No Fear Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 3, Scene 2, Page 4
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BENEDICK
Yet is this no charm for the toothache.—Old Signior,
walk
aside with me. I have studied eight or nine wise words to
speak to you, which these hobbyhorses must not hear.
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BENEDICK
This chatter is no cure for my toothache.
(to
LEONATO) Old sir, please walk with me
a bit. I have eight or nine well-considered words to say to you, and
I don’t want these fools to hear.
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Exeunt BENEDICK
andLEONATO
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BENEDICK and LEONATO
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DON PEDRO
For my life, to break with him about Beatrice!
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DON PEDRO
I bet my life he’s gone to speak with Leonato about
Beatrice!
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CLAUDIO
'Tis even so. Hero and Margaret have by this played
their
parts with Beatrice, and then the two bears will not bite one
another when they meet.
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CLAUDIO
It must be. By now, Hero and Margaret have done their part with
Beatrice. The two bears won’t bite each other the next
time they meet.
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Enter DON JOHN
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DON JOHN enters. |
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DON JOHN
My lord and brother, God save you.
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DON JOHN
My lord and brother, God save you.
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DON PEDRO
Good e'en, brother.
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DON PEDRO
Good evening, brother.
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DON JOHN
If your leisure served, I would speak with you.
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DON JOHN
If you don’t mind, I’d like to speak with
you.
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DON PEDRO
In private?
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DON PEDRO
In private?
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DON JOHN
If it please you. Yet Count Claudio may hear, for what I
would speak of concerns him.
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DON JOHN
If you wish. But Count Claudio can stay, for what I’m
about to say concerns him.
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DON PEDRO
What’s the matter?
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DON PEDRO
What’s the matter?
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DON JOHN
(to
CLAUDIO) Means your lordship to be
married tomorrow?
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DON JOHN
(to
CLAUDIO) Do you plan on getting
married tomorrow?
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DON PEDRO
You know he does.
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DON PEDRO
You know that he does.
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DON JOHN
I know not that, when he knows what I know.
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DON JOHN
I don’t know that, once he knows what I know.
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