Much Ado About Nothing (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Grechen Minton

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 about Nothing.
785Iohn Any barre, any crosse, any impediment, will be med-
cinable to me, I am sicke in displeasure to him, and whatsoeuer
¶comes athwart his affection, ranges euenly with mine, how
¶canst thou crosse this marriage?
¶Bor. Not honestly my lord, but so couertly, that no disho-
790nesty shall appeare in me.
¶Iohn Shew me briefely how.
¶Bor. I thinke I told your lordship a yeere since, how much
¶I am in the fauour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to
¶Hero.
795Iohn I remember.
¶Bor. I can at any vnseasonable instant of the night, appoint
¶her to looke out at her ladies chamber window.
¶Iohn What life is in that to be the death of this mariage?
800Bor. The poison of that lies in you to temper, goe you to
¶the prince your brother, spare not to tell him, that he hath
¶wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio, whose
¶estimation do you mightily hold vp, to a contaminated stale,
¶such a one as Hero.
805Iohn What proofe shall I make of that?
¶Bor. Proofe enough, to misuse the prince, to vexe Claudio,
¶to vndoe Hero, and kill Leonato, looke you for any other
¶issue?
¶Iohn Onely to dispight them I will endeuour any thing.
¶Bor. Go then, find me a meet houre, to draw don Pedro and
¶the Counte Claudio alone, tell them that you know that Hero
¶loues me, intend a kind of zeale both to the prince & Claudio
¶(as in loue of your brothers honor who hath made this match)
815and his friends reputation, who is thus like to bee cosen'd with
¶the semblance of a maid, that you haue discouer'd thus: they wil
¶scarcely beleeue this without triall: offer them instances which
¶shall beare no lesse likelihood, than to see me at her chamber
820window, heare me call Margaret Hero, heare Marg. terme me
¶Claudio, & bring them to see this the very night before the in-
¶tended wedding, for in the mean time, I wil so fashion the mat-
¶ter, that Hero shal be absent and there shal appeere such seeming
¶truth of Heroes disloyaltie, that iealousie shal be cald assu-
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