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Enter DON JOHN and BORACHIO
| DON JOHN
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It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the
daughter of Leonato. |
| BORACHIO
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Yea, my lord; but I can cross it.
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| DON JOHN
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Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be
medicinable to me: I am sick in displeasure to him,
and whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges
evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this marriage? |
| BORACHIO
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Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no
dishonesty shall appear in me. |
| DON JOHN
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Show me briefly how. |
| BORACHIO
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I think I told your lordship a year since, how much
I am in the favour of Margaret, the waiting
gentlewoman to Hero. |
| DON JOHN
|
I remember. |
| BORACHIO
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I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night,
appoint her to look out at her lady's chamber window. |
| DON JOHN
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What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage?
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| BORACHIO
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The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to
the prince your brother; spare not to tell him that
he hath wronged his honour in marrying the renowned
Claudio--whose estimation do you mightily hold
up--to a contaminated stale, such a one as Hero. |
| DON JOHN
|
What proof shall I make of that?
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| BORACHIO
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Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio,
to undo Hero and kill Leonato. Look you for any
other issue? |
| DON JOHN
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Only to despite them, I will endeavour any thing.
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| BORACHIO
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Go, then; find me a meet hour to draw Don Pedro and
the Count Claudio alone: tell them that you know
that Hero loves me; intend a kind of zeal both to the
prince and Claudio, as,--in love of your brother's
honour, who hath made this match, and his friend's
reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the
semblance of a maid,--that you have discovered
thus. They will scarcely believe this without trial:
offer them instances; which shall bear no less
likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window,
hear me call Margaret Hero, hear Margaret term me
Claudio; and bring them to see this the very night
before the intended wedding,--for in the meantime I
will so fashion the matter that Hero shall be
absent,--and there shall appear such seeming truth
of Hero's disloyalty that jealousy shall be called
assurance and all the preparation overthrown. |
| DON JOHN
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Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put
it in practise. Be cunning in the working this, and
thy fee is a thousand ducats. |
| BORACHIO
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Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning
shall not shame me. |
| DON JOHN
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I will presently go learn their day of marriage.
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[Exeunt] |
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Act III, Scene 4
Hero's apartment. |
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Act I, Scene 1
Before Leonato's house. |
Act III, Scene 5
Another room in Leonato's house. |
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Act I, Scene 2 A
room in Leonato's house/Act I, Scene 3 The same. |
Act IV, Scene 1
A church. |
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Act II, Scene 1
A hall in Leonato's house. |
Act IV, Scene 2
A prison. |
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Act II, Scene 2
The same. |
Act V, Scene 1
Before Leonato's house. |
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Act II, Scene 3 Leonato's orchard. |
Act V, Scene 2
Leonato's garden. |
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Act III, Scene
1 Leonato's garden |
Act V, Scene 3 A
church. |
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Act III, Scene 2
A room in Leonato's house |
Act V, Scene 4 A
room in Leonato's house. |
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Act III, Scene 3
A street. |
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