Term
A: ". . . didst thou note the daughter of Signior Leonato?"
B: "I noted her not, but I look'd on her." |
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Definition
A: Claudio
B: Benedick
I.i.162-163
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"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 into blood." |
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Definition
Claudio
II.i.172-180
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"I have broke with her father,
and his good will obtain'd. Name the day of marriage,
and God give thee joy!" |
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Definition
Don Pedro
II.i.299-301
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"Silence is the perfectest heralt of joy; I
were but little happy, if I could say how much!
Lady, you are mine, I am yours. I give away
myself for you, and dote upon the exchange." |
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Definition
Claudio
II.i.306-309
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
". . . Go but with me to-night, you
shall see her chamber-window ent'red, even the night before her wedding-day. If you love her then,
to-morrow wed her; but it would be better fit your
honor to change your mind." |
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Definition
Don John
III.ii.112-116
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
A: "For this I owe you: here comes other reck'nings.
Which is the lady I must seize upon?"
B: "This same is she, and I do give you her."
A: "Why then she's mine. Sweet, let me see your face." |
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Definition
A: Claudio
B: Antonio
V.iv.52-55
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"You must not, sir, mistake my niece. There
is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick
and her; they never meet but there's a skirmish of wit between them." |
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Definition
Leonato
I.i.61-64
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"He set up bills here in Messina, and
challeng'd Cupid at the flight, and my uncle's
fool, reading the challenge, subscrib'd for Cupid,
and challeng'd him at the burbolt. I pray you, how
many hath he kill'd and eaten in these wars? But
how many hath he kill'd? for indeed I promis'd to eat
all of his killing." |
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Definition
Beatrice
I.i.39-45
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"Alas, he gets nothing by that. In our last
conflict four of his five wits went halting off, and now is the whole man govern'd with one; so that
if he have wit enough to keep himself warm, let
him bear it for a difference between himself and
his horse, for it is all the walth that he hath left
to be known a reaonable creature. Who is his
companion now? he hath every month a new sworn
brother." |
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Definition
Beatrice
I.i.65-73
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"You always end with a jade's trick, I know
you of old." |
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Definition
Beatrice
I.i.144-145
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
A: "Come, lady, come, you have lost the
heart of Signior Benedick."
B: "Indeed, my lord, he lent it to me awhile, and
I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single
one. Marry, once beofre he won it of me with false
dice, therefore your Grace may well say I have
lost it." |
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Definition
A: Don Pedro
B: Beatrice
II.i.276-282
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more,
Men were deceivers ever,
One foot in sea, and one on shore,
To one thing constant never.
Then sigh not so, but let them go,
And be you blithe and bonny,
Converting all your sounds of woe
Into hey nonny nonny." |
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Definition
Balthazar
II.iii.62-69
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"With a good leg and a good foot, uncle,
and money enough in his purse, such a man would
win any woman in the world, if 'a could get her
good will." |
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Definition
Beatrice (about Benedick)
II.i.14-17
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"One woman
is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am
well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all
graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come
in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain;
wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen
her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come
not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good
discourse, an excellent musician, and her hair shall
be of what color it please God." |
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Definition
Benedick
II.iii.26-35
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"This can be no trick:
the conference was sadly borne; they have
the truth of this from Hero; they seem to pity the
lady. It seems her affections have their full bent.
Love me? why, it must be requited." |
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Definition
Benedick
II.iii.220-225
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
A: "I love you with so much of my heart that
none is left to protest."
B: "Come, bid me do any thing for thee."
A: "Kill Claudio."
B: "Ha, not for the wide world."
A: "You kill me to deny it. Farewell." |
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Definition
A: Beatrice
B: Benedick
IV.i.286-291
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and seek not to alter me." |
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Definition
Don John
I.ii.27-37
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him, and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage?" |
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Definition
Don John
II.ii.4-7
Much Ado About Nothing |
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Term
"You may think I love you not: let that appear hereafter, and aim better at me by that I now will manifest. For my brother, I think he holds you well, and in dearness of heart hath holp to effect your ensuing marriage;--surely suit ill spent and labour ill bestowed." |
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Definition
Don John (to Claudio)
III.ii. 95-99
Much Ado About Nothing |
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