Benedick

Ho, now you strike like the blind man. ‘Twas the boy that stole your meat, and you’ll beat the post.Metaphor
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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. I have known when there was no music
with him but the drum and the fife,
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A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
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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,
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Beatrice
Kill Claudio!
Benedick
Ha! Not for the wide world.
Beatrice
You kill me to deny it. Farewell.
 She begins to exit.
Benedick
Tarry, sweet Beatrice.

O that I were a man for his sake! Or
that I had any friend would be a man for my sake!
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In a false quarrel there is no true valor.
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You break jests as braggards do their bladesSimili, which, God be thank’d, hurt not.
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If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weepsAnalogy.
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Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.
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Benedick
Thy wit is as quick as the greyhound’s mouth, it catchesSimili.
Margaret
And yours as blunt as the fencer’s foils, which hit, but hurt notSimili.
Benedick
A most manly wit, Margaret, it will not hurt a woman.
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