“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
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Shakespeare's comedy play Much Ado About Nothing pivots around the impediments to love for young betrothed Hero and Claudio when Hero is falsely accused of infidelity and the "lover's trap" set for the arrogant and assured Benedick who has sworn of marriage and his gentle adversary Beatrice. The merry war between Benedick and Beatrice with the promptings of their friends soon dissolves into farcical love, while Hero's supposed infidelity is shown to be little more than "much ado about nothing".
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William Shakespeare
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“For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?”
“I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me.”
“One doth not know / How much an ill word may empoison liking.”
“If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening ...”
“To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.”
“Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father,...”
“LEONATO Well, then, go you into hell? BEATRICE No, but to the gate; and there will the devil meet me, like an old cuckold, with horns on his head, and say 'Get you to heaven, Beatrice, get y...”
“There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness,...”
“Suffer love! A good ephitet! I do suffer love indeed, for I love thee against my will.”
“Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites.”
“I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?”
“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 overmastered with a pie...”