Benedick

Prince
Good Signior Leonato, are you come to meet
your trouble? The fashion of the world is to avoid
cost, and you encounter it.
Leonato
Never came trouble to my house in the
likeness of your Grace, for trouble being gone,
comfort should remain, but when you depart from
me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
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Claudio
Benedick, didst thou note the daughter of
Signior Leonato?
Benedick
I noted her not, but I looked on her.
Claudio
Is she not a modest young lady?

Why, i’ faith, methinks she’s too low for a
high praise, too brown for a fair praise, and too
little for a great praise

Benedick
Do you question me as an honest man
should do,
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Prince
What secret hath held you here that you followed
not to Leonato’s?
Benedick
I would your Grace would constrain me to tell.
Prince
I charge thee on thy allegiance.

I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.

Benedick
You hear, Count Claudio,
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Benedick
Come, will you go with me?
Claudio
Whither?
Benedick
Even to the next willow, about your own business,
county. What fashion will you wear the garland of?
About your neck like a usurer’s chain? Or under your
arm like a lieutenant’s scarf? You must wear it one way,
for the Prince hath got your Hero.
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Benedick
I do much wonder that one man, seeing how much
another man is a fool when he dedicates his behaviors
to love, will, after he hath laughed at such shallow follies
in others, become the argument of his own scorn by falling
in love—and such a man is Claudio.

He was wont to speak plain and to the purpose,
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Benedick, coming forward
This can be no trick. The conference was sadly borne;
they have the truth of this from Hero; they seem to pity
the lady. It seems her affections have their full bent.
Love me? Why, it must be requited! I hear how I am
censured. Theysay I will bear myself proudly if
I perceive the love come from her.
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Prince
I do but stay till your marriage be consummate,
and then go I toward Aragon.
Claudio
I’ll bring you thither, my lord, if you’ll vouchsafe me.

Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.

Prince
Nay, that would be as great a soil in the new
gloss of your marriage as to show a child his new
coat and forbid him to wear it.
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Friar, to Claudio
You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady?
Claudio
No.
Leonato
To be married to her.—Friar, you come to marry her.
Friar
Lady, you come hither to be married to this count?
Hero
I do.

O, what men dare do!
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Friar
There is some strange misprision in the princes.
Benedick
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Two of them have the very bent of honor,
And if their wisdoms be misled in this,
The practice of it lives in John the Bastard,
Whose spirits toil in frame of villainies.

That what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles we enjoy it,

Benedick
I do love nothing in the world so well as you.
Is not that strange?
Beatrice
As strange as the thing I know not. It were as
possible for me to say I loved nothing so well as you,
but believe me not, and yet I lie not; I confess
nothing, nor I deny nothing.
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