Much Ado About Nothing (Quarto 1, 1600)

Author: William Shakespeare

Editor: Grechen Minton

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 Much adoe
¶Impose me to what penance your inuention
¶Can lay vpon my sinne, yet sinnd I not,
¶But in mistaking.
2360Prince By my soule nor I,
¶And yet to satisfie this good old man,
¶I would bend vnder any heauy waight,
¶That heele enioyne me to.
¶Leonato I cannot bid you bid my daughter liue,
2365That were impossible, but I pray you both,
¶Possesse the people in Messina here,
¶How innocent she died, and if your loue
¶Can labour aught in sad inuention,
¶Hang her an epitaph vpon her toomb,
2370And sing it to her bones, sing it to night:
¶To morrow morning come you to my house,
¶And since you could not be my son in law,
¶Be yet my nephew: my brother hath a daughter,
¶Almost the copie of my child thats dead,
2375And she alone is heyre to both of vs,
¶Giue her the right you should haue giu'n her cosin,
¶And so dies my reuenge.
¶Claudio O noble sir!
¶Your ouer kindnesse doth wring teares from me,
2380I do embrace your offer and dispose,
¶For henceforth of poore Claudio.
¶Leonato To morrow then I wil expect your comming,
¶To night I take my leaue, this naughty man
¶Shal face to face be brought to Margaret,
2385Who I beleeue was packt in al this wrong,
¶Hyred to it by your brother.
¶Bor. No by my soule she was not,
¶
Nor knew not what she did when she spoke to me,
¶But alwayes hath bin iust and vertuous,
2390In any thing that I do know by her.
¶Const. Moreouer sir, which indeede is not vnder white and
¶blacke, this plaintiffe heere, the offendour, did call me asse, I
¶beseech you let it be remembred in his punishment, and also
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