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⊕    A Christian turned Turk
⊕    A Game at Chess: A Later Form
⊕    A Mad World, My Masters
⊕    A Maidenhead Well Lost
⊕    A Midsummer Night's Dream
⊕    A Yorkshire Tragedy
⊕    Aglaura
⊕    Albumazar: A Comedy
⊕    All Fools
⊕    All's Well that Ends Well
⊕    Antonio and Mellida
⊕    Antonio's Revenge
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⊕    As You Like It
⊕    Bartholomew Fair
⊕    Bird in a Cage
⊕    Brennoralt
⊕    Bussy d'Ambois
⊕    Caesar and Pompey
⊕    Campaspe
⊕    Catiline
⊕    Cleopatra
⊕    Comus
⊕    Contention for Honour and Riches
⊕    Coriolanus
⊕    Cymbeline
⊕    Cynthia's Revels
⊕    Dutch Courtesan
⊕    Epicoene
⊕    Every Man in his Humour
⊕    Every Man out of his Humour
⊕    Hamlet
⊕    Henry IV, part 1
⊕    Henry IV, part 2
⊕    Henry V (Q1)
⊕    Henry VI, part 1
⊕    Henry VI, part 2
⊕    Henry VI, part 3
⊕    Henry VIII
⊕    Hyde Park
⊕    Hymen's Triumph
⊕    Jack Drum's Entertainment
⊕    Julius Caesar
⊕    King John
⊕    King Lear
⊕    Locrine
⊕    Love In its Ecstasy: Or, the large Prerogative
⊕    Love Tricks, or The School of Compliments
⊕    Love's Labour's Lost
⊕    Loves Metamorphosis
⊕    Macbeth
⊕    Measure for Measure
⊕    Merry Wives of Windsor
⊕    Much Ado About Nothing
⊕    Mustapha
⊕    not in source
⊕    Othello
⊕    Pericles
⊕    Philaster
⊕    Philotas
⊕    Poetaster
⊕    Richard II
⊕    Richard III
⊕    Romeo and Juliet
⊕    Satiro-mastix: or, The Untrussing of the humorous poet
⊕    Sejanus His Fall
⊕    Sir Giles Goosecap
⊕    Sophonisba
⊕    Taming of the Shrew
⊕    The Atheist's Tragedy
⊕    The Blind Beggar of Alexandria
⊕    The Bondman
⊕    The Case is Altered
⊕    The Changes, or Love in a Maze
⊕    The Comedy of Errors
⊕    The Conspiracy and Tragedy of Byron
⊕    The Custom of the Country
⊕    The Devil's Law Case
⊕    The Elder Brother
⊕    The Fancies, Chaste and Noble
⊕    The Fawn
⊕    The Goblins
⊕    The Golden Age
⊕    The Grateful Servant
⊕    The Great Duke of Florence
⊕    The Gypsies Metamorphosed
⊕    The Honest Whore, Part I
⊕    The Insatiate Countess
⊕    The Lady of May
⊕    The Little French Lawyer
⊕    The Mad Lover
⊕    The Maid of Honour
⊕    The Malcontent
⊕    The Martyred Souldier
⊕    The Merchant of Venice
⊕    The Miseries of Inforc't Marriage
⊕    The Nice Valour
⊕    The Phoenix
⊕    The Puritan Widow
⊕    The Raging Turk
⊕    The Rival Friends
⊕    The Royal Master
⊕    The Royal Slave
⊕    The Sophy
⊕    The Spanish Curate
⊕    The Staple of News
⊕    The Tempest
⊕    The Tragedy of Nero
⊕    The Traitor
⊕    The Valiant Scot
⊕    The Virgin Widow
⊕    The Wedding
⊕    The White Devil
⊕    The Widow
⊕    The Wonder of a Kingdom
⊕    Timon of Athens
⊕    Titus Andronicus
⊕    Troilus and Cressida
⊕    Twelfth Night
⊕    Two Gentlemen of Verona
⊕    Volpone
⊕    What You Will
⊕    Winter's Tale

