So the life, that died with fhame, Praifing her when I am dumb. [affixing it, Now, mufick, found, and fing your folemn hymn. SONG. Pardon, Goddess of the night, Those that flew thy virgin knight ; Round about her tomb they go. Help us to figh and groan, Graves, yawn, and yield your dead, Till death be uttered, Heavily, heavily. CLAUD. NOW, unto thy bones good night! Yearly will I do this rite. [out: D. PEDRO. Good morrow, mafters; put your torches The wolves have prey'd ; and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey : Thanks to you all, and leave us ; fare you well. CLAUD. And, Hymen, now with luckier issue speed's, Than this, for whom we render'd up this woe! [Exeunt. SCENE IV. A Room in LEONATO's House. Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, URSULA, FRIAR, and HERO. FRIAR. Did I not tell you fhe was innocent? LEON. So are the prince and Claudio, who accus'd her, Upon the error that you heard debated: ANT. Well, I am glad that all things fort fo well LEON. Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all, Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves; And, when I fend for you, come hither mask'd: The prince and Claudio promis'd by this hour To vifit me:You know your office, brother; You must be father to your brother's daughter, And give her to young Claudio. [Exeunt Ladies. ANT. Which I will do with confirm'd countenance. BENE. Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think. FRIAR. To do what, fignior? BENE. To bind me, or undo me, one of them.Signior Leonato, truth it is, good fignior, Your niece regards me with an eye of favour. LEON. That eye my daughter lent her; 'Tis most true. BENE. And I do with an eye of love requite her. my will, my will is, your good will FRIAR. And my help. Here comes the prince and Claudio. I i iij Enter Don PEDRO and CLAUDIO, with Attendants. D. PEDRO. Good morrow, Benedick: Why, what's the So full of froft, of storm, and cloudiness? [matter, CLAUD. I think, he thinks upon the favage bull :Tush, fear not, man, we'll tip thy horns with gold, And all Europa fhall rejoice at thee; As once Europa did at lufty Jove, When he would play the noble beast in love. Re-enter ANTONIO, with the Ladies mafk'd. ANT. This fame is fhe, and I do give you her. [face. CLAUD. Give me your hand before this holy friar'; HERO. And when I liv'd, I was your other wife : HERO. Nothing certainer : One Hero died defil'd; but I do live, And, furely as I live, I am a maid. D. PEDRO. The former Hero! Hero that is dead! LEON. She died, my lord, but whiles her flander liv'd. FRIAR. All this amazement can I qualify; When, after that the holy rites are ended, I'll tell you largely of fair Hero's death : And to the chapel let us presently. BENE. Soft and fair, friar.-Which is Beatrice? BEAT. I answer to that name; [Unmasking.] What is your will? BENE. Do not you love me? BEAT. No, no more than reason, [Claudio, BENE. Why, then your uncle, and the prince, and Have been deceived; for they swore you did. BEAT. Do not you love me? BENE. No, no more than reason. BEAT. Why, then my coufin, Margaret, and Urfula, Are much deceiv'd; for they did swear, you did. BENE. They fwore that you were almost sick for me. BEAT. They fwore that you were well-nigh dead for me. [me? BENE. 'Tis no fuch matter :-Then, you do not love A halting fonnet of his own pure brain, HERO. And here's another, Writ in my cousin's hand, stolen from her pocket, I i iiij Containing her affection unto Benedick. BENE. A miracle! here's our own hands against our hearts!-Come, I will have thee; but, by this light, I take thee for pity. BEAT. I would not deny you ;-but, by this good day, I yield upon great perfuafion; and, partly, to fave your life, for I was told you were in a confumption. BENE. Peace, I will ftop your mouth. [Kiffing her. D. PEDRO. How doft thou, Benedick the married man? BENE. I'll tell thee what, prince; a college of witcrackers cannot flout me out of my humour: Doft thou think, I care for a fatire, or an epigram? No: if a man will be beaten with brains, he shall wear nothing handfome about him: In brief, fince I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that the world can fay against it; and therefore never flout at me for what I have faid againft it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclufion. For thy part, Claudio, I did think to have beaten thee; but in that thou art like to be my kinsman, live unbruis'd, and love my cousin. CLAUD. I had well hoped, thou wouldst have denied Beatrice, that I might have cudgell'd thee out of thy fingle life, to make thee a double dealer; which, out of question, thou wilt be, if my coufin do not look exceeding narrowly to thee. BENE. 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. LEON. We'll have dancing afterwards. BENE. First, o' my word; therefore, play, mufick.— Prince, thou art fad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife: there is no staff more reverend than one tipp'd with horn. |