513469Bene. I loue you the better, the hearers may cry Amen.

514470Marg. God match me with a good dauncer.

515471Balth. Amen.

516472Marg. And God keepe him out of my sight when the

517473daunce is done: answer Clarke.

518474Balth. No more words, the Clarke is answered.

519475Vrsula I know you well enough, you are signior Antho-

520476nio.

521477Antho. At a word I am not.

522478Vrsula I knowe you by the wagling of your head.

523479Antho. To tell you true, I counterfeit him.

524480Vrsula You coulde neuer doe him so ill well, vnlesse you

525481were the very man: heeres his drie hand vp and downe, you

526482are he, you are he.

527483Antho. At a word, I am not.

528484Vrsula Come, come, do you thinke I do not know you by

529485your excellent wit? can vertue hide it selfe? go to, mumme, you

530486are he, graces will appeere, and theres an end.

532487Beat. Will you not tell me who tolde you so?

533488Bened. No, you shall pardon me.

534489Beat. Nor will you not tell me who you are?

535490Bened. Not now.

536491Beat. That I was disdainefull, and that I had my good wit

537492out of the hundred mery tales: wel, this was signior Benedick

538493that said so.

539494Bened. Whats he?

540495Beat. I am sure you know him well enough.

541496Bened. Not I, beleeue me.

542497Beat. Did he neuer make you laugh?

543498Bened. I pray you what is he?

544499Beat. Why he is the princes ieaster, a very dul fool, only his

545500gift is, in deuising impossible slaunders, none but Libertines

546501delight in him, and the commendation is not in his wit, but in

547502his villanie, for he both pleases men and angers them, and then

548503they laugh at him, and beate him: I am sure he is in the Fleete,

549504I would he had boorded me.

551505Bene. When I know the Gentleman, ile tell him what you

552506say.