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Page 116
O Lord ! he will hang upon him like a disease : he is sooner caught than the
pestilence , and the taker runs presently mad . God help the noble Claudio ! if he
have caught the Benedick , it will cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured .
Mess .
O Lord ! he will hang upon him like a disease : he is sooner caught than the
pestilence , and the taker runs presently mad . God help the noble Claudio ! if he
have caught the Benedick , it will cost him a thousand pound ere he be cured .
Mess .
Page 122
ed ; and in such great letters as they write , Here is good horse to hire , let them
signify under my sign ,Here you may see Benedick the married man . Claud . If
this should ever happen , thou would'st be horn - mad . D. Pedro . Nay , if Cupid ...
ed ; and in such great letters as they write , Here is good horse to hire , let them
signify under my sign ,Here you may see Benedick the married man . Claud . If
this should ever happen , thou would'st be horn - mad . D. Pedro . Nay , if Cupid ...
Page 128
He were an excellent man , that were made just in the mid - way 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 . Leon . Then half signior
Benedick's ...
He were an excellent man , that were made just in the mid - way 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 . Leon . Then half signior
Benedick's ...
Page 148
Then down upon her knees she falls , weeps , sobs , beats her heart , tears her
hair , prays , curses ;O sweet Benedick ! God give me patience ! Levn . She doth
indeed ; my daughter says so : and the ecstasy " hath so much overborne her ,
that ...
Then down upon her knees she falls , weeps , sobs , beats her heart , tears her
hair , prays , curses ;O sweet Benedick ! God give me patience ! Levn . She doth
indeed ; my daughter says so : and the ecstasy " hath so much overborne her ,
that ...
Page 155
No ; rather I will go to Benedick , And counsel him to fight against his passion ;
And , truly , I'll devisę some honest slanders To stain my cousin with : One doth
not know , How much an ill word may empoison liking . Urs . O , do not do your ...
No ; rather I will go to Benedick , And counsel him to fight against his passion ;
And , truly , I'll devisę some honest slanders To stain my cousin with : One doth
not know , How much an ill word may empoison liking . Urs . O , do not do your ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes, Volume 2 The Plays of William Shakespeare: Accurately Printed from the Text of the Corrected Copy Left by the Late George Steevens, Esq. ; with Glossarial Notes, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | J. Johnson, 1803 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 28 Dec 2006 |
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