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.BENEDICKAnd I do with an eye of love requite her.LEONATOThe sight whereof I think you had from me,From Claudio and the prince: but what's your will?BENEDICKYour answer, sir, is enigmatical:But, for my will, my will is your good willMay stand with ours, this day to be conjoin'dIn the state of honourable marriage:In which, good friar, I shall desire your help.LEONATOMy heart is with your liking.FRIAR FRANCISAnd my help.Here comes the prince and Claudio.[Enter DON PEDRO and CLAUDIO, and two or three others]DON PEDROGood morrow to this fair assembly.LEONATOGood morrow, prince; good morrow, Claudio:We here attend you.Are you yet determinedTo-day to marry with my brother's daughter?CLAUDIOI'll hold my mind, were she an Ethiope.LEONATOCall her forth, brother; here's the friar ready.[Exit ANTONIO]DON PEDROGood morrow, Benedick.Why, what's the matter,That you have such a February face,So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?CLAUDIOI think he thinks upon the savage bull.Tush, fear not, man; we'll tip thy horns with goldAnd all Europa shall rejoice at thee,As once Europa did at lusty Jove,When he would play the noble beast in love.BENEDICKBull Jove, sir, had an amiable low;And some such strange bull leap'd your father's cow,And got a calf in that same noble featMuch like to you, for you have just his bleat.CLAUDIOFor this I owe you: here comes other reckonings.[Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies masked]Which is the lady I must seize upon?ANTONIOThis same is she, and I do give you her.CLAUDIOWhy, then she's mine.Sweet, let me see your face.LEONATONo, that you shall not, till you take her handBefore this friar and swear to marry her.CLAUDIOGive me your hand: before this holy friar,I am your husband, if you like of me.HEROAnd when I lived, I was your other wife:[Unmasking]And when you loved, you were my other husband.CLAUDIOAnother Hero!HERONothing certainer:One Hero died defiled, but I do live,And surely as I live, I am a maid.DON PEDROThe former Hero! Hero that is dead!LEONATOShe died, my lord, but whiles her slander lived.FRIAR FRANCISAll this amazement can I qualify:When after that the holy rites are ended,I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death:Meantime let wonder seem familiar,And to the chapel let us presently.BENEDICKSoft and fair, friar.Which is Beatrice?BEATRICE[Unmasking]I answer to that name.What is your will?BENEDICKDo not you love me?BEATRICEWhy, no; no more than reason.BENEDICKWhy, then your uncle and the prince and ClaudioHave been deceived; they swore you did.BEATRICEDo not you love me?BENEDICKTroth, no; no more than reason.BEATRICEWhy, then my cousin Margaret and UrsulaAre much deceived; for they did swear you did.BENEDICKThey swore that you were almost sick for me.BEATRICEThey swore that you were well-nigh dead for me.BENEDICK'Tis no such matter.Then you do not love me?BEATRICENo, truly, but in friendly recompense.LEONATOCome, cousin, I am sure you love the gentleman.CLAUDIOAnd I'll be sworn upon't that he loves her;For here's a paper written in his hand,A halting sonnet of his own pure brain,Fashion'd to Beatrice.HEROAnd here's anotherWrit in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket,Containing her affection unto Benedick.BENEDICKA miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts.Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I takethee for pity.BEATRICEI would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yieldupon great persuasion; and partly to save your life,for I was told you were in a consumption.BENEDICKPeace! I will stop your mouth.[Kissing her]DON PEDROHow dost thou, Benedick, the married man?BENEDICKI'll tell thee what, prince; a college ofwit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour.Dostthou think I care for a satire or an epigram? No:if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wearnothing handsome about him.In brief, since I dopurpose to marry, I will think nothing to anypurpose that the world can say against it; andtherefore never flout at me for what I have saidagainst it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is myconclusion.For thy part, Claudio, I did think tohave beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be mykinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin.CLAUDIOI had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice,that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy singlelife, to make thee a double-dealer; which, out ofquestion, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not lookexceedingly narrowly to thee.BENEDICKCome, come, we are friends: let's have a dance erewe are married, that we may lighten our own heartsand our wives' heels.LEONATOWe'll have dancing afterward.BENEDICKFirst, of my word; therefore play, music.Prince,thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife:there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.[Enter a Messenger]MessengerMy lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight,And brought with armed men back to Messina.BENEDICKThink not on him till to-morrow:I'll devise thee brave punishments for him.Strike up, pipers.[Dance][Exeunt]--------------------------------------
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