about Nothing.
631582Benedicke Yet it had not beene ami
sse the rodde had beene
632583made, & the garland too, for the garland he might haue worn
633584him
selfe, and the rodde he might haue be
stowed on you, who
634585(as I take it) haue
stolne his birds ne
st.
635586Pedro I wil but teach them to
sing, and re
store them to the
637588Benedicke If their
singing an
swer your
saying, by my faith
639590Pedro The ladie Beatrice hath a quarrell to you, the Gen
- 640591tleman that daun
st with her, told her
shee is much wrongd by
642593Bened. O
shee mi
su
sde me pa
st the indurance of a blocke:
643594an oake but with one greene leafe on it, would haue an
swered
644595her: my very vi
sor beganne to a
ssume life, and
scold with her:
645596she tolde me, not thinking I had beene my
selfe, that I was the
646597Princes ie
ster, that I was duller than a great thawe, huddleing
647598ie
st vpon ie
st, with
such impo
ssible conueiance vpon me, that
648599I
stoode like a man at a marke, with a whole army
shooting
649600at me:
she
speakes poynyards, and euery word
stabbes: if her
650601breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no liu
- 651602ing neere her,
shee would infe
ct to the north
starre: I woulde
652603not marry her, though
shee were indowed with al that Adam
654604had left him before he tran
sgre
st,
she would haue made Her
- 655605cules haue turnd
spit, yea, and haue cleft his club to make the
656606fire too: come, talke not of her, you
shall
find her the infernall
657607Ate in good apparell, I would to God
some
scholler woulde
658608coniure her, for certainely, while
she is heere, a man may liue
659609as quiet in hell, as in a
san
ctuarie, and people
sinne vpon pur
- 660610po
se, becau
se they would goe thither,
so indeede all di
squiet,
661611horrour, and perturbation followes her.
663612 Enter Claudio and Beatrice. 664613Pedro Looke heere
she comes.
665614Benedicke Will your grace command me any
seruice to the
666615worldes end? I will go on the
slighte
st arrand now to the An
- 667616typodes that you can deui
se to
send mee on: I will fetch you a
668617tooth-picker now from the furthe
st inch of A
sia: bring you
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