The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]Shakespeare, William
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The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [Vol. 2 of 9]
Shakespeare, William
English drama
_Hero._ These gloves the count sent me; they are an
excellent perfume. 55
_Beat._ I am stuffed, cousin; I cannot smell.
_Marg._ A maid, and stuffed! there’s goodly catching
of cold.
_Beat._ O, God help me! God help me! how long have
you professed apprehension? 60
_Marg._ Even since you left it. Doth not my wit become
me rarely?
_Beat._ It is not seen enough, you should wear it in
your cap. By my troth, I am sick.
_Marg._ Get you some of this distilled Carduus Benedictus, 65
and lay it to your heart: it is the only thing for a
qualm.
_Hero._ There thou prickest her with a thistle.
_Beat._ Benedictus! why Benedictus? you have some
moral in this Benedictus. 70
_Marg._ Moral! no, by my troth, I have no moral meaning;
I meant, plain holy-thistle. You may think perchance
that I think you are in love: nay, by’r lady, I am not such
a fool to think what I list; nor I list not to think what I
can; nor, indeed, I cannot think, if I would think my heart 75
out of thinking, that you are in love, or that you will be in
love, or that you can be in love. Yet Benedick was such
another, and now is he become a man: he swore he would
never marry; and yet now, in despite of his heart, he eats
his meat without grudging: and how you may be converted, 80
I know not; but methinks you look with your eyes as other
women do.
_Beat._ What pace is this that thy tongue keeps?
_Marg._ Not a false gallop.
_Re-enter_ URSULA.
_Urs._ Madam, withdraw: the prince, the count, Signior 85
Benedick, Don John, and all the gallants of the town, are
come to fetch you to church.
_Hero._ Help to dress me, good coz, good Meg, good
Ursula. [_Exeunt._
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Linenotes: _Much Ado About Nothing_, III. 4.
SCENE IV.] Capell. SCENE VI. Pope.
Hero’s apartment.] Theobald.
6: _rabato_] Hanmer. _rebato_ Q Ff.
8: _troth’s_] _troth it’s_ Rowe (ed. 2).
17: _troth’s_] _troth it’s_ Pope. See note (XIX).
18: _o’ gold_] Capell. _a gold_ Q Ff. _of gold_ Pope.
19: _pearls, down sleeves_] _pearls down the sleeves_ Steevens conj.
_skirts, round_] Q F1 F2. _skirts, round,_ F3 F4. _skirts
round,_ Hanmer. _skirts round_ Dyce.
29: _say, ‘saving...husband:’_] See note (XX).
_an_] _and_ Ff. & Q. _if_ Pope.
34: SCENE VII. Pope.
38: _Clap’s_] Q. _Claps_ Ff. _Clap us_ Rowe (ed. 2).
38, 40: _o’ love_] Rowe (ed. 2). _a love_ Q Ff.
40: _Ye_] Q Ff. _Yes,_ Rowe. _Yea,_ Steevens (Capell conj.).
41: _see_] Q. _look_ Ff.
57: _goodly_] Q F1 F2. _a goodly_ F3 F4.
65: _this_] _the_ Capell conj.
76: _of thinking_] _with thinking_ Pope. _o’ thinking_ Capell.
79: _eats_] _eats not_ Johnson conj.
83: _that_] om. F4.
~~~~~
SCENE V. _Another room in_ LEONATO’S _house_.
_Enter_ LEONATO, _with_ DOGBERRY _and_ VERGES.
_Leon._ What would you with me, honest neighbour?
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