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1041 Much Ado About Nothing Antonio 1.2.9 the Prince discovered | to Claudio that he loved my niece, your daughter, and meant | to acknowledge it this night in a ^dance^ Old. the Prince discouered | to Claudio that hee loued my niece your daughter, | and meant to acknowledge it this night in a dance, 328 1.2.10 1.2.10 1.2.9
1042 Much Ado About Nothing Leonato 1.2.22 Go you with me and I will use your ^skill^. Leo. goe you with mee and I will vse your skill, 342 1.2.23 1.2.23 1.2.19
1043 Much Ado About Nothing Don John 1.3.26 Therefore I have | decreed not to ^sing^ in my cage. Iohn. therefore I haue decreed, not to sing in my cage: 374 1.3.31 1.3.31 1.3.25
1044 Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice 2.1.57 The fault will be in the ^music^, cousin, if you be not | wooed in ^good time^. If the Prince be too important, tell him | there is ^measure^ in everything, and so ^dance^ out the answer. | For hear me, Hero, wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a | ^Scotch jig^, a ^measure^, and a ^cinquepace^. The first suit is hot | and hasty, like a ^Scotch jig^—and full as fantastical; the wedding | mannerly modest, as a ^measure^, full of state and | ancientry. And then comes repentance, and with his bad legs | falls into the ^cinquepace^ faster and faster till he sink into his grave. Beatrice. The fault will be in the musicke cosin, if you | be not woed in good time: if the Prince bee too important, | tell him there is measure in euery thing, & so dance | out the answere, for heare me Hero, wooing, wedding, & | repenting, is as a Scotch ijgge, a measure, and a cinque-|pace: the first suite is hot and hasty like a Scotch ijgge | (and full as fantasticall) the wedding manerly modest, | (as a measure) full of state & aunchentry, and then comes | repentance, and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-|pace faster and faster, till he sinkes into his graue. 478 2.1.61 2.1.67 2.1.50
1045 Much Ado About Nothing Leonato 2.1.70 The ^revellers^ are entering, brother. Make good room. Leon. The reuellers are entring brother, make good | roome. 491 2.1.74 2.1.81 2.1.60 …revellers…
1046 Much Ado About Nothing SD 2.1.70 Enter [Don] Pedro [the] Prince, Claudio, Benedick . . . ^Maskers, with a drum^ SD Enter Prince, Pedro, Claudio, and Benedicke, and Balthasar, or dumbe Iohn, Maskers with a drum. 493 - 2.1.75 …masked, with a Drum… Music and dancing begin 2.1.83 …all masked…[with a drummer] 2.1.60 …The dance begins.
1047 Much Ado About Nothing Don Pedro 2.1.71 Lady, will you ^walk a bout^ with your | friend? Pedro. Lady, will you walke about with your friend? 495 2.1.76 2.1.84 2.1.61
1048 Much Ado About Nothing Hero 2.1.73 So you ^walk^ softly, and look sweetly, and say nothing, I | am yours for the ^walk^; and especially when I walk away. Hero. So you walke softly, and looke sweetly, and say | nothing, I am yours for the walke, and especially when I| walke away. 496 So, you walke softly… 2.1.78 2.1.86 2.1.63
1049 Much Ado About Nothing Hero 2.1.78 When I like your favour; for God defend the ^lute^ should | be like the ^case^. Hero. When I like your fauour, for God defend the | Lute should be like the case. 502 2.1.83 2.1.92 2.1.68
1050 Much Ado About Nothing Margaret 2.1.89 God match me with a good dancer Mar. God match me with a good dauncer 514 2.1.96 2.1.106 2.1.77