Page 1359 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

My lord, I am for you, though it cost me ten [340] nights’ watchings.

CLAUDIO
And I, my lord.

DON PEDRO
And you too, gentle Hero?

HERO
I will do any modest office, my lord, to help my cousin to a good husband.
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DON 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 [350] helps, 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.
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Exeunt.

Scene II IT

Enter Don John and Borachio

DON JOHN
It is so; the Count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato.

BORACHIO
Yea, my lord, but I can cross it.

DON JOHN
Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me; I am sick in

displeasure to him, and [5] whatsoever comes athwart his affection ranges