Much Ado About Nothing - Results found: 85

A Victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN12-13), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I promise to eat All, of his killing.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN44), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
There is a kind of merry war betwixt Signior Benedick and her them never meet
but there's a skirmish of wit between them..
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN58-60), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
-- No, not till a hot January—
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN88-89), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I had rather hear my Dog bark at a Crow than a man
swear he loves me.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN127-129), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
A rare parrot-teacher;
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN135), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I would my Horse had the speed of yeher tongue
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN138), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I can see yet without spectacles, & I see no
such matter.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN184-185), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
– exceeds her as much in beauty
as the first of May doth the Last of December.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN186-187), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I can be Secret as a dumb Man
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN203-204), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
is the Opinion, that fire cannot melt out of me;
I will die in it at the stake.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN224-226), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
How tartly that gentleman looks! I never can see him but I am heart-burned an hour after
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN419-420), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
--Such a man would win any Woman in the World,
--if a' could get her good will.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN430-431), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
Reply
You have a merry heart.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN711-713), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
--as coy, & wild as haggerds of the Rock.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1123-1124), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
from the crown of his head to the sole of his foot, he is all mirth: he hath twice or thrice cut Cupid's bow-string and the little hangman dare not shoot at him; he hath a heart as sound as a bell & his tongue the clapper.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1217-1221), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 82
 
I never yet saw man, How wise, how noble, young, how rarely featured, but she would spell him backward. If
fair faced, she would swear the Gentleman should be her sister. If black;-
why Nature drawing an antique made a foul blot; If
tall, a Lance ill-headed; If low, an agate very vilely
cut; If speaking, why, a Vane blown with all winds, If silent, why a Block moved with none: So turns she every
man the wrong side out.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1149-1158), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
If I should speak, would mock me into
air, O, she would Laugh me out of myself press me to death with wit —
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1164-1166), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- and doubt not, but success will fashion the Event in better
shape than I can Lay it down.
By Friar Francis, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1898-1900), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Manhood is melted into courtesies; valour into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue and trim ones too: he is now
valiant as Hercules that only tells a lie, & swears it.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1980-1983), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- That dare as well answer a man indeed as I dare take a serpent by
the tongue.
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2175-2176), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Done to Death by slanderous tongues.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2524), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
I know them yea, & what he weigh, even to the utmost scruple
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2179-2180), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
a fine wit, true said she, a fine little one: no said I, a great wit: right says she, a great gross one: nay said I, a good wit, just said she, it hurts nobody
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2248-2251), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Reply
He is in earnest
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2279-2280), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
-- run smoothly in the even rode of blank verse.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2453-2454), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
--a halting SoñetSonnet of his own pure brain
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2646), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
huddling
jest upon jest, with such impossible conveyance upon me that I stood like a man at a mark with
a whole army shooting at me. She speaks poniards, and
every Word stabs me.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN647-650), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
She would have made Hercules have
turned the spit yea & have cleft his club to make the Fire too.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN654-656), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
her is the infernal Ate in good apparel.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN657), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Sancroft 29, p. 83
 
Much better is it to weep for joy then to joy at weeping
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN30-31), William Shakespeare
in Bodleian Library MS Rawlinson poetry 117, f. 156v (rev)
 
Of false Patience P The Impracticalle Philosophy of Patience--
--give not me counsel Nor let no comforter delight mine ear But such a one whose wrongs do suit with mine
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2084-2086), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
And bid him speak of patience; Measure his woe the length and breadth of mine And let it answer every strain for strain As thus for thus, and such a grief for such, In every lineament branch shape and form If such a one will smile and stroke his beard
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2089-2094), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
Patch grief with Proverbs make misfortune drunk With Candle-Wasters: bring him yet to me And I of him will gather Patience But there is no such man: for Brother Men Can council and speak comfort to that grief Which they themselves not feel, but tasting it, Their council turns to Passion which before Would give men (strikethrough) preceptial medicine to rage
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2096-2103), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20 r
 
Charm ache with air and Agony with words No no, 'tis all men's office to speak Patience To those that wring under the load of Sorrow But no mans virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral; when he shall endure The like himself
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2105-2110), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
I pray thee Peace I will be Flesh and Blood For there was never yet Philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently However they have writ the style of Gods and made a Push at Chance and Sufferance.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2113-2117), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Challenge of an Old man to a Young One--

I'll prove on his body if he dare Despite his nice fence and his active practise His May of Youth and Bloom of Lustihood.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2160-2162), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Of a shady Bower
Bid her steel into the pleached bower, Where honeysuckles, ripen'd by the Sun Forbid the Sun to enter like favourites Made proud by Princes, that advance their Pride Against the power that bred it ___
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1094-1098), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 20v
 
