Page 1402 - Shakespeare - Vol. 2

And, by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.

LEONATO
I charge thee do so, as thou art my child. [75]

HERO
O God defend me! How am I beset!
What kind of catechizing call you this?

CLAUDIO
To make you answer truly to your name.

HERO
Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
With any just reproach?

CLAUDIO
Marry, that can Hero; [80]
Hero itself can blot out Hero’s virtue.

What man was he talked with you yesternight
Out at your window betwixt twelve and one?
Now, if you are a maid, answer to this.

HERO
I talked with no man at that hour, my lord. [85]

DON PEDRO
Why, then are you no maiden. Leonato,
I am sorry you must hear. Upon mine honour,

Myself, my brother, and this grievèd Count
Did see her, hear her, at that hour last night
Talk with a ruffian at her chamber-window; [90]

Who hath, indeed, most like a liberal villain,
Confessed the vile encounters they have had
A thousand times in secret.