_Claud._ To-morrow, my lord: time goes on crutches till love have all his rites. _Leon._ Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time too brief, too, to have all 325 things answer my mind. _D. Pedro._ Come, you shake the head at so long a breathing: but, I warrant thee, Claudio, the time shall not go dully by us. I will, in the interim, undertake one of Hercules’ labours; which is, to bring Signior Benedick and 330 the Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection the one with the other. I would fain have it a match; and I doubt not but to fashion it, if you three will but minister such assistance as I shall give you direction. _Leon._ My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten 335 nights’ watchings. _Claud._ And I, my lord. _D. Pedro._ And you too, gentle Hero? _Hero._ I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my cousin to a good husband. 340 _D. Pedro._ And Benedick is not the unhopefullest husband that I know. Thus far can I praise him; he is of a noble strain, of approved valour, and confirmed honesty. I will teach you how to humour your cousin, that she shall fall in love with Benedick; and I, with your two helps, 345 will so practise on Benedick, that, in despite of his quick wit and his queasy stomach, he shall fall in love with Beatrice. If we can do this, Cupid is no longer an archer: his glory shall be ours, for we are the only love-gods. Go in with me, and I will tell you my drift. [_Exeunt._ 350 ~~~~~ Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, II. 1. ACT II. See note (V). SCENE I. A hall...] Theobald. L.’s House. Pope. See note (VI). Enter...] Enter L., his brother, his wife, Hero his daughter and Beatrice his niece and a kinsman. Q Ff. (and kinsman F3 F4). See note (I). 15: _a’_] Collier. _a_ Q. _he_ Ff. 26: _the woollen_] _woollen_ Rowe (ed. 2). 27: _on_] Q. _upon_ Ff. 34: _bear-ward_] Collier. _Berrord_ Q F1 F2. _Bearherd_ F3 F4. 35: _hell?_] Hanmer. _hell._ Q Ff. _hell,_—Theobald. 35–41: Put in the margin as spurious by Warburton. 37: _horns_] _his horns_ F4. 40: _Peter for the heavens;_] Pope. _Peter: for the heavens,_ Q Ff. _Peter. for the heavens!_ Staunton. 44, 47: _courtesy_] _cursie_ Q. _curtsie_ Ff. 45: _Father_] Q. om. Ff. 47: _please_] Q F1. _pleases_ F2 F3 F4. 52: _an account_] Q. _account_ Ff. 53: _wayward_] _cold wayward_ F3 F4. 54: _my_] om. F3 F4. 59: _important_] _importunate_ Rowe (ed. 2). 61: _hear_] _here_ Q. 62: _as_] om. Rowe. 65: _ancientry_] _aunchentry_ Q F1 F2. _anchentry_ F3 F4. 67: _sink_] _sincke_ Q. _sinkes_ F1 F2. _sinks_ F3 F4. _sink apace_ Collier MS. See note (V). 72: All...masks] L. and his company mask. Capell. 73: SCENE II. Pope. Enter...masked.] Enter Prince, Pedro, Claudio, and Benedicke, and Balthasar, or dumb John. Q. Enter...John, Maskers with a drum. Ff.