Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing Act 4 Scene 1
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The Wedding
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Friar Francis You come hither, my lord, to
marry this lady?
No.
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There Leonato, take her back again, Give not
this rotten orange to your friend, Shes but the
sign and semblance of her honour Behold how like
a maid she blushes here!
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What do you mean, my lord?
Not to be married, not to knit my soul to an
approved wanton
Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.
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You seemed to me as Dian in her orbbut you are
more intemperate in her blood than Venus
As a brother to a sister, showed bashful
sincerity, and comely love
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I stand dishonoured that have gone about To
link my dear friend to a common stale
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Upon my honour, Myself, my brother and the
grieved count did see her, hear her at that hour
last night
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Oh Hero! Fare thee well, most foul, most fair,
farewell.
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Oh God defend me, how I am beset! What sort of
catechising call you this?
True, oh God!
Hero
I talked with no man at that hour, my lord
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Why doth not every earthly thing cry shame upon
her?
Do not live, Hero, do not ope thine eyes
Strike at thy life
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Why ever wast thou lovely in my eyes?
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
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Oh she is fallen into a pit of ink, that the
wide sea hath drops too few to wash her clean
again
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Until last night, I have this twelve month been
her bedfellow
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Her face in angel whiteness beat away those
blushes
her maiden truth
Friar Francis
burn the errors that these princes hold
some biting error