No Fear Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing: Act 2, scene i

Enter LEONATO,ANTONIO, HERO,BEATRICE, URSULA andMARGARET

LEONATO, ANTONIO HERO BEATRICE URSULA, and MARGARET enter.

	LEONATO
	Was not Count John here at supper?

LEONATO

Wasn't Don John at dinner tonight?

	ANTONIO
	I saw him not.

ANTONIO

I didn't see him.

	BEATRICE
	How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I
	am heartburned an hour after.

BEATRICE

That man always looks so sour! Just looking at him gives me heartburn.

	HERO
5	He is of a very melancholy disposition.

HERO

He has a very gloomy attitude.

	BEATRICE
	He were an excellent man that were made just in the
	midway between him and Benedick. The one is too like an
	image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady's
	eldest son, evermore tattling.

BEATRICE

It would be excellent if they could make a man halfway between Don John and Benedick. One of them is too much like a painting of a man—he never speaks—and the other is too much like a spoiled little boy, always chattering.

	LEONATO
10	Then half Signor Benedick's tongue in Count John's
	mouth, and half Count John's melancholy in Signor
	Benedick's face—

LEONATO

So, the man would talk half as much as Benedick and be half as serious as Don John—

	BEATRICE
	With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money enough
	in his purse, such a man would win any woman in the
15	world, if he could get her goodwill.

BEATRICE

And if he were handsome, agile, and rich, too, he could have any woman in the world—all he'd need was her good will.

	LEONATO
	By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband if
	thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

LEONATO

Really, niece, you'll never get a husband if you keep saying such harsh things about people.

	ANTONIO
	In faith, she's too curst.

ANTONIO

Honestly, she is too ill-tempered.