Much Ado About Nothing (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Grechen Minton

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 Much adoe
¶Bastard If your leisure seru'd, I would speake with you.
¶Prince In priuate?
¶Bastard If it please you, yet Count Claudio may heare, for
¶what I would speake of, concernes him.
1285Prince Whats the matter?
¶Bast. Meanes your Lordship to be married to morrow?
¶Prince You know he does.
¶Bast. I know not that when he knowes what I know.
1290Claud. If there be any impediment, I pray you discouer it.
¶Bast. You may think I loue you not, let that appeare here-
¶after, and ayme better at me by that I now will manifest, for
¶my brother (I thinke, he holdes you well, and in dearenesse of
1295heart) hath holpe to effect your ensuing mariage: surely sute ill
¶spent, and labor ill bestowed.
¶Prince Why whats the matter?
¶Bast. I came hither to tel you, and circumstances shortned,
¶(for she has bin too long a talking of) the lady is disloyall.
¶Clau. Who Hero?
¶Bastar. Euen she, Leonatoes Hero, your Hero, euery mans
¶Hero.
¶Clau. Disloyall?
1305Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse, I
¶could say she were worse, thinke you of a worse title, and I wil
¶fit her to it: wonder not till further warrant: go but with me
¶to night you shall see her chamber window entred, euen the
¶night before her wedding day, if you loue her, then to morow
1310wed her: But it would better fitte your honour to change your
¶mind.
¶Claud. May this be so?
¶Prince I wil not thinke it.
¶Bast. If you dare not trust that you see, confesse not that
1315you knowe: if you will follow mee, I will shew you enough,
¶and when you haue seene more, and heard more, proceede ac-
¶cordingly.
¶Claudio If I see anie thing to night, why I should not mar-
¶ry her to morrow in the congregation, where I should wed,
1320there will I shame her.
 Prince

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