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Question 1

To be whipped? What’s his faith?

Answer 1

BENEDICK The flat transgression of a schoolboy who, being overjoyed with finding a bird’s nest, shows it his companion, and he steals it.

Question 2

PRINCE Wilt thou make a trust a transgression? The
transgression is in the stealer.

Answer 2

BENEDICK
Yet it had not been amiss the rod had been
made, and the garland too, for the garland he might have worn himself, and the rod he might have bestowed on you, who, as I take it, have stolen his bird’s nest.

Question 3

PRINCE I will but teach them to sing and restore them
to the owner.

Answer 3

BENEDICK If their singing answer your saying, by my
faith, you say honestly.

Question 4

PRINCE Look, here she comes.

Answer 4

BENEDICK Will your Grace command me any service to the world’s end? I will go on the slightest errand now to the Antipodes that you can devise to send me on. I will fetch you a toothpicker now from the furthest inch of Asia, bring you the length of Prester John’s foot, fetch you a hair off the great Cham’s beard, do you any embassage to the Pygmies, rather than hold three words’ conference with this harpy.
You have no employment for me?

Question 5

PRINCE None but to desire your good company.

Answer 5

BENEDICK O God, sir, here’s a dish I love not! I cannot
endure my Lady Tongue.