7-8 Flashcards
MARGARET I say my prayers aloud.
BENEDICK I love you the better; the hearers may cry
“Amen.”
Will you not tell me who told you so?
No, you shall pardon me.
BEATRICE Nor will you not tell me who you are?
Not now.
BEATRICE That I was disdainful, and that I had my good wit out of The Hundred Merry Tales! Well, this was Signior Benedick that said so.
What’s he?
I am sure you know him well enough.
Not I, believe me.
BEATRICE Did he never make you laugh?
BENEDICK I pray you, what is he?
Why, he is the Prince’s jester, a very dull fool; only his gift is in devising impossible slanders.
None but libertines delight in him, and the commendation is not in his wit but in his villainy, for he both pleases men and angers them, and then they laugh at him and beat him. I am sure he is in the fleet.I would he had boarded me.
When I know the gentleman, I’ll tell him
what you say.
Do, do. He’ll but break a comparison or two
on me, which peradventure not marked or not laughed at strikes him into melancholy, and then there’s a partridge wing saved, for the fool will eat no supper that night. ‘Music for the dance. We must follow the leaders.’
In every good thing.
