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DON JOHN Sir, they are spoken, and these things are true.
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DON JOHN They’re really being spoken, sir, and
they’re true.
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BENEDICK
65This looks not like a nuptial.
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BENEDICK This doesn’t look like a wedding.
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HERO True! O God!
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HERO It’s true! Oh God!
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CLAUDIO Leonato, stand I here?
Is this the Prince? Is this the Prince’s brother?
Is this face Hero’s? Are our eyes our own?
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CLAUDIO Leonato, am I standing here? Is this the Prince? Is this the
Prince’s brother? Is this face Hero’s? Are
these our eyes?
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LEONATO
70All this is so, but what of this, my lord?
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LEONATO Yes, that’s all true—but what do you mean by
it, my lord?
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CLAUDIO Let me but move one question to your daughter,
And by that fatherly and kindly power
That you have in her, bid her answer truly.
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CLAUDIO Let me just ask her one question, and by your authority as her
father, order her to answer truthfully.
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LEONATO I charge thee do so, as thou art my child.
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LEONATO As my child, I order you to do so.
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HERO
75Oh, God defend me! how am I beset!—
What kind of catechizing call you this?
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HERO Oh, God help me! How I’m being attacked! What kind of
game is this?
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CLAUDIO To make you answer truly to your name.
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CLAUDIO We just want you to answer to your real name.
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HERO Is it not Hero? Who can blot that name
With any just reproach?
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HERO Isn’t my name Hero? Who can stain that name with a just
accusation?
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CLAUDIO Marry, that can
Hero!
80Hero 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.
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CLAUDIO Indeed, Hero herself can! You’ve stained your virtue
with your own actions. What man were you talking to at your window
last night, between the hours of midnight and one? If
you’re a virgin, you’ll answer this
question.
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HERO I talked with no man at that hour, my lord.
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HERO I wasn’t talking to any man at that time, my
lord.
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