5-6 Flashcards
PRINCE I shall see thee, ere I die, look pale with love.
BENEDICK With anger, with sickness, or with hunger, my lord, not with love. Prove that ever I lose more blood with love than I will get again with drinking, pick out mine eyes with a ballad-maker’s pen and hang me up at the door of a brothel house for the sign of blind Cupid.
PRINCE Well, if ever thou dost fall from this faith, thou wilt prove a notable argument.
BENEDICK If I do, hang me in a bottle like a cat and shoot at me, and he that hits me, let him be clapped on the shoulder and called Adam.
PRINCE Well, as time shall try. In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke.
BENEDICK The savage bull may, but if ever the sensible Benedick bear it, pluck off the bull’s horns and set them in my forehead, and let me be vilely painted, and in such great letters as they write “Here is good horse to hire” let them signify under my sign “Here you may see Benedick the married man.”
PRINCE Nay, if Cupid have not spent all his quiver in Venice, thou wilt quake for this shortly.
BENEDICK I look for an earthquake too, then.
PRINCE Well, you will temporize with the hours. In the meantime, good Signior Benedick, repair to Leonato’s.
Commend me to him, and tell him I will not fail him at supper, for indeed he hath made great preparation.
BENEDICK I have almost matter enough in me for such an embassage, and so I commit you—
PRINCE The sixth of July. Your loving friend,
Benedick.
BENEDICK Nay, mock not, mock not. The body of your discourse is sometimes guarded with fragments, and the guards are but slightly basted on neither.
Ere you flout old ends any further, examine your conscience. And so I leave you.