Of Love in a Soldier
103.
I look'd upon her with a soldier's eye That liked but had a rougher task in hand Than to drive liking to the name of Love: But now I am returned and that War-thought Have left their places vacant: in their rooms Come thronging soft and delicate Desires All prompting me how fair young Hero is
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN289-295), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
Of Love
105
Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the Office and Affairs of Love Therefore All Hearts in Love use their own Tongue Let every eye negotiate for itself And trust no Agent. for beauty is a Witch Against whose Charms, Faith melteth into blood. This is an accident of hourly proof__
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN581-587), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
105
a Very dull fool, only his gift is in devising impossible
Slanders none but Libertines delight in him and
the commendation is not in his wit but his
villany. for he both pleases men and angers them
and then they laugh at him and beat him.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN544-549), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21
 
Of a proud woman
p. 110—
Nature never framed a womans Heart Of prouder stuff than that of Beatrice Disdain and Scorn ride sparkling in her eye Misprising what they look on, and her Wit Values itself so highly that to her All Matter else seems weak: she cannot love Nor take no shape nor project of Affection She is so self-endeared. –
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1138-1145), William Shakespeare
in British Library Lansdowne MS 1185, f. 21v
 
he hath indeed better bettered expectac[ion] then you must expect of me to tell you how.
By Messenger, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN19-20), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
tears
There are no faces truer then those that are so washed, for better
is it to weep at joy then to joy at weeping.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN29-31), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
stuffed with all honourable virtues
By Messenger, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN54-55), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Entertainment
You are come to meet your trouble the fashion of the wo r ld is to avoid cost & you
encounter it.
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN93-95), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
A talker
I would my horse had the speed of [your] tongue & so good a continuer
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN138-139), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
She's too low for a high praise too brown for a fair praise & too little for a great praise
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN167-169), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I can see yet with out spectacles and I see no such matter.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN184-185), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
And never could maintain his part.
but in the force of his will.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN229-230), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
if I can cross him any way I bless myself every way
By DonJohn, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Beatrice that puts the world into her person, & so,
gives me out well &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN612-613), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
O she misused me past the endurance of a block an oak but with one green leaf on it would have answered her; my very visor &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN642-644), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I were but little happy if I could say how much.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN405), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I give away myself fo r you, & dote upon the exchange
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (707-708), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
my it keeps on the windy side of care
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN712-713), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
time goes on crutches till
love &c.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (752-753), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
strang
it is the witness of his excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN880-881), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I pray god his bad voice bode no mischief, I had as lief have heard the night raven &
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN917-919), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
writ a letter of a sheet of pap r perform
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN965), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
it is no addition to h r wit nor no great argument of her folly
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1056-1057), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
how worthy soev r she would spell him backward &c
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1150-1151), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
plarines
A heart as sound as a Bell.& his tongue is the Clapper for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1219-1221), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
my heart is exceeding heavy r
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1524-1527), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
how long have you professed apprehension.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1564-1565), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
Discourse
ha r ty Love
maintaind the change of words.
By Hero, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1846), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I love [you] with so much of my heart that none
ys left to protest with.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1949-1950), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Will you not eat [your] word.
By Beatrice, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN1941-1942), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Cease thy counsel which falls into my ears as [ protest ] as wate r into a syve.
By Leonato, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2082-2084), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I know them yea & what they weigh
even to the utmost scruple, scrambling, out-facing, fashion-monging boys
By Antonio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2179-2181), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
we are high [ proof ] melancholy & would fain have it beaten away wilt you use thy witt.
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2213-2214), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
I said you hadst a fine wit true said she a fine little one, no said I a
great wit, right says she a great gross one nay said I a good wit
just said she it hurts nobody, nay said I the gentleman is wise, certain said she
a wise gentleman nay said I he hath the tongues [that[ I believe said she for he
swore a thing to me on monday night, which he forswore on tuesday
morning, theers a double toung thers 2 toungs
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2248-2255), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
what a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet & hose & off his wit
By Don Pedro, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2284-2285), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Deserve well at my hands by helping me to &c
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2424-2425), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Suffer love a good epithet, for I love thee against my will
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2484-2485), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
marraige
To bind me or undoe me one of them
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2574), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
 
A College of wit-crackers
cannot flout me out of my humour, if a man will be beaten with
brains a' shall wear nothing handsome about him.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2659-2663), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
to make thee a double-dealer; which, out of question,thou wilt be, if my cousin do not look exceedingly narrowly to thee
By Claudio, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2672-2673), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v
 
Get thee a wife. there is no staff more reverend than one tipped with horn.
By Benedick, in Much Ado About Nothing (TLN2679-2680), William Shakespeare
in Shakespeare Birthplace Trust Record Office ER 82, f.1v