{"id":3666,"date":"2014-07-28T11:55:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3666"},"modified":"2014-07-28T11:55:33","modified_gmt":"2014-07-28T15:55:33","slug":"much-ado-about-nothing-act-iv-scene-i","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/?page_id=3666","title":{"rendered":"Much Ado About Nothing; Act IV, Scene i"},"content":{"rendered":"

Much Ado About Nothing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 4, Scene 1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Beatrice<\/strong><\/p>\n

This text is used in our interview with Rebecca Watson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n248 \u00a0 Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n249 \u00a0Yea, and I will weep a while longer.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n250 \u00a0I will not desire that.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n251 \u00a0You have no reason, I do it freely.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n252 \u00a0Surely I do believe your fair cousin is wrong\u2019d.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n253 \u00a0Ah, how much might the man deserve of me that would right her!<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n254 \u00a0Is there any way to show such friendship?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n255 \u00a0A very even way, but no such friend.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n256 \u00a0May a man do it?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n257 \u00a0It is a man\u2019s office, but not yours.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n258 \u00a0I do love nothing in the world so well as you\u2014is not that strange?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n259 \u00a0 As strange as the thing I know not. It were as possible for me to say I
\n260 \u00a0 lov\u2019d nothing so well as you, but believe me not; and yet I lie not: I
\n261 \u00a0 \u00a0confess nothing, nor I deny nothing. I am sorry for my cousin.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n262 \u00a0By my sword, Beatrice, thou lovest me.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n263 \u00a0Do not swear and eat it.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n264 \u00a0I will swear by it that you love me, and I will make him eat it that says I love not you.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n265 \u00a0Will you not eat your word?<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n266 \u00a0With no sauce that can be devis\u2019d to it. I protest I love thee.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n267 \u00a0Why then God forgive me!<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n268 \u00a0What offense, sweet Beatrice?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n269 \u00a0You have stay\u2019d me in a happy hour, I was about to protest I lov\u2019d you.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n270 \u00a0And do it with all thy heart.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n271 \u00a0I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n272 \u00a0Come, bid me do any thing for thee.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n273 \u00a0Kill Claudio.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n274 \u00a0Ha, not for the wide world.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n275 \u00a0You kill me to deny it. Farewell.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n276 \u00a0Tarry, sweet Beatrice.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n277 \u00a0I am gone, though I am here; there is no love in you. Nay, I pray you let me go.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n278 \u00a0Beatrice\u2014<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n279 \u00a0In faith, I will go.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n280 \u00a0We\u2019ll be friends first.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n281 \u00a0You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine enemy.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n282 \u00a0Is Claudio thine enemy?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n283 \u00a0Is \u2019a not approv\u2019d in the height a villain, that hath slander\u2019d, scorn\u2019d,
\n284 \u00a0dishonor\u2019d my kinswoman? O that I were a man! What, bear her in
\n285 \u00a0hand until they come to take hands, and then with public accusation,
\n286 \u00a0uncover\u2019d slander, unmitigated rancor\u2014O God, that I were a man! I
\n287 \u00a0would eat his heart in the market-place.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n288 \u00a0Hear me, Beatrice\u2014<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n289 \u00a0Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n290 \u00a0Nay, but, Beatrice\u2014<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n291 \u00a0Sweet Hero, she is wrong\u2019d, she is sland\u2019red, she is undone.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n292 \u00a0Beat\u2014<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n293 \u00a0Princes and counties! Surely a princely testimony, a goodly count,
\n294 \u00a0Count Comfect, a sweet gallant surely! O that I were a man for his sake!
\n295 \u00a0Or that I had any friend would be a man for my sake! But manhood is
\n296 \u00a0melted into cur\u2019sies, valor into compliment, and men are only turn\u2019d
\n297 \u00a0into tongue, and trim ones too. He is now as valiant as Hercules that
\n298 \u00a0only tells a lie, and swears it. I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore
\n299 \u00a0I will die a woman with grieving.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n300 \u00a0Tarry, good Beatrice. By this hand, I love thee.<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n301 \u00a0Use it for my love some other way than swearing by it.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n302 \u00a0Think you in your soul the Count Claudio hath wrong\u2019d Hero?<\/p>\n

BEAT.<\/strong>
\n303 \u00a0Yea, as sure as I have a thought or a soul.<\/p>\n

BENE.<\/strong>
\n304 \u00a0Enough, I am engag\u2019d, I will challenge him. I will kiss your hand, and
\n305 \u00a0so I leave you. By this hand, Claudio shall render me a dear account.
\n306 \u00a0As you hear of me, so think of me. Go comfort your cousin. I must say
\n307 \u00a0she is dead; and so farewell.<\/p>\n

Exeunt.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Much Ado About Nothing.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Act 4, Scene 1. \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Beatrice This text is used in our interview with Rebecca Watson. BENE. 248 \u00a0 Lady Beatrice, have you wept all this while? BEAT. 249 \u00a0Yea, and I will weep a while longer. BENE. 250 \u00a0I will not desire that. BEAT. 251<\/p>\n [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3666","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-line-bottom","fix"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2Frfq-X8","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3666"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4067,"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3666\/revisions\/4067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofshakespeare.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}