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You come hither, my lord, to marry this lady. Lady, you come hither to be married to this count. If either of you know any inward impediment why you should not be conjoined, I charge you on your souls to utter it. Know you any, Count? Have comfort lady. Yea, wherefore should she not? Hear me a little, for I have only been silent so long, & given way unto this course of fortune, by noting of the lady, I have marked, A thousand blushing apparitions, To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames, In angel whiteness beat away those blushes, And in her eye there hath appeared a fire, To burn the errors that these princes hold Against her maiden truth: call me a fool, Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal does warrant The tenure of my book: trust not my age, My reverence, calling, nor divinity, If this sweet lady lie not guiltless here, Under some biting error. Lady, what man is he you are accused of? There is some strange misprision in the princes. Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you in this case, Your daughter here the princess (left for dead,) Let her awhile be secretly kept in, And publish it, that she is dead indeed, Maintain a mourning ostentation, And on your families old monument, Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites, That appertain unto a burial. Marry this well carried, shall on her behalf, Change slander to remorse, that is some good, But not for that dream I on this strange course, But on this travail look for greater birth: She dying, as it must be so maintained, Upon the instant that she was accused, Shall be lamented, pitied, and excused Of every hearer: for it so falls out, That what we have, we prize not to the worth, While we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours, so will it fare with Claudio: When he shall hear she died upon his words, That Idaea of her life shall sweetly creep, Into his study of imagination, And every lovely Organ of her life, Shall come appareled in more precious habit, More moving delicate, and full of life, Into the eye and prospect of his soul Then when she lived indeed: then shall he mourn, If ever love had interest in his liver, And wish he had not so accused her: No, though he thought his accusation true: Let this be so, and doubt not but success Will fashion the event in better shape, Then I can lay it down in likelihood. But if all aim but this be leveled false, The supposition of the ladies death, Will quench the wonder of her infamy. And if it sort not well, you may conceal her, As best befits her wounded reputation, In some reclusive and religious life, Out of all eyes, tongues, minds, and injuries. 'Tis well consented, presently away, For to strange sores, strangely they strain the cure, Come lady die to live, this wedding day Perhaps is but prolonged, have patience and endure. Did I not tell you she was innocent? To do what Signior? And my help. Here comes the Prince and Claudio. All this amazement can I qualify, When after that the holy rites are ended, I'll tell you largely of fair Heroes death, Mean time let wonder seem familiar, And to the chapel let us presently.
Plot summary
Plot — Much Ado About Nothing
Returning to Messina after a war, Claudio falls in love with Hero. At a masked revel, Don Pedro woos her for him by proxy; Don John maliciously tells Claudio that Pedro has wooed her for himself, but the truth soon purges Claudio’s jealousy and he and Hero are engaged to be married in a week’s time. In the interim, Don Pedro undertakes to make Beatrice and Benedick, who have a humour of mutual hatred, fall in love with each other. This is done by letting each of them overhear a conversation about how much in love the other is. Don John attempts to prevent Claudio’s marriage by showing him what he takes to be a nocturnal assignation between Hero and another man; in fact it is Margaret in Hero’s clothes, wooed by Borachio whom Don John has suborned. Claudio rejects Hero at the wedding, and the Friar proposes that she feign death to inculcate remorse in him. Borachio and his associate Conrad are arrested and examined, and confess the plot. As penance, Claudio undertakes to marry another ===== PAGE 61 ===== 1598 lady, said to be Leonato’s niece, without first seeing her; she is actually Hero. Benedick and Beatrice join Hero and Claudio to make it a double wedding. Don John flees Messina, but is apprehended and brought back to face punishment.