Much Ado About Nothing

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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Leonato
O Fate, take not away thy heavy hand!
Death is the fairest cover for her shame
That may be wished for.
Beatrice
How now, cousin Hero?
  Hero stirs.
Friar, to Hero
Have comfort, lady.

But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised,
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Hear me a little,
For I have only silent been so long,Hyperbaton
And given way unto this course of fortune,
By noting of the lady. I have marked
A thousand blushing apparitions
To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames
In angel whiteness beat away those blushes,
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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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Dogberry
Yea, marry, let them come before me.
  Conrade and Borachio are brought forward.
What is your name, friend?
Borachio
Borachio.
Dogberry
Pray, write down “Borachio.”—Yours, sirrah?
Conrade
I am a gentleman, sir, and my name is Conrade.

O, villain! Thou wilt be condemned
into everlasting redemption for this!
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Leonato’s Brother
If you go on thus, you will kill yourself,
And ’tis not wisdom thus to second grief
Against yourself.

For, brother, men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel

Leonato
I pray thee, cease thy counsel,
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.
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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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Prince
Officers, what offense have these men done?
Dogberry
Marry, sir, they have committed false
report; moreover, they have spoken untruths;
secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they
have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust
things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves.

What your wisdoms could not discover,
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Leonato
Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes,
That, when I note another man like him,
I may avoid him. Which of these is he?
Borachio
If you would know your wronger, look on me.

Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed
Mine innocent child?

Leonato
Art thou the slave that with thy breath hast killed
Mine innocent child?
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