MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING +

by William Shakespeare

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me.

He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man; and he that is more than a youth is not for me; and he that is less than a man, I am not for him: therefore I will even take sixpence in earnest of the bear-ward, and lead his apes into hell.

LEONATO. Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE. Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered with a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kinred.

Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love:

No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born.

she hath often dreamed of unhappiness and waked herself with laughing.

then loving goes by haps: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.

Come, lady, die to live: this wedding day Perhaps is but prolong'd: have patience and endure.

I do love nothing in the world so well as you: is not that strange?

I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest.

Is he not approved in the height a villain, that hath slandered, scorned, dishonoured my kinswoman? O! that I were a man. What! bear her in hand until they come to take hands, and then, with public accusation, uncovered slander, unmitigated rancour,--O God, that I were a man! I would eat his heart in the market-place.

cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving.

So the life that died with shame Lives in death with glorious fame.