TPTT Much Ado about Nothing: ACT I
Introduction
ACT I
SCENE I. Before LEONATO'S house.
SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house.
SCENE III. The same.
ACT II
ACT III
ACT IV
ACT V
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SCENE II. A room in LEONATO's house.
Enter LEONATO and ANTONIO, meeting
LEONATO
      How now, brother! Where is my cousin, your son?
      hath he provided this music?
ANTONIO
      He is very busy about it. But, brother, I can tell
      you strange news that you yet dreamt not of.
LEONATO
5     Are they good?
ANTONIO
      As the event stamps them: but they have a good
      cover; they show well outward. The prince and Count
      Claudio, walking in a thick-pleached alley in mine
      orchard, were thus much overheard by a man of mine:
10    the prince discovered to Claudio that he loved my
      niece your daughter and meant to acknowledge it
      this night in a dance: and if he found her
      accordant, he meant to take the present time by the
      top and instantly break with you of it.
LEONATO
15    Hath the fellow any wit that told you this?
ANTONIO
      A good sharp fellow: I will send for him; and
      question him yourself.
LEONATO
      No, no; we will hold it as a dream till it appear
      itself: but I will acquaint my daughter withal,
20    that she may be the better prepared for an answer,
      if peradventure this be true. Go you and tell her of it.

Enter Attendants

      Cousins, you know what you have to do. O, I cry you
      mercy, friend; go you with me, and I will use your
      skill. Good cousin, have a care this busy time.
Exeunt
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