_Leon._ No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better prepared for an answer, if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it. [_Enter attendants._] Cousins, 20 you know what you have to do. O, I cry you mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time. [_Exeunt._ ~~~~~ Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, I, 2. SCENE II.] Capell. A room in L.’s house] Capell. See note (IV). Enter...] Enter L. and an old man brother to L. Q Ff. Re-enter A. and L. Pope. 4: _strange_] Q. om. Ff. 6: _event_] F2 F3 F4 _events_ Q F1. 8: _mine orchard_] Q. _my orchard_ Ff. 9: _thus much_] Q. _thus_ Ff. 12: _he meant_] Q F1 F2 F3. _meant_ F4. 18: _withal_] Theobald. _withall_ Q F1 F2. _with all_ F3 F4. 19: _an_]Q F1. om. F2 F3 F4. 20: Enter attendants] Edd. Several cross the stage here. Theobald. Enter several persons, bearing things for the Banquet. Capell. 23: _cousin_] _cousins_ Steevens. ~~~~~ SCENE III. _The same._ _Enter_ DON JOHN _and_ CONRADE. _Con._ What the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out of measure sad? _D. John._ There is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit. _Con._ You should hear reason. 5 _D. John._ And when I have heard it, what blessing brings it? _Con._ If not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance. _D. John._ I wonder that thou, being (as thou sayest thou art) born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine 10 to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man’s jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man’s leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man’s business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. 15 _Con._ Yea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta’en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is 20 needful that you frame the season for your own harvest. _D. John._ I had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace; and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it 25 must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle, and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am, and seek not 30 to alter me. _Con._ Can you make no use of your discontent? _D. John._ I make all use of it, for I use it only. Who comes here? _Enter_ BORACHIO.