- Home >
- Primary Sources >
- Books & Plays >
- William Shakespeare >
- William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, Act I, Scene III
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
Scene IIIThe sameEnter Don John and ConradeConradeWhat the good-year, my lord! why are you thus out of measure sad?Don JohnThere is no measure in the occasion that breeds; therefore the sadness is without limit.ConradeYou should hear reason.Don JohnAnd when I have heard it, what blessing brings it?ConradeIf not a present remedy, at least a patient sufferance.Don JohnI wonder that thou, being, as thou sayest thou art, born under Saturn, goest about to apply a moral medicine to a mortifying mischief. I cannot hide what I am: I must be sad when I have cause and smile at no man’s jests, eat when I have stomach and wait for no man’s leisure, sleep when I am drowsy and tend on no man’s business, laugh when I am merry and claw no man in his humour.ConradeYea, but you must not make the full show of this till you may do it without controlment. You have of late stood out against your brother, and he hath ta’en you newly into his grace; where it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself: it is needful that you frame the season for your own harvest.Don JohnI had rather be a canker in a hedge than a rose in his grace, and it better fits my blood to be disdained of all than to fashion a carriage to rob love from any: in this, though I cannot be said to be a flattering honest man, it must not be denied but I am a plain-dealing villain. I am trusted with a muzzle and enfranchised with a clog; therefore I have decreed not to sing in my cage. If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking: in the meantime let me be that I am and seek not to alter me.ConradeCan you make no use of your discontent?Don JohnI make all use of it, for I use it only.Who comes here?Enter BorachioWhat news, Borachio?BorachioI came yonder from a great supper: the prince your brother is royally entertained by Leonato: and I can give you intelligence of an intended marriage.Don JohnWill it serve for any model to build mischief on? What is he for a fool that betroths himself to unquietness?BorachioMarry, it is your brother’s right hand.Don JohnWho? the most exquisite Claudio?BorachioEven he.Don JohnA proper squire! And who, and who? which way looks he?BorachioMarry, on Hero, the daughter and heir of Leonato.Don JohnA very forward March-chick! How came you to this?BorachioBeing entertained for a perfumer, as I was smoking a musty room, comes me the prince and Claudio, hand in hand in sad conference: I whipt me behind the arras; and there heard it agreed upon that the prince should woo Hero for himself, and having obtained her, give her to Count Claudio.Don JohnCome, come, let us thither: this may prove food to my displeasure. That young start-up hath all the glory of my overthrow: if I can cross him any way, I bless myself every way. You are both sure, and will assist me?ConradeTo the death, my lord.Don JohnLet us to the great supper: their cheer is the greater that I am subdued. Would the cook were of my mind! Shall we go prove what’s to be done?BorachioWe’ll wait upon your lordship.Exeunt
William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, Act I
.com/t/lit/shakespeare-plays/ado-act1-3.html
Sources +
Our Common Sources
.com/t/lit/shakespeare-plays/ado-act1-3.html
Sources +
Our Common Sources
Our Common Sources
William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, Act II
- William Shakespeare: Much Ado about Nothing, Act II
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
TrendingHere are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about.
Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
The Twelve Dancing Princesses
Current Events This Week: January 2023
African Americans by the Numbers
Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
- Did Birds Evolve from Dinosaurs?
- The Twelve Dancing Princesses
- Current Events This Week: January 2023
- African Americans by the Numbers
- Andersen’s Fairy Tales: Contents
- The Celtic Twilight: A Teller of Tales
