No Fear Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing
Get this No Fear to go!
Act 5, Scene 1, Page 4
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LEONATO
Thine, Claudio, thine, I say.
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LEONATO
Yours, Claudio, yours, I say.
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DON PEDRO
You say not right, old man.
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DON PEDRO
You’ve got it wrong, old man.
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LEONATO
My lord, my lord,
I’ll prove it on his body if he dare,
Despite his nice fence and his active practice,
His May of youth and bloom of lustihood.
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LEONATO
My lord, if he dares to accept my challenge, I’ll beat
him and prove he’s guilty. I’ll beat him
despite his fancy fencing techniques and all the practicing he does,
despite his youth and manliness.
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CLAUDIO
Away! I will not have to do with you.
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CLAUDIO
Not a chance! I’ll have nothing to do with you.
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LEONATO
Canst thou so daff me? Thou hast killed my child.
If thou kill’st me, boy, thou shalt kill a man.
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LEONATO
You think you can get rid of me that easily? You killed my child.
Take on someone your own size: if you kill me, boy,
you’ll have killed a man.
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ANTONIO
He shall kill two of us, and men indeed,
But that’s no matter. Let him kill one first.
Win me and wear me! Let him answer me.—
Come, follow me, boy. Come, sir boy, come, follow me.
Sir boy, I’ll whip you from your foining fence,
Nay, as I am a gentleman, I will.
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ANTONIO
He’ll have to kill both of us, and indeed
we’re both men. But let him start off easy by killing one
of us. Come on—kill me and brag about it! Let me at him.
Come on, come after me, little boy. Come on and get me. Little man,
I’ll be right in your face with my sword. I will, as
surely as I am a gentleman.
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LEONATO
Brother—
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LEONATO
Brother—
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ANTONIO
Content yourself. God knows I loved my niece,
And she is dead, slandered to death by villains
That dare as well answer a man indeed
As I dare take a serpent by the tongue.—
Boys, apes, braggarts, jacks, milksops!
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ANTONIO
Quiet. God knows I loved my niece, and now she’s
dead—slandered to death by cowards who would just as
likely fight a real man as I would grab a poisonous snake by the
tongue. Boys, fools, braggers, scoundrels, babies!
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LEONATO
Brother Anthony—
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LEONATO
Brother Anthony—
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