merry [5] => meeting may be wished, God prohibit it! Come, neighbour. ) ) [109] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Until to-morrow morning, lords, farewell. ) [110] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Farewell, my lords: we look for you to-morrow. ) [111] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => We will not fail. ) [112] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => To-night I'll mourn with Hero. ) [113] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => To the Watch ) [1] => talk with Margaret, [2] => How her acquaintance grew with this lewd fellow. ) ) ) ) [1] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE II. LEONATO'S garden. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter BENEDICK and MARGARET, meeting [1] => Enter URSULA [2] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well at [1] => my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice. ) ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Will you then write me a sonnet in praise of my beauty? ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In so high a style, Margaret, that no man living [1] => shall come over it; for, in most comely truth, thou [2] => deservest it. ) ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To have no man come over me! why, shall I always [1] => keep below stairs? ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound's mouth; it catches. ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And yours as blunt as the fencer's foils, which hit, [1] => but hurt not. ) ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A most manly wit, Margaret; it will not hurt a [1] => woman: and so, I pray thee, call Beatrice: I give [2] => thee the bucklers. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Give us the swords; we have bucklers of our own. ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => If you use them, Margaret, you must put in the [1] => pikes with a vice; and they are dangerous weapons for maids. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => MARGARET [LINE] => Well, I will call Beatrice to you, who I think hath legs. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And therefore will come. [1] => The god of love, [2] => That sits above, [3] => And knows me, and knows me, [4] => How pitiful I deserve,-- [5] => I mean in singing; but in loving, Leander the good [6] => swimmer, Troilus the first employer of panders, and [7] => a whole bookful of these quondam carpet-mangers, [8] => whose names yet run smoothly in the even road of a [9] => blank verse, why, they were never so truly turned [10] => over and over as my poor self in love. Marry, I [11] => cannot show it in rhyme; I have tried: I can find [12] => out no rhyme to 'lady' but 'baby,' an innocent [13] => rhyme; for 'scorn,' 'horn,' a hard rhyme; for, [14] => 'school,' 'fool,' a babbling rhyme; very ominous [15] => endings: no, I was not born under a rhyming planet, [16] => nor I cannot woo in festival terms. [17] => Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? ) [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Exit MARGARET [1] => Sings [2] => Enter BEATRICE ) ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => O, stay but till then! ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now: and yet, ere [1] => I go, let me go with that I came; which is, with [2] => knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio. ) ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Only foul words; and thereupon I will kiss thee. ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but [1] => foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I [2] => will depart unkissed. ) ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Thou hast frighted the word out of his right sense, [1] => so forcible is thy wit. But I must tell thee [2] => plainly, Claudio undergoes my challenge; and either [3] => I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe [4] => him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me for [5] => which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For them all together; which maintained so politic [1] => a state of evil that they will not admit any good [2] => part to intermingle with them. But for which of my [3] => good parts did you first suffer love for me? ) ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Suffer love! a good epithet! I do suffer love [1] => indeed, for I love thee against my will. ) ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => In spite of your heart, I think; alas, poor heart! [1] => If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for [2] => yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates. ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably. ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => It appears not in this confession: there's not one [1] => wise man among twenty that will praise himself. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in [1] => the lime of good neighbours. If a man do not erect [2] => in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live [3] => no longer in monument than the bell rings and the [4] => widow weeps. ) ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => And how long is that, think you? ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in [1] => rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the [2] => wise, if Don Worm, his conscience, find no [3] => impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his [4] => own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for [5] => praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is [6] => praiseworthy: and now tell me, how doth your cousin? ) ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Very ill. ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => And how do you? ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Very ill too. ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Serve God, love me and mend. There will I leave [1] => you too, for here comes one in haste. ) ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => URSULA [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder's old [1] => coil at home: it is proved my Lady Hero hath been [2] => falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily [3] => abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is [4] => fed and gone. Will you come presently? ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Will you go hear this news, signior? ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be [1] => buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with [2] => thee to thy uncle's. ) ) ) ) [2] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE III. A church. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and three or four with tapers [1] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Is this the monument of Leonato? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Lord [LINE] => It is, my lord. ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Reading out of a scroll ) [1] => Done to death by slanderous tongues [2] => Was the Hero that here lies: [3] => Death, in guerdon of her wrongs, [4] => Gives her fame which never dies. [5] => So the life that died with shame [6] => Lives in death with glorious fame. [7] => Hang thou there upon the tomb, [8] => Praising her when I am dumb. [9] => Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn. [10] => Pardon, goddess of the night, [11] => Those that slew thy virgin knight; [12] => For the which, with songs of woe, [13] => Round about her tomb they go. [14] => Midnight, assist our moan; [15] => Help us to sigh and groan, [16] => Heavily, heavily: [17] => Graves, yawn and yield your dead, [18] => Till death be uttered, [19] => Heavily, heavily. ) [SUBHEAD] => SONG. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Now, unto thy bones good night! [1] => Yearly will I do this rite. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good morrow, masters; put your torches out: [1] => The wolves have prey'd; and look, the gentle day, [2] => Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about [3] => Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. [4] => Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well. ) ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Good morrow, masters: each his several way. