Act 2, Scene 1

Question 1

Act 2 scene 1 start

Answer 1

Was not Count John here at supper?

Question 2

BEATRICE
He were an excellent man that were made just in the midway between him and Benedick: the one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady’s eldest son, evermore tattling.

Answer 2

LEONATO
By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband, if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.

Question 3

BEATRICE
Lord, for the which
blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening. Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face: I had rather lie in the woollen.

Answer 3

LEONATO
You may light on a husband that hath no beard.

Question 4

BEATRICE
What should I do with him? dress him in my apparel and make him my waiting-gentlewoman? He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man: and he that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him.

Answer 4

LEONATO
[To HERO] Well, daughter, I trust you will be ruled by your father.

Question 5

BEATRICE
Yes, faith; it is my cousin’s duty to make curtsy and say ‘Father, as it please you.’ But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say Father, as it please me.’

Answer 5

LEONATO
Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband.

Question 6

BEATRICE
Not till God make men of some other metal than earth.

Answer 6

LEONATO
Daughter, remember what I told you: if the prince do solicit you in that kind, you know your answer.

Question 7

BEATRICE
The fault will be in the music, cousin, if you be not wooed in good time: if the prince be too important, tell him there is measure in every thing and so dance out the answer. For, hear me, Hero: wooing, wedding, and repenting, is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque pace: the first suit is hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig, and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly-modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and, with his bad legs, falls into the cinque pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave.

Answer 7

LEONATO
Cousin, you apprehend passing shrewdly.

Question 8

BEATRICE
I have a good eye, uncle; I can see a church by daylight.

Answer 8

LEONATO
The revellers are entering, brother: make good room.