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Question 1

PRINCE
Why, these are very crotchets that he speaks!
Note notes, forsooth, and nothing.
Music plays

Answer 1

BENEDICK, ‘aside? Now, divine air! Now is his soul ravished. Is it not strange that sheeps’ guts should hale souls out of men’s bodies? Well, a horn for my money, when all’s done.

Question 2

PRINCE Ha, no, no, faith, thou sing’st well enough for a
shift.

Answer 2

BENEDICK, aside An he had been a dog that should have howled thus, they would have hanged him. And I pray God his bad voice bode no mischief. I had as lief have heard the night raven, come what plague could have come after it.

Question 3

LEONATO No, nor I neither, but most wonderful that she should so dote on Signior Benedick, whom she hath in all outward behaviors seemed ever to abhor.

Answer 3

Is ‘t possible? Sits the wind in that
corner?

Question 4

LEONATO I would have sworn it had, my lord, especially
against Benedick.

Answer 4

I should think this a gull but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it. Knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence.