237211which I may go the finer,) I will liue a bacheller.

239212Pedro I shall see thee ere I die, looke pale with loue.

240213Bene. With anger, with sickenesse, or with hunger, my

241214Lord, not with loue: proue that euer I loose more blood with

242215loue then I will get againe with drinking, picke out mine eies

243216with a Ballad-makers penne, and hang me vp at the doore of a

244217brothel house for the signe of blinde Cupid.

246218Pedro Well, if euer thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt

247219prooue a notable argument.

248220Bene. If I do, hang me in a bottle like a Cat, and shoote at

249221me, and he that hits me, let him be clapt on the shoulder, and

250222calld Adam.

251223Pedro Well, as time shal trie: in time the sauage bull doth

252224beare the yoake.

253225Bene. The sauage bull may, but if euer the sensible Bene-

254226dicke beare it, plucke off the bulls hornes, and set them in my

255227forehead, and let me be vildly painted, and in such great let-

256228ters as they write, here is good horse to hyre: let them signi-

257229fie vnder my signe, here you may see Benedicke the married

258230man.

259231Claudio If this should euer happen, thou wouldst be horn

260232madde.

261233Pedro Nay, if Cupid haue not spent all his quiuer in Venice,

262234thou wilt quake for this shortly.

263235Bened. I looke for an earthquake too then.

264236Pedro Well, you will temporize with the howres, in the

265237meane time, good signior Benedicke, repaire to Leonatoes,

266238commend me to him, and tell him I will not faile him at sup-

267239per, for indeede he hath made great preparation.

269240Bened. I haue almost matter enough in mee for suche an

270241Embassage, and so I commit you.

271242Clau. To the tuition of God: from my house if I had it.

273243Pedro The sixt of Iuly: your louing friend Benedicke.

274244Bened. Nay mocke not, mocke not, the body of your dis-

275245course is sometime guarded with fragments, and the guardes

276246are but slightly basted on neither, ere you flowt old ends any

277247further, examine your conscience, and so I leaue you.

B1 Claudio