| Beatrice | He set up bills here in Messina and challenged Cupid at the flight, and my uncle’s fool, reading the challenge,, subscribed for Cupid and challenged him at the burbolt. I pray you, how many hath he killed and eaten in these wars? But how many hath he killed? For indeed, I promised to eat all of his killing. |
| Benedick | Would your grace command me any service to the world’s end? I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on; I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia; bing you the lenghth of Prester John’s foot; fetch you a hair off the great Cham’s beard; do you any embassage to the Pygmies–rather than hold three words conference with this harpy. You have no employment for me |
| Beatrice | Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile, and I have hime use for it, a double heart for his single one. Marry, once before he won it of me with false dice,, therefore your grace may well say tI have lost it. |
| Benedick | Is’t come to this? In faith, hath not the world one man but he will wear his cap with suspicion? Shall I never see a bachelor of threescore again? Go to, i’faith! And thou wilt needs thrust thy neck into a yoke, wear the print of it and sigh away Sunedays. Look! Don Pedro is returned to seek you. |
| Claudio | Thus answer I in name of Benedick but hear these ill news with the ears of Claudio. Tis certain so. The Prince woos for himself. Friendship is constant in all other things save in the office and affairs of love Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues; let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent; for beauty is a witch against whose charms faith melteth in to blood. This is an accidnet of hourly proof, Which I mistrusted not. Farewell therefore Hero! |
| Benedick | Ho! Now you stirke like the blind man! ‘Tweas the boy that stole your meat, and you’ll beat the post. |
| Benedick | O, she misuesed me past the endurance of a block! An oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her; my very visor began to assume life and scold with her. She told me, not thining I had been myself, that I was the Princes’s jester, that I was duller than a great thaw; huddling jest upon jest with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark, with a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and every ward stabs. If er breath were as terrible as her terminations, there would be no living near her. |
Much Ado About Nothing Quotation Identification
July 17, 2019