Act II, Scene ii: Another Room in Leonato's House.
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| | D. John. | |
| | It is so; the count Claudio shall marry the daughter of Leonato. | |
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| | Bora.
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| | Yea, my lord, but I can cross it. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | Any bar, any cross, any impediment will be medicinable to me: | |
| | I am sick in displeasure to him; and whatsoever comes athwart his | |
| | affection ranges evenly with mine. How canst thou cross this | |
| | marriage? | |
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| | Bora.
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| | Not honestly, my lord; but so covertly that no dishonesty | |
| | shall appear in me. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | Show me briefly how. | |
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| | Bora.
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| | I think I told your lordship, a year since, how much I am in | |
| | the favour of Margaret, the waiting gentlewoman to Hero. | |
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| | Bora.
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| | I can, at any unseasonable instant of the night, appoint her | |
| | to look out at her lady's chamber-window. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | What life is in that, to be the death of this marriage? | |
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| | Bora.
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| | The poison of that lies in you to temper. Go you to the | |
| | prince your brother; spare not to tell him, that he hath wronged | |
| | his honour in marrying the renowned Claudio (whose estimation do | |
| | you mightily hold up) to a contaminated stale, such a one as | |
| | Hero. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | What proof shall I make of that? | |
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| | Bora.
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| | Proof enough to misuse the prince, to vex Claudio, to undo | |
| | Hero, and kill Leonato: look you for any other issue? | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | Only to despite them, I will endeavour anything. | |
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| | Bora.
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| | Go then, find me a meet hour to draw don Pedro and the count | |
| | Claudio, alone: tell them that you know that Hero loves me; | |
| | intend a kind of zeal both to the prince and Claudio, as—in a | |
| | love of your brother's honour, who hath made this match; and his | |
| | friend's reputation, who is thus like to be cozened with the | |
| | semblance of a maid,—that you have discovered thus. They will | |
| | scarcely believe this without trial: offer them instances; which | |
| | shall bear no less likelihood than to see me at her chamber-window; | |
| | hear me call Margaret, Hero; hear Margaret term me Claudio; and | |
| | bring them to see this, the very night before the intended wedding: | |
| | for, in the mean time, I will so fashion the matter, that Hero | |
| | shall be absent; and there shall appear such seeming truth of | |
| | Hero's disloyalty, that jealousy shall be called assurance, and all | |
| | the preparation overthrown. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in | |
| | practice: Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a | |
| | thousand ducats. | |
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| | Bora.
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| | Be you constant in the accusation, and my cunning shall not | |
| | shame me. | |
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| | D. John. | |
| | I will presently go learn their day of marriage. | |
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