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Dramatis Personae
Act 1
Scene 1
Scene 2
Act 2
Scene 1
Act 3
Scene 1
Act 4
Scene 1
Scene 2
Scene 3
Act 5
Scene 1
Scene 2
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Dramatis Personae
FERDINAND king of Navarre.
BIRON, LONGAVILLE, DUMAIN } lords attending on the King.
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Scene: Navarre.
Act 1
Scene 1
The king of Navarre's park.
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FERDINAND
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In reason nothing.
BIRON
[Reads]
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Reads
Reads
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BIRON
Subscribes
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DULL
This is he.
DULL
How low soever the matter, I hope in God for high words.
LONGAVILLE
In what manner?
COSTARD
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BIRON
[Reads]
[Reads]
'So it is,'--
COSTARD
Peace!
COSTARD
No words!
COSTARD
[Reads]
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Me?
FERDINAND
[Reads]
Me?
FERDINAND
[Reads]
Still me?
FERDINAND
[Reads]
O, me!
FERDINAND
[Reads]
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wherewith,--
COSTARD
With a wench.
FERDINAND
[Reads]
[Reads]
Ay, the best for the worst. But, sirrah, what say
you to this?
COSTARD
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COSTARD
Exeunt
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Scene 2
The same.
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MOTH
I am answered, sir.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
[Aside]
Impossible.
MOTH
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True.
MOTH
Hercules, master.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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MOTH
A woman, master.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Of what complexion?
MOTH
Of all the four, or the three, or the two, or one of the four.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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[Aside]
I say, sing.
MOTH
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Man?
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
That's hereby.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
I love thee.
JAQUENETTA
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No, sir; that were fast and loose: thou shalt to prison.
COSTARD
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Exit
Act 2
Scene 1
The same.
Enter the PRINCESS of France, ROSALINE, MARIA, KATHARINE, BOYET, Lords, and other
Attendants
BOYET
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Exit BOYET
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Re-enter BOYET
PRINCESS
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Satisfy me so.
BOYET
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Exit
BIRON
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BIRON
Retiring
DUMAIN
Exit
LONGAVILLE
She hath but one for herself; to desire that were a shame.
LONGAVILLE
Exit LONGAVILLE
BIRON
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Exit BIRON
MARIA
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BOYET
Belonging to whom?
MARIA
With what?
BOYET
Your reason?
BOYET
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Then was Venus like her mother, for her father is but grim.
BOYET
No.
BOYET
Exeunt
Act 3
Scene 1
The same.
Concolinel.
Singing
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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MOTH
By my penny of observation.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Almost I had.
MOTH
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MOTH
Marry, sir, you must send the ass upon the horse,
for he is very slow-gaited. But I go.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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MOTH
Exit
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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MOTH
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True, true; and now you will be my purgation and let me loose.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Giving a letter
Exit
MOTH
Exit MOTH
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Enter BIRON
BIRON
What is a remuneration?
COSTARD
This afternoon.
COSTARD
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Exit
BIRON
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Exit
Act 4
Scene 1
The same.
Enter the PRINCESS, and her train, a Forester, BOYET, ROSALINE, MARIA, and KATHARINE
PRINCESS
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Enter COSTARD
COSTARD
Thou shalt know her, fellow, by the rest that have no heads.
COSTARD
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PRINCESS
I am bound to serve.
This letter is mistook, it importeth none here;
It is writ to Jaquenetta.
PRINCESS
Reads
BOYET
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To ROSALINE
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A mark marvellous well shot, for they both did hit it.
BOYET
Wide o' the bow hand! i' faith, your hand is out.
COSTARD
Indeed, a' must shoot nearer, or he'll ne'er hit the clout.
BOYET
She's too hard for you at pricks, sir: challenge her to bowl.
BOYET
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Shout within
Scene 2
The same.
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What is Dictynna?
SIR NATHANIEL
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A rare talent!
