Much Ado About Nothing

by: William Shakespeare

Act 2 Scene 1

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Enter LEONATO,ANTONIO, HERO,BEATRICE, URSULA andMARGARET	LEONATO, ANTONIO HERO BEATRICE URSULA, and MARGARET enter.
LEONATO Was not Count John here at supper?	LEONATO Wasn’t Don John at dinner tonight?
ANTONIO I saw him not.	ANTONIO I didn’t see him.
BEATRICE How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heartburned an hour after.	BEATRICE That man always looks so sour! Just looking at him gives me heartburn.
HERO 5He is of a very melancholy disposition.	HERO He has a very gloomy attitude.
BEATRICE He were an excellent man that were made just in the midway between him and Benedick. The one is too like an image and says nothing, and the other too like my lady’s eldest son, evermore tattling.	BEATRICE It would be excellent if they could make a man halfway between Don John and Benedick. One of them is too much like a painting of a man—he never speaks—and the other is too much like a spoiled little boy, always chattering.
LEONATO 10Then half Signor Benedick’s tongue in Count John’s mouth, and half Count John’s melancholy in Signor Benedick’s face—	LEONATO So, the man would talk half as much as Benedick and be half as serious as Don John—
BEATRICE With a good leg and a good foot, uncle, and money enough in his purse, such a man would win any woman in the 15world, if he could get her goodwill.	BEATRICE And if he were handsome, agile, and rich, too, he could have any woman in the world—all he’d need was her good will.
LEONATO By my troth, niece, thou wilt never get thee a husband if thou be so shrewd of thy tongue.	LEONATO Really, niece, you’ll never get a husband if you keep saying such harsh things about people.
ANTONIO In faith, she’s too curst.	ANTONIO Honestly, she is too ill-tempered.

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