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Question 1

BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me. If it had been painful, I would not have come.

Answer 1

BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message?

Question 2

BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife’s point and choke a daw withal. You have no stomach, signior. Fare you well.
She exits.

Answer 2

Ha! “Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner.” There’s a double meaning in that. “I took no more pains for those thanks than you took pains to thank me.” That’s as much as to say “Any pains that I take for you is as easy as thanks.” If I do not take pity of her, I am a villain; if I do not love her, I am a Jew. I will go get her picture.