DULL
[Aside]
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[Reads]
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To DULL
Exeunt
Scene 3
The same.
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Stands aside
Ay me!
BIRON
[Aside]
[Reads]
Steps aside
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Ay me, I am forsworn!
BIRON
Reads
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Steps aside
BIRON
Stoop, I say;
Her shoulder is with child.
DUMAIN
As fair as day.
BIRON
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[Reads]
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[Advancing]
[Advancing]
To LONGAVILLE
To DUMAIN
Advancing
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FERDINAND
Of Costard.
FERDINAND
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[To COSTARD]
What?
BIRON
Walk aside the true folk, and let the traitors stay.
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DUMAIN
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From women's eyes this doctrine I derive; They are the ground, the books, the academes From whence
doth spring the true Promethean fire
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Exeunt
Act 5
Scene 1
The same.
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Video, et gaudeo.
Chirrah!
To MOTH
HOLOFERNES
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MOTH
[Aside to COSTARD]
[To HOLOFERNES]
Ba, most silly sheep with a horn. You hear his learning.
HOLOFERNES
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Horns.
HOLOFERNES
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Thrice-worthy gentleman!
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
We attend.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Via, goodman Dull! thou hast spoken no word all this while.
DULL
Exeunt
Scene 2
The same.
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Enter BOYET
BOYET
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BOYET
Enter Blackamoors with music; MOTH; FERDINAND, BIRON, LONGAVILLE, and DUMAIN, in
Russian habits, and masked
MOTH
[Aside to MOTH]
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[Aside to MOTH]
Exit MOTH
ROSALINE
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Music plays
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In private, then.
FERDINAND
Gall! bitter.
BIRON
Therefore meet.
Name it.
DUMAIN
Fair lady,--
MARIA
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Please it you,
As much in private, and I'll bid adieu.
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BOYET
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PRINCESS
Qualm, perhaps.
KATHARINE
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Exit
BIRON
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ROSALINE
Help, hold his brows! he'll swoon! Why look you pale?
Sea-sick, I think, coming from Muscovy.
BIRON
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Madam, I was.
PRINCESS
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To BOYET
Full merrily
Hath this brave manage, this career, been run.
BIRON
Enter COSTARD
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what we know:
I hope, sir, three times thrice, sir,--
BIRON
Is not nine.
COSTARD
Exit
FERDINAND
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PRINCESS
Exit
FERDINAND
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BIRON
I Pompey am,--
BOYET
I Pompey am,--
BOYET
The Great.
COSTARD
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Your nose says, no, you are not for it stands too right.
BIRON
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MOTH retires
Judas I am,--
DUMAIN
A Judas!
HOLOFERNES
Judas I am,--
DUMAIN
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What is this?
BOYET
A cittern-head.
DUMAIN
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DUMAIN
HOLOFERNES retires
PRINCESS
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A gilt nutmeg.
BIRON
A lemon.
LONGAVILLE
No, cloven.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
Peace!--
The armipotent Mars, of lances the almighty
Gave Hector a gift, the heir of Ilion;
A man so breathed, that certain he would fight; yea
From morn till night, out of his pavilion.
I am that flower,--
DUMAIN
That mint.
LONGAVILLE
That columbine.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
To the PRINCESS
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[Aside to DUMAIN]
[Aside to BOYET]
Renowned Pompey!
BIRON
Hector trembles.
BIRON
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I'll do it in my shirt.
DUMAIN
You may not deny it: Pompey hath made the challenge.
ADRIANO DE ARMADO
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Enter MERCADE
MERCADE
Welcome, Mercade;
But that thou interrupt'st our merriment.
MERCADE
Exeunt Worthies
FERDINAND
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[Aside]
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[To FERDINAND]
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Holla! approach.
THE SONG
SPRING.
When daisies pied and violets blue
And lady-smocks all silver-white
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo;
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Exeunt
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