Much Ado About Nothing

Benedick
Pray thee, sweet Mistress Margaret, deserve well
at my hands by helping me to the speech of Beatrice.
Margaret
Will you then write me a sonnet in praise
of my beauty?

No, I was not born under a rhyming planet,
nor I cannot woo in festival terms

Benedick
In so high a style,
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Benedick
Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee?
Beatrice
Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me.
Benedick
O, stay but till then!
Beatrice
“Then” is spoken. Fare you well now. And yet, ere
I go, let me go with that I came, which is, with
knowing what hath passed between you and Claudio.
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Ursula
Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder’s
old coil at home. It is proved my Lady Hero
hath been falsely accused, the Prince and Claudio
mightily abused, and Don John is the author of all,
who is fled and gone. Will you come presently?
  Ursula exits.

I will live in thy heart,
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Claudio
Is this the monument of Leonato?
First Lord
It is, my lord.

Now music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.

Claudio, reading an  Epitaph.

Done to death by slanderous tongues
  Was the Hero that here lies.
Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,
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Benedick
Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.
Friar
To do what, signior?

But for my will, my will is your goodwill
May stand with ours, this day to be conjoined
In the state of honorable marriage

Benedick
To bind me, or undo me, one of them.—
Signior Leonato,
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Prince
Good morrow, Benedick. Why, what’s the matter
That you have such a February face,
So full of frost, of storm, and cloudiness?
Claudio
I think he thinks upon the savage bull.
Tush, fear not, man. We’ll tip thy horns with gold,
And all Europa shall rejoice at thee,
As once Europa did at lusty Jove
When he would play the noble beast in love.
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Benedick
Soft and fair, friar.—Which is Beatrice?
Beatrice, unmasking
I answer to that name. What is your will?
Benedick
Do not you love me?
Beatrice
Why no, no more than reason.
Benedick
Why then, your uncle and the Prince and Claudio
Have been deceived.
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