| … There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her; they … | …never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them. |
| “There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signor Benedick and her; they never meet but there’s a skirmish of wit between them” | Act 1, scene 1, 45-47Said by Leonato to Beatrice and the messenger Oxymoron “merry war” They are sapling with the ironic conflict. |
| Because I will not do the the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right … | …to trust none: and the fine is (for the which I may go finer) I will live a bachelor. |
| “Because I will not do the the wrong to mistrust any, I will do myself the right to trust none: and the fine is (for the which I may go finer) I will live a bachelor” | Act 1, scene 1, 180-182Said by Benedict to Claudio and Don Pedro This does not happen at the end, I put shows Benedict does not want to marry. |
| … it must no be denied… | …but I am plain ; dealing villain. |
| “…it must not be denied but I am plain dealing villain” | Act 1, scene 3, 23-24Said by Don John to Conrade He is plain dealing as he gets someone i.e. Broaching to do his work for him. |
| What should I do with him?, dress him in my apparel, make him my waiting gentlewomen, he that hath a beard is more than a youth, he that hath no beard is less than a man, he that is more than a youth is not for me … | …he that is less than a man I am not for him, there I will epicentre take a sixpence in earnest of the bearward, and lead his apes into hell. |
| “What should I do with him?, dress him in my apparel, make him my waiting gentlewomen, he that hath a beard is more than a youth, he that hath no beard is less than a man, he that is more than a youth is not for me he that is less than a man I am not for him, there I will epicentre take a sixpence in earnest of the bearward, and lead his apes into hell.” | Act 2, scene 1, 26-31Said by Beatrice to LeonatoShe does not respect his father like a stereotypical Elizabethan woman. She should listen o her father and get married but she is saying there is not a man on earth that is right for her. |
| I have a good eye, uncle,… | … I can see a church by daylight. |
| “I have a god eye, uncle, I can see a church by daylight.” | Act 2, scene 1, 59Said by Beatrice to leonatoShe is very witty in the quote she says she does not want to get married when it was suggested. |
| 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 itself, And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch,Against whose charms faith melteth into blood… |
| 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 itself, And trust no agent: for beauty is a witch,Against whose charms faith melteth into blood… | Act 2, scene 1, 113-136Claudio to Don John and Borachio.Forshadowing soliloquyClaudio thinks that Don Pedro has stabbed him in the back. |
| I’ll devise some honest slander To satin my cousin with, one doth not know… | … How much an ill word may empoison liking. |
| I’ll devise some honest slander To satin my cousin with, one doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking. | Act 3, scene 1, 84-86Said by hero about Beatrice to Ursula |
| If I see anything tonight, why I should not marry her tomorrow in the congregation… | … where I should wed there I will shame her. |
| If I see anything tonight, why I should not marry her tomorrow in the congregation where I should wed there I will shame her. | Act 3, scene 2, 91-92Claudio to Don JohnThis shows how little Claudio cares for HeroHe has been tricked by Don John |
| … yet Benedick was such another, and now he is a man, he swore he would never marry, and yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without grudging … | … and how you may be converted, I know not, but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do. |
| ” … yet Benedick was such another, and now he is a man, he swore he would never marry, and yet now in despite of his heart he eats his meat without grudging and how you may be converted, I know not, but methinks you look with your eyes as other women do. | Act 3, scene 4, 64-68Margaret to Beatrice.Margaret knows Beatrice has been gulled, she thinks when she was born there was a star dance. Ursula and Margret are mocking Beatrice about benedick. |
| You seem to me as a Dian in her orb,As chaste as in the bud ere it be blown: But you are more intemperate in you pr blood,Than Venus, or those pampered animals, The rage in savage sexuality. | Act 4, scene 1 51-55 |
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July 14, 2019