READ STUDY GUIDE: Act I, scenes ii–iii |
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Act I, Scene ii:
A Room in Leonato's House.
A Room in Leonato's House.
| [Enter Leonato and Antonio.] |
| Leon. : |
| How now, brother? Where is my cousin, your son? Hath he |
| provided this music? |
| Ant. : |
| He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell you |
| news that you yet dream not of. |
| Leon. : |
| Are they good? |
| Ant. : |
| As the event stamps them; but they have a good cover, they |
| show well outward. The prince and count Claudio, walking in a |
| thick-pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus overheard by |
| a man of mine: The prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my |
| niece, your daughter, and meant to acknowledge it this night in a |
| dance; and, if he found her accordant, he meant to take the |
| present time by the top, and instantly break with you of it. |
| Leon. : |
| Hath the fellow any wit that told you this? |
| Ant. : |
| A good sharp fellow; I will send for him, and question him |
| yourself. |
| Leon. : |
| No, no; we will hold it as a dream, till it appear itself:—but |
| I will acquaint my daughter withal, that she may be the better |
| prepared for an answer, if peradventure this be true. Go you and |
| tell her of it. |
| [Several persons cross the stage.] |
| Cousins, you know what you have to do.—O, I cry you mercy, |
| friend: go you with me, and I will use your skill:— |
| Good cousins, have a care this busy time. |
| [Exeunt.] |
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