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LEONATO

There’s little of the melancholy element in her, my lord; she is never sad but
when she sleeps, and not [315] ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter
say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.

DON PEDRO
She cannot endure to hear tell of a husband.

LEONATO

O, by no means; she mocks all her wooers out [320] of suit.

DON PEDRO

She were an excellent wife for Benedick.

LEONATO
O Lord, my lord, if they were but a week married, they would talk themselves
mad.

DON PEDRO
County Claudio, when mean you to go to [325] church?

CLAUDIO
Tomorrow, my lord. Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.

LEONATO
Not till Monday, my dear son, which is hence a just seven-night; and a time

too brief, too, to have all [330] things answer my mind.

DON 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 Signor Benedick [335] and the Lady

Beatrice into a mountain of affection, th’one with th’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.

LEONATO