942875Prince Why what effects of passion shewes she?

943876Claud. Baite the hooke wel, this fish will bite.

944877Leon. What effects my Lord? she wil sit you, you heard my

945878daughter tell you how.

946879Claud. She did indeede.

947880Prince How, how I pray you! you amaze me, I would haue

948881thought her spirite had beene inuincible against all assaults of

949882affection.

950883Leo. I would haue sworn it had, my lord, especially against

951884Benedicke.

952885Bene. I should think this a gull, but that the white bearded

953886fellow speakes it: knauery cannot sure hide himself in such re-

954887uerence.

955888Claud. He hath tane th'infection, hold it vp.

956889Prince Hath shee made her affection knowne to Bene-

957890dicke?

958891Leonato No, and sweares shee neuer will, thats her tor-

959892ment.

960893Claudio Tis true indeed, so your daughter saies: shall I, saies

961894she, that haue so oft encountred him with scorne, write to him

962895that I loue him?

963896Leo. This saies she now when she is beginning to write to

964897him, for sheel be vp twenty times a night, and there will she sit

965898in her smocke, til she haue writ a sheete of paper: my daughter

966899tels vs all.

967900Clau. Now you talk of a sheet of paper, I remember a prety

968901iest your daughter told of vs.

969902Leonato O when she had writ it, and was reading it ouer, she

970903found Benedicke and Beatrice betweene the sheete.

971904Claudio That.

972905Leon. O she tore the letter into a thousand halfpence, raild

973906at her self, that she should be so immodest to write, to one that

974907she knew would flout her, I measure him, saies she, by my own

975908spirit, for I should flout him, if he writ to me, yea thogh I loue

976909him I should.

977910Clau. Then downe vpon her knees she falls, weepes, sobs,

978911beates her heart, teares her haire, prayes, curses, O sweet Bene-

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