Much Ado About Nothing
contributor: Eric Lease Morgan (Infomotions, Inc.)
creator: Shakespeare, William
date: 0000-00-00
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subject: don
subject: benedick
subject: claudio
subject: leonato
subject: beatrice
subject: pedro
subject: messenger
subject: near
subject: leagues
subject: shakespeare
subject: william
subject: ado
subject: english
subject: literature
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full text: MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING DRAMATIS PERSONAE DON PEDRO prince of Arragon. DON JOHN his bastard brother. CLAUDIO a young lord of Florence. BENEDICK a young lord of Padua. LEONATO governor of Messina. ANTONIO his brother. BALTHASAR attendant on Don Pedro. CONRADE | | followers of Don John. BORACHIO | FRIAR FRANCIS: DOGBERRY a constable. VERGES a headborough. A Sexton. A Boy. HERO daughter to Leonato. BEATRICE niece to Leonato. MARGARET | | gentlewomen attending on Hero. URSULA | Messengers, Watch, Attendants, &c. (Lord:) (Messenger:) (Watchman:) (First Watchman:) (Second Watchman:) SCENE Messina. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING ACT I SCENE I Before LEONATO'S house. [Enter LEONATO, HERO, and BEATRICE, with a Messenger] LEONATO I learn in this letter that Don Peter of Arragon comes this night to Messina. Messenger He is very near by this: he was not three leagues off when I left him. LEONATO How many gentlemen have you lost in this action? Messenger But few of any sort, and none of name. LEONATO A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers. I find here that Don Peter hath bestowed much honour on a young Florentine called Claudio. Messenger Much deserved on his part and equally remembered by Don Pedro: he hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion: he hath indeed better bettered expectation than you must expect of me to tell you how. LEONATO He hath an uncle here in Messina will be very much glad of it. Messenger I have already delivered him letters, and there appears much joy in him; even so much that joy could not show itself modest enough without a badge of bitterness. LEONATO Did he break out into tears? Messenger In great measure. LEONATO A kind overflow of kindness: there are no faces truer than those that are so washed. How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping! BEATRICE I pray you, is Signior Mountanto returned from the wars or no? Messenger I know none of that name, lady: the…