CLAUDIO
Yea, my good lord. How still the evening is,CLAUDIO
As hush'd on purpose to grace harmony!
O, very well, my lord: the music ended,CLAUDIO
We'll fit the kid-fox with a pennyworth.
O, ay: stalk on. stalk on; the fowl sits. I didCLAUDIO
never think that lady would have loved any man.
Faith, like enough.CLAUDIO
Bait the hook well; this fish will bite.CLAUDIO
She did, indeed.CLAUDIO
He hath ta'en the infection: hold it up.CLAUDIO
'Tis true, indeed; so your daughter says: 'ShallCLAUDIO
I,' says she, 'that have so oft encountered him
with scorn, write to him that I love him?'
Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember aCLAUDIO
pretty jest your daughter told us of.
That.CLAUDIO
Then down upon her knees she falls, weeps, sobs,CLAUDIO
beats her heart, tears her hair, prays, curses; 'O
sweet Benedick! God give me patience!'
To what end? He would make but a sport of it andCLAUDIO
torment the poor lady worse.
And she is exceeding wise.
CLAUDIO
Hero thinks surely she will die; for she says sheCLAUDIO
will die, if he love her not, and she will die, ere
she make her love known, and she will die, if he woo
her, rather than she will bate one breath of her
accustomed crossness.
He is a very proper man.CLAUDIO
Before God! and, in my mind, very wise.CLAUDIO
And I take him to be valiant.CLAUDIO
Never tell him, my lord: let her wear it out with
good counsel.
CLAUDIO
If he do not dote on her upon this, I will neverBEATRICE
trust my expectation.
Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.
BEATRICE
I took no more pains for those thanks than you takeBEATRICE
pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would
not have come.
Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's
point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach,
signior: fare you well.
This is going to be a lot of fun! I can't wait to see it all put together!
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