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HERO
None, my lord. [15]
FRIAR
Know you any, Count?
LEONATO
I dare make his answer, None.
CLAUDIO
O, what men dare do! What men may do!
What men daily do, not knowing what they do!
BENEDICK
How now! Interjections? Why, then, some be [20] of laughing, as, ah, ha, he!
CLAUDIO
Stand thee by, Friar. Father, by your leave;
Will you with free and unconstrainèd soul
Give me this maid, your daughter?
LEONATO
As freely, son, as God did give her me. [25]
CLAUDIO
And what have I to give you back, whose worth
May counterpoise this rich and precious gift?
DON PEDRO
Nothing, unless you render her again.
CLAUDIO
Sweet Prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
There, Leonato, take her back again, [30]
Give not this rotten orange to your friend;
She’s but the sign and semblance of her honour.
Behold how like a maid she blushes here!
