Much adoe
197174 Enter don Pedro, Iohn the bastard. 198175Pedro What
secret hath held you here, that you followed
200177Bene. I would your Grace would con
straine me to tell.
202178Pedro I charge thee on thy allegeance.
203179Ben. You heare, Count Claudio, I can be
secret as a dumb
204180man, I woulde haue you thinke
so (but on my allegiance,
205181marke you this, on my allegiance) he is in loue, with who? now
206182that is your Graces part: marke how
short his an
swer is, with
207183Hero Leonatoes
short daughter.
209184Clau. If this were
so,
so were it vttred.
210185Bened. Like the olde tale, my Lord, it is not
so, nor twas
211186not
so: but indeede, God forbid it
should be
so.
212187Claudio If my pa
ssion change not
shortly, God forbid it
214189Pedro Amen, if you loue her, for the Lady is very well
216191Claudio You
speake this to fetch me in, my Lord.
217192Pedro By my troth I
speake my thought.
218193Claudio And in faith, my Lord, I
spoke mine.
219194Bened. And by my two faiths and troths, my Lorde, I
221196Clau. That I loue her, I feele.
222197Pedro That
she is worthy, I know.
223198Bened. That I neither feele how
she
should be loued, nor
224199know how
she
should be worthie,
is the opinion that fire can
225200not melt out of me, I will die in it at the
stake.
227201Pedro Thou wa
st euer an ob
stinate heretique in the de
- 229203Clau. And neuer could maintaine his part, but in the force
231205Bene. That a woman conceiued me, I thanke her: that
she
232206brought me vp, I likewi
se giue her mo
st humble thankes: but
233207that I will haue a rechate winded in my forehead, or hang my
234208bugle in an inui
sible baldricke, all women
shall pardon mee:
235209becau
se I will not doe them the wrong to mi
stru
st any, I will
236210doe my
selfe the right to tru
st none: and the
fine is, (for the
which