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Claudio undergoes my challenge, and either I must shortly hear from him, or I will subscribe him a coward. And, I pray thee now, tell me, for which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?

       BEATRICE.

       For them all together; which maintained so politic a state of evil

       that they will not admit any good part to intermingle with them.

       But for which of my good parts did you first suffer love for me?

       BENEDICK. ‘Suffer love,’ a good epithet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.

       BEATRICE. In spite of your heart, I think. Alas, poor heart! If you spite it for my sake, I will spite it for yours; for I will never love that which my friend hates.

       BENEDICK.

       Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

       BEATRICE. It appears not in this confession: there’s not one wise man among twenty that will praise himself.

       BENEDICK. An old, an old instance, Beatrice, that lived in the time of good neighbours. If a man do not erect in this age his own tomb ere he dies, he shall live no longer in monument than the bell rings and the widow weeps.

       BEATRICE.

       And how long is that think you?

       BENEDICK. Question: why, an hour in clamour and a quarter in rheum: therefore is it most expedient for the wise,—if Don Worm, his conscience, find no impediment to the contrary,—to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself. So much for praising myself, who, I myself will bear witness, is praiseworthy. And now tell me, how doth your cousin?

       BEATRICE.

       Very ill.

       BENEDICK.

       And how do you?

       BEATRICE.

       Very ill too.

       BENEDICK. Serve God, love me, and mend. There will I leave you too, for here comes one in haste.

       [Enter URSULA.]

       URSULA. Madam, you must come to your uncle. Yonder’s old coil at home: it is proved, my Lady Hero hath been falsely accused, the prince and Claudio mightily abused; and Don John is the author of all, who is fled and gone. Will you come presently?

       BEATRICE.

       Will you go hear this news, signior?

       BENEDICK. I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes; and moreover I will go with thee to thy uncle’s.

       [Exeunt.]

       Scene 3. The Inside of a Church.

       [Enter DON PEDRO, CLAUDIO, and Attendants, with music and tapers,]

       CLAUDIO.

       Is this the monument of Leonato?

       A LORD.

       It is, my lord.

       CLAUDIO.

       [Reads from a scroll.]

       Done to death by slanderous tongues

       Was the Hero that here lies:

       Death, in guerdon of her wrongs,

       Gives her fame which never dies.

       So the life that died with shame

       Lives in death with glorious fame.

       Hang thou there upon the tomb,

       Praising her when I am dumb.

       Now, music, sound, and sing your solemn hymn.

       SONG.

       Pardon, goddess of the night,

       Those that slew thy virgin knight;

       For the which, with songs of woe,

       Round about her tomb they go.

       Midnight, assist our moan;

       Help us to sigh and groan,

       Heavily, heavily:

       Graves, yawn and yield your dead,

       Till death be uttered,

       Heavily, heavily.

       CLAUDIO.

       Now, unto thy bones good night!

       Yearly will I do this rite.

       DON PEDRO.

       Good morrow, masters: put your torches out.

       The wolves have prey’d; and look, the gentle day,

       Before the wheels of Phoebus, round about

       Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.

       Thanks to you all, and leave us: fare you well.

       CLAUDIO.

       Good morrow, masters: each his several way.

       DON PEDRO. Come, let us hence, and put on other weeds; And then to Leonato’s we will go.

       CLAUDIO.

       And Hymen now with luckier issue speed’s,

       Than this for whom we rend’red up this woe!

       [Exeunt.]

       Scene 4. A Room in LEONATO’S House.

       [Enter LEONATO, ANTONIO, BENEDICK, BEATRICE, MARGARET, URSULA,

       FRIAR FRANCIS, and HERO.]

       FRIAR.

       Did I not tell you she was innocent?

       LEONATO.

       So are the prince and Claudio, who accus’d her

       Upon the error that you heard debated:

       But Margaret was in some fault for this,

       Although against her will, as it appears

       In the true course of all the question.

       ANTONIO.

       Well, I am glad that all things sort so well.

       BENEDICK.

       And so am I, being else by faith enforc’d

       To call young Claudio to a reckoning for it.

       LEONATO.

       Well, daughter, and you gentlewomen all,

       Withdraw into a chamber by yourselves,

       And when I send for you, come hither mask’d:

       The prince and Claudio promis’d by this hour

       To visit me.

       [Exeunt Ladies.]

       You know your office, brother;

       You must be father to your brother’s daughter,

       And give her to young Claudio.

       ANTONIO.

       Which I will do with confirm’d countenance.

       BENEDICK.

       Friar, I must entreat your pains, I think.

       FRIAR.

       To do what, signior?

       BENEDICK.

       To bind me, or undo me; one of them.

       Signior Leonato, truth it is, good signior,

       Your niece regards me with an eye of favour.

       LEONATO.

       That eye my daughter lent her: ‘tis most true.

       BENEDICK.

       And I do with an eye of love requite her.

       LEONATO.

       The sight whereof I think, you had from me,

       From Claudio, and the prince. But what’s your will?

       BENEDICK.

       Your answer, sir, is enigmatical:

       But, for my will, my will is your good will

      

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