Much Ado About Nothing (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Grechen Minton

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Much Ado About Nothing (Folio 1, 1623)
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 about Nothing.
¶ble creature, who is his companion now? he hath euery month
¶a new sworne brother.
70Mess. Ist possible?
¶Beat. Very easily possible, he weares his faith but as the fa-
¶shion of his hat, it euer changes with the next blocke.
¶Mess. I see lady the gentleman is not in your bookes.
75Beat. No, and he were, I would burne my study, but I pray
¶you who is his companion? is there no yong squarer now that
¶will make a voyage with him to the diuell?
¶Mess. He is most in the companie of the right noble Clau-
80dio.
¶Beat. O Lord, he will hang vpon him like a disease, hee is
¶sooner caught than the pestilence, and the taker runs present-
¶ly madde, God help the noble Claudio, if he haue caught the
¶Benedict, it will cost him a thousand pound ere a be cured.
¶Mess. I will holde friends with you Ladie.
¶Beat. Do good friend.
¶Leon. You will neuer runne madde niece.
¶Beat. No, not till a hote Ianuary.
90Mess. Don Pedro is approacht.

¶ Enter don Pedro, Claudio, Benedicke, Balthasar
¶and Iohn the bastard.
¶Pedro Good signior Leonato, are you come to meet your
¶trouble: the fashion of the world is, to auoyd cost, and you in-
95counter it.
¶Leon. Neuer came trouble to my house, in the likenesse of
¶your grace, for trouble being gone, comfort should remaine:
¶but when you depart from mee, sorrow abides, and happines
¶takes his leaue.
100Pedro You embrace your charge too willingly: I thincke
¶this is your daughter.
¶Leonato Her mother hath many times tolde me so.
¶Bened. Were you in doubt sir that you askt her?
¶Leonato Signior Benedicke, no, for then were you a child.
¶Pedro You haue it full Benedicke, wee may ghesse by this,
¶what you are, being a man, truely the Lady fathers her selfe:
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