BENEDICK
A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee
for pity. BEATRICE
I would not deny you; but, by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion; and partly to save your life, for I
was told you were in a consumption. BENEDICK
Peace! I will stop your mouth.
Kissing her DON PEDRO
How dost thou, Benedick, the married man? BENEDICK
I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humour. Dost thou think I
care for a satire or an epigram? No: if a man will be beaten with brains, a' shall wear nothing handsome
about him. In brief, since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can
say against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and
this is my conclusion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to have beaten thee, but in that thou art like to be
my kinsman, live unbruised and love my cousin. CLAUDIO
I had well hoped thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I might have cudgelled thee out of thy single life,
to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of question, thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look exceedingly
narrowly to thee. BENEDICK
Come, come, we are friends: let's have a dance ere we are married, that we may lighten our own hearts and
our wives' heels. LEONATO
We'll have dancing afterward. BENEDICK
First, of my word; therefore play, music. Prince, thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife: there is no
staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.
Enter a Messenger Messenger
My lord, your brother John is ta'en in flight, And brought with armed men back to Messina.
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