630581sion is in the stealer.

631582Benedicke Yet it had not beene amisse the rodde had beene

632583made, & the garland too, for the garland he might haue worn

633584himselfe, and the rodde he might haue bestowed on you, who

634585(as I take it) haue stolne his birds nest.

635586Pedro I wil but teach them to sing, and restore them to the

636587owner.

637588Benedicke If their singing answer your saying, by my faith

638589you say honestly.

639590Pedro The ladie Beatrice hath a quarrell to you, the Gen-

640591tleman that daunst with her, told her shee is much wrongd by

641592you.

642593Bened. O shee misusde me past the indurance of a blocke:

643594an oake but with one greene leafe on it, would haue answered

644595her: my very visor beganne to assume life, and scold with her:

645596she tolde me, not thinking I had beene my selfe, that I was the

646597Princes iester, that I was duller than a great thawe, huddleing

647598iest vpon iest, with such impossible 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 infect to the north starre: I woulde

652603not marry her, though shee were indowed with al that Adam

654604had left him before he transgrest, 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 sanctuarie, and people sinne vpon pur-

660610pose, because they would goe thither, so indeede all disquiet,

661611horrour, and perturbation followes her.

664613Pedro Looke heere she comes.

665614Benedicke Will your grace command me any seruice to the

666615worldes end? I will go on the slightest arrand now to the An-

667616typodes that you can deuise to send mee on: I will fetch you a

668617tooth-picker now from the furthest inch of Asia: bring you

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