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds; [1] => And then to Leonato's we will go. ) ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And Hymen now with luckier issue speed's [1] => Than this for whom we render'd up this woe. ) ) ) ) [3] => Array ( [TITLE] => SCENE IV. A room in LEONATO'S house. [STAGEDIR] => Array ( [0] => Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, MARGARET, URSULA, FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO [1] => Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others [2] => Exit ANTONIO [3] => Kissing her [4] => Enter a Messenger [5] => Dance [6] => Exit Act ) [SPEECH] => Array ( [0] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Did I not tell you she was innocent? ) [1] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => So are the prince and Claudio, who accused her [1] => Upon the error that you heard debated: [2] => But Margaret was in some fault for this, [3] => Although against her will, as it appears [4] => In the true course of all the question. ) ) [2] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Well, I am glad that all things sort so well. ) [3] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And so am I, being else by faith enforced [1] => To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it. ) ) [4] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Well, daughter, and you gentle-women all, [1] => Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves, [2] => And when I send for you, come hither mask'd. [3] => The prince and Claudio promised by this hour [4] => To visit me. You know your office, brother: [5] => You must be father to your brother's daughter [6] => And give her to young Claudio. ) [STAGEDIR] => Exeunt Ladies ) [5] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => Which I will do with confirm'd countenance. ) [6] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think. ) [7] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => To do what, signior? ) [8] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => To bind me, or undo me; one of them. [1] => Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior, [2] => Your niece regards me with an eye of favour. ) ) [9] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => That eye my daughter lent her: 'tis most true. ) [10] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => And I do with an eye of love requite her. ) [11] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => The sight whereof I think you had from me, [1] => From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will? ) ) [12] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Your answer, sir, is enigmatical: [1] => But, for my will, my will is your good will [2] => May stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'd [3] => In the state of honourable marriage: [4] => In which, good friar, I shall desire your help. ) ) [13] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => My heart is with your liking. ) [14] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And my help. [1] => Here comes the prince and Claudio. ) ) [15] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Good morrow to this fair assembly. ) [16] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio: [1] => We here attend you. Are you yet determined [2] => To-day to marry with my brother's daughter? ) ) [17] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => I'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope. ) [18] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Call her forth, brother; here's the friar ready. ) [19] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what's the matter, [1] => That you have such a February face, [2] => So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness? ) ) [20] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I think he thinks upon the savage bull. [1] => Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with gold [2] => And all Europa shall rejoice at thee, [3] => As once Europa did at lusty Jove, [4] => When he would play the noble beast in love. ) ) [21] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Bull Jove, sir, had an amiable low; [1] => And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow, [2] => And got a calf in that same noble feat [3] => Much like to you, for you have just his bleat. ) ) [22] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => For this I owe you: here comes other reckonings. [1] => Which is the lady I must seize upon? ) [STAGEDIR] => Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked ) [23] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => ANTONIO [LINE] => This same is she, and I do give you her. ) [24] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Why, then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face. ) [25] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => No, that you shall not, till you take her hand [1] => Before this friar and swear to marry her. ) ) [26] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Give me your hand: before this holy friar, [1] => I am your husband, if you like of me. ) ) [27] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And when I lived, I was your other wife: [1] => And when you loved, you were my other husband. ) [STAGEDIR] => Unmasking ) [28] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Another Hero! ) [29] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Nothing certainer: [1] => One Hero died defiled, but I do live, [2] => And surely as I live, I am a maid. ) ) [30] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => The former Hero! Hero that is dead! ) [31] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => She died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived. ) [32] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => FRIAR FRANCIS [LINE] => Array ( [0] => All this amazement can I qualify: [1] => When after that the holy rites are ended, [2] => I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death: [3] => Meantime let wonder seem familiar, [4] => And to the chapel let us presently. ) ) [33] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Soft and fair, friar. Which is Beatrice? ) [34] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [STAGEDIR] => Unmasking ) ) [35] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Do not you love me? ) [36] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Why, no; no more than reason. ) [37] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then your uncle and the prince and Claudio [1] => Have been deceived; they swore you did. ) ) [38] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Do not you love me? ) [39] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Troth, no; no more than reason. ) [40] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Why, then my cousin Margaret and Ursula [1] => Are much deceived; for they did swear you did. ) ) [41] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => They swore that you were almost sick for me. ) [42] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => They swore that you were well-nigh dead for me. ) [43] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => 'Tis no such matter. Then you do not love me? ) [44] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => No, truly, but in friendly recompense. ) [45] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => Come, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman. ) [46] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her; [1] => For here's a paper written in his hand, [2] => A halting sonnet of his own pure brain, [3] => Fashion'd to Beatrice. ) ) [47] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => HERO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => And here's another [1] => Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket, [2] => Containing her affection unto Benedick. ) ) [48] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts. [1] => Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take [2] => thee for pity. ) ) [49] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BEATRICE [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield [1] => upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life, [2] => for I was told you were in a consumption. ) ) [50] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Peace! I will stop your mouth. ) [51] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => DON PEDRO [LINE] => How dost thou, Benedick, the married man? ) [52] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of [1] => wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost [2] => thou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No: [3] => if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear [4] => nothing handsome about him. In brief, since I do [5] => purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any [6] => purpose that the world can say against it; and [7] => therefore never flout at me for what I have said [8] => against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my [9] => conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to [10] => have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be my [11] => kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin. ) ) [53] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => CLAUDIO [LINE] => Array ( [0] => I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, [1] => that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single [2] => life, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of [3] => question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look [4] => exceedingly narrowly to thee. ) ) [54] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere [1] => we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts [2] => and our wives' heels. ) ) [55] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => LEONATO [LINE] => We'll have dancing afterward. ) [56] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince, [1] => thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife: [2] => there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn. ) ) [57] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => Messenger [LINE] => Array ( [0] => My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight, [1] => And brought with armed men back to Messina. ) ) [58] => Array ( [SPEAKER] => BENEDICK [LINE] => Array ( [0] => Think not on him till to-morrow: [1] => I'll devise thee brave punishments for him. [2] => Strike up, pipers. ) ) ) ) ) ) ) )