act 1 scene 1 Flashcards
messenger 1: don pedro is approached
good signor leonato, you are come to meet your trouble: the fashion of the world is to avoid it, and you encounter it.
leonato: but when you depart from me, sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave.
you embrace your charge too willingly. i think this is your daughter.
leonato: signor benedick, no; for then you were a child
you have it full benedick: we may guess by this what you are, being a man. truly the lady fathers herself. be happy lady; for you are like an honourable father.
beatrice: you always end with a jade’s trick: i know you of old
that is the sum of all, leonato. signor claudio and signor benedick, my dear friend leonato hath invited you all. i tell him we shall stay here at the least a month.
leonato: please it your grace lead on?
your hand, leonato; we will go together.
benedick: look don pedro is returned to seek you
what secret hath you held here, that you followed not to leonato’s?
benedick: i would your grace would constrain me to tell
i charge the on thy allegiance
claudio: that i love her, i feel.
that she is worthy, i know
benedick: i may go the finer, i will live a bachelor
i shall see thee, ere i die, look pale with love
benedick: here you may see benedick the married man
in the meantime good signor 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-
the sixth of july: your loving friend, benedick
claudio: my liege, your highness now may do me good
my love is thine to teach: teach it but how, and thou shalt see how apt it is to learn and hard lesson that may do thee good
claudio: hath leonato any son, my lord
no child but hero; she’s his only heir dost thou affect her, claudio?
claudio: saying, i liked here ere i went to wars
thou wilt be like a lover presently and tire the hearer with a book of words. if thou dost love fair hero, cherish it, and i will break with her and with her father, and thou shalt have her. was’t not to this end that thou began’st to twist so fine a story?
claudio: i would have salved it with a longer treatise
look, what will serve is fit: and i will fit thee with the remedy. i know we shall have revelling tonight: i will assume thy part in some disguise and tell fair hero i am claudio, and in her bosom ill unclasp my heart and take her hearing prisoner with the force and strong encounter of my amorous tale: then after to her father i will break; and the conclusion is, she shall be thine. in practise let us put it presently
