Act 2 /

Question 1

DON PEDRO
By my troth, a pleasant-spirited lady.

Answer 1

LEONATO
There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps, and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.

Question 2

DON PEDRO
She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.

Answer 2

LEONATO
O, by no means: she mocks all her wooers out of suit.

Question 3

DON PEDRO
She were an excellent wife for Benedict.

Answer 3

LEONATO
O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk themselves mad.

Question 4

CLAUDIO
To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

Answer 4

LEONATO
Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all things answer my mind.

Question 5

DON PEDRO
Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing: but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. I will in the interim undertake one of Hercules’ labours; which is, to bring Signior Benedick and the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection the one with the other. I would fain have it a match, and I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you direction.

Answer 5

LEONATO
My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten nights’ watchings.