Act 4 Scene 1 Part 2

Question 1

CLAUDIO
O Hero, what a Hero hadst thou been, If half thy outward graces had been placed About thy thoughts and counsels of thy heart!
But fare thee well, most foul, most fair! Farewell!

Answer 1

LEONATO
Hath no man’s dagger here a point for me?

Question 2

FRIAR FRANCIS
Have comfort, lady.

Answer 2

LEONATO
Dost thou look up?

Question 3

FRIAR FRANCIS
Yea, wherefore should she not?

Answer 3

LEONATO
Wherefore! Why, doth not every earthly thing Cry shame upon her? Could she here deny The story that is printed in her blood?
Do not live, Hero; do not ope thine eyes:
For, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, Thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would, on the rearward of reproaches, Strike at thy life. Grieved I, I had but one?
Chid I for that at frugal nature’s frame?
O, one too much by thee! Why had I one?
Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
-why, she, O, she is fallen Into a pit of ink, that the wide sea Hath drops too few to wash her clean again And salt too little which may season give To her foul-tainted flesh!

Question 4

BEATRICE
No, truly not; although, until last night, I have this twelvemonth been her bedfellow.

Answer 4

LEONATO
Confirm’d, confirm’d! O, that is stronger made Which was before barr’d up with ribs of iron!
Would the two princes lie, and Claudio lie, Who loved her so, that, speaking of her foulness, Wash’d it with tears? Hence from her! let her die.

Question 5

BENEDICK
Two of them have the very bent of honour;
And if their wisdoms be misled in this, The practise of it lives in John the bastard, Whose spirits toil in frame of villanies.

Answer 5

LEONATO
I know not. If they speak but truth of her, These hands shall tear her; if they wrong her honour, The proudest of them shall well hear of it.

Question 6

FRIAR FRANCIS
Pause awhile,
And let my counsel sway you in this case.
Your daughter here the princes left for dead:
Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it that she is dead indeed;
Maintain a mourning ostentation And on your family’s old monument
Hang mournful epitaphs and do all rites
That appertain unto a burial.

Answer 6

LEONATO
What shall become of this? what will this do?