Much Ado About Nothing Page #5

Stand I condemned for pride

and scorn so much?

Contempt, farewell.

And maiden pride, adieu.

No glory lives behind the back of such.

And, Benedick...

...love on.

I will requite thee.

Taming my wild heart to thy loving hand.

If thou dost love, my kindness shall incite thee...

...to bind our loves up in a holy band.

For others say thou dost deserve, and I...

...believe it...

...better than reportingly.

Are you good men and true?

Yea!

Being chosen for the prince's watch...

...this is your charge.

You are to bid any man stand,

in the prince's name.

How if he will not stand?

Why, then, take no note of him, but let him go.

If he will not stand when he is bidden,

he is none of the prince's subjects.

True!

And they are to meddle with none

but the prince's subjects.

You shall also make no noise in the streets.

We will rather sleep than talk.

You speak like an ancient...

...and a most quiet watchman...

...for I cannot see how sleeping should offend.

If you meet a thief...

...you may suspect him,

by virtue of your office...

...to be no true man...

...and, for such kind of men...

...the less you meddle or make with them,

why the more is for your...

...honesty.

You have been always called

a merciful man, partner.

Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will...

...much more a man

who hath any honesty in him.

'Tis very true.

Well, masters.

Good night.

An' there be any matter of weight chances...

...call up me.

Come, neighbor.

We hear our charge.

Let us sit here upon the bench till 2:00,

and then all to bed.

One word more, honest neighbors.

I pray you watch about Signior Leonato's door...

...for the wedding being there tomorrow,

there is a great coil tonight.

Adieu.

Be vigitant, I beseech you.

It is so.

The Count Claudio shall marry

the daughter of Leonato.

Yea, my lord, but I can cross it.

Any bar, any cross, any impediment

will be medicinable to me.

I am sick in displeasure to him...

...and whatsoever comes athwart

his affection ranges evenly with mine.

How canst thou cross this marriage?

Not honestly, my lord, but so covertly

that no dishonesty shall appear in me.

Show me briefly how.

I think I told your lordship a year since,

how much I am in the favor of Margaret...

...the waiting gentlewoman to Hero.

- I remember.

I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night...

...appoint her to look out

at her lady's chamber window.

What life is in that

to be the death of this marriage?

Well, the poison of that lies in you to temper.

Gallants.

I am not...

...as I have been.

So say I.

Methinks you are sadder.

I hope he be in love.

Old signior, walk aside with me.

I have studied some wise words

to speak to you...

...which these hobby-horses must not hear.

For my life, to break with him about Beatrice.

My lord and brother, God save you.

Good e'en, brother.

If your leisure served, I would speak with you.

In private?

If it please you. Yet Claudio may hear.

What I'd speak of concerns him.

What's the matter?

You may think I love you not.

Let that appear hereafter,

and aim better at me by that I now will manifest.

- Means your lordship to be married tomorrow?

- You know he does.

I know not that, when he knows what I know.

Hero!

The lady is disloyal.

If you love her now, tomorrow wed her.

But it would better fit your honor

to change your mind.

Conrade!

What, Conrade!

Conrade, I say.

Here, man, I am at thy elbow.

Mass, and my elbow itched,

I thought there would a scab follow.

I will owe thee an answer for that.

And now forward with thy tale.

- Sit close, then.

- Some treason, masters.

I know him!

I have, tonight, wooed Margaret...

...the Lady Hero's gentlewoman...

...by the name of Hero.

I shall first tell thee how the prince,

Claudio, and my master...

...planted by my master, Don John...

...saw this...

...amiable encounter.

And thought they Margaret was Hero?

Aye, and away went Claudio, enraged.

We charge you, in the prince's name, stand!

Call up the right master constable.

We have here recovered...

...the most dangerous piece of lechery

that was ever known in the commonwealth.

- Masters!

- Never speak.

There, sir.

What would you with me, neighbors?

Sir, our watch tonight,

excepting your worship's presence...

...hath ta'en a couple of

as arrant knaves as any in Messina.

A good old man, sir. He will be talking.

As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.

Well said, i' faith, neighbor Verges.

Well, God's a good man.

An' two men ride of a horse,

one must ride behind.

- All men are not alike, alas, good neighbor.

- Indeed, neighbor, he comes too short of you.

Gifts that God gives!

Neighbors, you are tedious.

It pleases your worship to say so...

...but we are the poor duke's officers.

But truly, for mine own part,

if I were as tedious as a king...

...I could find in my heart to bestow it all...

...on your worship.

All thy tediousness on me?

I would fain know what you have to say.

Our watch, sir, have indeed comprehended

two auspicious persons...

...and we would this morning

have them examined before your worship.

Take their examination yourself, and bring it me.

I am now in great haste,

as it may appear unto you.

Drink some wine ere you go.

We are now to examination these men.

Meet me at the jail.

You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady.

No.

To be married to her.

You come to marry her.

Lady...

...you come hither to be married to this count.

I do.

If either of you have any inward impediment

why you should not be conjoined...

...I charge you, on your souls, to utter it.

- Know you any, Hero?

- None, my lord.

- Know you any, count?

- I dare make his answer, none.

Stand thee by, friar.

Father, by your leave...

...will you, with free, unconstrained soul,

give me this maid, your daughter?

As freely, son, as God did give her me.

And what have I to give you back,

whose worth may counterpoise this...

...rich...

...and precious gift?

Nothing, unless you render her again.

Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.

There, Leonato, take her back again!

Give not this rotten orange to your friend.

She's but the sign and semblance of her honor.

Behold how like a maid she blushes here!

Would you not swear...

...all you that see her, that she were a maid,

by these exterior shows?

But she is none!

She knows the heat...

...of a luxurious bed!

- What do you mean, my lord?

- Not to be married...

...not to knit my soul to an approved wanton.

No!

Dear my lord...

...if you, in your own proof...

...have vanquished the resistance of her youth...

...and made defeat of her virginity...

- No, Leonato!

I never tempted her with word too large.

But...

...as a brother to his sister...

...showed bashful sincerity and comely love.

And seemed I ever otherwise to you?

You seem to me as Dian in her orb.

But you are more intemperate in your blood

than Venus...

...or those pampered animals...

...that rage in savage sensuality.

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