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Come, Friar Francis, be brief, only to the plain form of marriage, and you shall recount their particular duties afterwards.
Claudio: No
To be married to her. Friar, you come to marry her
Friar: Know you any, count?
I dare make his answer, none.
Claudio: Give me this maid, your daughter?
As freely, son, as god did give her me.
Claudio: Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty
What do you mean, my lord?
Claudio: Not to knit my soul to an approved wanton
Dear my lord, if you in your own proof have vanquished the resistance of her youth, and made defeat of her virginity
Hero: Is my lord well that he doth speak so wide?
Sweet prince, why speak not you?
Prince: To link my friend to a common stale
Are these things spoken, or do I but dream
Claudio: Is this face Hero's? Are our eyes our own?
All this is so, but what of this, my lord?
Claudio: That you have in her, bid her answer truly
I charge thee do so, as thou art my child
Claudio: And never shall it more be gracious
Hath no man's dagger here a point for me?
Beatrice: Hero, why Hero! Uncle! Signior Benedick! Friar!
O Fate, take not away thy heavy hand! Death is the fairest cover for her shame That may be wished for
Friar: Have comfort, lady
Dost thou look up?
Friar: Yea, wherefore should she not?
Wherefore? Why, doth not every earthly thing cry shame upon her? Could she here deny The story that is printed in her blood? Do not live Hero, do not ope thine eyes, for, did I think thou wouldst not quickly die, thought I thy spirits were stronger than thy shames, Myself would, on the reward of reproaches, strike at thy life. Grieved I had but one? Chid I for that at frugal Nature's frame? O, one too much by thee! Why had I one? Why ever wast this lovely in my eyes? Why had I not with charitable hand took up a beggars issue at my gates, who, smirched thus, and mired with infamy, I might have said "no part of it is mine. This shame derives itself from unknown loins"? But mine, and mine I loved, and mine I praised, and mine that I was proud on, mine so much that I myself was to myself not mine, valuing of her, why she, O she, is fall'n into a pit of ink, that the wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean again, and salt to little which may season give to her foul tainted flesh!
Beatrice: I have this twelve month been her bedfellow.
Confirmed, confirmed! O, that is stronger made which was before barred up with ribs if iron! Would the two princes lie and Claudio lie, who loved her so that, speaking of her foulness, washed it with tears? Hence from her. Let her die!
Friar: Under some biting error
Friar, it cannot be. Thou seest that all the grace that she hath left Is that she will not add it to her damnation a sin of perjury. She not denies it. Why seek'st thou then to cover with excuse that which appears in proper nakedness?
Friar: whose spirits toil in the frame of villanies
I know not. If they speak but truth of her, These hands shall tear her. If they wrong her honor, the proudest id them shall well hear of it. Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, nor age so eat up my invention, nor fortune made such havoc of my means, nor my bad life rest me so much of friends, but they shall find, awaked in such a kind, both strength of limb and policy of mind, ability in means and choice of friends, to quit me of them throughly.
Friar: that appertain unto a burial.
What shall become of this? What will this do?
Benedick: should with your body
Being that I flow in grief, the smallest twine may lead me