No Fear Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
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Act 3, Scene 2, Page 2
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DON PEDRO
What, sigh for the toothache?
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DON PEDRO
What, are you moaning on about your toothache?
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LEONATO
Where is but a humor or a worm.
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LEONATO
It could only have been caused by some humor or worm.
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BENEDICK
Well, everyone can master a grief but he that has it.
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BENEDICK
Well, everyone knows how to overcome an injury except the one who
actually has one.
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CLAUDIO
Yet say I, he is in love.
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CLAUDIO
I repeat, he’s in love.
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DON PEDRO
There is no appearance of fancy in him, unless it be a fancy
that he hath to strange disguises, as to be a Dutchman
today, a Frenchman tomorrow, or in the shape of two
countries at once, as a German from the waist downward,
all slops, and a Spaniard from the hip upward, no doublet.
Unless he have a fancy to this foolery, as it appears he hath,
he is no fool for fancy, as you would have it appear he is.
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DON PEDRO
No, there’s no love in him, unless you mean his love
for strange costumes. He’s a Dutchman today, a Frenchman
tomorrow, and sometimes wears the clothing of two countries at once:
a German from the waist down, with his baggy pants, and a Spaniard
from the hips up, with a cloak and no jacket. Unless
you’re talking about his love for this kind of
foolishness—which, judging from his appearance, he
has—he is no fool for love, as you pretend.
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CLAUDIO
If he be not in love with some woman, there is no believing
old signs. He brushes his hat o' mornings. What should
that bode?
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CLAUDIO
If he’s not in love with a woman, then you
can’t trust the usual symptoms. He brushes his hat in the
mornings. What do you think that means?
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DON PEDRO
Hath any man seen him at the barber’s?
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DON PEDRO
Has any man seen him at the barber’s?
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CLAUDIO
No, but the barber’s man hath been seen with him, and
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old ornament of his cheek hath already stuffed tennis
balls.
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CLAUDIO
No, but the barber’s assistant has been seen with him.
The beard that used to decorate Benedick’s cheeks has
been shaved off and is now stuffing tennis balls.
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LEONATO
Indeed, he looks younger than he did, by the loss of a
beard.
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LEONATO
Getting rid of the beard definitely makes him look younger.
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DON PEDRO
Nay, he rubs himself with civet. Can you smell him out by
that?
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DON PEDRO
And he’s rubbed himself with perfume. Can you smell out
his secret now?
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