Don Pedro

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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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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Leonato 
The revelers are entering, brother. Make good room.
  Leonato and his brother step aside.
  Enter, with a Drum, Prince Pedro, Claudio and Benedick, Signior Antonio,
  and Balthasar, all in masks, with Borachio and Don John.
Prince, to Hero
Lady, will you walk a bout with your friend?
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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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Beatrice
I have brought Count Claudio, whom you
sent me to seek.
Prince
Why, how now, count, wherefore are you sad?
Claudio
Not sad, my lord.
Prince
How then, sick?

No, sure, my lord, my mother cried, but then there
was a star danced, and under that was I born.
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Prince
County Claudio, when mean you to go to church?
Claudio
Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches
till love have all his rites.
Leonato
Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence
a just sevennight, and a time too brief, too, to have
all things answer my mind.

Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites

Prince,
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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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Hero
O, God defend me, how am I beset!—
What kind of catechizing call you this?
Claudio
To make you answer truly to your name.
Hero
Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
With any just reproach?
Claudio
Marry, that can Hero!
Hero itself can blot out Hero’s virtue.
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Prince
See, see, here comes the man we went to seek.
Claudio
Now, signior, what news?
Benedick, to Prince 
Good day, my lord.
Prince
Welcome, signior. You are almost come to
part almost a fray.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor

Claudio
We had like to have had our two noses
snapped off with two old men without teeth.
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