about Nothing.
785730Iohn Any barre, any cro
sse, any impediment, will be med
- 731cinable to me, I am
sicke in di
splea
sure to him, and what
soeuer
787732comes athwart his a
ffe
ction, ranges euenly with mine, how
788733can
st thou cro
sse this marriage?
789734Bor. Not hone
stly my lord, but
so couertly, that no di
sho
- 790735ne
sty
shall appeare in me.
791736Iohn Shew me briefely how.
792737Bor. I thinke I told your lord
ship a yeere
since, how much
793738I am in the fauour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to
796741Bor. I can at any vn
sea
sonable in
stant of the night, appoint
797742her to looke out at her ladies chamber window.
798743Iohn What life is in that to be the death of this mariage?
800744Bor. The poi
son of that lies in you to temper, goe you to
801745the prince your brother,
spare not to tell him, that he hath
802746wronged his honor in marrying the renowned Claudio, who
se
803747e
stimation do you mightily hold vp, to a contaminated
stale,
805749Iohn What proofe
shall I make of that?
806750Bor. Proofe enough, to mi
su
se the prince, to vexe Claudio,
807751to vndoe Hero, and kill Leonato, looke you for any other
809753Iohn Onely to di
spight them I will endeuour any thing.
811754Bor. Go then,
find me a meet houre, to draw don Pedro and
812755the Counte Claudio alone, tell them that you know that Hero
813756loues me, intend a kind of zeale both to the prince & Claudio
814757(as in loue of your brothers honor who hath made this match)
815758and his friends reputation, who is thus like to bee co
sen'd with
816759the
semblance of a maid, that you haue di
scouer'd thus: they wil
817760scarcely beleeue this without triall: o
ffer them in
stances which
819761shall beare no le
sse likelihood, than to
see me at her chamber
820762window, heare me call Margaret Hero, heare Marg. terme me
821763Claudio, & bring them to
see this the very night before the in
- 822764tended wedding, for in the mean time, I wil
so fa
shion the mat
- 823765ter, that Hero
shal be ab
sent and there
shal appeere
such
seeming
824766truth of Heroes di
sloyaltie, that iealou
sie
shal be cald a
ssu
- C4 rance