Act 4, Scene 1 Flashcards
Act 4 scene 1 start
LEONATO
Come, Friar Francis, be brief; only to the plain form of marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards.
FRIAR FRANCIS
You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.
CLAUDIO
No.
LEONATO
To be married to her: friar, you come to marry her.
FRIAR FRANCIS
Know you any, count?
LEONATO
I dare make his answer, none.
CLAUDIO
Stand thee by, friar. Father, by your leave:
Will you with free and unconstrained soul
Give me this maid, your daughter?
LEONATO
As freely, son, as God did give her me.
CLAUDIO
Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
There, Leonato, take her back again:
Give not this rotten orange to your friend;
She’s but the sign and semblance of her honour.
Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
•, what authority and show of truth Can cunning sin cover itself withal!
Comes not that blood as modest evidence
To witness simple virtue? Would you not swear, All you that see her, that she were a maid, By these exterior shows? But she is none:
She knows the heat of a luxurious bed;
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
LEONATO
What do you mean, my lord?
LEONATO
What do you mean, my lord?
LEONATO
Dear my lord, if you, in your own proof, Have vanquish’d the resistance of her youth, And made defeat of her virginity,–
HERO
Is my lord well, that he doth speak so wide?
LEONATO
Sweet prince, why speak not you?
DON PEDRO
What should I speak?
I stand dishonour’d, that have gone about To link my dear friend to a common stale.
LEONATO
Are these things spoken, or do I but dream?
CLAUDIO
Leonato, stand I here?
Is this the prince? is this the prince’s brother?
Is this face Hero’s? are our eyes our own?
LEONATO
All this is so: but what of this, my lord?
CLAUDIO
Let me but move one question to your daughter;
And, by that fatherly and kindly power That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
LEONATO
I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.
