12091136Prince I doe but stay til your mariage be consummate, and

12101137then go I toward Arragon.

12111138Claud. Ile bring you thither my lord, if youle vouchsafe

12121139me.

12131140Prince Nay that would be as great a soyle in the new glosse

12141141of your marriage, as to shew a child his new coate and forbid

12151142him to weare it, I wil only be bold with Benedick for his com-

12161143pany, for from the crowne of his head, to the sole of his foot,

12171144he is al mirth, he hath twice or thrice cut Cupides bow-string,

12181145and the little hang-man dare not shoot at him, he hath a heart

12191146as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper, for what his

12201147heart thinkes, his tongue speakes.

12221148Bene. Gallants, I am not as I haue bin.

12231149Leo. So say I, me thinkes you are sadder.

12241150Clau. I hope he be in loue.

12251151Prince Hang him truant, theres no true drop of bloud in

12261152him to be truly toucht with loue, if he be sadde, he wantes mo-

12271153ney.

12281154Bene. I haue the tooth-ach.

12291155Prince Draw it.

12301156Bene. Hang it.

12311157Clau. You must hang it first, and draw it afterwards.

12321158Prince What? sigh for the tooth-ach.

12331159Leon. Where is but a humour or a worme.

12341160Bene. Wel, euery one cannot master a griefe, but he that

12351161has it.

12361162Clau. Yet say I, he is in loue.

12371163Prince There is no appeerance of fancie in him, vnlesse it

12381164be a fancy that he hath to strange disguises, as to be a Dutch-

12391165man to day, a French-man to morrow, or in the shape of two

1166countries at once, as a Germaine from the waste downward,

1167all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip vpward, no dublet: vn-

12401168lesse he haue a fancie to this foolery, as it appeares he hath,

12411169he is no foole for fancy, as you would haue it appeare he

12421170is.

12431171Clau. If he be not in loue with some woman, there is no be-

12441172leeuing old signes, a brushes his hat a mornings, what should

12451173that bode?

12461174Prince Hath any man seene him at the Barbers?

12471175Clau. No, but the barbers man hath bin seene with him,

12481176and the olde ornament of his cheeke hath already stufft tennis

12491177balls.

12501178Leon. Indeed he lookes yonger than he did, by the losse of

12511179a beard.

12521180Prince Nay a rubs himselfe with ciuit, can you smell him

12531181out by that?

12541182Claud. Thats as much as to say, the sweete youthe's in

12551183loue.

12561184Bene. The greatest note of it is his melancholy.

12571185Claud. And when was he woont to wash his face?

12581186Prince Yea or to paint himselfe? for the which I heare what

12591187they say of him.

12601188Claud. Nay but his iesting spirit, which is now crept into a

12611189lute-string, and now gouernd by stops.

12621190Prince Indeed that tells a heauy tale for him: conclude, con-

12631191clude, he is in loue.

12641192Claud. Nay but I know who loues him.

12651193Prince That would I know too, I warrant one that knows

12661194him not.

12671195Claud. Yes, and his ill conditions, and in dispight of al, dies

12681196for him.

12691197Prince She shall be buried with her face vpwards.

12701198Bene. Yet is this no charme for the tooth-ake, old signior,

12711199walke aside with me, I haue studied eight or nine wise wordes

12721200to speake to you, which these hobby-horses must not heare.

12741201Prince For my life to breake with him about Beatrice.

12751202Claud. Tis euen so, Hero and Margaret haue by this played

12761203their parts with Beatrice, and then the two beares will not

12771204bite one another when they meete.

12791206Bastard My lord and brother, God saue you.

12801207Prince Good den brother.

E2 Bastard

12811208Bastard If your leisure seru'd, I would speake with you.

12821209Prince In priuate?

12831210Bastard If it please you, yet Count Claudio may heare, for

12841211what I would speake of, concernes him.

12851212Prince Whats the matter?

12861213Bast. Meanes your Lordship to be married to morrow?

12881214Prince You know he does.

12891215Bast. I know not that when he knowes what I know.

12901216Claud. If there be any impediment, I pray you discouer it.

12921217Bast. You may think I loue you not, let that appeare here-

12931218after, and ayme better at me by that I now will manifest, for

12941219my brother (I thinke, he holdes you well, and in dearenesse of

12951220heart) hath holpe to effect your ensuing mariage: surely sute ill

12961221spent, and labor ill bestowed.

12971222Prince Why whats the matter?

12981223Bast. I came hither to tel you, and circumstances shortned,

12991224(for she has bin too long a talking of) the lady is disloyall.

13011225Clau. Who Hero?

13021226Bastar. Euen she, Leonatoes Hero, your Hero, euery mans

13031227Hero.

13041228Clau. Disloyall?

13051229Bast. The word is too good to paint out her wickednesse, I

13061230could say she were worse, thinke you of a worse title, and I wil

13071231fit her to it: wonder not till further warrant: go but with me

13081232to night you shall see her chamber window entred, euen the

13091233night before her wedding day, if you loue her, then to morow

13101234wed her: But it would better fitte your honour to change your

13111235mind.

13121236Claud. May this be so?

13131237Prince I wil not thinke it.

13141238Bast. If you dare not trust that you see, confesse not that

13151239you knowe: if you will follow mee, I will shew you enough,

13161240and when you haue seene more, and heard more, proceede ac-

13171241cordingly.

13181242Claudio If I see anie thing to night, why I should not mar-

13191243ry her to morrow in the congregation, where I should wed,

13201244there will I shame her.

13211245Prince And as I wooed for thee to obtaine her, I wil ioyne

13221246with thee, to disgrace her.

13231247Bastard I will disparage her no farther, till you are my wit-

13241248nesses, beare it coldely but till midnight, and let the issue shew

13251249it selfe.

13261250Prince O day vntowardly turned!

13271251Claud. O mischiefe strangely thwarting!

13281252Bastard O plague right well preuented! so will you say,

13291253when you haue seene the sequele.