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BENEDICK Tarry, sweet Beatrice.
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BENEDICK Wait, sweet Beatrice.
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BEATRICE I am gone, though I am here. There is no love in you. Nay,
290I pray you let me go.
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BEATRICE My body waits here, but the rest of me is gone. You
don’t really love me. I beg you to let me go.
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BENEDICK Beatrice—
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BENEDICK Beatrice—
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BEATRICE In faith, I will go.
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BEATRICE I swear, I’m going.
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BENEDICK We’ll be friends first.
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BENEDICK Not until we part as friends.
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BEATRICE You dare easier be friends with me than fight with mine
295enemy.
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BEATRICE How dare you try to be my friend when you refuse to fight my
enemy.
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BENEDICK Is Claudio thine enemy?
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BENEDICK Is Claudio your enemy?
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BEATRICE Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath
slandered, scorned, dishonored my kinswoman? Oh, that I
were a man! What, bear her in hand until they come to take
300hands and then, with public accusation, uncovered
slander, unmitigated rancor—O God, that I were a man! I
would eat his heart in the marketplace.
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BEATRICE Hasn’t he proven himself to be a great
villain—slandering, scorning, and dishonoring my cousin?
Oh, I wish I were a man! He pretended that everything was fine until
the moment they were exchanging vows, and then—with
public accusation, blatant slander, pure hatred—Oh God,
if only I were a man! I would rip his heart out in public and eat
it.
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BENEDICK Hear me, Beatrice—
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BENEDICK Listen to me, Beatrice—
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BEATRICE Talk with a man out at a window! A proper saying!
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BEATRICE Talking with a man outside her bedroom window! A likely
story!
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BENEDICK
305Nay, but Beatrice—
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BENEDICK No, but Beatrice—
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BEATRICE Sweet Hero, she is wronged, she is slandered, she is
undone.
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BEATRICE Sweet Hero, she’s been wronged, she’s been
slandered, she’s been ruined.
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BENEDICK Beat—
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BENEDICK Beat—
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